Berlin - Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators were trying Saturday to obstruct a tightly guarded convoy of spent nuclear fuel on its way to a German waste dump.
Near the warehouse in Gorleben in the northern German countryside where many tons of radioactive waste are stored, more than 6,000 militants thronged roads just before a protest rally.
Berlin - Germany is to end its long-standing coolness to the US-backed government of Iraq, sending its foreign minister to Baghdad next year, Foreign Ministry aides confirmed Saturday.
The change would be a gesture of support for the Mideast policies of US president-elect Barack Obama, one newspaper, Handelsblatt, was set to report on Monday, quoting senior German Foreign Ministry officials.
Berlin- The Africa correspondent of a leading German newspaper was released on Friday after three days in the hands of a militia group in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Belgian-born Thomas Scheen, 43, and his two local assistants were safely in the hands of the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, MONUC, a German government spokesman said.
Berlin - A tsunami early-warning system is scheduled to go into operation in the Indian Ocean on November 11, the German research team that developed it said Friday.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will attend the inauguration along with representatives of the German government, the Geo Forschungs Zentrum (GFZ) said.
The German government financed the 45-million-euro (58-million- dollar) project launched after the Asian Tsunami of December 2004, which claimed 230,000 lives.
Berlin - Rebels have released the correspondent of a German newspaper who was abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the German government confirmed Friday.
Thomas Scheen, 43, the Belgian-born correspondent of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), was taken captive by Mai-Mai militias in the eastern part of Congo on Tuesday.
The German foreign ministry said Scheen and his two local assistants were safely in the hands of the UN peacekeeping force MONUC.
The FAZ said Wednesday that Scheen was seized after he "got caught between the fronts" in the eastern Congo region.
Berlin - Flames leaped into the sky across Germany when the Nazis gave a foretaste of the Holocaust in a vicious pogrom against the Jewish community on the night of November 9, 1938.
By the time the rampage had ended, thousands of Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues had been burned down or looted by thugs as police and fire brigades looked on.
The event came to be known as Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, a reference to the shattered windows of storefronts that carpeted German streets.
Berlin - Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators were trying Saturday to obstruct a tightly guarded convoy of spent nuclear fuel on its way to a German waste dump.
Berlin - Germany is to end its long-standing coolness to the US-backed government of Iraq, sending its foreign minister to Baghdad next year, Foreign Ministry aides confirmed Saturday.
Berlin- The Africa correspondent of a leading German newspaper was released on Friday after three days in the hands of a militia group in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Berlin - A tsunami early-warning system is scheduled to go into operation in the Indian Ocean on November 11, the German research team that developed it said Friday.
Berlin - Flames leaped into the sky across Germany when the Nazis gave a foretaste of the Holocaust in a vicious pogrom against the Jewish community on the night of November 9, 1938.
