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By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's two main opposition parties traded warnings on Sunday against getting into bed with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives after September's election if they fail to win their own left-of-center majority. The leaders of the Social Democrats (SPD)...

Washington (CNN) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a state dinner on Tuesday, a big honor for a U.S. ally who differs at times with the Obama administration. Merkel, 56, dined privately with President Barack Obama at a Georgetown restaurant on...

Kohler resignation a crisis for Merkel BERLIN, (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel begged President Horst Kohler to remain in office instead of submitting his resignation, Der Spiegel reported Tuesday. Kohler stepped down Monday, giving Merkel only 2 hours notice. Der Spiegel said it had...

BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday to have a new center-right German government in place by the time Germany marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9. She said tax cuts were possible in 2011, but rejected spending cutbacks that might strangle an incipient economic...