Kirsten Grieshaber, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

A Leopard 2A6 tank from the Bundeswehr’s Panzer exercise bataillon 93 fires at the Oberlausitz training area in Weisskeissel, Germany, Aug. 12, 2009.

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US, Germany to send tanks to Ukraine

by Frank Jordans Associated Press, Kirsten Grieshaber Associated Press, and Samya Kullab Associated PressJanuary 25, 2023

BERLIN — Germany and the United States announced Wednesday that they will send advanced battle tanks to Ukraine, offering what one expert called an “armored punching force” to help Kyiv break combat stalemates as the Russian invasion enters its 12th…

U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during arrival ceremonies at the White House where the superpowers begin their three-day summit talks in Washington, Dec. 8, 1987.

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Gorbachev mourned as reforming world leader

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated Press, and Patrick Quinn Associated PressAugust 31, 2022

FILE - Ukrainian refugees queue for food in the welcome area after their arrival at the main train station in Berlin, Germany, March 8, 2022. The Ukraine war has turned the basement of Berlin’s glass-and-steel main train station into a sprawling refugee town where a small army of volunteers in yellow and orange vests offer everything from shampoo to cell phone chargers to exhausted refugees. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

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Berlin train station turns into refugee town

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated PressMarch 16, 2022

FILE- In this Friday Dec. 18, 2020, file photo, A traveller wearing a face mask checks the flight departures at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Netherlands is banning flights from the United Kingdom for the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of the COVID-19 virus in Britain does not reach its shores. The ban came into effect Sunday morning Dec. 20, 2020, and the government said it was reacting to tougher measures imposed in and around London...

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Nations ban travel from UK over virus variant

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated Press, and Sylvia Hui Associated PressDecember 20, 2020

Police officers investigate on the city motorway A100 after an accident in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. The city's highway was still shut down after a series of traffic accidents that were allegedly all caused by one man. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

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Driver hits motorcyclists on German highway in alleged terror attack

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated PressAugust 19, 2020

Members of the Sonthofen fire brigade and the sonthofen technical relief organisation are working on a roof that was blown off a house by heavy wind in Sonthofen, Germany, Feb. 11, 2020. The tin roof of the industrial plant had been blown onto an apartment building by strong gusts of wind. (Benjamin Liss/dpa via AP)

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Ferocious storm in Europe kills 8, causes travel disruptions

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated PressFebruary 11, 2020

Firefighters stand in front of the burning monkey house at Krefeld Zoo, in Krefeld, Germany, Wednesday.

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Zoo fire in Germany leaves 30 animals dead

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated PressJanuary 1, 2020

A man cools off in a beach shower during a hot summer day at the beach in De Haan, Belgium, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Belgium experienced code red, extreme heat warning, on Thursday as temperatures soared during the second heat wave of the summer. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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Europe melts under heat wave

by Angela Charlton Associated Press, and Kirsten Grieshaber Associated PressJuly 25, 2019

An election campaign poster of the German Alternative fur Deutschland (Alternative for Germany), AfD, party is displayed Monday in Berlin.

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Clark condemns use of its art by German far-right party

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated PressApril 30, 2019

Flowers and candles are pictured at the place in Muenster, Germany, Sunday, April 8, 2018 where a vehicle crashed into a crowd yesterday. A van crashed into people drinking outside a popular bar Saturday in the German city of Muenster, killing two people and injuring 20 others before the driver of the vehicle shot and killed himself inside it, police said. Sign reads: Why? (Ina Fassbender/dpa via AP)

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Man drives van into crowd in Germany, shoots himself

by Kirsten Grieshaber Associated Press, and Dorothee Thiesing Associated PressApril 8, 2018