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Dortmund players celebrate Donyell Malen's goal, during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and FC Cologne, in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. (Rolf Vennenbernd via AP)

Jadon Sancho wins a penalty as Dortmund beats Cologne 4-0 in the Bundesliga

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A person holds a banner reading 'Fascists are no alternative for Germany' during a march in Heidelberg, Germany, Saturday Jan. 20, 2024, as part of nationwide demonstrations against right-wing extremism. ( Jason Tschepljakow/dpa via AP)

Protests against Germany’s far right gain new momentum after report on meeting of extremists

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Dortmund players celebrate Donyell Malen's goal, during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and FC Cologne, in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. (Rolf Vennenbernd via AP)

Jadon Sancho wins a penalty and Dortmund wins again in Bundesliga. Leader Leverkusen beats Leipzig

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France's Nikola Karabatic, 4th from right, stands with his team during the anthem prior the Handball European Championship main round match between France and Croatia in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Security increased after players allege racist abuse by fans at handball European Championship

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The sun sets behind the cole-fired power plant 'Scholven' of the Uniper energy company in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Oct. 22, 2022. Germany's economy shrank 0.3% last year as Europe's former powerhouse struggled with more expensive energy, higher interest rates, lack of skilled labor and a home-grown budget crisis. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Europe’s biggest economy shrank last year as Germany struggles with multiple crises

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People stand on the Alter Markt square during the "Potsdam defends itself" demonstrations in Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Thousands of people gathered in Germany Sunday for demonstrations against the far right, among them Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his foreign minister, following a report that extremists recently met to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants and others if they took power. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)

Demonstrations against the far right held in Germany following a report on a deportation meeting

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Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes a government statement in the Bundestag, Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is calling for calm and a readiness to accept compromises as the country faces protests by farmers angry about a plan to cut their fuel subsidies. He warned Saturday of a danger from extremists stoking rage against a backdrop of wider discontent. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP, File)

Germany’s Scholz warns of extremists stoking rage as farmers protest and discontent is high

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South Africa's Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, center, and Palestinian assistant Minister of Multilateral Affairs Ammar Hijazi, right, address the media outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. The United Nations' top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa's allegation that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Live updates | Israel rejects genocide case as Mideast tensions rise after US-led strikes in Yemen

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Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill (10) is congratulated by his teammates after scoring a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Tyreek Hill returns to KC as Dolphins visit Chiefs for frigid AFC wild-card game Saturday night

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Franz Beckenbauer, then president of the German Organization Committee of the soccer World Cup, briefs the media during a news conference at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, June 29, 2006. German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer has died at 78, news agency dpa reports. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach for Germany, has died at 78

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Poland's Iga Swiatek plays a forehand return to Caroline Garcia of France during their United Cup semifinal tennis match in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Swiatek’s Poland team to play Zverev’s Germany in the United Cup final

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A German who served time for a high-profile kidnapping is convicted over armed robberies

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Members of Germany’s smallest governing party vote to stay in Scholz’s coalition, prompting relief

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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center, talks to rescue workers from the German Life Saving Association during his visit to the flood area at the confluence of the Weser and Aller rivers, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. Chancellor Olaf Scholz took a sightseeing flight in an air force helicopter to gain an impression of the flood situation in the north of Lower Saxony. (Philipp Schulze/dpa via AP)

German chancellor tours flooded regions in the northwest, praises authorities and volunteers

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz poses for photographs during the recording of his New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz uses his New Year’s speech to convey confidence

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France's former European commission president Jacques Delors delivers his speech in support of French socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal at a campaign meeting in Lille, northern France, on May 3, 2007. Delors, a Paris bank messenger’s son who became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union, has died in Paris, his daughter Martine Aubry said Wednesday Dec. 27, 2023. He was 98. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Jacques Delors, ‘Mr. Europe,’ dies aged 98

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble attends a meeting of EU finance ministers at the EU Council building in Luxembourg on Friday, June 16, 2017. Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis more than two decades later, has died on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. He was 81. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Wolfgang Schaeuble, German elder statesman and finance minister during euro debt crisis, dies at 81

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Firefighters try to secure the area with sandbags from floodwaters from the Burlage-Langholter Tief, a tributary of the Leda, after it overflowed, in Langholt, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. Firefighters and volunteers labored to reinforce dikes against rising floodwaters in northern and eastern Germany as heavy rains falling on already soaked ground pushed rivers and streams over their banks and forced several towns to evacuate residents. (Lars Penning/dpa via AP)

Towns reinforce dikes as heavy rains send rivers over their banks in Germany and the Netherlands

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Tesla vehicles charge at a station in Emeryville, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022. Tesla has found itself locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with union workers in Sweden and neighboring countries. The showdown pits the electric car maker's CEO Elon Musk, who's staunchly anti-union, against the strongly held labor ideals of the Nordic countries. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

Musk and Tesla are battling unions across Scandinavia. What comes next in the labor dispute?

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

A man casts his ballot for the German elections in a polling station in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ordered the 2021 national election to be partially repeated in the German capital because of severe glitches at many polling stations. The court ruled Tuesday that the election must be repeated in 455 of 2,256 constituencies in the state of Berlin, which is one of three German cities that is also a state. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Germany’s top court orders a repeat of the 2021 national election in parts of Berlin due to glitches

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