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US President Donald Trump (left) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
February 27, 2020, 1:56 pm
50 ex-European leaders and FMs condemn Trump plan, cite apartheid similarities
US proposal’s ‘outcome has characteristics similar to apartheid – a term we don’t use lightly,’ ex-politicians and diplomats say
By ToI Staff
Picture taken on March 7, 2018 shows German Justice Minister Heiko Maas prior to a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / DPA / Michael Kappeler)
March 8, 2018, 10:04 pm
German anti-Nazi crusader Heiko Maas to become foreign minister
Champion of tough measures against opponents of Merkel’s refugee policy, who has received many death threats, set to replace Sigmar Gabriel
By Frank Zeller
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, left, talk during a meeting of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, February 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
February 7, 2018, 11:44 am
In first, German coalition agreement slams settlements
Also unprecedented is opposition to Jerusalem being recognized as Israel’s capital and calls for ‘democratic progress’ in Ramallah
By Raphael Ahren
An unarmed US Air Force LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, December 17, 2013. (DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Yvonne Morales, US Air Force/Released)
February 4, 2018, 8:09 pm
Germany uneasy as US and Russia flex nuclear muscles
Sigmar Gabriel says Europe must lead way in advancing disarmament, is ‘especially endangered’ by threat
By AFP
Poland's most powerful politician Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling party, speaks to denounce anti-Semitism and praise Israel at a ceremony honoring Poles who protected Jews during the Holocaust, in Warsaw, Poland, September 18, 2017.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 4, 2018, 12:24 am
Poland’s top politician says Holocaust bill ‘misunderstood’
Jaroslaw Kaczynski claims Poland has never denied that individual Poles carried out atrocities, but says the bill is not about that
By AP and ToI Staff
The Associated Press photographs the third anniversary of National Socialism's accession to power in 1933 widely celebrated throughout Germany on Feb. 11, 1936. At noon, Adolf Hitler assembled 25,000 of his oldest stormtroop comrades in the Lustgarten in Berlin. In his address, Hitler reiterated Germany’s will to peace. This is a general view of the banner and flag bearers in Berlin. (AP Photo)
February 3, 2018, 7:53 pm
German FM: The Holocaust was carried out by us ‘and nobody else’
Sigmar Gabriel seeks to reassure Warsaw that Berlin will condemn attempts to tar the Polish people with Nazi crimes, but urges no restrictions on free speech
By AP and ToI Staff
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel seen before his meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 31, 2018, 9:48 pm
German FM skewers Israeli leaders’ opposition to two-state solution
‘Are you prepared to pay the price of perpetual occupation and conflict?’ Sigmar Gabriel asks in Tel Aviv; vows to defend Israel’s ‘essential and historic connection’ to Jerusalem
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 31, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 31, 2018, 5:30 pm
Netanyahu interrupts German FM to downplay 2-state support
PM cuts into visiting envoy Sigmar Gabriel’s comments on future peace deal to stress demand for security control in West Bank
By Agencies and ToI Staff
German chancellor Angela Merkel attends the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 24, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI)
January 24, 2018, 10:06 pm
Berlin denies it expressed understanding for Israel’s rejection of Iran deal
Merkel only appreciated Jerusalem’s ‘general concerns’ about Iran, German sources say; Israeli official responds: Fake controversy about a distinction without a difference
By Raphael Ahren
This combination of pictures, created on April 25, 2017, shows German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (L) on April 25, 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 5, 2017. (GALI TIBBON, ABIR SULTAN/ EPA POOL / AFP)
January 21, 2018, 7:34 pm
German FM to return to Israel for first time since Netanyahu snub
Sigmar Gabriel to sit down with PM, who gave him the cold shoulder in April over his meeting with Breaking the Silence
By Raphael Ahren
Left to right: French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini give a press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels on January 11, 2018. (AFP PHOTO/JOHN THYS)
January 11, 2018, 2:39 pm
EU ministers raise alarms over scrapping Iran deal
As Trump contemplates next step, German foreign minister says ending pact would embolden North Korea; EU’s Mogherini: ‘The deal is working’
By Michael Bachner and Raphael Ahren
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the Tehran Security Conference on January 8, 2018, in Tehran. (AFP/ ATTA KENARE)
January 9, 2018, 3:29 am
Iran’s Zarif to powwow with Europeans on saving nuclear deal
EU invites foreign minister to Brussels for high-level talks Thursday amid concern US will withdraw from 2015 pact
By AFP
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini after their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, April 16, 2016. (AP /Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 8, 2018, 12:36 am
EU to invite Iranian foreign minister for talks over protests
Germans affirm support for demonstrators but reject Trump’s plan to help Iranians ‘take back’ government
By AFP
University students attend an anti-regime protest inside Tehran University while a smoke grenade is thrown by Iranian anti-riot police, in Tehran, Iran, December 30, 2017. (AP Photo)
January 2, 2018, 8:19 am
9 killed in Iran in violent overnight protests — state TV
‘Armed protesters’ reportedly try to overrun military bases and police stations, are repelled by security forces; 450 arrested in Tehran; death toll in 6 days of unrest is 21
By AP and ToI Staff
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini after their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, April 16, 2016. (AP /Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 2, 2018, 3:02 am
EU, European powers urge Iran to guarantee right to protest
UK and Germany express regret for loss of life, call on Tehran to refrain from violence
By Agencies
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