This gripping story follows her meteoric rise and the dramatic turn that forced her to step back.

Germany changes course! The new government under Olaf Scholz aims to tighten border controls and move away from Angela Merkel's open-door migrant policy, sparking political shifts.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Angela Merkel sought advice from the pope on dealing with Donald Trump when he was first elected U.S. president, hoping to find ways of convincing a man she saw as having a ...

“I left office, and the aggression of Putin began,” former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a recent interview. Merkel told the Hungarian outlet Partizán that by mid-2021, she thought Russian ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called on Europe to stand up to President Trump on tariffs and said Vice President Vance’s views on “freedom” represented a threat to democracy, ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become chancellor at a challenging time for Germany. But in a first round of voting in Parliament, he fell short Tuesday of getting enough votes to be named leader. By ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy voters have soured on. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin A chorus of ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) speaks at a press conference at the CDU headquarters.

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming over Donald Trump as the rest of the world’s leaders looked on. Angela ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her crumbling legacy. The effort is backfiring. Her new book, “Freedom”—published in late November in nearly 30 languages—is riling up even some of her ...

Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has remained ambiguous. Her memoir describes her evolving embrace of more proactive ...