BERLIN (AFP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that 2009 will be “a year of bad news” for the economy, while a German regional bank announced it had secured Saturday up to 30 billion euros in state loan guarantees.“We must expect

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany extended a guarantee to all private savings accounts Sunday as Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government was scrambling to salvage a rescue plan for the country’s fourth biggest bank. Finance ministry spokesman

BERLIN - US presidential hopeful Barack Obama discussed global hotspots Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a foreign policy speech before tens of thousands in the heart of Berlin. Obama, who arrived from Israel, joined