The former Chancellor of Germany writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police state in East Germany, and her years as leader of a nation reunited following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Dr Merkel forged a tight relationship with Mr Obama during his eight years in the White House. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir, “Freedom,” already translated into 30 languages, could not be timed more perfectly. The current German government, under Chancellor Olaf Scholz — whose three-year reign has been characterized by two consecutive years of economic recession,