Germany summit resorts to tight security
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German police tightened checks around the Group of Eight summit site of Heiligendamm on Sunday, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said the "dreadful pictures" of rock-throwing protesters a day earlier showed the need for tight security.
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German politicians called for tougher anti-terrorism measures and immigration rules on Thursday after police said they had foiled a plot by Islamist militants to carry out massive bomb attacks.
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The UN boosts security at its European headquarters in Geneva after authorities warn of a possible threat against it.
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Negotiations with Turkey over possible membership of the European Union could help make Europe a safer place, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in an interview to be published Monday.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended Germany's troop deployment in Afghanistan, even as a kidnapped German was found dead there and government officials warned the country is facing a higher risk of terrorist attacks.
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ROSTOCK, Germany, Jun 3 (IPS) - Over the last several weeks the German government  tightened controls on civil society groups and leftist  anti-globalisation activists in order to prevent, as the official  lines goes, "violent disruptions" of the G8 summit of  industrialised countries that Germany is hosting this week.
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The Slovak Defence Ministry will use both intelligence and equipment to ensure security during February's Bush-Putin summit in Bratislava, Defence Minister Juraj Liska told the TASR news agency.
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REDDELICH, Germany, June 5 -- The protesters, thousands of them, are packed into a soggy tent city next to a potato field. They have spent months honing tactics and discussing strategy, all for a particular goal: to disrupt the summit of the world's biggest economic powers that begins Wednesday.
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A major security operation is under way in Chile ahead of an annual Apec summit in the South American nation.
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Sunday that a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the stabilisation of Iraq and regional reforms were necessary to ensure Europe&#39;s security.
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Germany saw fresh clashes Monday between  protesters and police ahead of this week&#39;s G8 summit as anti-globalisation activists fought to keep their cause from being hijacked by a violent minority.
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Leaders from major industrial powers are in Germany for a G8 summit overshadowed by US-Russia tensions.
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Sealing ratification of an EU constitution and the question of terrorism will top the agenda when Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero welcomes French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to a summit meeting Monday.
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BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday NATO would find a joint position on troubled Afghanistan at next week's summit to make sure its difficult mission there will be a success.Comment
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U.S. and European officials might be   able to iron out a "provisional agreement" on transatlantic   airline security before a Saturday deadline, German Interior   Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - A law allowing security officials in Germany to create the largest and most comprehensive pool of personal data ever amassed in the country goes into effect Thursday as the European Union's largest member state moves to protect itself against possible terrorist attacks. The databases of nearly 40 different agencies, including the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), will be linked to allow authorities to run searches on suspected individuals and retrieve information within minutes. Support for the security measure has grown in Germany and many other E.U. member states that worry about their national security being increasingly threatened by international terrorism, organized crime, and illegal immigration. To what extent the numerous databases are already linked -- BKA alone has more than 100 -- and how access to data will be controlled are details the German government isn't prepared to disclose. What is know is that an expanded index file will be created for suspected terrorists. The file will contain the person's name, bank account number, telephone number, e-mail address, driver's license information and other data, including the names of companies, organizations and other parties associated with the person and linked to terrorist groups. Germany is at the forefrontÂ of European efforts to fight terrorism. In a December meeting of E.U. justice ministers in Dresden, the German government sought support for a package of measures that could give police and other security forces in the region unprecedented access to a range of individuals' personal data. The measures, known as the Treaty of Plum after the German town where the accord was signed by several E.U. member states in 2005, would allow police and other security agencies in different countries to search each other's databases for DNA records, fingerprints, vehicle registrations and other personal information. During its E.U. presidency, Germany hopes to muster enough support to turn the private Treaty of Plum into E.U. law. Â
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers gather on Germany's Baltic coast on Wednesday for a G8 summit likely to be dominated by U.S.-Russia tensions and wrangling over global warming.