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Court Rules Man Can't Have Gun License After His Dog Shoots Him With Rifle

A court in Munich, Germany, said it must be assumed the hunter "will handle firearms and ammunition carelessly in future as well.”

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Fabulously Fat Rat Rescued After Getting Stuck In Manhole Cover

An animal rescue group says the plus-size German rodent simply had too much "good food."

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British Airways Plane Headed For Germany Lands In Scotland By Mistake

Officials are still trying to determine the cause of the “obviously unfortunate mix-up.”

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Meet The Men Who Ditched Well Paid Jobs In Big Energy To Tackle Climate Change

Lition Energy uses blockchain to connect consumers directly with renewable power plants.

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Hundreds Of Holocaust Survivors Speak Up About Anti-Semitism At Global...

The elderly survivors gathered in Berlin, Moscow, Jerusalem, and South Orange, New Jersey, to mark the third night of Hanukkah.

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Better Watch Out: Krampus Is Back To Spread Holiday Fear

Meet Santa's less-than-jolly counterpart... if you dare.

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Germany Offers A Lesson In How To Respond To The Far Right

The staggering rise of green politics is in direct opposition to the far-right populism of Alternative for Germany.

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Germany To Compensate Survivors Of World War II's Kindertransport

Survivors, separated from their families and sent to the U.K. just before the war, will be given about $2,800.

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Andrew Cuomo Rages Against Trump In Ellis Island Inauguration Speech

“This is the harbor where Frederick Trump arrived from Germany and whose grandson would become president of the United States."

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Hackers Post Personal Information About Hundreds Of German Politicians On...

The leak reportedly included addresses, personal letters and copies of identity cards.

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German Sausage Museum Reconsiders Move To Nazi Camp Site

The sausage museum received criticism for seeking to move to a former satellite site of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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The Radical Way Berlin Plans To Solve Its Housing Crisis

A ban on mega-landlords and a rental freeze are two ideas being hotly debated.

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Lara Trump Calls Migrants 'The Downfall Of Germany'

The president's daughter-in-law and 2020 campaign adviser called immigration "one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany."

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Wild Raccoon Moves Into Zoo, And Zookeepers Have To Let Him Stay

The interloper, now named Fred, has taken up with the seven raccoon residents at Germany's Heidelberg Zoo.

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Germany's Health Minister Proposes Major Fine On Parents Who Don't Vaccinate...

Jens Spahn wants to crack down on those who don't protect their children and others against measles.

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Jews In Germany Cautioned Against Wearing Kippahs In Public

Felix Klein, the German official in charge of combatting anti-Semitism, has blamed far-right extremism for a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

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Taylor Swift Shuns Question She Says Interviewer Wouldn't Ask A Man

"I'm not going to answer that now," the star said during an interview with Germany's Deutsche Presse-Agentur, according to a translated version of the article.

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'Guardian Angel' Pigeon Helps Driver Avoid Speeding Ticket

A timely photobomb from a passing bird hid the driver's face from authorities.

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Angela Merkel Rebukes President Donald Trump

During Angela Merkel’s speech at the Harvard University commencement, the German chancellor criticized President Donald Trump without even mentioning his name.

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Mike Huckabee's 'Awkward' Nazi Joke Blows Up In His Face On Twitter

The former Arkansas governor gets hit with a history lesson on social media.

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German Nurse Gets Life Sentence For Murder Of 85 Patients

Niels Hoegel said he liked putting patients into cardiac arrest because he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them.

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Trump Administration Denies U.S. Embassies Permission To Fly Pride Flag: Reports

Embassies had previously flown the rainbow flag in June in support of LGBTQ Pride Month.

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Pompeo Claims There's 'No Doubt' Iran Attacked Tankers, But U.S. Allies Want...

Casting the Trump administration's credibility gap into sharp relief, allies like Japan and Germany have demanded more "credible" evidence to support the U.S. claim.

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Massive Crater In German Cornfield Likely Caused By Exploding WWII Bomb

“We can be glad that the farmer was not in the field,” a city spokesman said of the weekend blast.

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German Town Buys All The Beer So Neo-Nazis Can't Drink At Music Festival

Police and residents in Ostritz, Saxony, banded together to deprive the attendees of a far-right rock festival of the most German of staples: Beer.

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Far-Right Extremist Confesses To Murder Of Pro-Migrant German Politician

A man with a history of anti-immigrant violence admitted to the killing of Walter Lübcke, police say, as thousands gathered to protest extremism.

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