That prompted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to she wasn’t aware of an official language for divorce talks. “If I’m correctly informed, everybody is allowed to speak his own language ...

“I want to leave this wish with you," Merkel said near the end of her 35-minute speech, breaking out of her native tongue to speak in English without a translator.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers the keynote speech at Harvard's 368th commencement ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 30, 2019.

Harvard University said German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be the principal speaker at its 2019 commencement ceremony in May. Merkel, who belongs to the center-right Christian Democratic Union ...

MERKEL: (Speaking German). Thank you very much. KELLY: And elsewhere in today's program, Chancellor Merkel reflects on women in power and what it was like to tangle with the likes of Vladimir Putin.

Angela Merkel served Germany as chancellor for 16 years, the only woman who's ever held that office. She grew up in Communist East Germany during the Cold War. As an adult, leading a unified ...