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Germany’s top security official wants easier ways to track right-wing extremist financing

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official said Tuesday that she aims to make it easier to trace right-wing extremists’ financing and plans to set up an “early recognition unit” to detect far-right and foreign disinformation campaigns as early as possible. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s proposals follow large protests against the far right in Germany in recent weeks. They reflect …

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Germany sells shares in postal company for $2.3 billion to help finance railway improvements

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s state-owned development bank has sold shares in the company that owns the national postal service for about 2.17 billion euros ($2.3 billion), reducing the government’s stake and raising money to help finance improvements to the country’s rail network. The KfW bank, which holds the government’s remaining stakes in previously state-held companies, said late Tuesday that it …

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