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...Iraqi and suspected al-Qaeda member, identified only as Ibrahim Mohamed K, right, was arrested in the city of Mainz in January for allegedly planning suicide attacks in Iraq. Authorities say he also tried to buy uranium in Luxembourg...
...Rhine Westphalia, and recent polls show the SPD could lose that traditional stronghold to the CDU. Defeats in both states would give the CDU control of the upper house, the Bundesrat, putting a stranglehold on government legislation. Still, Jürgen Falter, a political scientist at the University of Mainz, thinks Schröder and his Green partners "have absolutely no alternative" to sticking together - and hoping the economy picks...
...strongest hint that George W. Bush might actually have changed his thinking about Europe came not during his big speech in Brussels last week - the centerpiece of his four-day, three-country European tour - but in a much more low-key forum. Seated at a table in Mainz with a group of young German professionals, Bush tried to put the transatlantic alliance into perspective. After 9/11, he said, the U.S. and Europe developed very different views about global security - and he conceded that occasionally caused leaders to mistake each other's meaning. "Sometimes we talk past each other," said...
When President Bush meets German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Mainz this week, it may not be a love fest. Washington was taken aback this month when a Schröder speech stated that NATO "is no longer the primary venue" for discussing transatlantic issues. TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles P. Wallace talked to Schröder about the uneasy alliance Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was just in Berlin, and there were many smiles. Relations between the U.S. and Germany seem to have improved. But there's still Iraq. Has anything really changed? You must not underestimate...
Another set of spring fellows, for the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy, were also announced on Monday and include Doug Ahlers of the marketing agency Modern Media, Sydney Morning Herald opinion editor Julia Baird, University of Mainz communications professor Hans Mathias Kepplinger, New York Times foreign correspondent David Rohde, McGill political science professor Richard Schultz, and political columnist Walter Shapiro...