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...recent intelligence shows a growing number of Islamic extremists leaving Germany to receive terrorism training at camps in Pakistan. Meanwhile, other reports have Islamic extremists setting off from Pakistan to carry out deadly attacks in Europe, possibly including Germany. According to a report on the German public television channel ZDF, intelligence officials received a tip in May that an al-Qaeda commando had left Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks in Western Europe. The commando is reported to be made up of 15 men - including Americans, Arabs, Chechens and four Germans - allegedly under the leadership of al-Qaeda operatives Abu Abdul...
...banned substances were turned up in the raids. By now, however, the corrosive effects of suspicion had already begun to take their toll. After a German rider for the T-Mobile team tested positive for testosterone during the first week of the race, German TV channels ARD and ZDF announced they'd stop covering the Tour. By the time Vinokourov's ignoble exit, French newspaper Libération had decided to stop publishing daily Tour stage results, since the prevalence of doping undermined the reliability of such rankings. After Rasmussen was bounced out, daily paper France Soir ran a front...
...look as though her only option will be to form a cumbersome grand coalition with her political opponents. For now, Merkel's Christian Democrats (cdu) are still ahead of Schröder's Social Democrats - by 13 points in the Election Research Group's latest weekly poll for zdf television. But missteps by the cdu and its sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union, are making it unlikely that, if elected, Merkel will be able to form a coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats (fdp). Instead, they might be forced to form a coalition with the spd, which many...
...Irish governments that the funding of their state channels could be illegal. Her signal was clear - their "current financing system is no longer in line with E.U. rules." These "preliminary views" arose from complaints by commercial rivals that some website services of the state-owned German channels ARD and ZDF...
...matches from Germany's first division soccer league over the DISH Network satellite system. Its target audience: the estimated 800,000 German speakers in the U.S., German corporations, and hotel chains catering to Germans on the road. ProSieben is the first such private effort; German public networks ARD and ZDF, as well as state-run Deutsche Welle, are already there. "The market for ethnic TV in the U.S. is growing and we want to be part of it," says Hans Fink, the channel's manager. If it works, he says, Welt will expand into Canada, Latin America and anywhere else...