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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko holds Russian passports claiming they are proof of the presence of Russian troops in Ukraine as he addresses the 51. Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. The conference on security policy takes place from Feb. 6, 2015 until Feb. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Stringer)

Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine president, pushes for fast cease-fire, defensive arms

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Ukrainian forces have lost hundreds of square miles more than was agreed under the Minsk Protocol. U.S. and Ukrainian officials say separatists in the east are pushing to establish a land bridge from Russia's mainland to Crimea. (Associated Press)

Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande being led into ‘trap’ in Russia peace talks, Ukraine says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration by Heng, Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore CartoonArts International

SUZANNE FIELDS: Angela Merkel tangles with Alexis Tsipras over austerity

By Suzanne Fields

President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014, to their joint news conference in the Rose Garden. Obama and Merkel are putting on a display of trans-Atlantic unity against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seem to be doing little to change Russian President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Angela Merkel to visit White House next week

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Hungary on Monday that her nation will not provide military hardware to Ukraine and asserted that the war with Russia-backed forces "cannot be solved militarily." (Associated Press)

Germany holds Greece to austerity terms despite election of Syriza leftists

By Angela Waters - Special to The Washington Times

A woman waves a Greek flag during a speech by the leader of Syriza left-wing party Alexis Tsipras outside Athens University Headquarters, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. A triumphant Alexis Tsipras told Greeks that his radical left Syriza party's win in Sunday's early general election meant an end to austerity and humiliation and that the country's regular and often fraught debt inspections were a thing of the past. "Today the Greek people have made history. Hope has made history," Tsipras said in his victory speech at a conference hall in central Athens. (AP Photo/Fotis Plegas G.)

PETER MORICI: Now Greeks should dump the Euro

By Peter Morici

A young girl looks on at French soldiers patrolling at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy, north of Paris, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. France ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Monday to protect sensitive sites — nearly half of them to guard Jewish schools — as it hunted for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorized the nation. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Police release 3 suspects arrested in French terror probe

By GREG KELLER - Associated Press

Fear and Rage: The Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West has been staging demonstrations against immigration from countries with large Muslim populations. Its numbers are growing, and its protests are spreading. (Associated Press)

PEGIDA anti-Islam, anti-immigration movement stifling Germany’s economy, business leaders warn

By Angela Waters - Special to The Washington Times

Cristiano Ronaldo, left, of Portugal fools around with presenter Kate Abdo during the FIFA Ballon d'Or 2014 gala held at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Ennio Leanza)

Cristiano Ronaldo wins 3rd FIFA Player of the Year award

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a joint news conference with the Prime Minster of Moldova Iurie Leanca, as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) ** FILE **

German government sites downed by pro-Russian hackers: ‘We will not forgive’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A still from a home video shows gunmen firing their weapons outside the newspaper Charlie Hebdo's Paris office. (Associated Press)

Paris newspaper shooting exposes rift in Muslim-Europe relationships

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Demonstrators stand in front of a banner of German Social Democratic party (SPD) with a crossed-out swastika and the slogan 'Berlin against Nazis' to protest against a planned rally of the so-called 'Berlin Patriots against the Islamization of the West' (BAERGIDA) in Berlin, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Neo-Nazis in Germany go hip to recruit — launch ‘Vegan Cooking Channel’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Queen Elizabeth II to make state visit to Germany

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Bronze heads on bottom of Puppet (Doll) Fountain
By Corinna Lothar/Special to the Washington Times

Charlemagne lives — and thrives — in modern Aachen

By Corinna Lothar Special to The Washington Times

Chancellor and chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats, CDU, Angela Merkel, holds flowers after she was reelected as chairwoman with 96.7 percent during the 27th party convention in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Angela Merkel OKs rule to make big companies hire 30 percent women supervisors

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke displays tag with the name USA during the FIFA Women's World Cup draw in Gatineau, Quebec,. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)

Women’s World Cup draw leaves U.S. in tough group

By Anne M. Peterson - Associated Press

In this Monday, Nov. 24, 2014 file photo, smoke streams from the chimneys of the E.ON coal-fired power station in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and with a capacity of around 2300 MW of power it is one of the most powerful coal-fired power stations in Europe. Germany announced on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 a cash boost for measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions, in a bid to meet its ambitious climate target for 2020. Germany has pledged to reduce its carbon dioxide output by 40 percent by the end of the decade, compared to 1990s levels. Current estimates predict it will only achieve a 32-35 percent cut. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)FILE -

Germany boosts funding to cut greenhouse gases

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FILE - This May 7, 2014 file picture shows an exterior view of the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland. The Swiss museum says Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, that it will accept trove of priceless art bequeathed to it by German collector Cornelius Gurlitt. (AP Photo/Keystone, Gian Ehrenzeller, File)

Swiss museum accepts priceless Gurlitt art trove

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier , left, listens as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaks during closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. Iran and six world powers have &#8220;never been closer&#8221; to agreement on a nuclear deal since they started negotiating more than six years ago, but it is up to Tehran to close the gap, Germany&#8217;s foreign minister said Saturday. High-level comings and goings since Friday also have seen British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius stop by for talks with Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other participants in the negotiations. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

John Kerry: ‘Serious gaps’ in nuclear talks with Iran

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Delegates and participants of the Green Climate Fund talk to each other prior the meeting in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Nov. 20, 2014. A United Nations fund that will help poor countries tackle climate change has fallen short for now of its target of collecting US $10 billion, officials said Thursday. Some 30 countries meeting in Berlin pledged a total of $9.3 billion toward the Green Climate Fund. (AP Photo/dpa,Rainer Jensen)

U.N. climate fund falls short of $10 billion target

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press