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Female leaders across the globe
Current female heads of state or government.
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Germany’s far-right AfD set to embrace anti-Islam PEGIDA
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are struggling to stop voters switching to the AfD.
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Merkel sees 'tough day' in crunch German coalition talks
SPD leader Martin Schulz, a former president of the European Parliament, made clear his priority was Europe.
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Merkel stresses importance of ending smuggling & slavery
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said legal options needed to be created for Africans to be able to get training or study in an EU country.
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Matchmaker Merkel seeks awkward three-way embrace
Party delegations each made five-minute presentations before breaking ahead of further discussions due on Tuesday.
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Merkel tries to build coalition after vote that puts far right in parliament
Voters flocked to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), the first far-right party to enter the German parliament in more than half a century.
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Merkel ‘has no regrets’ over refugee policy despite political cost
In an interview, German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied she had made any mistakes with her open-door policy.
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Scuffles, water cannon at final anti-G20 march
Hundreds of hooded anti-capitalist militants scuffled with police on the fringes of a largely peaceful march against a G20 summit of global leaders.
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US, G20 split over climate
Last month President Trump announced he was pulling the US out of a landmark international climate accord clinched two years ago in Paris.
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Pope tells Merkel to keep pressing for international cooperation
Merkel, who faces elections in September, said the Pope expressed his support for the agenda of the G20 major economies.
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Merkel urges greater security role in Africa development policy
Merkel said several African leaders had complained to her that they were expected to battle militancy without receiving significant military aid from the West.
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Merkel’s conservatives widen lead ahead of German election
A survey found the Christian Democrats and their Christian Social Union allies winning 36% of the vote if the election were held on Sunday
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Merkel’s political allies vow united front on Brexit
Europe’s most powerful political family said it will seek to ensure the rights of EU citizens in Britain continue, that Northern Ireland avoids a hard border with Ireland and that London settles its accounts on leaving.
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Merkel's conservatives just ahead of Social Democrats – poll
The conservatives were unchanged on 33% while the SPD dropped one percentage point from last week to 32%.
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Trump, Merkel to hold first face-to-face meeting at White House
Trump and Merkel will discuss funding for Nato and relations with Russia in their first meeting since Trump took office in January.
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[OPINION] How will Angela Merkel respond to the ‘Trump doctrine’?
Merkel's response to Trump’s readiness to overturn 7 decades of US support for Nato & the EU will be crucial in determining the future of Germany & the EU.
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Kremlin: Putin, Merkel call for immediate truce in east Ukraine
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Angela Merkel called for the immediate restoration of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
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Debate over race and policing roils start of German election year
Security and immigration are both key issues as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to run for a fourth term.
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After Berlin attack, German CSU wants clampdown on Mediterranean
The party has drafted a paper calling for a change in policies that allow refugees rescued from endangered vessels to remain in Europe.
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Burdened but unbowed, Merkel faces biggest test in tilt at 4th term
Already chancellor for 11 years, she must now anchor a western alliance shaken by Donald Trump’s victory.
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Obama embraces Merkel in Germany visit, prods Trump on Russia
Obama expressed hope that president-elect Donald Trump would jettison controversial campaign rhetoric.
