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FRANKFURT( Reuters)-The European Union plans to legislate in the coming months to require technology companies to do more to tackle child sexual abuse, beefing up current voluntary arrangements, a top official said in a newspaper interview.... EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told Germany's Welt am Sonntag that internet service providers and social media firms had reported 22 million offences related to child sexual abuse in 2020, up from 17 million in 2019. But she said that was onl

FRANKFURT( Reuters)-The Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring Russian gas to Germany should not be mixed up with political and human rights disputes with Moscow, a senior official from the Social Democratic Party( SPD) that leads Germany's coalition government told Reuters. The pipeline was completed in September, but is awaiting approval from German and European Union regulators, and some politicians-in Germany and abroad-have said it should be blocked due to several policy disagreements with Russia.

FRANKFURT( Reuters)-Police in Berlin said on Sunday that an autopsy would be the next step in clarifying the circumstances of the death of a 24-year-old Mexican woman who disappeared at the end of July and whose body was found on Saturday. The body of Maria Fernanda Sanchez, for whom Interpol had issued a search notice, was found floating in a canal by a person walking along a bridge in the Adlershof neighbourhood of the German capital." A death investigation has been launched.... The cause of

By Oksana Kobzeva, Vladimir Soldatkin3 Min ReadMOSCOW( Reuters)-Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom has held off from booking additional capacity for gas supplies via Ukraine to meet surging demand in recent months, sending a clear sign it is waiting for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be commissioned, analysts said. Slideshow( 2 images) Nord Stream 2, which runs on the bed of the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, bypassing Ukraine, has faced criticism from the United States, which says it will

Some 46% oppose the idea. German petrol and diesel prices in February rose by almost 26% from a year ago.... Just over 30% of oil imports are from Russia.... This has exposed the first signs of tension in the governing coalition led by Scholz's Social Democrats( SPD) along with the Greens and Lindner's pro-business Free Democrats....

МОСКВА, 21 фев — РИА Новости, Виктор Жданов, Ренат Абдуллин. Берлин обвинили в отказе соблюдать одно из важнейших соглашений в мировой истории.

BRUSSELS/ BERLIN( Reuters)-The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres( bcm) of liquefied natural gas( LNG) to the European Union this year to help wean it off Russian gas supplies, the transatlantic partners said on Friday. The EU is aiming to cut its dependency on Russian gas by two-thirds this year and end all Russian fossil fuel imports by 2027 due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.... Russia supplies around 40% of Europe's gas needs. Concerns over security of supply were re

" The Scholz government wants to keep the Americans happy because they are Germany's most important allies outside of Europe.... The European Union's most populous country and biggest economy is in danger of looking divided, and Scholz risks looking weak if he does not show firm leadership in the crisis.... Energy prices in Germany in December were up 69% compared with December 2020....

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