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General Motors: Cold War Part II

Diane Francis | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Russia, Vauxhall, Dmitri Medvedev, General Motors, Moscow, Angela Merkel, Oleg Deripaska, Cars, Britain, Putin, Detroit, Magna International, General Motors Bailout, Business News
Diane Francis

General Motors' prospects are improving and there is widespread sentiment that its European operations should not be sold now nor should they be allowed to be taken over in order to protect technology.

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Horst Schlaemmer: Comedian Drums Up Support For German Chancellor Bid With Political Satire (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Angela Merkel, Horst Schlaemmer, Hape Kerkeling, Germany, German Chancellor's Race, Political Humor, Slideshow, Comedy News

(AP) BERLIN — He sports a pot belly, scruffy mustache and ugly glasses, and likes to burp on live TV, yet 18 percent of German voters would be w...

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General Motors Europe and the Cold War

Diane Francis | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Germany, Bailout, General Motors, Angela Merkel, Restructuring, Cars, Gerhard Shroder, Opel, Magna International, Business News
Diane Francis

The old saw is that "what's good for General Motors is good for America" and that's why the Magna International bid for GM's European operations is unlikely to succeed.

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Merkel's Cleavage Takes Center Stage In German Elections

Huffington Post | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Germany Elections, Merkel Breasts, Angela Merkel, Lengsfeld, Vera Lengsfeld, Merkel Cleavage, Germany, Germany Cleavage, Angela Merkel Cleavage, Merkel's Cleavage, Angela Merkel Cleavage Pics, Merkel's Cleavage Takes Center, German Chancellor Cleavage, Merkel Germany, Lengsfeld Merkel, Merkel, Angela Merkel Breasts, World News

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's breasts have been the subject of much attention after a female politician used them as a ploy to bring attention to ...

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G8 Italy Summit: Friday (VIDEO)(SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: India, Italy, G8 Summit, Foreign Affairs, United States, G-8 Italy Summit, Barack Obama, G-8 Summit, Silvio Berlusconi, G-8, G8, Climate Change, G8 Italy, China, Advocacy, Slideshow, G8 Summit Declaration, Dmitry Medvedev, Angela Merkel, Slidepoll, G8 Italy 2009, Italy Summit, World News

We'll be following the Group of 8 Summit in L'Aquila here with news, photos and video. Feel free to check back at regular intervals for updates. ***...

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Twitter Revolution and President Obama: This time Let's Stand Up With Roozbeh and the People of Iran

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Stephen Harper, Internet, Simon Wiesenthal Center, United Nations, Angela Merkel, Twitter, Obama, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Twitter may have succeeded in proving to the world how much the Iranian people want change, but Internet technologies cannot deliver real freedom and hope.

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Germany Nazi-Era Treason Convictions To Be Overturned

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Germany, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Nazis, Nazi-Era Treason, Angela Merkel, Nazi Germany, World News

BERLIN — Germany's governing parties agreed Wednesday on a blanket measure to overturn Nazi-era verdicts convicting people of treason, nearly 65...

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AP: Obama, Merkel Set To Meet "Under Cloud Of Disagreement"

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Germany, Angela Merkel, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Obama Merkel, Afghanistan War, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sits down this week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel under a cloud of disagreement over the way out of t...

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Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald: The Moral Challenge to Learn, and Act

Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Rachel Sklar

Today, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel joined Barack Obama at Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany's worst concentration camps, but he worried that "the world hasn't learned" from the tragedy.

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Obama At Buchenwald: 'No Patience' For Holocaust Denial (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Holocaust, Obama Buchenwald, Obama Holocaust Denial, Eli Weisel, Barack Obama, Video, Obama Concentration Camp, Germany, Holocaust Deniers, Obama Elie Weisel, Obama Buchenwald Holocaust, Obama Holocaust, Angela Merkel, The Holocaust, Obama Europe Trip, Elie Weisel, Obama Buchenwald Visit, Obama Buchenwald Video, Obama at Buchenwald, Video Obama Buchenwald, Obama Video Buchenwald, Obama Buchenwald Speech Video, Obama Buchenwald Transcript, World News

WEIMAR, Germany (AP) - President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble e...

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"Stop It, All Of You": Obama Knocks German Press Over Coverage Of Alleged Tensions With Merkel

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Germany, Obama Angela Merkel, Germany, President Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Obama, Politics News

At a joint press availability in Dresden, Germany Friday morning, President Obama knocked the German press for playing up alleged tension between him ...

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Germany's Gentleman: First Man Joachim Sauer's Professorial Look (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Joachim Sauer, Germany, Slideshow, Angela Merkel, Obama Trip, Style News

As the "first" spouse of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom President Obama is meeting with on Friday, quantum chemist and professor Joachim Sauer ...

