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Aviation chiefs in quarantine after virus case at Berlin airport

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 04 08:19 AM

Aviation bosses who celebrated the long-delayed opening of Berlin's new international airport together have been forced into quarantine after a local official tested positive for Covid-19.   Read more »

How a young Filipina artist in Berlin turned to postcards to inspire, help others amid pandemic

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 04 11:33 PM

Combining her background as a painter and her training at a business school in Germany, Jo Bautista used her paintings of the coronavirus molecule to send a message of hope while helping those in need. Read more »

Football: Lewandowski hits four as Bayern Munich win seven-goal thriller

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 09:56 AM

Defending Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich survived a fight-back by Hertha Berlin to seal a nervy 4-3 win on Sunday.   Read more »

Berlin Wall fragment unveiled in Manila

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 05 09:13 AM

A fragment of the historic Berlin Wall was unveiled at Kartilya ng Katipunan in Manila City Monday.  Read more »

First man cured of HIV dies of cancer: charity

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 01 12:19 PM

The first person to be cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown -- known as the "Berlin Patient" -- has died after a battle with cancer, the International Aids Society (IAS) announced Wednesday.  Read more »

Japan regrets new Korean "comfort women" statue set up in Berlin

Kyodo News
Posted at Sep 29 05:35 PM

Japan regrets the recent installation in Berlin of a statue of a girl symbolizing Korean women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, its top government spokesman said Tuesday. Read more »

Berlin film fest to drop gender distinctions in awards

Agence France Presse
Posted at Aug 25 12:12 PM

There will be no more separate Silver Bear awards for best actor and best actress at the Berlin film festival in future, organisers announced Monday, saying they want to eliminate forms of hierarchy between men and women.   Read more »

The story of the ‘very extra’ Pacita Abad whom Google just honored with a doodle of the day

ANCX
Updated as of Jul 31 12:44 PM

The Filipina artist is the reason why searching for something online today is just a little more fun—her life sure had a lot of it. By JEROME GOMEZ Read more »

Germany investigating 30,000 suspects in pedophile probe

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 29 09:13 PM

BERLIN - Germany is investigating some 30,000 suspects as part of a widening probe into a pedophile network in the western Bergisch Gladbach region, authorities said Monday. Read more »

Tennis: Thiem, Kyrgios to play July grass, hard-court events in Berlin

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 31 10:19 AM

Dominic Thiem, Nick Kyrgios, Elina Svitolina and Kiki Bertens will compete in grass and hard-court events in Berlin in July featuring both men's and women's fields.   Read more »

Is singing in a choir a coronavirus risk?

Femke Colborne, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 27 12:17 PM

Hardly considered an extreme activity up to now, singing -- especially choral singing -- is quickly earning a reputation in the pandemic as about the most dangerous thing you can do. Read more »

Football: Bayern ease past Union 2-0 in league restart to stay top

Reuters
Posted at May 18 10:00 AM

Bayern Munich scored a goal late in each half to beat promoted Union Berlin 2-0 on their return to the Bundesliga on Sunday after more than two months out due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

COVID-19 pushes Germany into recession

Florian Cazeres, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 15 09:51 PM

The coronavirus pandemic has tipped Germany into a recession, official data showed Friday, with Europe's top economy suffering its steepest quarterly contraction in more than a decade as lockdown measures began to bite. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: May 8, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 09 03:41 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos Read more »

Berlin Marks VE Day in one-off public holiday

Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters
Posted at May 08 04:07 PM

World War Two veteran Seman Kleinmann, 94, attends a celebration to mark Victory Day and the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2 at the Soviet War Memorial at Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany on Friday.  Read more »

Berlin's battle scars linger 75 years after Nazi defeat

Madeline Chambers, Reuters
Posted at Apr 30 08:07 PM

Germany has been forced to cancel public events to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe but Berliners need no ceremonies to remember their downfall - the scars of war are all around them. Read more »

Germany's Oktoberfest unlikely to take place this year

Reuters
Posted at Apr 17 06:33 AM

BERLIN (Reuters) - The annual Oktoberfest, the world’s largest beer festival, is unlikely to take place this year due to the coronavirus crisis, the premier of the southern German state of Bavaria said on Thursday. Read more »

A Filipino in Berlin during COVID-19: ‘There is security amidst fear and anxiety’

Updated as of Apr 13 08:45 AM

Even as Coronavirus numbers reach the hundred thousand mark in Germany, this Pinoy says that there is still a sense of togetherness even as people are forced apart. BY LOLA ABRERA Read more »

Germans to be fined up to 500 euros for breaking distancing rules

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 03 05:41 PM

Germans risk being fined up to 500 euros (P27,000) for standing too close to each other from Friday as officials crack down on people flouting rules brought in to control coronavirus. Read more »

How Filipina student in Germany fought COVID-19

Rose Carmelle Lacuata, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 03 01:28 AM

What she thought was a simple sore throat ended up as the earliest symptom of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Read more »