All posts tagged: German

Former German Chancellor Schroeder Celebrates Putin’s Birthday at President’s Home

Former German Chancellor Schroeder Celebrates Putin’s Birthday at President’s Home

Published by Sam Flores

Oct 8 (Reuters) – Former German Chancellor ⁠Gerhard ⁠Schroeder helped celebrate ⁠Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 74th birthday at ​the leader’s home, the Kremlin said on Thursday. Pictures posted ‌on Telegram showed Schroeder ‌and Putin smiling broadly and shaking hands, ⁠with an ⁠old-style stove and a Russian samovar used to boil ​water for tea in the background. “Vladimir Putin found out from the morning news the day before that Gerhard ​Schroeder was in Moscow and had come on ⁠business for ⁠the company Globus,” the ⁠Kremlin ​said on Telegram. “The president invited his old friend to ​his home. Gerhard ⁠Schroeder was with Vladimir Putin when the head of state celebrated his birthday yesterday.” Schroeder, who served as chancellor from 1998 to 2005, recently joined ⁠the supervisory board of Russian supermarket chain Hyperglobus. He visited ⁠one of its Moscow stores on Wednesday and was greeted with applause from employees, Russian TV footage showed. Schroeder has faced criticism, notably in Germany, over his links to Russian business and Putin, ties that have persisted despite Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine …

Merz unveils new aid for Ukraine as Russia strikes Kyiv during German leader’s visit

Merz unveils new aid for Ukraine as Russia strikes Kyiv during German leader’s visit

Published by Sam Flores

Ukraine and Germany have signed a €1.3-billion deal to help fight the surge in Russian drone attacks, while renewed strikes and air raid sirens greeted Chancellor Friedrich Merz on a solidarity visit Sunday. The agreement worth more than 1.3 billion euros includes some 1 billion euros for weapons including combat drones, while 350 billion euros goes towards supporting Ukraine’s battered energy sector, which Russia is targeting to cut off heating and power during the freezing winter months. As the two met, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Washington had proposed fresh talks with both Ukraine and Russia by the end of the month. Merz, on a surprise visit to show European support as attacks increase, discovered the new reality of daily life in the Ukrainian capital. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was on a solidarity visit to Kyiv. © Tetiana Dzhafarova, AFP Air raid sirens wailed repeatedly, including as Zelensky showed him the damage to the National Academy of Sciences, which was hit by a Russian attack drone on Monday, killing two. “We can see the entire pointlessness …

Ride1Up just launched a 28 MPH German mid-drive e-bike for an insanely low ,295

Ride1Up just launched a 28 MPH German mid-drive e-bike for an insanely low $1,295

Published by skeptic

There are cheap e-bikes, and there are good mid-drive e-bikes. Those two circles on the Venn diagram don’t overlap nearly as often as we’d like. But Ride1Up’s newly launched Prodigy V2 Eco is doing its best to smash them together with a surprisingly low $1,295 price tag. And this isn’t a $1,300 bike with some no-name mid-drive motor you’ve never heard of. At the heart of the Prodigy V2 Eco is a German-made Brose TF Sprinter mid-drive motor pumping out 90 Nm of torque, paired with a 504 Wh battery using Samsung cells. In other words, the expensive bits are still there. The Prodigy line has been around for several years now, and Ride1Up has historically used it as the company’s more premium mid-drive offering. The new Eco version appears to take that same basic formula and ask a fairly simple question: How much can we shave off the price without cutting into the parts that actually make the bike so good? Advertisement – scroll for more content The answer, apparently, is quite a lot. …

German space company HyImpulse granted licence to launch rockets from UK | UK News

German space company HyImpulse granted licence to launch rockets from UK | UK News

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A German rocket firm has been granted a launch licence by UK regulators – and it plans to blast off from the Shetland Islands early next year. HyImpulse, which builds commercial rockets, received the launch operator licence on Thursday from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The company was granted the right to launch after it passed a regulatory review process. HyImpulse is aiming to launch its SR75 suborbital vehicle in spring 2027. Image: Pic: HyImpulse The rocket will be used for a number of research projects, with its design set to help it take off in a wider array of environmental conditions. It is not intended to launch satellites, but other firms plan to use SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst for commercial space launches. HyImpulse also hopes to launch an orbital rocket called SL1 from SaxaVord in the future. Image: The SR75 suborbital rocket. Pic: HyImpulse Christian Schmierer, chief executive and co-founder of HyImpulse, said: “This licence is a major milestone for HyImpulse, and validates years of work by our teams and partners. “Obtaining a launch …

