Berlin Elections

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  Navalny's Wife Says Wrote His Name On Ballot After Voting In Russian Presidential Poll

  Yulia Navalnaya told journalists and supporters Sunday that she wrote her dissident late husband's name on her ballot after voting in Berlin in Russia's presidential election.

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  Catalan Separatists To Try Again To Elect Carles Puigdemont

  Catalan separatists, meeting in Berlin, vowed Saturday to attempt once again to get their leader-in-exile Carles Puigdemont reinstalled as president of the Spanish region while adding that they don't want to hold fresh elections.

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  Germany Alarmed by Facebook Data Abuse Reports, Lawmakers Demand Answers

  Reports have said Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, harvested Facebook users' personal data to support Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign.

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  France's Emmanuel Macron Limbers Up For Tricky Dance With Angela Merkel

  French President Emmanuel Macron likes to describe France and Germany as two tango dancers who are enthusiastic partners but wary about embracing. This weekend, he will discover who will be his partner in Berlin for what he hopes will be an ambitious -- and French-led -- dance routine

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  Frank-Walter Steinmeier Becomes President Of Germany

  Former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected Germany's president today, the 12th person to hold the largely ceremonial post in the post-war era.

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  Donald Trump After Berlin, Turkey Attacks: 'I've Been Proven To Be Right'

  US President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday that attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara proved he was correct to propose curbing Muslim immigration to the United States.

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  After Win Over Angela Merkel's Party, Anti-Migrant Group Eyes Berlin

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces the threat of fresh gains by the right-wing populist AfD party in Berlin state elections Sunday, as discontent rises over her welcome to refugees.

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  Europe Won't Recognise Vote in Eastern Ukraine, Angela Merkel Tells Vladimir Putin

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Putin on the phone that Sunday's planned elections in eastern Ukraine were illegitimate and would not be recognised by European leaders, a Berlin government spokesman said on Friday.

• Berlin Urges Afghan Rivals to Find Rapid Fix to Disputed Vote

  German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Saturday urged the two rivals in Afghanistan's disputed presidential elections to find a rapid solution to end the crisis over the vote.

• Berlin Voters Reject Plan to Build on Airport-Turned-Park

  Voters in the German capital on Sunday rejected plans for a large-scale property development on their former Tempelhof Airport, which has in recent years become a popular inner-city park.

• European Election: And The Winner is ... Angela Merkel

  Largely untouched by the eurosceptic wave sweeping the continent, Germany's Angela Merkel looks set to emerge the biggest winner of Sunday's European elections.

• Germany's Angela Merkel begins third term with focus on Europe

  Angela Merkel was elected to a third term as chancellor in a vote in the German lower house of parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for her new government to formally take power after months of coalition talks.

• German election results give Angela Merkel a wardrobe headache

  Relishing a thumping election victory for her conservatives in Germany's Sunday election, a smiling Angela Merkel said on Monday that conjecture about looming coalition talks presented her with a dilemma on what to wear.

• Angela Merkel wins in Germany, 'grand coalition' likely: exit polls

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a third term in elections Sunday but her conservatives may be forced to govern in a "grand coalition" with the centre-left Social Democrats, exit polls showed.

• Shhhhhh! German parties appeal to voters' aversion to noise

  "One in two Germans feels troubled by noise," Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) state in their election manifesto. "We want to change this".