Nora is 23 years old and is learning to...
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Nora is 23 years old and is learning to read and write. It was only during her apprencticeship after leaving school that her literacy problems became apparent.The number of people in Germany with similar difficulties is estimated at over 600,000. Education minister Annette Schavan has launched a ...
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Known as the boat people, Vietnamese r...
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Known as the boat people, Vietnamese refugees emigrates en masse in rickety boats from Communist-controlled Vietnam in the late 1970s.One of three died attempting to flee--the boats were overcrowded and often attacked by pirates. In Germany, Rupert Neudeck was horrified by the images of the boat...
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Many children hardly play with their pe...
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Many children hardly play with their peers and instead sit in their rooms on the computer. More and more young people are becoming computer addicts.Now a government drugs and addiction report has focussed on the issue. Experts and politicians are sounding the alarm bells. Drugs commissioners from...
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Christian Democrat Wolfgang Schäuble ha...
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Christian Democrat Wolfgang Schäuble has been a busy man since being appointed finance minister.There’s economic growth and budget consolidation to master - not to mention confronting the ambitious fiscal reforms called for by junior coalition partners the Free Democrats. The 67-year-old former i...
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The Chinese government is cracking down...
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The Chinese government is cracking down. Reports from China suggest security forces brutally put down Muslim protests in the western province of Xinjiang. More than 140 people are reported killed.China places the blame on Uigurs living abroad. It says they instigated the protests. The Uigur exile...
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Germany’s political parties are in the ...
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Germany’s political parties are in the midst of a crisis. They are finding it more and more difficult to attract young people, and inspire them to get involved. It's leading to a shortage of qualified personnel from the younger generation. Now the SPD and the Christian Democrats are trying out a...
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Parents who care for their little child...
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Parents who care for their little children at home instead of putting them into nursery schools or kindergartens are supposed to receive an extra €150 monthly. That’s the plan of the new center-right coalition to support home raising... and it's raising a storm of criticism. One key objection is ...
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Ahead of the Social Democratic Party co...
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Ahead of the Social Democratic Party conference on November 12, designated chairman Sigmar Gabriel is sounding out the rank and file. After the SPD’s disastrous showing in October's federal elections, he wants to hear for himself the party faithful's worries and travails, while sending a message...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel is devoting pa...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel is devoting part of the summer to visiting the medium-sized companies that have been especially hard-hit by the financial crisis - but which can’t rely on government bail-outs, unlike the major German companies.We report from an engineering firm in Thüringen and head to ...
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64 years after the end of World War Two...
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64 years after the end of World War Two, a group of Wehrmacht soldiers condemned as 'traitors' to Germany are hoping for rehabilitation.30,000 soldiers with Germany’s armed forces were given death sentences and 20,000 were actually executed after they were found guilty of treason by Nazi Germany...
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Four men are currently on trial in Germ...
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Four men are currently on trial in Germany accused of planning widescale terrorist attacks on US targets in Germany. They belong to a terrorist cell that has been dubbed the Sauerland Group.The case is one of the most spectacular Germany has ever seen, and has attracted huge media interest. The ...
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Obama made the most of the Internet dur...
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Obama made the most of the Internet during his election campaign, and now German politicians are following his example.They hope it will enable them to reach younger voters, but Internet experts say that most politicians are just not digitally savvy - and that their online presence is not convin...
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