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A man casts his shadow in the coal port of the Mehrum coal-fired power plant in the district of Peine in Hohenhameln, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Germany wants to gradually phase out the climate-damaging combustion of coal for electricity generation by 2038. ( Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP)

Germany agrees timeline, compensation for coal phase-out

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

German Health Minister Jens Spahn arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German parliament votes against new system for organ donors

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

A cargo ship passes the buildings of the banking district on the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

German economic growth slows to 0.6% in 2019, worst in years

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Monday, May 27, 2019 file photo, NATO forces attend the graduation ceremony of Afghan National Army soldiers from a 3-month training program at the Afghan Military Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Iran warning puts thousands of European troops in spotlight

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Volkswagen hits record sales in bid to top auto industry

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, technicians work at the Arak heavy water reactor's secondary circuit, as officials and media visit the site, near Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. The head of Iran's nuclear agency says his country has begun new operations at the heavy water nuclear reactor. The move intensifies pressure on Europe to find an effective way around U.S. sanctions, which block Tehran's oil sales abroad. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

EU launches Iran nuclear deal dispute action

By Lorne Cook and David Rising - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo released Nov. 4, 2019 by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the organization, speaks with media while visiting Natanz enrichment facility, in central Iran. The landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers meant to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons has been teetering on the edge of collapse since the U.S. pulled unilaterally in 2018. The EU said Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, that it will “spare no effort” to keep the deal alive, but with tensions between the U.S. escalating into open hostilities it's seeming increasingly unlikely that will be possible. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Key moments in the unraveling of Iran’s nuclear deal

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 photo, rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. Iran on Friday denied Western allegations that one of its own missiles downed a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed outside Tehran, and called on the U.S. and Canada to share any information they have on the crash, which killed all 176 people on board. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

The Latest: Iran says it ‘unintentionally’ shot down plane

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Germany says asylum applications dropped 14% last year

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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, left, CDU Federal Chairman and Defence Minister, stands next to Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) at the beginning of the meeting of the CDU Federal Executive Committee in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Berlin, German, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Germany moves 35 soldiers from Iraq to Jordan, Kuwait

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FILE -- In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 long time exposure photo cars drive on a highway in Frankfurt, Germany. Germany's parliament is poised to more than double the starting price for carbon dioxide emissions from the transport and heating industries when the charge is introduced in 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Rising carbon prices led to drop in German emissions in 2019

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, and Archbishop of Warsaw Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz attend the 12th annual Epiphany procession in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. Epiphany, the 12th night of Christmas, marks the day the three kings visited Christ. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president boycotts Holocaust remembrance in Israel

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, second right, arrive for a working session at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. Russia's envoy at the talks with Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists said Monday, Dec. 23, 2019, they agreed on terms of exchanging prisoners following an agreement reached by the nations' presidents in Paris earlier this month. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool, File)

Merkel to meet Putin in Moscow for talks on Mideast crises

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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 14, 2018 file photo from left: German Science and Education Minister Anja Karliczek, Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Gerd Mueller, Labor Minister Hubertus Heil, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Helge Braun, Head of the Chancellery, pose for the media during the constitutive cabinet meeting of the new German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Markus Soeder, the leader of the smallest party in Merkel's coalition, said in a weekend interview with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that “we should rejuvenate and renew the government team by the middle of the year” to give it new momentum. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

German government starts 2020 with new strife over Cabinet

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Yun Sung Bin from South Korea zips from a giant glass of beer after winning the men's Skeleton world cup in Winterberg, Germany, Sunday, Jan.5, 2019. Germany's Axel Jungk at left.(Caroline Seidel/dpa via AP)

Hermann holds off Rahneva to get World Cup skeleton win

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Heiko Maas (SPD), Foreign Minister, goes through plenary session at the SPD federal party conference after the first ballot for further members of the executive committee in Berlin, German, Saturday, Dec.7, 2019. Maas did not obtain the necessary votes in the first ballot. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Germany seeks early meeting of EU diplomats over Mideast

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Germany reviews threat level after Iran general’s killing

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Firefighters stand in front of the burning monkey house at Krefeld Zoo, in Krefeld, Germnay, Wednesday Jan 1, 2020. A fire at a zoo in western Germany killed a large number of animals in the early hours of the new year, authorities said. (Alexander Forstreuter/dpa via AP)

Apes, monkeys among 30 animals killed in German zoo fire

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

A Russia-backed separatist soldier escorts a group of separatists war prisoners after they were exchanged near the checkpoint Horlivka, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in the east have begun exchanging prisoners in a move aimed at ending their five-year-long war. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Ukraine, eastern rebels swap prisoners in move to end war

By EVGENIY MALOLETKA - Associated Press

Leverkusen's Jonathan Tah talks during an interview with the Associated Press at the BayArena in Leverkusen, Germany, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. “What always people think is it's hard to play against Leverkusen and you don't like to play against Leverkusen,” defender Jonathan Tah told the AP after the win against German champions Bayern last Saturday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Germany is hungry again ahead of Euros, says Tah

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press