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Olaf Scholz, center, top candidate for chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), speaks during a press conference at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany
Elections
Analyst on center-left gains in German election: ‘It was time for a change’
Olaf Scholz is shown in a close-up photoographer standing behind a microphone.
Elections
Uncertain start to post-Merkel era after close German vote
Olaf Scholz is shown wearing a dark suit and standing inbetween two other top German politicians with all three waving their right hands.
Top of The World
Germany’s Social Democrats claim narrow election victory
Two men are shown wearing medical face masks and handing out drink boxes and snacks to two young Afghan refugees.
Afghanistan
EU ministers meet to discuss Afghanistan, refugees
President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are shown each standing behind podiums with several microphones on each stand.
Energy
US, Germany seal deal on contentious Nord Stream 2 Russian gas pipeline
Apartment buildings in the Mitte borough of Berlin were photographed from the capital's television tower, April 4, 2019.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Berlin tenants undaunted by recent court ruling that undoes a rent cap
Merkel stands at a podium flanked by two German flags.
Top of The World
Merkel reverses plan for strict Easter lockdown in Germany
A protester walks past the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021.
Global Politics
‘The death of American exceptionalism’: Views from abroad on US Capitol attack 
French President Emmanuel Macron is shown wearing a face mask and dark suit while standing outside.
COVID-19
French President Macron tests positive for COVID-19
Police officers are shown standing guard across the street and holding large guns from the Notre Dame church in Nice.
Top of The World
French society confronts deadly religious tensions; France and Germany announce new lockdowns; China and US engage in crisis communication
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is shown walking with a briefcase and wearing a red jacket with a woman behind her wearing a dark red dress.
COVID-19
Merkel warns of ‘difficult winter’ as virus surges in Europe
A bartender is shown pulling a draft beer while wearing a face maks with glasses hanging above the bar.
COVID-19
More masks, less play: Europe tightens rules as virus surges
Syrian refugee Anas Modamani takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after registration at Berlin's Spandau district, Germany, on September 10, 2015.
Global Politics
Five years after migrant crisis, integration in Germany is succeeding, policy analyst says
A woman leader holds up a COVID-19 chart card.
Leaders
It’s official: Women are better leaders in a pandemic
A three lane highway is shown packed with cars and taken with a blurry effect.
Environment
Love is blind: How Germany’s long romance with cars led to the nation’s biggest clean energy failure
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are shown sitting in arm chairs and leaning toward each other shaking hands.
Top of The World
Trump suggests inviting Russia to the G-7; A global spotlight on US amid ongoing protests
A woman is shown in a photograph from behind wearing a tin-foil hat.
Top of The World
The risks of reopening too early; Afghanistan suffers attack on maternity hospital; Researchers in Senegal are developing coronavirus home test kit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is shown walking next to a green wall and wearing a red suit jacket.
Top of The World
Germany has ’emergency brake’ in case of virus surge, US shelves CDC guidelines; Iraq approves new government, prime minister
A crowd of protesters
What Germany’s energy revolution can teach the US
Several children and their parents are shown standing in a line spaced away from each other with a long wooden bench along side.
Top of The World
Denmark reopens schools as experts advise caution globally; IMF warns of second Great Depression; Racing to develop a drug to fight COVID-19
Dozen's of empty tables with white table clothes and yellow chairs are shown in St. Mark's square.
COVID-19
Italy, Britain wield economic axes to try to counter coronavirus impact
An estimated 100,000 people turned out for the climate strike in Berlin on Sept. 20, 2019.
Climate Change
In Germany, the politics of climate change are shifting beneath Merkel’s feet
“Tear down the walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told graduates at the 368th commencement ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 30, 2019.
Leaders
From ‘mein Mädchen’ to ‘leader of the free world,’ Angela Merkel is winding down her political career
kids climate march
Climate Change
How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change
Macron hugs Merkel.
Global Politics
Be ‘mein’ valentine: Merkel and Macron renew their ‘vows’ with Aachen treaty, but some critique the coupling
Francis Fukuyama standing outside with his arms crossed.
Global Politics
Francis Fukuyama on 2018, a year in identity politics
forest
Environment
How a forest became Germany’s poster child for a coal exit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, wearing a white jacket, and French President Emmanuel Macron, in a dark suit, are shown standing next to each other at the Paris Peace Forum.
