Merkel helps German mums shed "raven mother" tag
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A falling birth rate and an aging population have prompted Germany's female leaders to shake up the nation's old-fashioned family policies.
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BERLIN -- Their politics differ, their styles clash, and they don't speak the same language, but when the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal, who hopes to become her French counterpart, met yesterday there was what advisers described as a bit of "female bonding."
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All their lives, Eva Baer's Hungarian parents looked to Britain as a beacon of freedom, safety and sophistication in a turbulent Europe. They didn't complain when the government seized their London bank account under a law that made no distinction between the perpetrators of Nazi crimes and their victims. And Baer didn't challenge a British lawyer who told her a few years afterward the money was gone for good, even though her mother was Jewish and her father had helped Jews get false documents.
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German officials are drawing up lists of hundreds of Islamic militants to be deported from the country under a new law making expulsions easier, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.
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A German woman held hostage in Iraq since early February has been freed but her son remains in the hands of the kidnappers, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.
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The identity she was born with has been erased from the files of the German bureaucracy by this country's witness protection program.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops a list of the most powerful women in the world for the second year.
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After months of tension between Beijing and Berlin, a Chinese minister has said German Chancellor Angela Merkel is welcome in the Chinese capital, Handelsblatt daily will report in its Monday edition.
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Mothers want to indulge themselves and at the same time bond with their girls.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on  Friday that Germany must allow security services to use the  Internet to track terrorist suspects&#39; online movements.
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German authorities are adopting a Stasi technique of using odour to track G8 activists.
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A Polish magazine cover showing Germany's chancellor breast-feeding Poland's leaders feeds tensions.
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Chancellor Merkel faces a key diplomatic test as G8 host - but her negotiating skills have won praise, Tristana Moore reports.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: In Britain, too, corporate muscle and government weakness means mothers are gulled into swapping the breast for the tin.
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German papers on Friday are unenthusiastic about Chancellor Angela Merkel's meeting with the Chinese premier.
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A generation of mothers has begun a consciousness-raising that is almost old-fashioned except for the technology involved.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel is familiar with Cold War diplomacy, but on Wednesday she had her first encounter with Cool Biz diplomacy.