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Merkel's U.S. Visit Could Turn Testy
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The city of Rio de Janeiro is rushing to get everything done before next summer's Olympics. But there is local...
View ArticleA German Muslim Asks His Compatriots: 'What Do You Want To Know?'
Sadiqu al-Mousllie sees humor as a good way to fight growing anti-Islam sentiment in Germany.He lives in Braunschweig, in western Germany. Earlier this month, he decided to go downtown and hold up a...
View ArticleGermans Open Their Homes To Refugee Roommates
Asylum-seekers are flooding into Germany in record numbers, with more than 200,000 applying for that status last year, many from Muslim countries, according to the government.This is fueling tensions...
View ArticleGermanwings Disaster Marks First Crash For The Budget Airliner
The airline operating the plane that crashed in the French Alps says the plane had been inspected and found safe Monday. Officials in the German town that lost 16 schoolchildren in the disaster say...
View ArticleThe Ascent Of Afghan Women
Zahra Karimi Nooristani, 18, cautiously works her way down a rock face high above Kabul as her coach, Farhad Jamshid, guides her.It is hazardous for his top female student to be rappelling here, not...
View ArticlePlagued By Smog, Krakow Struggles To Break Its Coal-Burning Habit
Krakow is one of Europe's top tourist destinations and attracts millions of visitors each year to soak up its history, culture and architecture. But its appeal wanes during colder months when another...
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U.S. Army Veterans, Survivors To Mark 70th Anniversary Of Dachau Liberation
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: American troops liberated Dachau, the concentration camp, 70 years ago today. To mark the anniversary, U.S....
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Judge Sentences 4 Afghan Men To Death For Mob Killing Of Woman
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: We turn now to Afghanistan and swift justice for a woman who was brutally murdered and then set on fire by a...
View ArticleFor Afghan Women Mountaineers, Uphill Battles Begin Before The Climb
A team of 13 Afghan women is training to climb the country's highest mountain. Only two Afghans — both men — have ever made it to the 24,580-foot-high summit. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has been...
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Afghan Women Climbers Face Challenges Beyond Scaling Summit
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View ArticleIn Berlin, Remaking The City Can Rekindle Old Frictions
Berlin is an on-again, off-again capital with a darker history than most cities in Europe.It served as the epicenter of Hitler's Third Reich and was nearly wiped off the map at the end of the last...
View Article'Arbeit Macht Frei' Gate Stolen From Former Dachau Death Camp
German authorities say they're investigating possible neo-Nazi involvement in the theft of an iron gate at the former Dachau concentration camp bearing the infamous phrase: "Arbeit Macht Frei" or "Work...
View ArticleThe Man Who Disobeyed His Boss And Opened The Berlin Wall
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View ArticleThe Rare Place Where Israelis And Iranians Play Together
Like many Iranians living abroad, Babak Shafian cringed whenever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his country's former president, spewed hate-filled rhetoric about Israel. The 33-year-old computer scientist says...
View ArticleGerman Government May Say 'Nein' To After Work Emails
All of us are familiar with the sound a smartphone makes when an email or text has arrived. Our somewhat Pavlovian response is to pick up the device, see who the message is from and read it.In Germany,...
View ArticleFrom German Teen To ISIS Jihadist: A Father's Struggle To Understand
Manfred Karg says he doesn't know how his eldest son, Alfons, became mixed up with radical Islamists.Whatever happened, the German pensioner's 19-year-old son from Hamburg is now dead, one of at least...
View Article25 Years After Death, A Dictator Still Casts A Shadow In Romania
Twenty-five years ago, the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe were falling like dominoes. And on Christmas Day in 1989, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed by firing...
View ArticleLong Plagued By Corruption, Romania Seeks To Make A Fresh Start
Romania is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in Europe and it's been that way for years. It's a tough legacy to overcome, but there are signs the country is trying to make a fresh...
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Anti-Immigrant Rally Draws Thousands In Dresden
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Thousands of people gathered in the eastern German city of Dresden today to demonstrate against what they...
View ArticleA German Plan: House Refugees In An Old Concentration Camp
A housing shortage for asylum seekers in Germany has led one city to propose a controversial solution that would place 21 refugees in a barracks on the grounds of a Nazi-era concentration camp.Carsten...
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