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FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2016 file photo Christmas decoration sticks in the smashed window of the cabin of a truck which ran into a crowded Christmas market Monday evening killing several people in Berlin, Germany. The German government has rejected media reports claiming authorities sought to cover up the involvement of a second man in the deadly 2016 truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market by deporting him. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

German govt denies cover-up over Berlin Xmas market attack

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

People pass a commemorative memorial statue to perpetuating the memory of the 'Kindertransport' (children transport) near Friedrichstrasse train station in central in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany to compensate hundreds who fled Nazis as children

By David Rising - Associated Press

A farmer ploughs a dry field in Dollbergen near Hannover, northern Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. German agriculture minister Julia Kloeckner will inform in a press conference on compensation for German farmers hit this summers' drought. (Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP)

Germany gives aid to drought-hit farmers after poor harvest

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Refugees walk to a chartered train at the railway station of Passau, Germany Tuesday Jan. 5, 2016. Migrants continue to arrive in Germany to seek for asylum. (Armin Weigel/dpa via AP)

Germany to North African countries: Take back migrants or lose aid money

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama at Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Monday, June 8, 2015, during the G-7 summit. (Michael Kappeler/Pool Photo via AP)

Germany wants quick clarification of new NSA spy allegations

By David Rising - Associated Press

Turkish immigrants go shopping on a market in Duisburg, Germany. The government has even fashioned its own version of the American dream, with its "Make it in Germany" campaign. Launched in 2012, this online platform lures non-German-speaking skilled immigrants with the promise of a lucrative future. (Associated Press)

Germany welcomes immigrants to sustain economic growth, population

By Nele Obermueller - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on world decline as a consequence of American decline by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

HANSON: When America fell apart

By Victor Davis Hanson

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Germany's former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder attend an economic forum in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, pool)

Germany’s $104 billion in Russian trade complicates response to crisis in Ukraine

By Sumi Somaskanda — Special to The Washington Times

Illustration: Obama windmills by A. HUNTER for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Changing the tax climate

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2013 file photo cars are parked outside the apartment building in Munich, Germany, where more than 1,400 artworks were found in the apartment of collector Cornelius Gurlitt. Gurlitt, a reclusive German collector whose long-secret hoard of well over 1,000 artworks triggered an international uproar over the fate of art looted by the Nazis, died Tuesday, May 6, 2014. He was 81. (AP Photo/dpa, Marc Mueller, File)

Reclusive German art collector Gurlitt dies at 81

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file picture the medieval Dome Reliquary (13th century) of the Welfenschatz, is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin. A panel set up by the German government says a medieval treasure at the center of a long-running ownership dispute should stay with a Berlin museum and not be given to the heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers. Thursday’s March 20, 2014 recommendation on the fate of the Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure, by a decade-old commission created to help resolve restitution claims isn’t binding but carries moral weight. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

Disputed art to remain at Berlin museum

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

Germany puts on hold firm’s Russian military deal

Associated Press

FILE -- This March 13, 2009, file photo shows Uwe Romeike, top left, and his wife Hannelore, second from right, teaching their children at their home in Morristown, Tenn. An attorney for a German couple who lost their bid for U.S. asylum in order to home-school their seven children says deportation proceedings against the family have been deferred indefinitely, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

German home-school family won’t be deported

By TRAVIS LOLLER - Associated Press

Germany wants more military engagement abroad

Associated Press

President Barack Obama smiles after he said that environmental protesters who interrupted his speech were at the wrong event as he speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

NAPOLITANO: Is Obama a dupe or a totalitarian, megalomaniacal liar?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Peer Steinbruck, leader of the center-left Social Democrats, presents the main challenge to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Despite his gaffes, Mr. Steinbruck has put Mrs. Merkel on the defensive by using the German government's links to the National Security Agency eavesdropping scandal as a campaign issue. (Associated Press)

Germany is likely to forge ahead with Merkel policy

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Religious freedom a U.S. cornerstone

The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Labels for Jews have calamitous precedent

The Washington Times

Germany wants religious circumcision protected

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press