Guido Westerwelle

• Germany rules out taking part in Syria military strike: minister

  Germany's foreign minister ruled out his country's participation in a military strike in Syria after an apparent deadly poison gas attack.

• Egypt: Mohamed Morsi supporters unswayed after US envoy talks

  Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi said early on Sunday they would continue to insist on his reinstatement after talks with US Under Secretary of State William Burns.

• Germany nixes Cold War-era surveillance pact with US, Britain

  Germany cancelled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain today, the first concrete action taken by Berlin in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping operations.

• Egypt police asks Mohamed Morsi supporters to disperse

  Egypt's interior ministry promised Mohamed Morsi's supporters "safe exit" today if they quickly leave their Cairo protest camps, as police prepared to disperse them amid international appeals for restraint.

• Bangalore to host Indo-German Urban Mela

  Bangalore would host a ten-day Indo-German Urban Mela, a blend of technology, science, culture and entertainment, that would be inaugurated by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Friday.

• German mole identified after WikiLeaks disclosure

  A top aide to German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has been identified as the person responsible for passing on information about government coalition talks to the US embassy in the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. A spokesman for Westerwelle's Free Democratic Party (FDP) told journalists yesterday that his personal assistant Helmut Metzner ...