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Merkel Goes Off the Deep End

Brett Neely | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Angela Merkel, Inflation, Germany, European Central Bank, Economy, Berlin, World News
Brett Neely

With a tough re-election campaign coming up, Merkel has decided that bashing the ECB could offer a political advantage ahead of European Parliament elections this weekend

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Merkel Blasts "Powers" Of Central Banks

Wall Street Journal | JOELLEN PERRY | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Fed, Angela Merkel, Federal Reserve, Central Banks, Merkel, Business News

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare public rebuke of central banks, suggested the European Central Bank and its counterparts in the U.S. and Br...

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Against All Odds: What the World Will See in Sotomayor

Ahu Ozyurt | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Turkey Kurds, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Angela Merkel, Rachida Dati, Erdogan, Immigrants, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Triumph, Politics News
Ahu Ozyurt

I toast the little immigrant ladies who push strollers on our streets, who silently come to clean our apartments, and without a word of English somehow we manage to understand each other.

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Angela Merkel Lingerie Ad Shocks Germany

Huffington Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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The AFP reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears in a lingerie ad wearing nothing more than a purple matching bra and panties set. AFP re...

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Ahmadinejad at Durban 2: Merkel Should Lead Boycott

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: European Union, Merkel, Obama, Holocaust, Durban 2009, Holocaust Deniers, Ahmadinejad, Obama Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Angela Merkel, Iran, Durban, Germany, Geneva, Israel, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

It's inconceivable to stand in silent tribute to 6 million dead Jews while simulatenously empowering a man who wants to do away with 6 million live Jews in Israel.

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Silvio Berlusconi Telephone Call Leaves Merkel Hanging (VIDEO)

AP | DAVID RISING and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.05.2009 | World

Read More: Angela Merkel, Nato Summit, Italian PM, Silvio Berlusconi Gaffe, Silvio Berlusconi, Video, Berlusconi, Berlusconi Telephone, Italy, World News

KEHL, Germany — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi created a stir Saturday by making the German chancellor wait while he chatted on his mo...

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France, Germany Endorse Obama's Afghanistan Plans, But Won't Commit More Troops

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.05.2009 | World

Read More: Angela Merkel, Nato, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Afghanistan War, France, Germany, World News

STRASBOURG, France — European leaders enthusiastically praised President Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy at a NATO summit Saturday but held t...

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Re-Setting the Geopolitical Table: How Obama's Big Trip Is Going

William Bradley | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Angela Merkel, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Prague, Vladimir Putin, London, Gordon Brown, Nato, Barack Obama, Poland, Germany, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Czech Republic, Iraq, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ankara, Dmitri Medvedev, Anti-Missile Shield, G-20, World News
William Bradley

The G-20 went well. Not as well as advertised, which is par for most any political course, but much better than most of the Gs -- 7, 8, or 20.

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Guess This First Husband

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Obama and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, Joachim Sauer, German Chancellor, Obama and Germany, Angela Merkel Husband, World News

***SCROLL DOWN FOR THE ANSWER*** It's Joachim Sauer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's husband. Sauer is a quantum chemist who married Merkel i...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Lebanon, Hu Jintao, Hague Summit, Arab Summit, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, G20 Summit, Manmohan Singh, Iraq Security, Angela Merkel, Turkey Summit, Israel, Palestinian Unity Talks, Azerbaijan, Nato Summit, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:New Israeli Leadership Sounds the Drumbeat to War Facts: Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Li...

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What Europe Really Needs is a Good Shrink

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Sweden, Silvio Berlusconi, Angela Merkel, European Union, Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, g20, Nicolas Sarkozy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Shrink, World News
Nathan Hegedus

Europe needs to make some huge psychological leap. I am living in Sweden and honestly, President Obama seems to care more about me than any of the big European leaders.

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G-20: I See England, I See France...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Dmitri Medvedev, Michelle Obama, London Summit, G-20 Summit, Hu Jintao, Angela Merkel, Protectionism, Economic Stimuls, Group of 20, Barack Obama, Global Economic Crisis, Nicolas Sarkozy, g20, Obama and Queen Elizabeth, France, World News
Rick Horowitz

First the skinny guy shakes everybody's hand -- then he tells us he's got a cold!

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What Real Diplomacy Looks Like

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Russia, G20 Summit, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Diplomacy, g20, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, The Hague-Netherlands, Netherlands, Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan, Georgia, Iraq, World News
Ilan Goldenberg

Barack Obama showed up in Europe this week and the world did not simply swoon at his feet. Some may choose to portray that as failure, but they would be dead wrong.

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