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People wait at the vaccination center in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Monday, April 26, 2021. Germany's COVID-19 vaccination program will be discussed at a meeting with Germany's state Governors and Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Germany to open up virus vaccinations to all adults in June

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sits as a witness before the Bundestag's investigative committee on the Wirecard AG accounting scandal in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 23, 2021. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Merkel defends lobbying for Wirecard on 2019 China visit

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Bayern's head coach Hans-Dieter Flick speaks to Bayern's Leroy Sane during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen at the Allianz Arena stadium in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Christof Stache, Pool via AP)

Bayern nearing 2nd league title under departing Hansi Flick

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Parliamentarians take part in a special session of the Bundesrat in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The chamber discusses the revision of the Infection Protection Act. A plan by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to mandate uniform restrictions in areas where the coronavirus is spreading too quickly has cleared its final legislative hurdle. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)

German ‘emergency brake’ plan clears last legislative hurdle

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Police officers secure the German parliament, the Reichstag building prior to a protest rally against the government's policy to battle the corona virus pandemic in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The parliament decides on a law that gives the federal government more power to battle the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German lawmakers approve ‘emergency brake’ virus rules

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, arrives for a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

German court refuses effort to block EU recovery fund

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a news conference at 10 Downing Street, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in London, Tuesday April 20, 2021. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

Pandemic ‘exposed’ UK households’ finances, report finds

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FILE - In this April 18, 2017 file photo a woman rides her bike along a field of rape in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

Germany vows to boost cycling as part of climate effort

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Armin Laschet, chairman of the German Christian Democratic party (CDU), addresses the media during a statement in front of the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Laschet wins battle to lead Merkel’s bloc in German election

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 30, 2021, file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel briefs the media after a virtual meeting with federal state governors at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Merkel is defending her country's ongoing cooperation with Russia on the building of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline amid growing criticism of Moscow's treatment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and aggression toward Ukraine. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool, File)

Merkel defends German/Russian pipeline construction

By David Rising - Associated Press

Germany's Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock gives a speech during a digital announcement event in Berlin, Germany, where the party presented her as top candidate for chancellor for the upcoming federal election later this year, Monday, April 19, 2021. (Annegret Hilse/Pool via AP)

Greens bid for German chancellery as Merkel’s bloc squabbles

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

A Corona Drive-In testing station employee stands next to an open car window to take a nasal swab in Osnabrueck, Germany, Monday, April 19, 2021. Appointments can be made online for testing. The result is communicated by email after a short waiting time. With the &quot;citizen test&quot;, all residents of Germany have the opportunity to be tested for an infection with the Corona virus free of charge. (Friso Gentsch/dpa via AP)

Germany expects vaccine deliveries to ramp up in 2nd quarter

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Lawyer Nikola Kovacevic, who represented 17 refugees, talkx to Hamid Ahmadi from Germany through an interpreter, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees in a forest. Groups of refugees and economic migrants trying to reach Western Europe regularly give accounts of police forcibly pushing them back across borders in the Balkans. Pushbacks are illegal, and authorities routinely deny that their agencies carry out such collective expulsions, which are difficult to prove and mostly go unpunished. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Refugees win rare victory in landmark Serbia pushback ruling

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2021 file photo, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Federal Minister of Defence, speaks at Holzdorf Air Base in Schoenewalde, Germany. The German defense minister says she wants to help bring potentially endangered Afghan employees of her country's military to Germany as it prepares to leave Afghanistan after nearly 20 years. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP, File)

Germany promises help for local staff amid Afghan withdrawal

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Woman thought friend was lost in Holocaust. Now, they Zoom.

By PAUL GUZZO and The Tampa Bay Times - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech during a parliament session about a new law to battle the coronavirus pandemic at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Merkel urges lawmakers to support pandemic bill

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

China calls for closer cooperation on climate change

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

In this photo released by Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leads a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is heading Friday to Paris to discuss the tensions with French President Emmanuel Macron. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

France, Germany, Ukraine call for Russian troops withdrawal

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Experts cut outlook for German growth amid 3rd pandemic wave

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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer presents the crime statistics report for 2020 during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Annegret Hilse/Pool via AP)

Germany sees drop in crime during 1st year of pandemic

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