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German Health Minister Jens Spahn delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 on the current developments of the new coronavirus pandemic in Germany. At left is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

German government defends slow vaccination campaign

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, Electric car ID.3 cars stand at the factory area during a press tour at the plant of the German manufacturer Volkswagen AG, VW, in Zwickau, Germany. Automaker Volkswagen tripled sales of battery-only cars last year as its new electric compact ID.3 came on the market ahead of tough new limits on auto emissions. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

Volkswagen triples electric car sales ahead of climate rules

By David McHugh - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting wearing face masks in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (John Macdougall/Pool via AP, File)

Virus collides with politics as German election year starts

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen on a screen, making a statement on the events in Washington with the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters at the beginning of the digital press conference at the winter retreat of the CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (Kay Nietfeld/Pool via AP)

World reaction to the storming of the US Capitol

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A sculpture of a dinosaurs is dressed with a Santa hat and a face mask in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Officials in the Thai capital have announced new restrictions, including the closure of some entertainment facilities during the New Year's holiday, as infections continued to rise following a recent coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

The Latest: China’s Hebei toughens virus rules over outbreak

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Staff members wait for the next in line at a COVID-19 testing facility of the Municipal Health Authority GGD, in Utrecht, Netherlands, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough lockdown Monday night in a speech to the nation ordering all non-essential shops and businesses such as hair salons, museums and theaters to close as coronavirus infection rates in the Netherlands rise sharply despite a two-month partial lockdown. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch government criticized for late start to vaccinations

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

The medieval Holstentor is reflected in water in Luebeck, Germany, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. The German government will decide about further restrictions to avoid the outspread of coronavirus on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Germany set to extend hard lockdown as daily deaths mount

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Walkers walk along a snowy forest path in the Black Forest near Lake Mummelsee, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. Tuesday's low pressure system that's bringing frigid temperatures, dark clouds and snow to Germany is called Ahmet. It will be followed by low pressure systems with names such as Cemal, Goran, Hakim and Dimitrios. The upcoming high pressure systems reaching Germany's shores early this year will be called Bozena, Chana or Dragica. (Benedikt Spether/dpa via AP)

Siegfried, meet Ahmet: German weather systems get makeover

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

Back on ice: Some US sliders finally able to begin seasons

By TIM REYNOLDS - Associated Press

Fireworks kill young men in France and Germany

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German Health Minister Jens Spahn addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020 on the new coronavirus, COVID-19, situation and the vaccination campaign in Germany. German authorities have reported more than 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths in one day for the first time since the pandemic began. The national disease control center, the Robert Koch Institute, said Wednesday that 1,129 more deaths were reported over the past 24 hours. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)

Germany set for longer lockdown as death figures spike

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

EMBARGO - UNTIL DEC. 31 00:00 A.M. CET - FREE FOR THURSDAY DEC. 31, 2020 NEWSPAPERS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, pool)

Merkel to Germans: Keep up anti-virus discipline in 2021

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

Switzerland and Austria take to the ice before first period IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship pre-competition action in Edmonton, Alberta, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Unusual world junior championship plunges ahead in Edmonton

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The defendant Stephan Balliet is escorted from the vehicle by court personnel upon his arrival at the district court in Magdeburg, Germany, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. The court's verdict is expected afterwards. The federal prosecution accuses the assassin of Halle 13 crimes, including murder and attempted murder. The assassin had tried to cause carnage in the synagogue in Halle on Oct. 9, 2019 on the highest Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

German extremist convicted of murder after synagogue attack

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

A discarded face mask is seen on the Roemerberg square with the Christmas tree in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Angela Merkel pleads for coronavirus cooperation after ‘lockdown lite’ fails

By Eros Banaj - Special to The Washington Times

FILE- In this Friday Dec. 18, 2020, file photo, A traveller wearing a face mask checks the flight departures at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Netherlands is banning flights from the United Kingdom for the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of the COVID-19 virus in Britain does not reach its shores. The ban came into effect Sunday morning Dec. 20, 2020, and the government said it was reacting to tougher measures imposed in and around London on Saturday. The Netherlands said it will assess &quot;with other EU nations the possibilities to contain the import of the virus from the United Kingdom.&quot; (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

More EU nations ban travel from UK, fearing virus variant

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

German police bust crime ring based at Turkish call center

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel answers questions of lawmaker about German government's policy at the parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Germany has entered a harder lockdown, closing shops and schools in an effort to bring down stubbornly high new cases of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Angela Merkel thanks husband-wife team at BioNTech

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

German confirms Navalny questioned as witness in poisoning

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

UN head stresses need of virus vaccine for all nations

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