Word: german
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...Middle East and North Africa to a summit to debate his ambitious agenda for bolstering trade in the region, protecting the environment and cracking down on terrorism and the trafficking of contraband goods, drugs and illegal immigrants. His much touted plan for a union for the Mediterranean looks stillborn. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has worried that it could undermine the European Union; Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has deemed it a colonialist affront to Maghrebi pride. Yet at its core, Sarkozy's plan has an insight that is as simple to state as it is difficult to realize: that the best...
Bowing to a request from the German government, a German company that has been supplying Zimbabwe's embattled regime with bank note paper has stopped its deliveries, further increasing pressure on President Robert Mugabe...
...Irish "no" vote. He has also vowed to defend the E.U.'s controversial agricultural subsidies, threatening to block any deal at the World Trade Organization that jeopardizes Europe's farming industry. And for someone who sets so much on his emollient charm, Sarkozy still has a grating relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose support is crucial if any of the French initiatives are to succeed...
...green algae. The bloom snakes along the shore and covers a third of the Olympic course, according to the state-run Xinhua News Service - and the muck is making life difficult for sailors and windsurfers who have come to train ahead of their August events. For Qingdao, a former German concession best known as the home of Tsingtao Beer, the outbreak is a monumental headache just six weeks before the Games begin...
...Spanish bring the rest of Europe along? Löw seems to think so. "We've been able to show that we, too, are fast and capable of combinations," he noted. And hinted that an uptempo German team will on display in the qualifying campaign for the 2010 World...