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Press freedom, Belarus opposition or Greta for Nobel Peace Prize?
The highlight of the Nobel season, the prestigious peace prize always elicits a flurry of speculation. But predicting the winner is a giant guessing game.
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Voters punish Merkel allies with constituency losses
Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU-CSU bloc sunk to a historic low in Sunday's vote, their worst election showing in post-war German history.
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Germany heads into unknown as rivals scramble to lead next government
Preliminary results showed that the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) had won the largest share of the vote at 25.7%, according to figures on the election commission's website.
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Merkel makes final push for successor in Germany's knife-edge polls
Hundreds of thousands of people had descended on the streets on Friday urging change and greater climate protection, with a leading activist calling Sunday's election the vote "of a century".
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What Germany’s Angela Merkel, the belated feminist, did for women
Only now, at the end of her 16 years in office, has Germany's first female chancellor declared herself a feminist - too little too late for some.
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End of 'Merkron': EU's power couple prepares to bow out
Angela Merkel is to relinquish power after German elections on September 26, bringing an end to her 16 years in office that has seen her work with four different French leaders starting with Jacques Chirac.
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Merkel distances herself from would-be successor Scholz
Less than a month before a September 26 general election, Merkel's CDU/CSU conservatives are slipping in opinion polls while Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) have taken the lead in a race still seen as wide open.
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Afghan debacle set to cloud Merkel's final Putin visit
As Merkel prepares to bow out of politics following an election in Germany on 26 September, the crisis in Afghanistan could be the latest subject to drive a wedge between herself and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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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 the two hardest-hit regions in western Germany.
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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.
