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Merkel visits 'surreal' flood zone as death toll rises
Wearing hiking boots and offering pandemic-safe fist bumps to rescue workers, Merkel walked through the village of Schuld in Rhineland-Palatinate state, one of...
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Merkel sees 'surreal' wreckage as Europe flood death toll tops 180
Merkel, who is retiring from politics after September's elections, listened to the accounts of residents where the swollen Ahr river swept away houses and left debris piled high in the streets.
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Merkel to visit flood zone as western Europe death toll tops 180
At least 156 people have died since Wednesday in Germany's worst flooding in living memory, police said in an update Sunday morning.
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Merkel frets about Euro finals crowds in London
"We in Germany, as you know, decided to have fewer people attend games in the Munich stadium," Merkel told a joint press conference with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on her farewell visit to Britain.
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Queen to host Germany's Merkel during UK visit
The Queen, who has met the chancellor several times during Angela Merkel's 16 years in power, will host the German leader at Windsor Castle, west of London.
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EU must seek 'direct contact' with Putin: Merkel
Merkel said recent events had shown that it was not enough 'if we react to the multitude of Russian provocations in an uncoordinated manner'.
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Merkel says Biden brought 'new momentum' to G7 talks
The G7 gathering of leading economies was Biden's first as US president and touted as an opportunity to rebuild ties after the discord of Donald Trump's four years in power.
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Final vote test in Germany ahead of post-Merkel-era election
Saxony-Anhalt is one of Germany's smallest states with a population of just 2.2 million, but with Merkel's Christian Democratic Union running neck-and-neck with the far-right AfD there, the stakes could not be higher for the regional vote.
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Merkel urges US to export Covid vaccines
"Now that a further part of the American population has been vaccinated, I hope that we can come to a free exchange of components and an opening of the market for vaccines," she said, adding the EU has exported a big chunk of jabs made in the bloc and that should "be the rule".
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Conservatives in disarray as scrum for Merkel job opens wounds
The fight between long-time Merkel-ally Armin Laschet and his more popular Bavarian rival Markus Soeder threatens to further destabilise the once-dominant CDU/CSU alliance.
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Merkel backs 'short' lockdown in Germany to tame virus
Germany has been in some form of shutdown since November, but has struggled to bring case numbers under control in recent weeks with a surge in the British variant of the virus.
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Germany pulls strict Easter virus shutdown amid backlash
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of Germany's 16 states had agreed at marathon talks on Monday that almost all shops were to be closed on 1-5 April, with only grocers allowed to open on Saturday, 3 April.
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Merkel seeks Covid restrictions extension into April
The restrictions would be prolonged until a yet-to-be-determined date in April due to the high rate of infections at present, which are being "accelerated by COVID-19 variants", the document said.
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Merkel's party in turmoil ahead of key German polls
Support for Merkel's CDU/CSU alliance has fallen to a one-year low at around 30%, surveys show, as Germans sour on its pandemic crisis management.
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Bowing to pressure, Merkel eases virus curbs
After more than nine hours of talks, Merkel and Germany's 16 regional leaders unveiled a step-by-step plan to relax restrictions after months of shutdowns, despite concern over the spread of new and more aggressive virus variants.
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Merkel voices 'concern' over Iran deal in Rouhani call
"She expressed her concern that Iran continues to fail to meet its obligations under the nuclear agreement," spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
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Merkel hosts vaccine 'summit' as impatience mounts
BioNTech and Pfizer, the first firms worldwide to announce a successful vaccine, promised to send up to 75 million extra doses to the bloc in the spring thanks to progress at key manufacturing sites.
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Merkel condemns Navalny arrest, demands release: spokesman
Police seized Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent, at a border control post at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
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Merkel ally wins race to lead her party
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party on Saturday picked her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader.
