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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020 file photo, Berlin's Jordan Torunarigha looks at the ball during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, match between FC Schalke 04 and Hertha BSC Berlin in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germany’s Olympic soccer team has walked off the field during a preparation match for the Tokyo Games in response to alleged racist abuse from an opposing Honduras player toward German defender Jordan Torunarigha. The German soccer federation says “the game had to be stopped five minutes before the end with the score at 1-1. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Hertha BSC vs FC Schalke 04 2/4/2020

Jul. 17, 2021 10:32 AM EDT

A murales showing a Swiss guard kissing a colleague, by street artist Laika, is seen on the day of the annual Pride march, in Rome, Saturday, June 26, 2021. This year's march comes amid widespread concern in Europe about legislation in Hungary that will ban showing content about LGBT issues to children and a controversial Vatican communication to Italy, criticizing a law that would extend additional protections from discrimination to the LGBT community.. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Big Pride parade in Paris; Turkish police stop marchers

By Frances D'emilio And John Leicester Jun. 26, 2021 12:10 PM EDT

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, right, sign an agreement during a ceremony for the launch of a U.S.-Germany Dialogue on Holocaust Issues at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Blinken is on a week long trip in Europe traveling to Germany, France and Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
US, Germany confront rising antisemitism, Holocaust denial

By Matthew Lee Jun. 24, 2021 07:53 AM EDT

Merkel hopes UEFA will act 'responsibly' on Wembley capacity

Jun. 22, 2021 08:13 AM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she hopes UEFA will act “responsibly” on the issue of staging Euro 2020 matches in Britain given the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, welcomes the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, right, for a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Leaders of Germany, France urge vigilance over virus variant

By Frank Jordans Jun. 18, 2021 02:21 PM EDT

Germany's Lufthansa aims to pay back government aid quickly

Jun. 18, 2021 07:11 AM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa's chief executive said Friday that the company aims to pay back billions of euros in aid provided to help the airline through the...

German Health Minister Jens Spahn attends a news conference on the coronavirus pandemic and the COVID-19 disease, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 18, 2021. Germany’s health minister says the country has now given a first coronavirus vaccine shot to more than half of its population. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool via AP)
Germany hits vaccination milestone but wary of delta variant

By Geir Moulson Jun. 18, 2021 06:14 AM EDT

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer addresses the media during a press conference on the 'Constitution Protection Report 2020' in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)
Rise in far-right extremists seen in Germany last year

By Frank Jordans Jun. 15, 2021 06:01 AM EDT

Workers block the entrance of a depot for German startup Gorillas, a grocery delivery company, during a protest against the firing of a colleague in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, June 10, 2021. The delivery service Gorillas now operates in dozens of cities across Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Britain, and has already set its sights on New York. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Gorilla tactics: Berlin delivery riders take on $1B startup

By Frank Jordans Jun. 13, 2021 03:33 AM EDT

Jens Spahn (CDU), Federal Minister of Health, shows the Corona Warn app with a sample digital vaccination certificate as well as his own old vaccination certificate at the regular press conference on the Corona situation in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, June 10, 2021. One of the topics is the digital vaccination certificate. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
Germany starts rolling out a digital EU vaccination pass

By Kirsten Grieshaber Jun. 10, 2021 08:01 AM EDT

This Saturday May 22, 2021 taken photo shows people sitting at the 'Wilde Renate' beer garden in Berlin, Germany. Several of the German capital's nightspots have managed a limited restart along with pubs and restaurants over Pentecost weekend. (AP Photo/Dorothee Thiesing)
Berlin's nightclubbers sip their drinks, await better times

By Dorothee Thiesing May. 23, 2021 11:47 AM EDT

An empty beer bottle stands in front of the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, May 21, 2021. All people gathering on the square for drinks and food left when the police started checking if they are abiding by the coronavirus restrictions. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Germany lifts more restrictions, Merkel urges caution

By Geir Moulson May. 21, 2021 05:59 AM EDT

Union Berlin gets permission to have 2,000 fans at last game

May. 17, 2021 12:24 PM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — Union Berlin has been granted permission to have about 2,000 fans attend its home game against Leipzig on Saturday for its final Bundesliga game...

Schalke's Shkodran Mustafi (30) tries to score during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and FC Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)
Hertha beats virus-depleted Schalke 2-1 in Bundesliga

By Ciarán Fahey May. 12, 2021 02:20 PM EDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a press conference after the informal EU summit and the EU-China summit in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Merkel reiterated her stance that the shortage of vaccines worldwide would not be solved by a waiver of patents, as suggested by U.S. President Biden. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP)
Merkel hopeful on Europe summer travel even without vaccine

May. 08, 2021 12:14 PM EDT

Dortmund's Marco Reus scores his side's third goal during the German Soccer Cup semifinal match between Borussia Dortmund and Holstein Kiel in Dortmund, Germany, Saturday, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)
Reyna scores 2 as Dortmund breezes into German Cup final

May. 01, 2021 04:26 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan.18, 2021 file photo a medical staff administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center at a gymnasium in Versailles west of Paris. Countries in the European Union have ramped up the vaccination after sluggish start. The uptick comes as countries across Europe also grapple with a rise in infections that has pushed the EU’s overall number of confirmed cases close to 30 million. (AP Photo/Michel Euler,file)
Europe lines up more shots, hoping to beat back virus surge

By Frank Jordans Apr. 21, 2021 12:25 PM EDT

Christian Democratic Union party chairman and North Rhine-Westphalia state governor Armin Laschet attends a news conference at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Armin Laschet will lead Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc as chancellor candidate into the German election in September. (Tobias Schwarz/Pool via AP))
Laschet wins battle to lead Merkel's bloc in German election

By Geir Moulson Apr. 20, 2021 07:32 AM EDT

The German flag on top of the Reichstag building is seen at half-mast on the occasion of the central memorial for those who died in the Corona pandemic in Germany, Berlin, April 18, 2021. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
Germany remembers nearly 80,000 dead in COVID pandemic

By Geir Moulson Apr. 18, 2021 04:13 AM EDT

Bayern's Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, right, and Wolfsburg's Maxence Lacroix challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between VfL Wolfsburg and FC Bayern Munich in Wolfsburg, Germany, Saturday, April 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Bayern closes in on title as Flick says he wants to leave

By Ciarán Fahey Apr. 17, 2021 02:02 PM EDT