Global Politics
Macron, Merkel defend multilaterism as Trump avoids peace forum
Birgit Bessin poses with a trailer bearing the logo of her party, the AfD
Germany’s anti-immigrant AfD party looks to make inroads in the country’s villages
a 1949 visa photo of a man
US deports accused former Nazi guard to Germany
a worker walks alongside an oil pipeline
Global Politics
New gas pipeline drives wedge between Germany and its allies
migrant
Germany allows refugee families to reunite, with limits
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 17, 2017.
Global Politics
Germany’s relations with Russia and the US are a delicate balancing act in the Trump-Putin era
French President Emmanuel Macron, smiles as he warmly greets Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel — the two holding hands.
EU cuts migration deal after marathon talks, differences remain
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen in a blue dress next to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in a blue suit with several flags behind them.
Before summit, Merkel calls migration ‘make or break’ for Europe
French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with US President Donald Trump in Paris, July 14, 2017.
Conflict
As Macron heads to US, ‘strong relationship’ with Trump under test
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May wearing a dark blue jacket is picture between two EU flags in the foreground.
Economics
EU launches the next phase of Brexit
US President Donald Trump speaks at the Utah State Capitol, where he announced big cuts to Utah's sprawling wilderness national monuments, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 4, 2017.
Global Politics
Germans see Trump as a bigger problem than North Korea or Russia
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Global Politics
Germany faces paralysis as coalition talks fail
A section of the Hambach lignite mine in Germany's Rhineland coal fields, whose coal-fired power plants, run by power giant RWE, are one of Europe's largest sources of CO2 emissions.
Environment
Germany talks a good game on climate, but it’s still stuck on coal
Election campaign posters for the leader billionaire politician Andrej Babis in Prague, Czech Republic, reading: "Stand up against corruption and stop babbling."
Global Politics
The populist tide has spread to one of Central Europe’s last liberal democracies
A demonstrator holds a poster reading "13 percent is a shame" during a protest against the anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) after German general election in Berlin.
Global Politics
How a far-right party’s nationalistic rhetoric framed the issues in Germany’s election
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) for the upcoming general elections, greets supporters during a campaign rally.
Culture
Angela Merkel is at the top, but progress is slow for German women
A man who identifies himself as a migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 10, 2015.
Conflict
For many Germans, this election is about refugees
A supporter of the anti-Muslim group PEGIDA in Dresden, Germany.
Global Politics
One simple word defines Germans, but Germans don’t agree on what it means
One of the two Chinese panda bears is munching while German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping visit their compound during a welcome ceremony at the zoo in Berlin, Germany on July 5.
Environment
Two giant pandas have a new home in Berlin, the latest stop for China’s ‘panda diplomacy’
merkel marriage
Global Politics
In a whirlwind process, German parliament will vote on same-sex marriage Friday
Meeting of the G7 Summit in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 26, 2017.
Global Politics
No, Trump isn’t isolating America, says popular conservative blogger
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Global Politics
Merkel warns that the US and Britain are no longer reliable partners
US President Donald Trump meets with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 17.
Global Politics
Watch: Trump meets Angela Merkel at the White House
Merkel Pence Munich
Global Politics
As US vows loyalty to allies, Russia seeks a ‘post-West’ world order
Fake news is easy to create. Social bots are simple software applications that help boost the impact of false news on social media sites.
Global Politics
Germany finds itself in the center of the cyberstorm
Activists pose on a "United To Stop Trump" cardboard wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany to urge Americans abroad to vote, on Sept. 23.
Global Politics
Trump’s win: The view from Berlin
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at the Coliseum on August 8, 2016 in St. Petersburg, Florida. A new national poll shows Clinton's lead expanding over Republican rival Donald Trump.
Culture
This is the only photo of Hillary Clinton one newspaper has ever run
Multiculturalism failed, say European leaders
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (R) review the honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany July 20, 2016.
Global Politics
Lots to discuss between Britain and Germany, but no Brexit talk yet
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a statement in Berlin after Britain voted to leave the European Union.
Global Politics
Europe to push for quickie British divorce as US Secretary Kerry flies in
A badge of AfD is seen on the jacket of Uwe Junge, candidate of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany in Rhineland-Palatinate at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2016.
Global Politics
Xenophobia and nationalism are on the rise in Germany
A member of a tank crew from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Army sits on top of a tank at a checkpoint on the road from the town of Vuhlehirsk to Debaltseve on February 18, 2015.
Conflict
How judo master Putin has outmaneuvered the West over Ukraine’s ceasefire
Angela Merkel
Global Politics
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is flexing her diplomatic muscle across Europe