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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, right, meets with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Germany will keep supporting Lebanon after U.N. peacekeepers leave, the German president says

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender, centre, are welcomed by Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Britain's Prince William, right, at Heathrow Airport in London, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025 (Jeff Spicer/Pool Photo via AP)

German president’s UK state visit will celebrate strategic ties and recall historic scars

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, right, participate in a wreath laying ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of Germany's accession to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

‘You can count on us.’ German president marks 70 years of NATO membership with pledge for future

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Horst Koehler, Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations to the parties to the conflict in Western Sahara, arrives for a round table on Western Sahara at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 05, 2018. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Former German President Horst Kohler dies at 81

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier comes out of Bellevue Palace to receive Lithuanian President Nauseda for talks in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. On Sunday (Feb. 13, 2022), a new head of state will be elected by the Federal Assembly in the German Bundestag. Steinmeier is standing for election again and is supported by the traffic light coalition and the CDU/CSU. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Reelected German president vows to fight for democracy

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeiner delivers a speech during an event in Weimar, Germany, April 11, 2021 commemorating the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. On the 76th anniversary the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany’s president reminds his compatriots of the inconceivable atrocities that were committed at the Nazis’ camp during the Third Reich. (Ronny Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP)

German president: Buchenwald a reminder of Nazi ‘barbarism’

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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

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is flanked by Italian President Sergio Mattarella after visiting the Duomo gothic cathedral, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Steinmeier is scheduled to meet doctors, medical staff and former patients to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and Germany's support to Italy during his two-day visit. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italian virus survivor tells German leader: Germany saved me

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at the opening session on the first day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)b

German president criticizes US stance at security conference

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The sun shines behind Dresden's Old Town skyline with the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady), reflected in a puddle, in Dresden, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020 two days before the 75th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden during WWII. British and U.S. bombers on Feb. 13-14, 1945 destroyed Dresden's centuries-old baroque city center. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

German president marks Dresden bombing, warns of rising hate

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, right, sing as they attend a performance of the school choir during their visit at the Jewish Moses Mendelssohn school in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)

Israeli president warns of hatred during Berlin school visit

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at the Goethe Institute,Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Germany’s president wraps up US charm offensive in Boston

By STEPHANIE MORALES - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, arrives with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki for a memorial ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

The Latest: Russia tweets reminder of Soviet role in WWII

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center right, and Polish President Andrzej Duda, center left, attend ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of World War II in Wielun, Poland, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

WWII’s start marked in Poland with German remorse, warning

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

‘Fascination with authoritarianism’ worries German president

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Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, at the Presidential Palace in Athens, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. Steinmeier is in Greece on a two-day official visit. (Michalis Karagiannis/Pool Photo via AP)

In Greece, German president apologizes for wartime ‘horrors’

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and his wife, Elke Büdenbender, speak to an aid worker in the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees, 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Amman, Jordan, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. German president says moving German troops from Turkey to Jordan as part of an international military campaign against Islamic State extremists was “the right choice.” (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

German president: Moving troops to Jordan was ‘right choice’

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a faction meeting of her Christian parties' bloc at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. Merkel pledged early Monday to maintain stability after the Free Democratic Party pulled out of talks on forming a new government with her conservative bloc and the left-leaning Greens. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany faces uncertainty after coalition talks break down

By Geir Moulson and David Rising - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, welcomes Israeli President Reuven Rivlin for the opening ceremony at the new memorial commemorating the eleven Israeli athletes, who were killed in a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Germany opens memorial to Israelis killed at 1972 Olympics

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens to a debate of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) ** FILE **

WikiLeaks: NSA monitored Germany’s discussions on CIA torture

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times