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Rescue workers carry a plastic bag with a dead body at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of helping separatist rebels destroy evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in rebel-held territory &#8212; a charge the rebels denied. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Monitors try to secure Ukraine crash site of Malaysian airliner

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President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Associated Press/File)

Germany demands ouster of U.S. spy chief

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a joint press conference with New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key as he starts an official visit to New Zealand, at Government House, in Auckland, New Zealand, Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/SNPA, David Rowland) NEW ZEALAND OUT

Inside China: Anti-Japan propaganda campaign backfires

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Germans probe 2nd spy case reportedly involving U.S.

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FILE - In this Sunday, May 25, 2014 file photo, European Commission presidency candidate Jean-Claude Juncker, addresses the media, at the European Parliament in Brussels. European Union leaders at an EU summit on Friday, June 27, 2014 have proposed former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker to become the 28-nation bloc&#8217;s new chief executive. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)

Over British objections, Juncker in line for top EU job

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko delivers his speech at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

Thousands flee Ukraine for Russia; truce nears end

By Balint Szlanko - Associated Press

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Hillary Clinton touts Germany’s model of female leadership: ‘We are way behind you’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Prime Minister David Cameron, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama at the G7 Summit in Brussels. (photo courtesy of Cameron's Flickr page)

Caption contest: Getting down to business at the G-7 summit

By Staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel points at a cabinet member as she leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merkel to attend Germany’s opening World Cup game

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German lawmakers want to interview Snowden

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014, to their joint news conference in the Rose Garden. Obama and Merkel are putting on a display of trans-Atlantic unity against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seem to be doing little to change Russian President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Merkel: Still ‘differences’ with U.S. on snooping

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel participate in a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014. Obama and Merkel are putting on a display of trans-Atlantic unity against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seem to be doing little to change Russian President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama, Merkel sound firm but reluctant note on more Russian sanctions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merkel’s US trip to focus on Ukraine crisis

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

The White House said Thursday that there are no further complications in President Obama's relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel since she expressed deep resentment last year over revelations that the National Security Agency had spied on her personal and professional communications. The two will hold a joint press conference Friday after four hours of scheduled meetings (Associated Press)

Talk of Russia to dominate Obama, Merkel meeting

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian activists clash with police in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Anti-government demonstrators in Donetsk have stormed the local prosecutor's office. The clash came after a march by several hundred people carrying flags of the Donetsk People's Republic, a movement that seeks either greater autonomy from the central government, or independence and possible annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Putin wants troops out of Ukraine’s east

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 18, 2014 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, is downplaying prospects of resolving tensions over U.S. surveillance when the German leader visits Washington next week _ a trip during which the Ukraine crisis and trans-Atlantic economic ties will be key issues. Seibert, noted Friday, April 25, 2014, that the chancellor has said the issue of NSA surveillance can’t be resolved with one visit and so “concrete results in this area can’t be expected” from the Washington trip. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

Germany downplays hopes of fast end to NSA tension

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Illustration of Vladimir Putin by Kevin Kreneck/Tribune Content Agency

FIELDS: A cold German spring for Merkel and Putin

By Suzanne Fields

Head of German NSA inquiry quits over Snowden row

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper, as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Report: NSA had over 300 reports on Merkel

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President Barack Obama, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, smile during a meeting with other G7 world leaders in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014, in the sidelines of the Nuclear security Summit. In a day of delicate diplomacy he sought to rally the international community Monday around efforts to isolate Russia following its incursion into Ukraine. Nuclear terrorism was the official topic as Obama and other world leaders streamed in to a convention center in The Hague for a two-day Nuclear Security Summit. But the real focus was on a hurriedly scheduled meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies to address the crisis in Ukraine on the sidelines of the nuclear summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, POOL)

Crimea crisis puts US spying in new spotlight

By EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press