Berlin - Germany is to help pay for the restoration of a church badly damaged in this week's earthquake in central Italy, the foreign ministry said on Friday. The building involved is the 18th century church in the village of Onna. The village was almost completely flattened in the quake, which claimed more than 200 lives.
Germany's contribution to the relief effort was discussed earlier Friday in a telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Italian counterpartFranco Frattini.
Berlin - Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is to perform in Egypt for the first time next week, the foundation he jointly heads said on Friday. Barenboim will conduct the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at a concert in the Egyptian capital's Opera House on April 16, the foundation said.
Supported by Austria and Spain, the concert is part of the conductor's efforts to promote dialogue in the Middle East. On the programme are piano solos and Beethoven's
5th Symphony.
Berlin (Germany), Apr. 10 : Germany is to stage the controversial Mel Brooks musical "The Producers" for the first time amid a debate over whether the country is ready to laugh at its Nazi past.
According to The Telegraph, the show, which opens in May, is being staged at the theatre where Hitler once watched a wartime version of The ''Merry Widow''
Berlin, Apr. 9 : A key advisor to US President Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel, has said that Al-Qaeda's main motive is to render Pakistan a failed state as it is trying to paralyse the government and destabilize the country.
Riedel urged the international community to safeguard Pakistan's nuclear armaments from the reach of the Taliban, which is dangerously expanding its control over different regions in the country.
Berlin - The German government's state banking fund Thursday made an offer of 1.39 euros for each share of the troubled mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE).
The offer was made by the SoFFin fund following Tuesday's signing into law by President Horst Koehler of a controversial bill enabling the state to seize control of HRE.
That measure, described as a last resort to stabilize the German financial market, marks the first time in modern-day Germany that bank shareholders face possible expropriation.
Berlin - Germany is expecting the United States to simply expel John Demjanjuk, 89, a stateless man accused of being an accessory to 29,000 Nazi death camp murders, without going through any extradition procedure, an official said in Berlin Wednesday.
A German news website, Spiegel Online, had earlier quoted Ulrich Busch, a German lawyer representing Demjanjuk, demanding that German formally apply for Demjanjuk's extradition from the United States.
Berlin - Germany is to help pay for the restoration of a church badly damaged in this week's earthquake in central Italy, the foreign ministry said on Friday. The building involved is the 18th century church in the village of Onna. The village was almost completely flattened in the quake, which claimed more than 200 lives.
Berlin - Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is to perform in Egypt for the first time next week, the foundation he jointly heads said on Friday. Barenboim will conduct the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at a concert in the Egyptian capital's Opera House on April 16, the foundation said.
Berlin (Germany), Apr. 10 : Germany is to stage the controversial Mel Brooks musical "The Producers" for the first time amid a debate over whether the country is ready to laugh at its Nazi past.
Berlin, Apr. 9 : A key advisor to US President Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel, has said that Al-Qaeda's main motive is to render Pakistan a failed state as it is trying to paralyse the government and destabilize the country.
Berlin - The German government's state banking fund Thursday made an offer of 1.39 euros for each share of the troubled mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE).
Berlin - Germany is expecting the United States to simply expel John Demjanjuk, 89, a stateless man accused of being an accessory to 29,000 Nazi death camp murders, without going through any extradition procedure, an official said in Berlin Wednesday.
