Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 - Getty Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angela Merkel has set out to secure her reputation in a 700-page memoir in which the former German chancellor defends her 16 years ...

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 ...

Angela Merkel will leave office later this year as one of modern Germany's longest-serving leaders and as a global diplomatic heavyweight. Her legacy has been defined by her management of a succession ...

How will she be remembered? For all the justified criticism of Angela Merkel’s tenure as chancellor – that she is a master of getting through crises without ever quite resolving them – she will be ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves on stage during the last rally of the conservative Christian Democratic Union CDU and its Bavarian sister-party Christian Social Union CSU in Munich, southern ...

The center-left Social Democratic Party in Germany has narrowly claimed victory in an election that marks an end to the 16-year era of Angela Merkel’s conservative chancellorship. We look at what this ...

The former German leader was known for speaking Russian and keeping diplomatic ties with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. It was also during her term that Germany stepped up its energy links to ...