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Germany sets new solar power record, institute says
BERLIN - German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.
No German money for Greek ''bottomless pit'': minister
BERLIN - Germany will not "pour money into a bottomless pit" and patience with Greece is growing thin ahead of a new election in the Mediterranean country, a conservative member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet was quoted on Saturday as saying.
Europe slowdown adds more tension to Greek drama
- Europe's economic slowdown has hit the engine-room of the euro zone, including Germany, gloomy new indicators have revealed, adding urgency to the region's struggle to keep Greece's debt crisis from tearing the single currency apart. | Video
German parties make progress on fiscal pact deal
BERLIN - Germany's government and opposition parties edged closer on Thursday towards a compromise deal that would pave the way for parliamentary approval of Europe's new fiscal pact and permanent bailout fund.
Analysis - U.N. Doha climate talks risk sinking "like Titanic"
BONN, Germany - Hopes are fading that climate talks in Qatar late this year will make even modest progress towards getting a new globally binding climate deal signed by 2015, as preliminary negotiations in Germany this week have left much work to be done.
German parties make progress on fiscal pact deal
BERLIN - Germany's government and opposition parties edged closer on Thursday towards a compromise deal that would pave the way for parliamentary approval of Europe's new fiscal pact and permanent bailout fund.
Euro zone citizens want to keep common currency: poll
LONDON - Citizens from Germany to Greece would vote to keep the euro if their countries held a referendum tomorrow, according to a poll centered on the key national players in the euro zone debt crisis.
Euro zone citizens want to keep common currency: poll
LONDON - Voters from Germany to Greece would vote to keep the euro if their countries held a referendum tomorrow, according to a poll centered on the key national players in the euro zone debt crisis.
Euro top jobs tussle to leave ECB Board seat empty
FRANKFURT - A power struggle between Germany, France and Spain is set to leave a seat vacant on the European Central Bank's six-member board in the middle of a potentially devastating crisis for the currency that the bank was created to oversee.
German SPD ups pressure on Merkel with growth call
BERLIN - Europe's new fiscal pact must emphasize growth as well as austerity, Germany's main opposition party said on Thursday, echoing French calls for a shift in strategy before a meeting at which Chancellor Angela Merkel will ask it to back the plan.
U.N. says over 92 killed in Syria, 32 of them children
BEIRUT - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. | Video
Greek debt – remember the goats
Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
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