Brandenburg Gate News
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InsideClimateNews.org (Bonn, Germany)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel today inaugurated a Berlin memorial dedicated to the Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis, three years later than scheduled and 67 years after the end of World War II.
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Torsten Knorr sinks a buzz saw into the rusty propeller of what looks like an 80-foot-long fishing trawler stranded in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
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The great-granddaughters of the German-Jewish painter Max Liebermann are growing impatient with Berlin museum authorities about two drawings from his collection they say were lost as a result of Nazi persecution.
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A fund managed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to buy a building near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate valued at about 150 million euros ($184 million) from Commerzbank AG, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Four decades after Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai established a new era in U.S.-China relations with the Shanghai Communique, the hotel that hosted their meeting is tapping German management to turn a communist-era icon into a luxury brand that can compete globally.
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Kenya’s Patrick Makau retained his Berlin marathon title by winning today’s race in a world record time. Florence Kiplagat of Kenya claimed the women’s race.
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Hotel Mani, a new 63-room boutique hotel on Berlin’s Rosenthaler Platz, is bustling with suitcase- pulling travelers arriving for Fashion Week. It’s the second hotel Ariel Schiff has built in the trendy Mitte district, and four more are in the pipeline.
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The cover gives little away. The blood-red title “Lulu” is smeared across a dismembered mannequin. A small sticker says “Lou Reed & Metallica.”
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Jan Coskun , a third-generation German of Turkish heritage, finally sees himself reflected in the country’s soccer team.
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