Source: bbc.com, May 11, 2020 Germany has the seventh-highest number of confirmed cases in the world, with a reported death toll of 7,395. Coronavirus infections are rising in Germany, official data shows, just days after the country eased its lockdown restrictions. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the reproduction rate – the estimated number… Continue reading As Lockdown Eases, Infection Rates Rise in Germany
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German chocolate factory leaks out on to street, creating a street out of Candyland
Source: The Associated Press, December 11, 2018 German factory leak paves street with chocolate A street in a western German town got a repaving worthy of fictional candy maker Willy Wonka when a ton of chocolate flowed out of a factory and solidified. The German newspaper Soester Anzeiger reported Tuesday that a “small technical defect” involving a… Continue reading German chocolate factory leaks out on to street, creating a street out of Candyland
Researcher seeks families of 20 Canadians shot down over Germany in 1944
Source: Meredith MacLeod, CTV News, March 19, 2018 A do-it-yourself researcher in Germany has found the site of a Second World War plane crash that killed 20 Canadians and is now looking for descendants of the victims. Erik Wieman considers it a personal mission to locate downed wartime planes, spending hours combing through records and databases.… Continue reading Researcher seeks families of 20 Canadians shot down over Germany in 1944
Germany to host eastern Ukraine peace talks
By The Associated Press, October 18, 2016 Meeting set for Wednesday follows recent flurry of telephone diplomacy German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host a meeting with the Russian, Ukrainian and French presidents on Wednesday to discuss efforts toward peace in eastern Ukraine — their first summit in a year, her office said. Merkel invited Russian… Continue reading Germany to host eastern Ukraine peace talks