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Claudine Gay resigns as president of Harvard University following controversial remarks she made during a congressional hearing on antisemitism and accusations of plagiarism.
2024-01-2

German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht resigns from the Scholz cabinet amid criticism of her response to the war in Ukraine.
2023-01-16

The German defence ministry suspends its military's aerial reconnaissance and transport operations in Mali after the government of Mali denied the departure of one of their flights.
2022-08-12

German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer orders the "partial dissolution" of the country's elite "Kommando Spezialkräfte" (KSK) special forces command over its suspected ties to the far-right. The KSK also has a "toxic leadership culture", according to the Defence Minister.
2020-06-30

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit confirms a 2016 ruling that Led Zeppelin's 1971 song "Stairway to Heaven" was not unlawfully copied from Spirit's instrumental "Taurus", overturning the so-called inverse ratio rule test.
2020-03-9

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu rejects a proposal by German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to establish a United Nations-mandated security zone in northeastern Syria, calling the plan "not very realistic".
2019-10-26

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is accused of plagiarising a speech by François Fillon.
2017-05-2

The University of Düsseldorf strips German Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan of a doctorate and degree following allegations of plagiarism.
2013-02-5

The German Federal Minister for Defence Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigns over a plagiarism scandal.
2011-03-1

A lawsuit by the estate of Adrian Jacobs against Scholastic, claiming that J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" plagiarised one of his own works, is dismissed by a court in the United States.
2011-01-7