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German-Australian author Walter Kaufmann dies at 97

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FILE - In this Thursday, April 4, 2019, file photo, apartment buildings in the district Mitte photographed from the television tower in Berlin, Germany. Germany’s highest court has ruled that a cap on rent prices implemented last year by Berlin’s left-wing state government is unconstitutional and void. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Protests after Germany’s top court nixes Berlin rent cap

By FRANK JORDANS and DAVID RISING - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday March 23, 2012 file photo,June Newton, widow of late fashion photographer Helmut Newton, holds a news conference at the opening of Helmut Newton's first retrospective in France at Paris' Grand Palais museum. The Australian photographer and actress June Newton, also known under her pseudonym Alice Springs, has died at age 97, the Helmut Newton Foundation said Saturday in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, file)

Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures during a press conference in the Chancellor's Office following consultations between the federal and state governments in Berlin Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Germany extended its lockdown measures by another month and imposed several new restrictions, including largely shutting down public life over Easter, in an effort to drive down the rate of coronavirus infections. (Michael Kappeler/Pool Photo via AP)

Angela Merkel departure ignites German election fight

By Eros Banaj - Special to The Washington Times

Election posters show Winfried Kretschmann from the Greens and the party's top candidate for the Baden-Wurttemberg federal state elections in Mannheim, Germany, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The elections will take place next Sunday. Letters on left poster read &quot;edges stabilize&quot;, letters on right poster read &quot;you know me&quot;. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Angela Merkel’s party faces tough election-year test in state polls

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

A nurse receives the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in the state of Brandenburg where the first coronavirus vaccinations are given in doctors' surgeries, in Senftenberg, Germany, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool via AP)

After mixed messages, Europe warns against vaccine shopping

By ANGELA CHARLTON and DAVE RISING - Associated Press

Berlin man convicted over threat to blow up British hospital

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Syrian defendant Eyad Al-Gharib hides his face as he arrives to his hear his verdict in a court room in Koblenz, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. A German court has convicted the former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s secret police of facilitating the torture of prisoners in a landmark ruling that human rights campaigners hope will set a precedent for other cases. (Thomas Lohnes/Pool Photo via AP)

Conviction in landmark case over Syrian government torture

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A man is led away by police with a blanket over his head during a raid in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Police cracked down on clan crime in Berlin and the surrounding area with a major raid on Thursday morning. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

German police crack down on Berlin organized crime families

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Democrats and military-style barrier around U.S. Capitol illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Checkpoint Pelosi: Democrats consider permanent military-style barrier around U.S. Capitol

By Tony Perkins

Germany mulls shape of memorial to Polish victims of WWII

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File - In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019 file photo a man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers (18 miles), north of Berlin, Germany. German prosecutors say they have charged a 100-year-old man with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Former Nazi guard, age 100, charged as accessory to murder

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

A man walks across a snow-covered road in the early morning with snowdrifts in Bielefeld, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. (Marcel Kusch/dpa via AP)

Heavy snowstorm pounds Germany, upends travel

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova arrives to the Babuskinsky district court for the continuation of his trial, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. A Moscow court resumes the trial against Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on the charges of defamation. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia expels EU diplomats over Navalny as tensions rise

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

In this April 24, 2020, file photo, a man with a face mask watches empty chairs with names of bars and restaurants on the Roemerberg square in Frankfurt, Germany. More than 50,000 people have died after contracting COVID-19 in Germany, a number that has risen swiftly over recent weeks as the country has struggled to bring down infection figures. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

German virus death toll tops 50,000 even as infections sink

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Alexei Navalny and his wife Yuliastand in line at the passport control after arriving at Sheremetyevo airport, outside Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. Russia's prison service says opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Navalny’s arrest adds to tension between Russia and the West

By Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

In this image taken from video released by Navalny Life YouTube channel, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks as he waits for a court hearing in a police station in Khimki, outside in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. A judge has ordered to remand Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in custody for 30 days, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter. The ruling Monday concluded an hours-long court hearing set up at a police precinct where the politician has been held since his arrest at a Moscow airport Sunday. (Navalny Life youtube channel via AP)

Judge orders Alexei Navalny remanded for 30 days, spokeswoman says

By Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia. Top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he will fly home to Russia on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021 despite the Russian prison service's intention to put him behind bars for allegedly breaching the terms of his suspended sentence and probation. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Kremlin critic Navalny detained after landing in Moscow

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

Nadiem Amiri of Bayer Leverkusen moves away during the German Bundesliga soccer match against Union Berlin in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021.Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Nadiem Amiri says he has accepted an apology from a Union Berlin player for personal verbal abuse after their Bundesliga game on Friday. (Andreas Gora/Pool via AP)

German federation probes alleged racial slur used on Amiri

By CIARÁN FAHEY - Associated Press

Chairs are placed on the desks in a classroom at the closed Schadow-Gymnasium high school in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Schools are due to reopen on Jan. 8 (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

Berlin backtracks on plan to reopen schools after protests

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press