Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been quarantined after a doctor who gave her a vaccine tested positive for coronavirus. Ms Merkel was informed about the doctor's test shortly after holding a news conference Sunday about new measures…

The German parliament is set to approve up to 1 billion euros (1.1 billion dollars) in additional funds to combat the coronavirus, the head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc said on Tuesday. "We will provide additional…

Several dozen people, including children, were injured Monday when a car drove into a carnival procession in central Germany, police said, adding that the driver had been arrested. A spokeswoman for police in the small town of Volkmarsen…

Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the "poison" of racism Thursday after a shooter with suspected far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a cafe in the German city of Hanau. All nine dead, aged between 21 and 44, had a…

A gunman with suspected far-right links shot dead nine people, some of them migrants from Turkey, in an overnight rampage through a German city before killing himself, officials said. Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the attack on two…

African leaders are gathering in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Sunday for the 33rd African Union (AU) summit focusing on security which is expected to discuss the Libyan crisis. The summit will see South Africa taking over the…

Germany celebrated on Saturday the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that divided East and West Germany, with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier thanking Eastern European neighbors for spurring on the peaceful revolution.…

French President Emmanuel Macron firmly told Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday that there was not enough time to negotiate a wholly new Brexit divorce deal. On his first foreign trip since winning the premiership a month ago,…

Germany spent a record 23 billion euros ($25.65 billion) last year on helping to integrate more than one million refugees and fighting the root causes of migration abroad, a government document seen by Reuters showed on Monday. That…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has bid farewell to the German conservative's Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel, not seeking re-election to the post but would be staying on as chancellor for the remainder of the…