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Angela Merkel begins third term

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Andrea BuchbergerDecember 17, 2013

Germany finally has a new government, nearly three months after national elections. Parliament elected Chancellor Angela Merkel to a third term as leader. She is now heading a grand coalition of Germany's biggest parties, made up of the conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats.

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