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DEUTSCHLAND WAHLEN 2013 REGIERUNGSBILDUNG
German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a press conference to announce the ministers of her new cabinet, at her party's headquarter in Berlin, Sunday Dec. 15, 2013. Germany will get its first female defense minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government, while the country's influential finance minister will stay in his job. Merkel confirmed Sunday that Ursula von der Leyen, currently labor minister, will become defense chief. The 55-year-old mother of seven inherits the job of modernizing the German military and overseeing its deployment in Afghanistan. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, Merkel's co-pilot in fighting Europe's debt crisis, will stay on. (AP Photo/dpa,Rainer Jensen)
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Date created
20131215
Place
BERLIN DEUTSCHLAND
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AP dpa
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RAINER JENSEN
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