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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Wednesday for international action to stabilize the global economy and predicted closer relations between the United States and Europe
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Israel of Germany's "Holocaust shame," and asserted its support for the Jewish state during an unprecedented speech to the Knesset on Tuesday.
Germany's Angela Merkel will make history Tuesday when she becomes the first German chancellor to address Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to meet with Otmar Hassler, the prime minister of Liechtenstein on Wednesday to discuss the growing tax-fraud investigation in Germany, The Associated Press reports.
German tax authorities are chasing as many as 1,000 wealthy Germans in one of the largest tax investigations in the country's history, spokesmen for the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday.
Paris Hilton is in Berlin for a quick pre-holiday trip, to shoot new ads for the sparkling wine she endorses – and perhaps find the man of her dreams.
The resignation of the Vice Chancellor won't improve relations between Germany's two biggest parties
Just why would two of Europe's most senior politicians record a song written by a 17 year old?
U.S. President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say they will continue to pursue a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be joined in Crawford by her husband. Joachim Sauer prefers to avoid his wife's limelight, but he loves all things American
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Wednesday for international action to stabilize the global economy and predicted closer relations between the United States and Europe
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Israel of Germany's "Holocaust shame," and asserted its support for the Jewish state during an unprecedented speech to the Knesset on Tuesday.
Germany's Angela Merkel will make history Tuesday when she becomes the first German chancellor to address Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to meet with Otmar Hassler, the prime minister of Liechtenstein on Wednesday to discuss the growing tax-fraud investigation in Germany, The Associated Press reports.
German tax authorities are chasing as many as 1,000 wealthy Germans in one of the largest tax investigations in the country's history, spokesmen for the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday.
Paris Hilton is in Berlin for a quick pre-holiday trip, to shoot new ads for the sparkling wine she endorses – and perhaps find the man of her dreams.
The resignation of the Vice Chancellor won't improve relations between Germany's two biggest parties
Just why would two of Europe's most senior politicians record a song written by a 17 year old?
U.S. President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say they will continue to pursue a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be joined in Crawford by her husband. Joachim Sauer prefers to avoid his wife's limelight, but he loves all things American
German Chancellor Merkel caps a big week for foreign visitors -- who are finding Bush's political woes a good opportunity
Germany is in an uproar as the Social Democrats suggest putting a limit on how fast cars can go on the limitless autobahn
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel tops Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful women for the second year in a row, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slipped to fourth from second last year.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized ratings agencies on Thursday for what she called a lack of transparency and failure to correctly assess companies that turned out to be "unstable" during the global credit squeeze.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged China on Monday to do more to halt climate change, prompting the response that the developed West has been polluting the skies for much longer than the newly developing Chinese.
German police have charged the leader of a leading far-right political party with inciting racial hatred after he recommended Adolf Hitler's former deputy for the Nobel peace prize.
A German woman held hostage in Iraq since February has been freed, but her son was still being held, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday.
Why is the EU arguing, yet again, over its constitution?
Leaders from the world's eight major industrialized nations "accepted the latest scientific evidence" of the dangers of global warming Thursday but set no targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In advance of the G8 summit, European leaders are wary of the President's new proposal on addressing climate change
Iraqi militants holding a German woman and her son hostage demanded Saturday that Germany withdraw its troops from Afghanistan to ensure their safety.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has met German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the two sides announced a revival of peace talks.
Two German soldiers are not allowed to report for duty because of their suspected association with pictures of troops in Afghanistan playing with a skull, Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said Friday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called photos of German soldiers in Afghanistan playing with a skull "shocking and disgusting," and Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said those involved will be dealt with harshly.
Outrage is mounting around the world over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam and jihad despite assurances from the Vatican that he only intended to point out the incompatibility between faith and war.
Pope Benedict XVI has said he is "very upset" that his speech on Islam offended Muslims and expressed his respect for their faith, according to the Vatican.
Iran has promised to formally respond next month to a Western package of incentives aimed at persuading it to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Addressing the escalation of hostilities in the Mideast, President Bush on Thursday warned that Israel should take care not to "weaken" Lebanon's government and also stressed that Syria "needs to be held to account."
U.S. President George W. Bush praised German Chancellor Angela Merkel as "someone I am proud to call a friend" as the two leaders got a warm reception Thursday from residents in the northern port of Stralsund, Merkel's home district.
U.S. President George W. Bush says he has concerns about freedoms in Russia, and plans to continue to express this view to President Vladimir Putin.
After months of intense preparation, a fair amount of national soul-searching and near-fanatical scrutiny of the home team, the 18th World Cup kicks off on Friday -- not a day too soon for hosts Germany.
Two German engineers released after 99 days in captivity in Iraq have returned home looking exhausted but relieved their ordeal was finally behind them.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed under fire Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann on Wednesday, saying that he should not be distracted by criticizm.
A day after the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog voted to report Iran to the Security Council for possible sanctions related to its nuclear program, Tehran said diplomacy may still resolve its apparent impasse with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera broadcast a video Friday showing two Germans kidnapped in Baiji, Iraq, this week.
More than 2,300 people are attending the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
More than 2,300 business and and political leaders are heading for the annual World Economic Forum, which opens in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos on Wednesday and concludes on Sunday.
President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on nations around the world Friday to join in opposition to Iran's nuclear activities.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she opposes suggestions to ban Iran from the World Cup because of controversial remarks by the country's president.
A Hezbollah militant sentenced to life in Germany for murdering a U.S. Navy diver during the 1985 hijacking of a U.S. jetliner has been freed, officials said.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a tough fight to preserve London's rebate from the European Union budget, while hosting a summit of EU leaders who want him to pay more of the costs of enlargement.
