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A medical operator prepares to perform COVID-19 test swabs in the Church of San Severo Outside the Walls, in the heart of Naples, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. An initiative of &quot;Sanita' Diritti Salute&quot; association and the San Gennaro Foundation, aimed at helping those who cannot afford the cost of a private test, also allows, in the best tradition of Naples, those who want to pay 18 euros for a &quot;suspended swab&quot;, to be taken by somebody else, exactly as it happens for the famous Neapolitan &quot;suspended coffee&quot;. (Alessandro Pone /LaPresse via AP)

Europe has half of world’s 4M new virus cases but sees hope

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Police officers escort a person for an identity check in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Almost a year after the art theft in Dresden's Green Vault, police arrested three suspects on Tuesday morning in Berlin. Since the early morning, a total of 18 objects have been searched. (Annette Riedl/dpa via AP)

Raids, arrests as German police probe Dresden jewelry theft

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Charles, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall exit their plane as they arrive at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Germany, Saturday Nov. 14, 2020. (Odd Andersen/Pool via AP)

Bound despite Brexit: Prince Charles hails UK-Germany ties

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

German minister to stop using doctor title in thesis flap

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A plane departures from the airport Schoenefeld behind Terminal 1 of the new Berlin-Brandenburg-Airport 'Willy Brandt' near Berlin, in Schoenefeld, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. After years of delays and massive cost overruns the opening of the German capital's new airport is scheduled for Saturday Oct. 31.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

New Berlin airport opens 9 years late with little ceremony

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

A pedestrian walks over a reminder to wear face masks sprayed on the sidewalk at the Karl-Marx-Strasse at the district Neukoelln in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Karl-Marx-Strasse is one of the streets in the German capital where face masks are mandatory to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany heads into November ‘lockdown light’ to slow virus

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

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)

Over 60 exhibits damaged at Berlin museums, motive a mystery

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German utility restores water supply to Tesla after stoppage

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During the eviction, police officers use a turntable ladder to go through a window of the squatted house &quot;Liebig 34&quot; in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Police in heavy riot gear began clearing out a notorious Berlin leftist squat on Friday morning, encountering only passive resistance from residents as they carried them individually down a firetruck's ladder. Police spokesman at the scene Thilo Cablitz said some 1,500 police had been called out to aid in clearing the so-called Liebig 34 squat in the capital's Friedrichshain neighborhood, named after its address Liebigstrasse 34. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

German police clear out famous Berlin squatters’ building

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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 1995 file photo, chechens duck for cover as a Russian sniper takes a pot shot at a street market on the southern outskirts of Grozny, Chechnya. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)

Karsten Thielker, Pulitzer-winning AP photographer, dies

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

A general view shows the courtroom at the beginning of the trial of defendant Vadim K. in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. The 55-year-old man accused of gunning down a former Chechen commander, a Georgian national, in Kleiner Tiergarten Park, on August 23, 2019 has so far stayed mum over the case. (Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP)

Russian on trial accused of state-ordered Berlin execution

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, center, visits with his counterparts from Israel Gabi Ashkenazi, left, and the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan the Holocaust Memorial during a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. The three foreign minister meet for talks in the German capital. (Michele Tantussi/Pool via AP)

Top Israeli, UAE diplomats meet in Berlin for talks

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

So called stumbling blocks, marking the last voluntarily chosen places of residence of the victims of the Nazis, are embedded in the pavement in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. 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)

Assaults, arson, slurs: Report finds anti-Semitism in Berlin

By CIARÁN FAHEY - Associated Press

This handout photo published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, posing for a photo in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted the picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says he's breathing on his own. He posted on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: &quot;Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still can't do much, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day.&quot; (Navalny instagram via AP)

Navalny team alleges Novichok found in hotel water bottle

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Dec. 26, 2019, file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks to the media in front of a security officer standing guard at the Foundation for Fighting Corruption office in Moscow, Russia. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russian opposition leader Navalny able to leave his bed

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Berlin museum to return 3 sets of human remains to Australia

Associated Press

FILE - In this July 20, 2019, file photo, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking to a crowd during a political protest in Moscow, Russia. The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has been taken out of an induced coma and is responsive. German experts say Navalny, who fell ill Aug. 20 on a domestic flight in Russia, was poisoned with a substance belonging to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Germany approves Russian request to assist in Navalny probe

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Kave Bulambo, founder of Black in Tech Berlin speaks with other members of the tech group via video call in the conference room of the public co-working space where she often works in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jona Kallgren)

Black in Berlin: Group seeks more diversity in tech industry

By JONA KALLGREN - Associated Press

Russia urges Germany to share data about Navalny

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, file photo Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks during a rally to support political prisoners in Moscow, Russia. The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has been taking out of an induced coma and is responsive. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Hospital: Russia’s Alexei Navalny out of coma, is responsive

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press