Dusseldorf - A Lebanese student accused of planting a bomb on a German train pleaded his innocence before a German court Tuesday, saying that the gas-filled device in his possession was only meant to scare. "I swear by God almighty that I had no ...
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I was traveling late at night in a train through Czechoslovakia on my way to East Germany in the early 1980s. This was back in the communist era, and an American traveling alone in that part of the world was a rare sight, particularly a 19-year-old ...
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Berlin, Nov 25: Wanted: Cheerful, chubby men, preferably with fluffy white beards and no criminal record, ready to work hard for one month. Germany is running out of qualified Santa Clauses and needs to recruit and train them fast, a leading job ...
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The people I was staying with were very anti-Hitler and the father was put in a concentration camp. I was not allowed to stay, by the mayor; so I tried to cross the Dutch border. I was turned back! Also a few days later by the Swiss – so I had to ...
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German Peacekeepers mourn their fallen comrades at the ISAF barracks in Kabul. Gasping for breath, his shirt soaked in sweat, David Hallbauer is tormented by memories. The events run like a film in his mind. The soldier weeps. What Hallbauer cannot ...
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Wanted: Cheerful, chubby men, preferably with fluffy white beards and no criminal record, ready to work hard for one month. Germany is running out of qualified Santa Clauses and needs to recruit and train them fast, a leading job ...
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NEXT MONTH, the Italian state railway will launch a 186-mile-per-hour train that will revolutionize travel in Italy. But below the track of that train's send-off from Milan's Central Station, another important door to history is being opened. The ...
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