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President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meet on the sidelines of the G-7 summit at Castle Elmau in Kruen, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on June 28, 2022. Scholz is visiting the White House on Friday, March 3, 2023, to meet with Biden. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden, Scholz to huddle on Ukraine war at White House

By Chris Megerian and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Biden and illegal immigration at southern border Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

White House ‘cleansing’ of El Paso akin to 1936 Berlin Olympics

By Hans von Spakovsky and Cully Stimson

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands with German army Bundeswehr soldiers at a "Leopard 2" main battle tank during a training and instruction exercise in Ostenholz, Germany, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Scholz is expected to announce Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, that his government will approve supplying German-made battle tanks to Ukraine. (Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via AP, File)

Germany to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine; U.S. expected to soon follow with its Abrams tanks

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires its 120 mm smoothbore cannon during a live-fire event as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2015 in Jordan, May 9, 2015. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Devin Nichols/Released)

U.S. to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to help fend off invading Russia in major policy reversal

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this undated photo, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Viacheslav Shapovalov poses for a photo in Kyiv, Ukraine. Shapovalov resigned, local media reported Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, alleging his departure was linked to a scandal involving the purchase of food for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. (Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Office via AP)

Ukraine corruption scandal ousts top officials amid war

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Polish soldiers assigned to the 11th Armored Lubuska Cavalry Division gather around the recently removed Abrams M1A2 System Enhancement Package version 3 tanks power pack during the Abrams Logistical Summit at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, Oct. 27, 2022. The 3-1 ABCT is proudly working alongside 1st Infantry Division, other NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America's forward deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Kevin T. Brown Jr.)

U.S., Germany set to send tanks to Ukraine in face of Russian assault

By Guy Taylor and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Leopard 2 tank is pictured during a demonstration event held for the media by the German Bundeswehr in Munster near Hannover, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Poland will apply to the German government for permission to supply the German-made Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Poland pushes for more tanks for Ukraine, asks for German OK

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, U.S. M1A2 SEP Abrams battle tanks prepare to cross the Hantan river during a river crossing operation, part of an annual joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Ukraine fumes as NATO members slow roll tank aid

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talks to German army Bundeswehr soldiers at a "Leopard 2" main battle tank during a training and instruction exercise in in Ostenholz, Germany, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Germany has become one of Ukraine's leading weapons suppliers in the 11 months since Russia's invasion. The debate among allies about the merits of sending battle tanks to Ukraine has focused the spotlight relentlessly on Germany, whose Leopard 2 tank is used by many other countries and has long been sought by Kyiv. (Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via AP, File)

Pressure grows on Germany to authorize tank shipment to break Ukraine war stalemate

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A Leopard 2 tank is pictured during a demonstration event held for the media by the German Bundeswehr in Munster near Hannover, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Germany faces mounting pressure to supply battle tanks to Kyiv and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is airing frustration about not obtaining enough weaponry as Western allies confer on how best to support Ukraine nearly 11 months into Russia’s invasion. Germany’s new defense minister welcomed U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Berlin, declaring that German weapons systems delivered so far have proven their worth and that aid will continue in the future. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) **FILE**

Foreign minister: Germany ‘would not stand in the way’ if Poland wants to send tanks to Ukraine

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

In this Oct. 21, 2019, photo, a member of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Battalion of the 9th Regiment, 1st Division from Fort Hood in Texas prepares to unload Abrams battle tanks from rail cars as they arrive at the Pabrade railway station some 50 km (31 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) **FILE**

NATO member tank wars frustrate Ukraine as it pleads for stronger defense

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The main entrance to the Museums Island and the Neue Museum, left, in Berlin, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. A large number of art works and artifacts at some of Berlin's best-known museums were smeared with a liquid by an unknown perpetrator or perpetrators earlier this month, police said Wednesday. The 'numerous' works in several museums at the Museum Island complex, a UNESCO world heritage site in the heart of the German capital that is one of the city's main tourist attractions, were targeted between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Oct. 3, police said. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin museums ready to return skulls from African ex-colony

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Christine Lambrecht, former Minister of Defense, rides in a tank during her visit to the Tank Training Brigade 9 in Munster, Germany, Feb. 7, 2022. Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht resigns. She has asked Chancellor Olaf Scholz to dismiss her, said a statement from the minister on Monday. (Philipp Schulze/dpa via AP, File)

Germany’s defense minister resigns amid Ukraine criticism

By Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Debris lay on the street after a huge fish tank burst at the Seal Life Aquarium in central Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)

Huge Berlin aquarium bursts, releases flood of fish

By Frank Jordans and Emily Schultheis - Associated Press

Police officers stand by a searched property in Frankfurt during a raid against so-called 'Reich citizens' in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Thousands of police carried out a series of raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state by force. Federal prosecutors said some 3,000 officers conducted searches at 130 sites in 11 of Germany's 16 states against adherents of the so-called Reich Citizens movement. Some members of the grouping reject Germany's postwar constitution and have called for the overthrow of the government. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

Germany: 25 arrested on suspicion of planning armed coup

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Steven Spielberg walks the red carpet as he arrives to receive a lifetime-achievement prize, at the David Donatello awards ceremony in Rome Wednesday, March 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia,file)

Berlin film fest gives Steven Spielberg lifetime achievement award

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People hold Iranian flag during a protest against the Iranian regime, in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic republic's notorious &quot;morality police&quot;. The 22-year-old died in Iran while in police custody on Sept. 16 after her arrest three days prior for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Protest against Iranian regime draws thousands in Berlin

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Flowers and a candle are placed at a bust of the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Axel Springer Publisher House in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Gorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

The medieval Dome Reliquary (13th century) of the Welfenschatz, is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin on Jan. 9, 2014. An American court has thrown out a lawsuit against a German museum foundation over a medieval treasure trove that was filed by the heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers saying that the U.S. lacked jurisdiction to hear such a lawsuit. The Guelph Treasure, which is at the at the center of a long-running ownership dispute, includes silver and gold crucifixes, altars and other relics worth more than 200 million euros (dollars). (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

U.S. court dismisses Nazi-era Guelph Treasure art dispute

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Climate activist Lina Schinkoethe, left, and her mother Solvig Schinkoethe, second from left, sit with their hands glued to the ground during a protest with the group Uprising of the Last Generation in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. The group claims the world has only a few years left to turn the wheel around and avoid catastrophic levels of global warming. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German climate activists aim to stir friction with blockades

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press