Study finds captives traded for oil in former East Germany
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Political prisoners in former East Germany were traded for oil, copper and silver in the 30 years before reunification and human trade with the West formed a lucrative economic linchpin, the author of a new study said.
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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the departure of Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany, a German artist has mounted a major exhibit using Red Army detritus unearthed from long-abandoned ...
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&quot;We go to work with a military escort. We come back here with a military escort. It's like being in an open prison,&quot; said a British worker in this southern Nigerian oil town.
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The former East Germany is being drained of young women, leaving disillusioned young men behind, a study says.
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With jobs scarce, the economy stagnant and cherished social programs chopped, a surprising number of Germans have reached the same conclusion: that 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall became an ...
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German companies are determined to preserve their ties to a country that has been one of their most durable trading partners.
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Surging oil prices are weighing on business sentiment in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, a new poll showed.
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For years, pipelines from the former Soviet Union have shipped the prosaic necessities of oil and gas to western Europe.
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Fourteen years and a trillion euros  after reunification one in five Germans would like to see the  barrier that split the country during the Cold War put back, a  survey found Wednesday.
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The Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein issued millions of dollars in lucrative oil export vouchers to leading French, Russian and other foreign politicians as part of a concerted effort to win their assistance in lifting UN sanctions against Iraq, according to a CIA report made public here.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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By ANDY SMITH  The Taliban are making a comeback in Afghanistan. Chevron discovered a massive oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. And -- by the way -- Katie Couric anchored the news.
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The high gas taxes in Germany give the German state a larger income on the sale of Norwegian gas than the Norwegian government get for selling it in the first place.
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New evidence has emerged that high-profile al Qaeda prisoners may have been secretly held at a U.S. base in Germany, a British legal charity representing U.S. detainees said on Friday.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Robert Zoellick is a veteran of Washington&#39;s and Wall Street&#39;s top levels. As a US government official, he helped negotiate the reunification of Germany in 1990 and later smoothed China&#39;s entry into the World Trade Organization. More recently, he&#39;s brokered business deals throughout Asia as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) - Predominantly foreign male workers who relocated to  build massive oil and gas projects, combined with feeble gender  policies, have brought prostitution, human trafficking, poverty,  HIV/AIDS and greater burdens for local communities around those  projects, new research finds.
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Germany police have said they had found &quot;indications&quot; of a source of radioactivity in a flat in Hamburg used by Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of the poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.