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WEISSENHAUS, Germany (AP) — The Group of Seven leading economies warned Saturday that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries, and urgent measures are needed to unblock stores of grain that Russia is preventing from leaving Ukraine.

In a statement released at the end of a three-day meeting on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, the G-7 nations also called on China not to help Russia, including by undermining international sanctions or justifying Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.

BERLIN, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Germany is bracing for energy sanctions imposed by Russia, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, said, during his speech in the country’s lower house of parliament, Bundestag, yesterday.

“We have prepared ourselves for the situation,” Habeck said, noting that, energy markets offered sufficient alternatives and could compensate for the loss of gas from Russia.

WEISSENHAUS, Germany, May 13 (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the G7 group of rich nations backed giving more aid and weapons to Kyiv as they met on Friday in what Germany called a "powerful sign of unity" to deepen Russia's global isolation.

The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced a further 500 million euros worth of military support to Ukraine and said he was confident that an EU embargo on Russian oil could be agreed in the coming days.

BERLIN, May 12 (Reuters) - Russia, not Ukraine, needs de-Nazification, the leader of anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot, who left Russia this week by disguising herself as a food courier, said before her group kicks off a concert tour against the war.

At a rehearsal for a concert on Thursday in the German capital, Maria Alyokhina said Russians needed to think carefully about the war.

BERLIN, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Revenues of German vaccine developer BioNTech in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022 more than tripled year-on-year to 6.4 billion euros (6.7 billion U.S. dollars), the company said on Monday.

The increase was "mainly due to increased commercial revenues from the supply and sales of the company's COVID-19 vaccine worldwide," BioNTech said in a statement. Net profit rose to 3.7 billion euros in Q1, compared to 1.13 billion euros in the same period last year.

FRANKFURT, May 8 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a televised address to the nation on Sunday May 8, marking the anniversary of the end of World War Two, assured Ukraine of solidarity in its fight against Russia's invasion.

"Putin will not win this war. Ukraine will persevere," said Scholz.

The date takes on special meaning this year as two countries that were once victims of Nazi Germany - Ukraine and Russia - are now at war because Russia unleashed it, he said.

Scholz said Germany would help Ukraine with humanitarian, financial and military help.

BERLIN, May 8 (Reuters) - Former Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives (CDU) looked set to make a clear win a regional election in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, in a boost to the party which was ousted from national government in federal elections last year.

An exit poll by ARD Tagesschau put the CDU at 43% of the vote, up 11 percentage points compared to the last vote, while the Social Democrats slumped to 15.5%.

BERLIN, May 7. /TASS/: A potential terrorist attack on Russian journalists was thwarted in the German capital of Berlin, the Russian embassy in Germany said in a statement on Saturday.

BERLIN, May 4 (Reuters) - Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Ukraine on Wednesday to help unblock an embarrassing diplomatic impasse, after the German president was stopped from visiting Kyiv amid disquiet over his past support of rapprochement with Russia.

Ukraine's ambassador to Germany has called Scholz an "offended liver sausage" for refusing to visit the country before President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is welcomed there.

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - Germany will deliver seven self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, on top of five howitzers the Dutch already pledged, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Friday.

The training of Ukrainian troops on the artillery weapons can start next week in Germany, she told reporters in the Slovak town Sliac where she was supposed to meet her Dutch counterpart later today.