Guido Westerwelle

• Germany rules out taking part in Syria military strike: minister

  Germany's foreign minister ruled out his country's participation in a military strike in Syria after an apparent deadly poison gas attack.

• Egypt: Mohamed Morsi supporters unswayed after US envoy talks

  Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi said early on Sunday they would continue to insist on his reinstatement after talks with US Under Secretary of State William Burns.

• Germany nixes Cold War-era surveillance pact with US, Britain

  Germany cancelled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain today, the first concrete action taken by Berlin in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping operations.

• Egypt police asks Mohamed Morsi supporters to disperse

  Egypt's interior ministry promised Mohamed Morsi's supporters "safe exit" today if they quickly leave their Cairo protest camps, as police prepared to disperse them amid international appeals for restraint.

• Merkel tries to calm storms over Greece, ECB policy

  Domestic criticism has narrowed Merkel's room for manoeuvre when Greece is in dire need of more aid.

• Bangalore to host Indo-German Urban Mela

  Bangalore would host a ten-day Indo-German Urban Mela, a blend of technology, science, culture and entertainment, that would be inaugurated by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Friday.

• Germany calls for European rating agencies after S&P downgrade

  Europe needs to create independent credit rating agencies and stop relying solely on leading US-based agencies, says Germany

• German foreign minister hits out at US over debt crisis

  Germany's foreign minister on Sunday lashed out at the United States over criticism the eurozone is not doing enough to solve its economic woes, noting that US debt had also contributed to the current crisis. Guido Westerwelle told the Bild am Sonntag weekly: "Let us not forget that the cause of the current crisis is too much debt in Europe,...

• German mole identified after WikiLeaks disclosure

  A top aide to German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has been identified as the person responsible for passing on information about government coalition talks to the US embassy in the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. A spokesman for Westerwelle's Free Democratic Party (FDP) told journalists yesterday that his personal assistant Helmut Metzner ...