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Police are appealing for information after a foil balloon caused a power outage around the eastern city of Dresden.

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Searches have so far failed to find the missing jewels.

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Dresden museum heist: raids and arrests in major police operation

The large operation— which resulted in traffic restrictions across Berlin on Tuesday — comes a year after the November 25 theft of priceless 18th-century jewels from Dresden's Gruenes Geweolbe, or Green Vault Museum.

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Four zebras escaped from a Christmas circus and were seen racing through Dresden, Germany on Monday (December 17) before being caught by police, German media reported.

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Thousands of supporters of the Anti-Islam and Anti-Immigration group PEGIDA have marched in the German city of Dresden this weekend but they were outnumbered by counter-protesters.

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Germany’s top security official has offered to send police reinforcement to Saxony authorities after violence erupted at Monday's clashes between far-right demonstrators and counterprotesters in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

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The strikes by Britain's Royal Air Force decimated the city, just months before the end of the Second World War.

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Officials say the city has been carpet-bombed in the same way the US and Britain bombed the German city of Dresden in 1945.

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One device was at a mosque, the second at an international conference centre in the east German city. No one has been hurt.

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Britain is set to host fresh ‘anti-Islamisation’ protests after a former far-right leader helped to re-launch a Pegida offshoot in the country

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Right wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders spoke at a meeting in Dresden of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement on Monday. The crowd fell far short of the

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A special service has been held in the eastern German city of Dresden to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied bombardment. Candles for peace were

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Thousands of people have taken part in a rally against racism and xenophobia in Dresden. This is the eastern German city where weekly gatherings have

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