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Suspect package found at Merkel’s office (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Reuters - German police found a suspicious package in the post at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. Merkel was not in the building…

20 years on, Germans reflect on reunification (AP)

October 1st, 2010

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin. Twenty years after the unification of East and West Germany, old habits still die hard with even Chancellor Merkel confessing she still can't shed some of her East German tendencies. Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, still washes her laundry with East German 'fit' detergent, prepares East Germans' favorite Soljanka soup, an often eclectic mix of ingredients like sausage, cabbage and sour cream in a pickle juice broth for supper and can't fight a predilection to hoard food and other goods. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)AP - Angela Merkel, the leader of Europe’s richest country, still hoards food.


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President vote provides test for Germany’s Merkel (AP)

June 30th, 2010

AP - Germany’s president traditionally has little political influence, but the election Wednesday of a new head of state has turned into a challenge for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s troubled government.

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Cameron, Merkel watch key World Cup match (AP)

June 27th, 2010

AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel apparently had bigger concerns than just the world economy at the G-20 summit of world leaders on Sunday.

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Germany, Russia: we support for Iran nuke sanction (AP)

June 5th, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrive for bilateral talks at the government guest house Schloss Meseberg,north of Berlin, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Tobias Schwarz, Pool)AP - Germany and Russia declared Saturday that the five world powers negotiating with Iran support a fresh set of international sanctions, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said they could pass soon.


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Merkel: $29.6 billion in aid for Greece planned (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel briefs the media after a special cabinet meeting to provide Greece with billions in aid as part of an EU bailout plan at the chancellery in Berlin, Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet approved legislation on Monday that would give Greece euro22.4 billion ($29.6 billion) over three years as part of a wider bailout, as the German…

German Cabinet approves $11 bln Greece bailout (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

Demonstrators protest against the new economic measures during a rally in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Greek Government has outlined harsh spending cuts and tax increases necessary to free up billions of euros in a joint International Monetary Fund and eurozone rescue for the debt-ridden country. Finance ministers from the 16 countries that use the euro agreed Sunday to rescue Greece with 110 billion Euros in loans over three years to keep it from defaulting on its debts.(AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet approved legislation Monday to give Greece billions in aid as part of an EU bailout, an official said, as Germany slowly realized that letting…

Germany: Any Greek bailout must bring in IMF (AP)

March 25th, 2010

AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is insisting that any European bailout for Greece be only a last resort and must involve the International Monetary Fund, rebuffing calls from EU…

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