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Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall sources.
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Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to...
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representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)....
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare address to both houses of Congress, has called on the US to join European efforts on global warming.
She also said Iran must...
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The bit of rural ex-Communist hinterland in which Angela Merkel grew up has undergone an imaginative makeover since the 55-year-old pastor’s daughter embarked on...
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A slow, but steady, tightening of the poll numbers in Germany is threatening Angela Merkel’s hopes of forming a new centre-right coalition, and could, if it...
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Across the country, in loud, sweaty beer tents and on scrappy, weed-tangled urban parkland, German politicians are scrambling for the Absent Voter. With four days to go...
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There is no name, just the smiling, matronly face of Angela Merkel. With a confident stateswoman-like air she looks down benevolently from giant posters plastered...
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Iran has limited time to return to international talks on its nuclear program before it faces stiffer sanctions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters.
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Angela Merkel nearly campaigned herself to a shock election defeat in 2005. This year, she is running a low-key, almost genteel campaign and it’s paying off —...
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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 Britain have gone...
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And here I was being very shocked at the verbal warfare going on between our erstwhile politicians in which they were pulling down each other with impunity but now I...
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New German economic forecasts underlined Wednesday the threat facing Europe’s biggest economy after Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was mulling fresh stimulus...
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Angela Merkel was once the Green Goddess who pushed through tough climate change targets to show that Europe could lead the world in beating global warming.Under huge...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, but her spokesman was quick to explain that the decision...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, after undertaking her longest overseas trip to date, arrived in India with her entourage including some of Germany’s top...
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India and China enjoy the status of the two fastest growing economies in the world. Both countries have received the invitation to join the G8 summit as guest members....
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The Gleneagles Hotel was the plush backdrop for the 31st summit of the world’s industrialized democracies in 2005. Mr. Tony Blair had set the priority of...
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The British Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked the G8 to expand its base and should include countries such as China and India, the two growing economies of Asia...
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