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  • Daniela Klette, former member of German far-left militant group The Red Army Faction (RAF) arrives in the courtroom of the Verden Regional Court for a continuation of the trial against her on May 27, 2026 in Verden, northern Germany. A German far-left militant arrested in Berlin after decades on the run was sentenced to 13 years' jail on May 27, 2026 for a series of armed robberies committed while she was a fugitive. Daniela Klette, 67, is a former member of the Baader-Meinhof gang, a radical anti-capitalist group that carried out killings, bombings and kidnappings mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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    Suspected former member of German left-wing militant group jailed after years on the run
  • Train tracks lead towards an access tunnel inside the east section of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Faido, Switzerland, on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Drilling and blasting on the 57-kilometer (35-mile) railroad tunnel linking Erstfeld in German-speaking central Switzerland and Bodio in the Italian-speaking south began in 1996, with completion expected in 2017. Photographer: Philipp Schmidli/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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    The audacious underground mega tunnels redrawing the railway map of Europe
  • Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) at the awarding of the International Charlemagne Prize in Aachen 2026. Aachen, 14.05.2026 Photo by: Christoph Hardt/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
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  • Troops from the US Army stand before they take part in live fire exercises during the multinational DEFENDER Europe 20 military exercises at the Drawsko Pomorskie training grounds on August 11, 2020 at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland.
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  • Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, 99, poses in inside his old classroom at the memorial at the former Jewish School in Leer, Germany on January 20, 2025.
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    Albrecht Weinberg, a Holocaust survivor who moved back to Germany in his 80s, dies at 101
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  • New last-row design reimagines the worst seat on an airplane as a ‘semi-private retreat’
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  • <p>Fareed speaks with New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter and retired Admiral James Stavridis, the former NATO supreme allied commander, about the Pentagon’s announcement that the US will withdraw roughly 5,000 troops from Germany, and the possibility that bases in more European countries will be affected.</p>
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  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 14, 2026 in Munich, southern Germany. Heads of state and government as well as foreign and defence ministers from all over the world are expected to attend the security policy talks from February 13 to 15, 2026.
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  • People attend a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's demand that the Arctic island be ceded to the U.S., calling for it to be allowed to determine its own future, in Nuuk, Greenland, January 17, 2026.
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  • A humanoid robot Tiangong by Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics Co, moves an orange as a demonstration at its company, during an organised media tour to Beijing Robotics Industrial Park, in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, China on May 16, 2025.
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  • A worker moves a shipping container at Felixstowe port in Felixstowe, UK, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
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