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The sun rises behind the pipe systems and shut-off devices at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, in Lubmin, Germany, Monday, July 11, 2022. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, Germany’s main source of Russian gas, is scheduled to be out of action until July 21, 2022, for routine work. The operator said the gas flow was reduced progressively starting at 6 a.m. ( Jens Buettner/dpa via AP)

Gas pipeline shutdown starts amid German suspicion of Russia

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, and Steffi Lemke , Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, open the meeting of the G7 Ministers for Climate, Energy and the Environment in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Germany: G-7 nations can lead the way on ending coal use

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A parked Lufthansa aircraft is seen through a hangar window at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Lufthansa were showing the media how manufacturing has been restarted after the break imposed by the coronavirus outbreak (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

German airline apologizes for excluding Jewish passengers

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A local man sits in front of an apartment building damaged from heavy fighting as he waits for the kettle to boil in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live Updates | Explosions in Ukrainian city of Kherson

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

From left, Danya, 21, Gabriel, 21 and Borden, 17 all refugees from Odesa, Ukraine help to deliver bags with food to needy people during preparations for the celebration of Jewish Passover at the Chabad Jewish Education Center in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Rabbis and Jewish organizations are working round the clock within Ukraine, Eastern Europe and other parts of Europe to make sure that Jews who remain in Ukraine and refugees who have fled as far away as Israel are able to celebrate Passover. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

For Jews fleeing Ukraine, Passover takes on new meaning

By Deepa Bharath - Associated Press

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Nakamura nabs slot in tourney to pick next chess title challenger

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Firefighters work at the site in the aftermath of the first strike that involved Russian rockets that hit an oil facility in an industrial area in the northeastern outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Live updates: Support for Ukraine shown at Oscars

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Two refugee children from the Ukraine stand in front of a white board before their classes start in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 21, 2022. Forty Ukrainian refugee children started their first day of elementary school in Berlin on Monday only weeks after they fled the war back home. The two private refugee classes were put together by two Berlin volunteers who managed to raise funds, get free class rooms. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Ukrainian children find a welcoming classroom in Berlin

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

The hotel ship Oscar Wilde, which is used as accommodation for refugees, lies on the banks of the Rhine in Duesseldorf, Germany, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. A young woman has been raped on a ship. Two suspects have been arrested, said a police spokesman on Tuesday morning on request. The crime had already occurred on March 6. The German government said Wednesday that it would seek to ensure refugees fleeing conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere don’t become victims of crime following a reported rape case that has prompted a public outcry. (Roberto Pfeil/dpa via AP)

Germany pledges to protect refugees after reported rape case

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Striking airport staff gather in a terminal in Cologne, Germany, Monday, March 14, 2022. More than 1,000 security personnel have walked off their jobs at airports across Germany, leading to dozens of flight cancellations and delays. Security staffers at airports in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hannover and elsewhere began their one-day strike early Monday to press for higher wages. (Sascha Thelen/dpa via AP)

German airport strike causes flight cancellations, delays

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 fill photo, flowers lie on a concrete slab of the Holocaust Memorial to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Berlin. The Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism Berlin, or RIAS documented 410 incidents in Berlin, more than two a day, in the first half of 2020, including physical attacks, property damage, threats, harmful behavior and anti-Semitic propaganda. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum dies at 101 in Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Yan Skvyeskyi poses with a smarthphone showing his parents Irina and Igor Kushnir prior to an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Ukrainian Skvyeskyi, who works in sales in Berlin, immigrated to Germany in 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its second week, more than 1.5 million Ukrainians immigrants living in other European countries, are watching on in agony, horror and fear as their relatives and friends back home are looking for shelter in bunkers or are desperately trying to flee the country. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Ukrainian diaspora helps civilians back home escape the war

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Col. Gail Halvorsen (Ret.), the man known as "the candy bomber" during the Berlin Airlift in the 1940s, is featured in "Meet the Mormons." (Copyright © 2014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Used with permission.)

Gail Halvorsen, Berlin Airlift’s ‘Candy Bomber’ and Mormon icon, dies at 101

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

FILE - &quot;Candy Bomber&quot; pilot Gail Halvorsen gives thumbs up in front of an old US military aircraft with the name &quot;The Berlin Train&quot; in Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 21, 2016. The man known as the &quot;Candy Bomber&quot; for his airdrops of sweets during the Berlin Airlift when World War II ended nearly 75 years ago has died. Gail Halvorsen was 101 when he died Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in his home state of Utah surrounded by most of his children after a brief illness, James Stewart, the director of the Gail Halvorsen Aviation Education Foundation, said Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

‘Candy Bomber’ who dropped sweets during Berlin airlift dies

By Colleen Slevin and Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

U.S. Army soldiers from the 18th Airborne Division prepare to board a C-17 aircraft as they deploy to Europe from Fort Bragg, N.C., on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) **FILE**

Biden says U.S., Germany ‘in lockstep’ on Ukraine amid tensions over Russian sanctions

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A Russian construction worker speaks on a mobile phone during a ceremony marking the start of Nord Stream pipeline construction in Portovaya Bay some 170 kms (106 miles) north-west from St. Petersburg, Russia on April 9, 2010. Fears are rising about what would happen to Europe's energy supply if Russia were to invade Ukraine and then shut off its natural gas in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) **FILE**

Biden vows to spike German pipeline if Russia strikes Ukraine

By Jeff Mordock and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - Ukrainian soldiers walks at the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Katerinivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. Germany's refusal to join other NATO members in supplying Ukraine with weapons has frustrated allies and prompted some to question Berlin's resolve in standing up to Russia. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak)

German caution on arms to Ukraine rooted in history, energy

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

The Kremlin Wall, the Spasskaya Tower, Red Square, the GUM department store, the St. Basil's Cathedral and the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge are decorated for Christmas and the New Year festivities in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia expels 2 German diplomats in quid pro quo move

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A caravan drives to the airport after departing from the Christian Aid Ministries headquarters at Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 16, 2021. Twelve remaining members of a U.S.-based missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago have been freed, according to the group and to Haitian police. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Church agency: Captive missionaries made daring escape

By Peter Smith - Associated Press

$FILE - Angela Merkel arrives for a television debate with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at a television studio in Berlin, Sept. 4, 2005. As chancellor, Merkel has been credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence, helping hold a fractious European Union together, managing a string of crises and being a role model for women in a near-record tenure that ends with her leaving office amid praise from abroad and enduring popularity at home. Her designated successor Olaf Scholz is expected to take office Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)$

End of an era: Germany’s Angela Merkel bows out after 16 years

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press