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Volkswagen dumps plans for small pick-up truck

Hanover, Germany - Volkswagen said Friday it was abandoning plans to introduce a light pick-up truck in Europe.

Dresden officials reject UNESCO ultimatum over bridge

UNESCODresden, Germany - Senior officials in the German city of Dresden rejected on Friday a deadline fro

German judicial team meets convicted train bomber in Lebanon

Beirut - A German judicial team has met with Jihad Hamad, a prime suspect in the failed 2006 attempt to bomb trains in Germany, in the presence of a Lebanese judge, judicial sources said Friday.

"Jihad Hamad was questioned on Thursday night by a Lebanese prosecutor in the presence of a German judicial team," the lawyer of Hamad, Fawaz Zakriyeh told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Zakariyeh, who was present at the questioning along with his client, told dpa the questions focused on "links between Hamad and Youssed al-Hajj Deeb," who is currently held in Germany.

Germany declared world cheese-exporting champion

german cheeseBerlin- Germany, where angry dairy farmers recently poured milk down drains for 10 d

More German incinerators to burn Naples refuse

Nepal, KathmanduDusseldorf- Five more German municipal incinerators were given regulatory clearance Thursday to burn imported refuse from the southern Italian city of Naples, where uncleared garbage has triggered a political crisis.

German incinerator operators, mostly public-owned, have agreed to destroy 160,000 tons of the trash for an undisclosed price. Hamburg is currently burning 3,000 tons per week after it has been carried north by rail.

The most populous German state, North Rhine Westphalia, is to take 69,500 tons from Campania, the Italian region that includes Naples.

Court orders change to German election law by 2011

electionsKarlsruhe, Germany - Germany's top court ruled Thursday that a feature of

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