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FILE - The Jan 29, 2014 file photo shows stickers "Made in Germany" in the factory of sports goods maker Uvex in Lederdorn, southern Germany. German exports plunged in August as increasing uncertainty over the crisis in Ukraine and the timing of summer holidays combined to produce the largest drop in five years. The Federal Statistical Office reported Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 that August exports dropped 5.8 percent over July while imports dropped 1.3 percent in calendar and seasonally adjusted terms. The country's trade surplus narrowed to an unadjusted 14.1 billion euros (US$17.83 billion). (AP Photo/dpa, Armin Weigel)

German recession threat as exports plunge

David Rising · October 9, 2014 1:26 pm

EDITORS NOTES GRAPHIC CONTENT - The photo taken between 1941 and 1943 near Vinnitsa, Ukraine, provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service looking on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive, and is pushing the German government for an investigation, The Associated Press has learned on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. The Wiesenthal Center's top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, told the AP that in September he sent the German justice and interior ministries a list of 76 men and four women who served in the so-called Einsatzgruppen. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sharon Paquette) NO ARCHIVE

APNewsBreak: Nazi hunter pushes for new probe

David Rising · October 1, 2014 3:30 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, April 15, 2010 file photo, grounded aircraft are seen at Belfast City airport, Northern Ireland. Passengers on European airlines may soon be able to use portable electronics including cell phones and tablet computers any time during flights, under new safety guidelines issued Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. The Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency said that starting immediately, European airlines can, at their own discretion, allow passengers to leave electronics on the entire flight, without the putting them into "airplane mode." (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Constant phone calls allowed on European flights

David Rising · September 26, 2014 4:47 pm

Ukrainian army paratroopers sit atop the APC as they move to position inin Debaltsevo, Donetsk's region, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. The cease-fire between the separatists and the Ukrainian military in eastern Ukraine has largely held. (AP Photo/Efrrem Lukatsky)

NATO to fast-track rapid-reaction force

David Rising · September 18, 2014 4:23 pm

93-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged

David Rising · September 15, 2014 3:43 pm

A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms.

Germany to provide funds to Nazis’ child victims

David Rising · September 4, 2014 2:26 pm

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo, German chancellor Angela Merkel greets well-wishers, in Detmold, Germany. Ordinary Germans are spooked about the future. Businesses see black clouds on the horizon. And an economy that has been the envy of Europe is already showing cracks, shrinking last quarter under the strain of conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere. It might seem like enough to put any leader into trouble. But Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity remains sky-high _ with nobody in sight to touch her. (AP Photo/dpa, Franz-Peter Tschauner, File)

German economic fears growing but Merkel strong

David Rising · August 29, 2014 9:29 am

UN scientist with Ebola in Germany for treatment

David Rising · August 27, 2014 1:41 pm

Klaus Wowereit, Mayor of Germany's capital Berlin speaks during a news conference at the city hall in Berlin, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Charismatic Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, whose reputation has taken a beating in recent years by delays and cost overruns in the construction of the German capital's new international airport, says he will step down by the end of the year. Wowereit told reporters Tuesday he would resign Dec. 11 after more than 13 years in office. Berlin's first openly gay mayor, Wowereit helped turn the city into a top tourist destination. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin mayor to resign by end of year

David Rising · August 26, 2014 12:33 pm

The Sept. 5, 2006 photo provided by Aldi Sued on Monday, July 21, 2014 shows Aldi co-founder Karl Albrecht. Albrecht, co-founder of the Aldi grocery store empire and one of the world's richest people, has died in the western German city of Essen. He was 94. (AP Photo/Aldi Sued)

German supermarket tycoon Albrecht dead at 94

David Rising · July 21, 2014 5:47 pm

FILE - Undated file image shows the main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I, Poland, which was liberated by the Russians, January 1945. Writing over the gate reads: "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes free - or work liberates). Johann Breyer, 89 faces possible extradition. A German court has charged him with aiding in the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children during World War II. Breyer was arrested Tuesday outside his home in northeast Philadelphia. He has lived in the U.S. since 1952. Breyer has admitted he was an SS guard at Auschwitz in occupied Poland.

Unclear when US Nazi suspect could be extradited

David Rising · June 20, 2014 11:01 am

Siemens, Mitsubishi look to derail GE-Alstom deal

David Rising · June 16, 2014 7:38 pm