Julianne Moore Accepts Zurich’s Golden Icon Award — in German

Julianne Moore Accepts Zurich’s Golden Icon Award — in German

Published by Daniella Wilson

What can’t Julianne Moore do? The U.S. actress accepted Zurich Film Festival‘s lifetime achievement honor, the Golden Icon Award, in perfect German on Friday night. She was joined at the ceremony by Jesse Eisenberg, who directs her in his latest feature The Debut, a musical-comedy co-starring Paul Giamatti, which is screening at the 22nd edition in Switzerland this week. Moore called upon her own childhood growing up in Europe while making her acceptance speech. “Thank you for this wonderful honor,” said a translated version of her words. “I know that I am in Switzerland right now, but as a teenager, I lived in Germany. And my teacher there told me that I could become an actress. Had I not moved to Europe with my parents, I would not have had this wonderful life. And I wouldn’t be here with you tonight to speak my bad German to you.” On the carpet ahead of the presentation, the Oscar-winning actress beamed and said she was feeling “pretty good” about the prospect of receiving the prestigious Golden Icon. …

Anti-Immigration AfD Now The Most Popular Party In Key Western German State In A National Vote

Anti-Immigration AfD Now The Most Popular Party In Key Western German State In A National Vote

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via Remix News, The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is known for its strength in the east of the country, but its popularity in Western Germany is also only growing, including in the country’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. This latest Forsa poll points to incredible growth of the AfD in a very short time in the voter-rich Western German state. It is now the most popular party in the entire state when measuring a national vote and would earn 24 percent of the vote. NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN | Sonntagsfrage Bundestagswahl Forsa/Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger AfD: 24% (+2)CDU: 22% (-4)GRÜNE: 18%SPD: 14% (+1)LINKE: 12% (+3)FDP: 3% (-1)Sonstige: 7% (-1) Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 22. April 2026 Verlauf: https://t.co/BFZmdFPvIW#btw29 https://t.co/8HxWHdoMm3 pic.twitter.com/Aq1Ll352E8 — Deutschland Wählt (@Wahlen_DE) September 23, 2026 Meanwhile, the Christian Democrats (CDU) fell four points to 22 percent, the lowest value Forsa has ever recorded for the party in the state. The previous low was 23 percent in December 2021. However, in order to avoid confusion, it must be noted that the Forsa poll asked two very …

Meet the German Shepherd That Got Top Billing Over Brad Pitt

Meet the German Shepherd That Got Top Billing Over Brad Pitt

Published by Jenni Sidey

Andrew Simpson had a simple but crucial question before production began on Heart of the Beast: Would Brad Pitt let a German Shepherd lick his face? The longtime Hollywood animal coordinator (Game of Thrones, The Revenant, John Wick: Chapter 3) had spent weeks scouring New Zealand for the movie’s canine star, making dozens of cold calls and house visits to breeders and rescues. Eventually, he discovered Heisenberg Kennels, where a six-year-old retired search-and-rescue stud named Uber was waiting for him. After locking eyes with his furry friend, Simpson knew he’d found his lead actor. “He just had that maturity about him,” Simpson says. “He had a softness about him, too.” Still, not every A-list co-star is keen on getting quite that close to their four-legged scene partner. For Simpson, the relationship between an actor and an animal can make or break a movie, particularly if they’re fabricating a lifelong bond. “There’s nothing worse than dealing with an actor who doesn’t want to get down in the mud with you,” Simpson says. “That’s what makes the …

Amateur Archaeologist Finds 934 Roman Silver Coins in German Field

Amateur Archaeologist Finds 934 Roman Silver Coins in German Field

Published by Jenni Sidey

A trove of 934 Roman silver denarii was discovered by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector in a field in Wesseling, Germany. The coins date to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian. When his metal detector wouldn’t stop beeping last year, Oliver Riedl called authorities and a group of experts began digging immediately to discover the biggest collection of coins from this time period in the country, per the local archaeology office. The 6.8 pounds of silver was likely buried deliberately in the second half of the second century CE, according to the LVR Office for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments in the Rhineland. Related Articles “Of course, we can only speculate about the motives, but it’s very likely that someone wanted to keep this money safe. After all, banks didn’t exist back then,” Erich Classen, a state archaeologist and the director of the office, told ABC News. Though it’s still unclear why the treasure had never been recovered, Classen added, “perhaps the owner died before that could happen, without being able to …

German State Election Losses Risk Snarling Merz’s Reform Agenda

German State Election Losses Risk Snarling Merz’s Reform Agenda

Published by Sam Flores

BERLIN, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Chancellor Friedrich Merz may have survived the triumph of the far right in this ⁠month’s ⁠state elections in eastern Germany and Berlin but the shock ⁠to his coalition could force him to water down his promised reform agenda. Merz took the unusual step of announcing immediately after exit polls showed ​his conservatives were on course for their worst-ever defeat that he would stay in office to get a raft of reforms to the tax, pensions and health systems through parliament. His partners in the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), who also lost heavily ‌in elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Berlin while holding on ‌in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, also pledged to continue their alliance with his Christian Democrats (CDU). But there has been increasing pressure from within the coalition for the government to do something to reflect the votes. “There can’t be a ⁠simple carrying on as normal ⁠after the state elections,” an SPD strategy document circulated this week said, calling for a “German ‘New Deal’ that doesn’t leave people ​alone in a period of transition”. It …