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German airlines, rail company aim to reduce domestic flights

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In this Friday, May 13, 2011, file photo, soldiers of 1AD attend a color casing ceremony of the First Armored Division at the U.S. Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany. Germany's Defense Ministry says U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in his first conversation with her since taking up his new post that Germany is highly valued as a station for American soldiers. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Pentagon will send 500 new troops to Germany in reversal of Trump plan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, second from right, and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, right, attend a video conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, top left on screen, and German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, top right on screen, at Foreign Ministry in Tokyo during their &quot;2 plus 2&quot; ministerial meeting Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Frank Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan, Germany hold 1st security talk to deter China

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, talks with German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, right, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer prior to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday April 13, 2021. (John MACDOUGALL/AP via Pool)

German government seeks more powers to set pandemic rules

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

The chairman of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU), ArminLaschet, left, and the chairman of the German Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Soeder, right, after a statement folowing a closed meeting of the federal parliament factions of both partys in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, April 11, 2021. The two party chairmen and German state governors want to become the center-right candidate for the country's Sept. 26 national election, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday. (Tobias Schwarz/Pool Photo via AP)

Merkel’s bloc spars over who will run for German chancellor

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German industrial production down again in February

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, left, addresses the media at a press conference as Department of Health Secretary Dr Brendan Murphy watches at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Friday, April 9, 2021. Australia says it has finalized a deal to buy an extra 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine as the nation rapidly pivots away from its earlier plan to rely mainly on the AstraZeneca vaccine. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

The Latest: Navajo Nation issues weekend stay-at-home order

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German factory orders up for 2nd straight month in February

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FILE - In this file photo, provided by Hawaii Police Department, is Benjamin Fleming, of Pittsburgh. Alexander Germany-Wald testified Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at a preliminary hearing for his college buddy, Fleming, who is charged with murder for the strangulation of their friend, Abhishek Gupta, also of Pittsburgh. (Hawaii Police Department via AP, File)

Tourist charged with manslaughter in pal’s Hawaii death

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

Europe’s AstraZeneca vaccine fiasco erupts

By Jed Babbin

Hawaii vacation of 3 friends from East Coast ended in death

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 6, 2020 file photo Bavarian Governor Markus Soeder and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address the media during a joint press conference in Berlin, Germany. Armin Laschet, a governor who also leads Merkel’s party, called this week for a vaguely defined 2-3 week “bridge lockdown” to control infections while Germany steps up a so-far slow vaccination campaign. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has thrown her weight behind calls for a 'short, uniform lockdown'. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file, pool)

Merkel backs ‘short, uniform lockdown’ across Germany

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German President Frank Walter Steinmeier attends a ceremony to honor people for their services during the coronavirus pandemic with state's cross of merit at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

Germany faces ‘crisis of trust’ in pandemic, president says

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Germany head coach Joachim Low stands on the pitch prior to the start of the World Cup 2022 group J qualifying soccer match between Germany and North Macedonia in Duisburg, Germany, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Löw limps closer to exit after Germany’s latest painful loss

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Catholic women’s groups protest Vatican’s gay union stance

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Pigs stand in front of a building after a fire broke out in a large pig farm in Alt Tellin, Germany, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP)

Over 55,000 animals believed dead in fire at German pig farm

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People line up in front of the vaccination center at the Arena Treptow in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. This vaccination center in the German capital's Treptow district has used only the Pfizer vaccine since it was opened. German health officials agreed on Tuesday to restrict the use of AstraZeneca's vaccine in people under 60. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merkel: ‘A quiet Easter’ needed to counter rising infections

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 file photo people walk behind the writing 'Holocaust' during the international Holocaust remembrance day in the former the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany. Friedrich Karl Berger, a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, was deported to his native Germany on orders from a Tennessee court. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

Germany drops probe of former Nazi guard deported from US

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

Celta Vigo's Denis Suarez is chased by Real Madrid's Toni Kroos during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Celta and Real Madrid at the Balaidos stadium in Vigo, Spain, Saturday March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Lalo R.Villar)

Germany midfielder Toni Kroos criticizes World Cup in Qatar

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A laboratory worker simulates the workflow in a cleanroom of the BioNTech Corona vaccine production in Marburg, Germany, during a media day on Saturday, March 27, 2021. BioNTech, the Mainz-based company that invented the messenger RNA-based vaccine, is busily ramping up its production capabilities at the company's new production facility in Marburg. BioNTech originally expected the plant could turn out 700 million doses per year; it has since upgraded its expectations to a billion a year. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Amid AstraZeneca setback, Germany banks on homegrown vaccine

By FRANK JORDANS and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press