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A pandemic revelation: Women rule (better)

Women leaders winning over the coronavirus crisis prompts the question - Who should run the world?

14 Jun 2020 7:21 PM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels. (AP)World
Walkouts and slammed fists summarise EU virus summit as it drags into...

The pandemic has sent the EU into a tailspin, killing around 135,000 of its citizens and plunging its economy into...

20 July 2020 2:33 PM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts on a face mask with the logo of Germanys EU presidency before speaking to one of the German State Premiers on July 3, 2020 at the German Federal Council (Bundesrat) in Berlin. (AFP)World
Merkel urges EU unity on China

'Only together the 27 EU member countries have enough weight to achieve ambitious deals with China,' the German...

3 July 2020 2:36 PM IST

A protester stands half naked and lifts his hands up in front of the Reichstag building guarded by policemen at the end of a demonstration called by far-right and COVID-19 deniers to protest against restrictions related to the new coronavirus pandemic, in Berlin. (AFP)World
Berlin halts 'anti-corona' rally as European cities protest mask...

Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Germany, with daily new infection numbers reaching highs not seen since April

30 Aug 2020 3:40 PM IST

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attended the Friday For Future rally in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: AP)World
Germany's Merkel hosts Greta Thunberg for talks on climate crisis

The meeting comes exactly two years after Thunberg started to strike outside Swedish parliament to call attention to...

20 Aug 2020 3:14 PM IST

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny casting his vote at a polling station during to the Moscow city Duma election in Moscow. - Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny provide clear proof that he was poisoned by a chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, September 2, 2020, demanding explanations from Moscow. (AFP File)World
Germany says Soviet-era nerve agent used on Russia's Navalny

The findings which experts say point strongly to Russian state involvement added to tensions between Russia and the...

3 Sept 2020 8:40 AM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP)Opinion
Padma Rao Sundarji | The post-Merkel Germany India and world will face

During Angela Merkel's 16 years in office, the world's most powerful woman leader faced one crisis after another

1 Oct 2021 2:43 AM IST

People walk and drive past election posters of the three candidates for German chancellor , from right, Armin Laschet, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annalena Baerbock, German Green party (Die Gruenen) and Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party (SPD), at a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germanys closely fought election on Sunday will set the direction of the European Unions most populous country after 16 years under Angela Merkel, whose party is scrambling to avoid defeat by its center-left rivals after a rollercoaster campaign. (AP)World
Germans vote in close election to decide Merkel successor

Merkel has been in power since 2005 but plans to step down after the election, making the vote an era-changing event

26 Sept 2021 12:31 PM IST

Donald Trump on Friday recited the lyrics of a song seen as anti-immigration called The Snake to drive home his point about restricting immigration. (Photo: File)Opinion
Europe's perception of America has changed

Macron asked Europe to unite and assert European sovereignty in the face of unilateral moves by the US on Iran and...

27 May 2018 12:07 AM IST

German Chancellor and candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for the upcoming election Angela Merkel delivers a speech in Dortmund. (Photo: AP)World
Angela Merkel elected as German Chancellor for fourth time

Lawmakers voted 364-315 on Wednesday to re-elect Merkel, who ran unopposed. There were nine abstentions.

14 March 2018 2:52 PM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Photo: AP)Opinion
When people protest, leaders need to listen

In Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May faces the prospect of losing power over her nation's inability to resolve the...

10 Dec 2018 12:00 AM IST

EU president Donald Tusk on Wednesday urged leaders meeting in Bulgaria to form a \united European front\ against Trumps withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal and his move to impose trade tariffs on Europe.(Photo: AFP)World
With friends like Trump, who needs enemies: European Union chief

'Looking at the latest decisions of President Trump, someone could even think with friends like that, who needs...

17 May 2018 9:37 AM IST

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