Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel received her nation's highest honor Monday – becoming only the third leader to claim the award. Merkel received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from ...

BERLIN - Angela Merkel was assured of a place in the history books as soon as she became Germany's first female chancellor on Nov. 22, 2005. Over the next 16 years, she was credited with raising ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's "power games" over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she ...

Premiering at Telluride, “Merkel,” Eva Weber’s documentary on former Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, seems like a star-studded fête featuring many world leaders and dignitaries, such as former ...

A party organized by the parliamentary faction of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to mark his 70th birthday will take place ...

The phrase instantly turned into a litmus test for public sentiment across Europe, sparking debate not only about women’s ...

Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has received the country's highest honour, the Order of Merit. Mrs Merkel, who was chancellor for 16 years, received the award at a ceremony in the German ...

BERLIN — The memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be released in November, nearly three years after her 16-year tenure leading one of Europe's biggest powers ended. The roughly ...

BERLIN — Voters in one of Germany’s most prosperous states punished Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives again Sunday in an election that was seen as yet another barometer of her and her party’s ...

The US was most responsible for the Ukrainian Conflict by refusing to reach a compromise with Russia for defusing their ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. Germany will ...

Other Facts:Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl sometimes referred to her as "the girl." She is a trained physicist. Timeline:1978-1990 - Research associate at Zentralinstitut fur Physikalische Chemie in ...