The European Union has removed eight countries - including Panama, the United Arab Emirates and South Korea - from its 17-country blacklist of international tax havens, just seven weeks after the list was compiled.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she will allow members of her Christian Democrat (CDU) party to vote freely on any gay marriage bill that comes before the Bundestag.
Nearly 14 years after Germany s first attempt to ban the right-wing NPD party failed on legal grounds, the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will issue a new ruling on the matter.
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