Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday she was hoping for new movement in the Middle East peace process from the pending launch of a Mediterranean Union between members of the European Union and other littoral states.
A resolution of the Middle East conflict would bring stability to the region, Merkel said in her weekly broadcast.
"Naturally we will talk in Paris about reaching a two-state solution creating a Jewish state for Israel and a Palestinian state, and about who can make a contribution to his aim," she said.
Berlin - Doctors saved a baby by carrying out an emergency Caesarean section after the mother died in a freak motor accident, police in the city of Braunschweig said Saturday.
Copenhagen - Denmark-based Kurdish television station Roj TV said Friday it had nothing to do with the abduction of German climbers in Turkey.
"That has nothing in the slightest to do with us. We are also not commenting on this issue," the head of the broadcaster in exile, Manouchehr Zonoozi, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The group that abducted the three Germans late Tuesday, the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), said they were taken because the German government had banned Roj TV in Germany at the end of June.
Zonoozi said the ban in Germany was "politically motivated."
Berlin - The planned takeover of Thomas Cook's Condor airline by budget carrier Air Berlin has collapsed, both sides announced Friday, saying they had withdrawn their application to the German comp
