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Until now, German officials have played down their role in the standoff, saying it is up to Deutsche to work out a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice , which is demanding up to $14 billion to settle claims the lender mis-sold mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis. But government officials in Berlin, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters they hoped to facilitate a quick deal that would buy Deutsche Bank time to regain its footing.
Oct 4 Conservative lawmakers lashed out at Germany's economy minister on Tuesday for attacking Deutsche Bank's chief executive, saying the minister's job was to support the country's biggest bank, not talk it down. Sigmar Gabriel, the economy minister and leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, criticised Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan for blaming speculators when the bank's share price plunged last week.
An AV-8B Harrier, from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The 22nd MEU, embarked on the Wasp, was conducting precision air strikes in support of the Libyan Government of National Accord-aligned forces against Islamic State group targets in Sirte, Libya, as part of Operation Odyssey Lightning.
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, with a rout showing tentative signs of letting up after three days of renewed volatility left equities at a two-month low. S&P 500 Index contracts expiring in December added 0.2 percent to 2,126.5 at 8:56 a.m. in New York.
EON SE cut most ties to its legacy power stations burning coal and gas with the listing on Monday of its Uniper SE unit. Dusseldorf, Germany-based Uniper began trading at 10.015 euros a share on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Vladimir Putin was hoping to have a meeting at the G20 with Western leaders about Ukraine that excluded Ukraine. As I discuss with RFE/RL senior editor Steve Gutterman on The Power Vertical Briefing , Putin was hoping to decide Ukraine's future with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande over Kyiv's head and behind Kyiv's back.
The leaders of the U.S., France and Germany are taking a time away for economic talks in China to discuss the situation in Ukraine. The White House says President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit to review the status of the conflict.
The American and Chinese presidents are calling on major economies to defend free trade at a summit held as sluggish growth and disputes over steel and other imports fuel demands in the United States and Europe to protect local industry. Opening the Group of 20 meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping appealed Sunday for governments to resist pressure to raise trade barriers.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she's hopeful after meeting the Turkish president that Turkey will soon lift a ban on German lawmakers visiting their country's military personnel at a Turkish air base. Merkel met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday at the Group of 20 summit in China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called Sunday for leaders of the United States, Germany and other major economies to resist pressure to raise trade barriers as they opened a summit amid sluggish global growth and disputes over China's steel exports and Apple's Irish tax bill. China made trade a theme of the Group of 20 meeting even as Beijing faces complaints it is flooding world markets with low-cost steel, fueling demands for trade curbs.
Austria's economy minister said talks on a EU-U.S. free trade agreement should be halted, adding his voice to an increasingly polarized debate on both sides of the Atlantic over whether to keep the negotiations going. A sign against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership free trade agreement is pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, March 26, 2016.
In this April 23, 2016 file picture a man walking on stilts and dressed like the Statue of Liberty attends a protest against the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, ahead of the visit of United States President Barack Obama in Hannover, Germany. Germany's economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said Sunday Aug. 28, 2016 that free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed, citing lack of progress on any of the major chapters of the long-running negotiations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a campaign event on Wednesday evening, that there is no relationship between the influx of some one million migrants and refugees into Germany in the past year and the incidents of radical Muslim violence in the country. She pointed out that Muslim radicalism as a phenomenon pre-existed the rise of Daesh and that even Daesh was there before the refugee crisis.
Germany's interior minister is presenting a package of measures meant to beef up security in the country following a recent string of attacks. Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged last month to do "everything humanly possible" to keep Germany safe.
Cui Bono, meaning 'to whose profit,' is a key forensic question in legal and police investigations: finding out who has a motive for a crime by carefully examining who will benefit the most. Tazeen Hasan examines who is the actual beneficiary from the terror attacks in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
Hillary Clinton watches a speaker during a campaign rally at Florida International University Panther Arena on July 23, 2016 in Miami, Florida. In the past two election cycles, presidential nominees have embarked on campaign trips overseas to gain international exposure and show off their foreign policy chops.
Undeterred by recent murders committed by Muslim refugees, Angela Merkel stands fully behind her decision to admit more than 1 million Syrian refugees. She made this clear in a recent press conference the theme of which was "we can still do this."
German media are reporting that a man with a machete killed a woman and injured two others in the southwestern city of Reutlingen before being arrested by police. Bild and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspapers both reported Sunday that the reason for the attack in the city south of Stuttgart was unclear.
Police piecing together a profile of the gunma... . People gather to mourn with flower tributes near to the Olympia shopping center where a shooting took place leaving nine people dead the day before in Munich, Germany, Saturday, July 23, 2016.