Tag: #AngelaMerkel
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COVID-19: German Chancellor Merkel quarantined
Germany, 23rd March: The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel has self quarantined herself in her home after she came into contact with a doctor who later tested positive for the coronavirus. According to her spokesperson, Angela came into contact with her doctor who gave her a precautionary vaccine on Friday against pneumococcal infection. Two days later…
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Trump deploys emergency beds, global pandemic deaths surge
Washington, March 23 (AFP/APP): US President Donald Trump ordered thousands of emergency hospital beds set up at American coronavirus hotspots but a trillion-dollar economic rescue package crashed, as pandemic deaths soared across the globe. A deadly prison riot in Columbia triggered by concerns over the virus highlighted the deepening sense of panic around the world…
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Leaders shut Europe’s borders to fight outbreak
Brussels, March 17 (AFP/APP): The European Union will impose an entry ban on travelers from outside the bloc for 30 days to battle the spread of the coronavirus, European leaders decided on Tuesday. The decision is the most significant emergency measure yet from the EU, which has scrambled to come up with a unified response…
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Corona Virus and the Global Economy: Is the World Prepared for Economic Shocks?
This opinion has been shared by Mr. Mir Mohammad Ali Khan. Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, this morning has made a statement that is sending shock-waves across the world. She said 60 to 70% of the Germans will be infected with the CoronaVirus in the coming months. And this statement was made on the…
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EU budget summit ends with no deal
Brussels, Feb 22 (AFP/APP): An EU summit called to set the bloc’s next seven-year budget ended in impasse late Friday, riven by competing groups among the 27 member states and pressure to fill a funding gap left by Brexit. Differences were “still too great to reach an agreement,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters at…
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Stormy EU budget summit enters day two
Brussels, Feb 21 (AFP/APP): EU leaders clashed through the night early Friday as a stormy summit to decide the bloc’s seven-year, trillion euro budget entered a second day. The meeting to decide the EU’s first budget since the UK left the bloc exposed bitter divisions between penny-pinching rich nations, poorer ones wanting to preserve spending…
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World powers agree new push for Libya peace
Berlin, Jan 20 (AFP/APP): World leaders committed Sunday to ending all foreign meddling in Libya’s war and to uphold a weapons embargo at a Berlin summit, as part of a broader plan to end the spiralling conflict. The presidents of Russia, Turkey and France were among global chiefs signing up to the plan to stop…
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Putin and Zelensky in first talks to revive Ukraine peace efforts
Moscow, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): The leaders of Russia and Ukraine will meet on Monday for talks on the conflict in east Ukraine, in what could be a step forward in ending Europe’s only active war. The summit in Paris will mark the first time Russia’s Vladimir Putin meets face-to-face with Ukraine’s new comedian-turned-president, Volodymyr Zelensky.…
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Stay or go? Four scenarios as Merkel partners debate future
Berlin, Dec 5 (AFP/APP): Headed by a new leftist leadership duo, Germany’s struggling Social Democrats are gearing up for a crunch congress from Friday that could decide the future of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fragile coalition government. As SPD members gather to discuss their demands for keeping the coalition afloat, here’s a look at four possible…
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German coalition in suspense as SPD picks new leaders
Berlin, Nov 30 (AFP/APP): The future of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government hung in the balance on Saturday as her junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats, prepared to announce the result of their leadership election. The favourite to win is a leadership duo composed of Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and his running mate Klara Geywitz, who…