BERLIN (AFP) - (AFP) - Germany will roll over 240 million euros ($343 million) in Egyptian debt into development aid in a deal approved by both sides, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Friday.
The outstanding loans will be swapped and used over the next four years to finance projects "subject to government consultations", and come in addition to 150 million euros pledged by Germany for Eg [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran on Saturday called on Berlin to put on trial the leader of a Kurdish rebel movement, Rahman Haji Ahmadi, who reportedly lives in Germany, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Haji Ahmadi's rebels at the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) operate out of bases in neighbouring Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, and have been involved in deadly clashes with Iranian [...]
BERLIN (AFP) - (AFP) - Germany is serving as an intermediary in a bid to convince Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to stand down amid a popular revolt against his three-decade rule, a newspaper report said Thursday.
Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported in a front-page article that Berlin had sent an envoy to appeal to Saleh to accept a proposal by the Gulf Coop [...]
BERLIN (AFP) - (AFP) - A top Israeli official said he was unaware of a disputed German deal to sell hundreds of tanks to Saudi Arabia but had complete confidence in the German government, in an interview published Thursday.
Saudi Arabia is reportedly about to buy 200 Leopard-2s, Germany's main battle tank which is also produced under licence in Spain, for a multi-billion-euro (dolla [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Cairo denied responsibility on Wednesday for an E. coli outbreak that killed 50 people, mainly in Germany, blamed by the European Union on fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt.
The Egyptian agriculture ministry said the suspected batch dated back to November 2009 and contained dried seeds, arguing the bacteria could not have survived for so long.
"Scientificall [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - (AFP) - The European Union on Tuesday banned Egyptian fenugreek seeds linked to E.coli outbreaks in Germany and France and slapped a temporary ban on the import of all seeds and beans from the country.
The decision followed a report earlier in the day from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) linking a batch of Egyptian fenugreek seeds to outbreaks in the two c [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Germany believes unilateral moves would be "very counterproductive" to the Middle East peace process, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned on Tuesday.
Westerwelle, who spoke at a joint news conference in the West Bank town of Ramallah with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, did not specifically refer to Palestinian plans to seek U [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - Libyan rebels were on a diplomatic upswing Tuesday, gaining Canada's recognition one day after Germany's, and made some gains on the western battle front against Moamer Kadhafi's troops.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada recognised the rebel National Transitional Council as "the legitimate representative of the Libyan people going forward," as p [...]
BERLIN (AFP) - A high-level German diplomatic mission to the Middle East will try to convince Palestinians next week to drop plans to gain UN recognition for an independent state in September, a minister said Friday.
Development Minister Dirk Niebel told Der Spiegel magazine that he and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle would underline Berlin's reservations in talks with Palestinia [...]
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Iran briefly closed its airspace to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane as she flew to India for a visit on Tuesday, delaying her arrival and sparking a diplomatic row.
Merkel was held up as she flew overnight on Monday-Tuesday for a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi.
"Hindering the German chancellor's [...]
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