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BERLIN — All Iranian consulates in Germany are to be closed following the execution of a German-Iranian dual citizen by Tehran, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Thursday. Jamshid Sharmahd, an opposition activist, was sentenced to death in 2020 by…

BERLIN — Top German leaders blocked the sale of weapons to Israel despite Berlin’s insistence the country was not under an arms embargo, a person familiar with the matter told POLITICO. That confirms part of an earlier report by German…