Frank-Walter Steinmeier
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, second from right, his wife Elke Buedenbender, right, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, second left wit his wife Michal Herzog, left, attend a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the victims of the attack by Palestinian militants on the 1972 Munich Olympics in Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich, Germany, Monday, Sept. 5, 2002. The German and Israeli presidents are to join relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the attack by Palestinian militants on the commemoration event. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
German president apologizes for 1972 Olympic attack failures

By Geir Moulson Sep. 05, 2022 10:38 AM EDT

FILE - Ankie Spitzer holds a framed photo her husband Andre had made for the Munich Olympics before his death, as she poses in her home in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, on July 28, 2022. Andre was a fencing coach with the Israeli Olympic team who was killed in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich by a Palestinian group. In a decision announced Thursday, Aug. 11, the families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian attackers at the Olympics will not attend a 50-year anniversary ceremony organized by German authorities, saying they deserve more compensation and a fuller reckoning of the tragedy. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
Column: 50 years later, the pain from Munich lingers

By Paul Newberry Sep. 02, 2022 06:06 PM EDT

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier addresses the media at his residence Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 28, 2021. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announces he will seeks for a second term. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German President Steinmeier says he will seek a 2nd term

May. 28, 2021 05:56 AM EDT

Parliamentarians take part in a special session of the Bundesrat in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The chamber discusses the revision of the Infection Protection Act. A plan by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to mandate uniform restrictions in areas where the coronavirus is spreading too quickly has cleared its final legislative hurdle.(Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)
German 'emergency brake' plan clears last legislative hurdle

Apr. 22, 2021 08:00 AM EDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, arrives for a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
German court refuses effort to block EU recovery fund

Apr. 21, 2021 05:30 AM EDT

The German flag on top of the Reichstag building is seen at half-mast on the occasion of the central memorial for those who died in the Corona pandemic in Germany, Berlin, April 18, 2021. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
Germany remembers nearly 80,000 dead in COVID pandemic

By Geir Moulson Apr. 18, 2021 04:13 AM EDT

German's IDT to make 10M AstraZeneca vaccine doses in 2021

Apr. 16, 2021 11:47 AM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — German vaccine-maker IDT Biologika said Friday it plans to bottle this year some 10 million doses of the coronavirus shot developed by...

Medical personnel wearing protective equipment work in the intensive care ward for COVID-19 patients at the SRH Waldklinikum hospital in Gera, Germany, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Currently, 21 Covid-19 patients are receiving intensive care here in the ICU unit at the hospital. (Bodo Schackow/dpa via AP)
Germany sees record vaccinations amid hospital warning

By Frank Jordans Apr. 15, 2021 11:22 AM EDT

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center, lays down a wreath during commemorations marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Sunday, April 11, 2021. On April 11, 1945 the US Army liberated the concentration camp Buchenwald. At left is Steinmeier's wife Elke Buendenbender. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German president: Buchenwald a reminder of Nazi 'barbarism'

Apr. 11, 2021 06:54 AM EDT

German President Frank Walter Steinmeier attends a ceremony to honor people for their services during the coronavirus pandemic with state's cross of merit at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)
Germany faces 'crisis of trust' in pandemic, president says

Apr. 03, 2021 07:13 AM EDT

A woman in protective clothing beckons test takers to her window at a test center with the start of the model project in ugustusburg, Germany, Thursday, April 1, 2021. After five months of lockdown, hotels and restaurants here have reopened to private visitors. ( Jan Woitas/dpa via AP)
Merkel: 'A quiet Easter' needed to counter rising infections

By Frank Jordans Apr. 01, 2021 11:14 AM EDT

Ozlem Tureci founder of the BioNTech company speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Scientist behind coronavirus shot says next target is cancer

By Frank Jordans Mar. 19, 2021 06:37 AM EDT

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left on the screen, brief the media on a virtual joint news conference at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
UN to rich nations: Don't undermine COVAX vaccine program

By Geir Moulson And Jamey Keaten Feb. 22, 2021 08:26 AM EST

Algerian president returns home after virus-linked operation

Feb. 12, 2021 02:40 PM EST
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's president returned home on Friday following a month's hospitalization in Germany after contracting COVID-19 in October. ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Rabbi Shaul Nekrich, right, take part in a ceremony at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 to complete the historic Sulzbach Torah Scroll from 1792, rediscovered in 2013 and just restored. The ceremony takes place on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP)
Germany remembers Auschwitz liberation in parliament

By Kirsten Grieshaber Jan. 27, 2021 08:08 AM EST

German Parliament Vice President Claudia Roth commemorates at the Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Euthanasia Killings on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic

By Vanessa Gera Jan. 27, 2021 02:56 AM EST

FILE - In this April 1, 2020 file photo, the buildings of the banking district are reflected in the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany. Due to the coronavirus the economy worldwide expects heavy losses. More than 50,000 people have died after contracting COVID-19 in Germany, a number that has risen swiftly over recent weeks as the country has struggled to bring down infection figures. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
German virus death toll tops 50,000 even as infections sink

By Geir Moulson Jan. 22, 2021 02:54 AM EST

European Council President Charles Michel addresses European lawmakers during a plenary session on the inauguration of the new President of the United States and the current political situation, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)
EU sighs with relief as Biden readies to enter White House

By Lorne Cook Jan. 20, 2021 06:56 AM EST

Christmas trees for sale on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she and the governors of Germany’s 16 states agreed Sunday to step up the country’s lockdown measures from Dec. 16 to Jan. 10 to stop the exponential rise of COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Germany's health minister urges EU to approve vaccine faster

By Kirsten Grieshaber Dec. 14, 2020 02:51 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 1946 file photo, Albert Speer, Hitler's former architect and armament minister during WW II, a defendant in the war crimes trial at Nuremberg, Germany is pictured in court in Nuremberg. Germany marks the 75th anniversary of the landmark Nuremberg trials of several Nazi leaders and in what is now seen as the birthplace of a new era of international law on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo, file)
Germany marks 75th anniversary of landmark Nuremberg trials

By David Rising Nov. 19, 2020 07:00 AM EST