Berlin - The German military are mulling plans to build a 67- kilometre railway in Afghanistan to haul in supplies from nearby Uzbekistan, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
It said the line would connect the main German logistics base in Afghanistan, at Mazar-i-Sharif, with the town of Hairatan on the Uzbek border, where a bridge was erected by the Soviets in 1982 crossing the Amudarya border river.
Berlin - The shots that killed three Afghan civilians at a checkpoint on Friday were probably fired by Germans, not Afghan security personnel, the German armed forces said in Berlin several hours later as an inquiry into the incident continued.
"According to what we know now, evidence has been obtained at the scene suggesting that the shots fired at the vehicle came from German guns," the armed forces website in Germany said.
Berlin - Tens of thousands of Germans swarmed into Europe's top electrical-goods fair, IFA, on its opening day Friday in Berlin.
For the first time, the consumer-electronics expo included home appliances such as washing machines and vacuum cleaners.
While advertising for the appliances usually shows happy housewives, the audience admiring the white goods, caressing the surfaces and trying out all the buttons at IFA on Friday was predominantly male.
Berlin - In an outspoken attack on the IFA consumer-electronics show in Berlin, Panasonic executive Joachim Reinhart said in an interview Friday it was provincial and disappointing.
Reinhart, who heads the Japanese manufacturer's European operations, poured scorn on IFA's ambition to rival the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held every January in Las Vegas, Nevada. IFA opened Friday and runs till Wednesday next week.
Berlin - Connecting digital devices from different manufacturers to one another will be the next step in the "Digital Revolution," Jongwoo Park, the chief executive of conglomerate Samsung, said in a speech Friday in Berlin.
Consumers had the most modern devices available but many of the products could not be networked with one another yet, he said in a speech hailed by organizers of the IFA consumer-electronics trade fair as a keynote address.
Berlin - German customs agents swarmed through the IFA consumer-electronics fair, hunting for non-payers of royalties, shortly after the expo opened Friday in the German capital Berlin.
Asian manufacturers of electronic gadgets appeared to be major targets of the raids, which were led by Berlin prosecutors and prompted by complaints from international corporations about alleged illegal copying.
There were similar raids at the CeBIT electronics fair in the German city of Hanover in March. Many of the allegations involve patented software in the digital devices. The patent owners expect royalties or fees every time the software is used.
Berlin - The German military are mulling plans to build a 67- kilometre railway in Afghanistan to haul in supplies from nearby Uzbekistan, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
Berlin - The shots that killed three Afghan civilians at a checkpoint on Friday were probably fired by Germans, not Afghan security personnel, the German armed forces said in Berlin several hours later as an inquiry into the incident continued.
Berlin - Tens of thousands of Germans swarmed into Europe's top electrical-goods fair, IFA, on its opening day Friday in Berlin.
Berlin - In an outspoken attack on the IFA consumer-electronics show in Berlin, Panasonic executive Joachim Reinhart said in an interview Friday it was provincial and disappointing.
Berlin - Connecting digital devices from different manufacturers to one another will be the next step in the "Digital Revolution," Jongwoo Park, the chief executive of conglomerate Samsung, said in a speech Friday in Berlin.
