Thanks to former chancellor Angela Merkel's asylum policy, Germany has taken in nearly half the Syrians seeking refuge in ...

Here’s a look at the life of Angela Merkel, former chancellor of Germany. Personal Birth date: July 17, 1954 Birth place: Hamburg, Germany Birth name: Angela Dorothea Kasner Father: Horst Kasner, a ...

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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour speaks to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel about her impression of President-elect Donald Trump when he was first elected into office. US strikes on Iran ‘less ...

Merkel never heard from them again and her career as a Stasi informer ended before it even began. Anyone who completes her 688-page memoir, Freedom, though, will wish the young physicist had been ...

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Angela Merkel, née Angela Dorothea Kasner, was born on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany, where her father was a theology student and her mother a teacher of Latin and English. The family ...

Already feeling nostalgic about the Merkel era? Here is a look at the key legacies that defined her 16-year chancellorship — and will likely outlive it.

The result is a masterpiece of discernment and insight. Some of Marton’s most arresting passages center on the early years. Merkel was born Angela Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg.

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world, is no friend of her biographers. It’s not only that the groundbreaking German chancellor routinely refuses to be interviewed.

She has doggedly retraced Merkel’s trail, and the story she brings is a good one. Merkel, who was born in 1954, grew up in Soviet-controlled East Germany, eventually behind the Berlin Wall.