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German citizens will decide on September 24 whether Angela Merkel will be re-elected for a fourth mandate as German Chancellor, reported AFP.

The federal government decided on this date for parliamentary elections in its proposal to President Joachim Gauck.

On Sunday, president-elect Donald Trump appointed Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and a loyal campaign adviser, his White House Chief of Staff.

Greek-American Washington insider Priebus was chosen from a shortlist of names that also included Steve Bannon, the right-wing media boss who took over Trump’s presidential campaign in its final weeks.

In a bid to frame the final days of the 2016 race for the White House against his democratic rival, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Friday in a scheduled stop in Ohio that he would bring “real change” to Washington if elected, and proposed doing so by getting rid of Hillary Clinton first.

The Cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approved an additional EUR 2.6 B for 2016 in order to deal with the influx of migrants, reported AVC News.

On Wednesday, the Finance Ministry announced that the increase in funds means that the federal government will allocate to provinces a total of EUR 9.5 B for 2016.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Masoud Barzani, president of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, have discussed an upcoming military campaign to retake the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held city of Mosul. 

The U.S. Justice Department on April 22 dropped its effort to force Apple Inc to help unlock an iPhone in a drug case in New York after someone provided authorities the passcode to access the device.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has granted Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan request a legal inquiry and a possible prosecution against German TV comedian Jan Boehmermann for writing and performing a poem that the Turkish President took offence to. “Turkey has demanded prosecution of Jan Boehmermann.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted a request from Turkey to seek the prosecution of a comedian who read out a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on German television. 

"The government will give its authorization in the case at hand," Merkel told reporters on April 15, adding it was up to the courts to decide on the comedian's guilt or innocence.

It seems that the phone-tapping incident of the conversation between Poul Thomsen and Delia Velculescu revealed by Wikileaks had no effect in Greece’s lenders regarding their stance towards the Greek government and the Greek program.

The IMF remains as powerful as it was, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel clarifying that Germany wants the IMF to participate in the program.

German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier said he expected Turkey as a "partner of the EU" to share the European values, as a response to Turkey summoning the German ambassador to Ankara over a video that ridiculed the Turkish president.