Angela Merkel named Person of the Year 2015 by Time magazine

#angelamerkel #timepoy #germany #personoftheyear Angela Merkel (61), the Chancellor of Germany, has been chosen by Time magazine as its Person of the Year for 2015. Her image on the cover of its upcoming issue bestows upon her the title of "Chancellor of the Free World."
She is the first woman to receive the honor by herself in two decades. Her leadership in the refugee crisis, and her help in keeping the Euro afloat were her achievements.
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Editor Nancy Gibbs has said that Time chose the world leader "for asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply."
Her strong response to Russian President "Vladimir Putin's creeping theft of Ukraine" also went in her favor.
Incidentally, Angela Merkel is the fourth woman since 1927 to be chosen and the first since opposition leader Corazon C. Aquino of the Philippines in 1986. Moreover, she is the first German since Willy Brandt, the West German chancellor named in 1970 for "seeking to bring about a fresh relationship between East and West" during the Cold War.
In 1999, Time picked the German-born Albert Einstein as Person of the Century.
Other finalists for 2015 included Donald Trump, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Caitlyn Jenner, the Black Lives Matter protest movement, Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick.

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TIME magazine has announced its Person of the Year and a US medical missionary who was stricken with Ebola has been named along with other health workers fighting the virus as Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
There were a number of contenders but Dr Kent Brantly and fellow caregivers pipped the Ferguson protesters, Apple chief executive Tim Cook, pop singer Taylor Swift and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to the prize.
33-year-old Dr Brantly was brought back from Liberia to the US in August. The magazine also put on the cover another US health worker, 34-year-old Ella Watson-Stryker of New York, who has been helping fight the epidemic over the last year in West Africa. Along with them, three Liberians - a surgeon, an ambulance supervisor and an Ebola counsellor who lost both her parents to the disease - also made the cover.
Time editor Nancy Gibbs has heaped praised on the "tireless acts of courage" of health workers who have been battling a virus that has killed nearly 6,400 people. In her words – ‘the rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight.’
Of course, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, and Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, also made the eight-candidate shortlist.