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Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Germany under fire over military mishaps

C-160 TransallThe German government has been working hard to persuade a reluctant public to back a bigger role on the world stage for its military.

But – as a recent string of embarrassing equipment failures has highlighted – even when Berlin does win political backing for military interventions, it is struggling to fulfil its commitments.

In the latest setback in deploying the military in response to a global crisis, a German transport plane en route to Senegal to assist the battle against the rapidly spreading outbreak of Ebola in west Africa has been stranded on the Canary Islands, because of a technical defect.

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