The German government and the British anti-war movement say they are trying to contact gunmen in Iraq who kidnapped a female German archeologist and four peace activists.
Gunmen opened fire on a minibus northeast of Baquba on Wednesday, killing eight Shiite construction workers, Iraqi police said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Wednesday that her government would "not be blackmailed" by kidnappers of a German woman archaeologist in Iraq.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to put Germany's economy back among the top three in Europe, sending out a signal of optimism for her government's agenda.
A German woman missing in Iraq is believed to have become the fifth Westerner abducted in recent days, Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced. Six Iranian pilgrims were also abducted by gunmen north of Baghdad, AP reported.
German business confidence fell more than expected in November as retailers took fright at government tax plans and firms braced for a rise in euro zone interest rates, a survey showed Thursday.
Germany's new Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday refused to take sides in the bitter dispute over the European Union budget and sidestepped questions over whether she backed Britain or France.
Which of these three nations is the world's top exporter: China, Japan or the United States? The answer: none of the above.
Angela Merkel has said on her first foreign trip as German chancellor that her new government will not join NATO's training of Iraqi military officers.
Angela Merkel has been officially elected Germany's first female chancellor, heading an unwieldy alliance of the right and left that now has the job of reviving Europe's biggest economy.
Angela Merkel was sworn in Tuesday as Germany's eighth post-World War II leader and its first female chancellor, taking an oath of office that commits her to "dedicate my strength to the welfare of the German people."
Seeking to put down a leftist rebellion among the ranks that could derail the country's next government, Germany's Social Democratic (SPD) leadership is seeking to install a moderate to replace its outgoing party leader.
German unemployment fell a seasonally-adjusted 0.2 percent in October to 11 percent, the government's labor office reported Wednesday, crediting recent welfare reform.
There has been little cheer in Germany's business community now that Angela Merkel is headed to take the chancellery from Gerhard Schroeder.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said he will not take part in the next German coalition government, expected to be led by conservative Angela Merkel as chancellor.
The dollar shrugged off the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. automotive history to gain against the euro and the yen Monday.
Conservative leader Angela Merkel says she will become Germany's first woman chancellor under a deal with Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats.
It may seem like megalomania in its highest form. A chancellor who is a sore loser, refusing to call a spade a spade and admit defeat. Choosing instead to engage in a prolonged celebrity death match with conservative challenger Angela Merkel.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and conservative challenger Angela Merkel met face to face Thursday evening to negotiate who would lead a grand coalition government between their two camps.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said if his Social Democratic Party wants him to, he will step down. However, party leaders appear to be in no rush to ditch him.
With a landslide victory in a hastily arranged election in early September, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a broad mandate to push his reform agenda for the world's second-largest ec...
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said he is prepared for coalition talks with other parties without "any form of preconditions" in a search for a stable new government.
Conservative leader Angela Merkel has urged Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party to enter talks to form a "grand coalition" under her leadership.
Germany's leading conservative party has fallen short of the majority of parliamentary seats needed to form a new government to replace Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder following elections Sunday.
With polls showing up to 25 percent of German voters still undecided, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and challenger Angela Merkel were defying tradition and campaigning on the eve of Sunday's election.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his main challenger, Angela Merkel, are making last-minute appeals to a divided electorate ahead of Sunday's elections.
It's breakfast time, and I'm heading south for one of Germany's most prosperous cities.
It's hard to get the hang of today's Berlin.
"The candidate is a businessman. He is a real person, not a politician. He has practical experience of how the economy works. He creates jobs every day." These words were spoken with conviction by a young CDU campaigner trying to drum up support for her party's candidate in a beer-garden in Templin, Angela Merkel's hometown.
Germany's conservatives have launched the main phase of their election campaign, confirming Angela Merkel as their candidate to unseat leftist Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the September 18 poll.
Germany's highest court has ruled that early elections can go ahead as planned on September 18, rejecting complaints against the early vote from two lawmakers.
Should Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder narrowly lose Germany's general election on September 18, there is still the possibility that his SPD party could hang on to power -- by forming a "grand coalition" with their opponents the Christian Democrats (CDU).
Angela Merkel and Gerhard Schroeder both took their campaigns to eastern Germany last week. Merkel faced heckles and catcalls in Wittenberg while Schroeder received a lackluster reception in Dresden.
Angela Merkel may be tipped to win the German elections this Autumn, but in an upcoming TV debate with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, she is still seen to be the underdog.
Germany's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell for a fourth straight month in July, by one-tenth of a percent to 11.6 percent -- a decrease due in part to a shrinking number of Germans seeking work, the Labor Office said.
The story dominating the German headlines this week was not when and whether President Horst Koehler would accept the no confidence vote against the current government and dissolve parliament.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder lost a confidence vote in parliament Friday, opening the door for possible new elections.
President Bush has tagged Germany's contribution to the Iraq reconstruction effort as "important" following a meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Washington.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has arrived in Washington for talks with the U.S. president, but his trip is being overshadowed by the possibility he could be replaced by a more pro-American leader later this year.
In a step expected to pave the way toward early elections this autumn, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has announced he and President Horst Koehler had agreed on a July 1 confidence vote in parliament.
Angela Merkel, the leader of Germany's Christian Democrats, will challenge Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in an early election that could produce the country's first female head of state.
Several European countries said they would proceed with their own referendums on the EU constitution despite France's rejection, while Britain called for a period of "reflection" before deciding whether to press ahead with a vote.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder says he wants a personality-driven election campaign -- a U.S.-style charisma contest that might distract from the economic gloom threatening to unseat him.
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