German leader says no to troops for Iraq
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Germany's defense minister suggested Wednesday that his country might one day send troops to Iraq, but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder played down those remarks and said it would not happen.
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The Berlin state government said Monday it had banned an Arab-Islamic Congress due to be held in the German capital next month to rally support for Iraqi and Palestinian "resistance and intifada." Henrike ...
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President Ghazi Yawer rejects the idea foreign troops may leave before Iraqi  forces are ready to take over.
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The Berlin state government said Monday it had banned an Arab-Islamic Congress due to be held in the German capital next month to rally support for &quot;resistance and intifada&quot; in Iraq and Israel.
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Germany is willing to help Iraq's  new government set up ministries and write a new constitution  following elections last weekend, German Interior Minister Otto  Schily said on Thursday.
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Germany, a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, pledged today to broaden its role in the training of Iraqis, but stuck to its position that any such aid must be conducted outside the insurgency-riven country.
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War is not an option against Iran and no  one expects the standoff over Iran's nuclear program to lead to  an "Iraq-like confrontation," German Foreign Minister Joschka  Fischer was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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The president refused to label the recent surge in killings in Iraq a civil war.
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In a possible softening of its strict non-deployment policy in Iraq, Germany&#39;s defense minister said he could not rule out sending troops there in the future.
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Members of Germany's opposition Green party instructed their leaders at a party congress over the weekend to withdraw their support for the German military engagement in Afghanistan.While the decision cannot actually affect Germany's current foreign policy -- since Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government does not need opposition votes for a renewal of the troop's mandate next month -- it is indicative of the deep split which has developed within the Greens.
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The German co-chairman of EADS has come out against any European government intervention in the running of the aerospace group.
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Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday rejected a call from some Democrats for a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, arguing that it would run counter to American interests.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected on Tuesday a call from one of her ministers that the country's utility firms shut down their seven oldest nuclear reactors by the end of 2009.
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German Defense Minister Peter Struck admitted Wednesday that the German peace keeping forces in Kosovo failed to deal with ethnic rioting in Kosovo in March.
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MUNICH, Germany Germany's foreign minister says he doesn't see any reason for NATO to take up a security role in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday strongly rejected a bipartisan U.S. panel's report on U.S. war strategy in Iraq, calling some of its recommendations "dangerous" and a threat to his country's sovereignty.
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Germany's defense minister rejected a U.S proposal to have NATO take over the U.S.-led military mission in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that his country wants to focus on stabilization.