German opposition party marks bittersweet 150th |

German opposition party marks bittersweet 150th

French President Francois Hollande, right, gestures next to Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party, SPD, left, in Leipzig, Germany, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Germany's main opposition party , SPD , is celebrating the 150th birthday. The Social Democratic Party is marking Thursday's anniversary with festivities in Leipzig, the eastern city where it was born in 1863. Guests include its main rival: popular conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who's just been named the world's most powerful woman by Forbes magazine for the third consecutive year. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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German oppositio... French President Francois Hollande, right, gestures next to Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party, SPD, left, in Leipzig, Germany, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Germany's main opposition party , SPD , is celebrating the 150th birthday. The Social Democratic Party is marking Thursday's anniversary with festivities in Leipzig, the eastern city where it was born in 1863. Guests include its main rival: popular conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who's just been named the world's most powerful woman by Forbes magazine for the third consecutive year. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
UK official: Sus... Police and forensic officers near the scene of an attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people injured near Woolwich barracks in London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital, with one in serious condition. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Vatican releases... Rene Brulhart, director of the Financial Information Authority, an institution established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 to monitor the monetary and commercial activities of Vatican agencies, and Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, meet the press at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The Vatican took another step Wednesday in trying to show greater financial transparency by publishing a first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing that are expected in the coming weeks and months. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Brave woman trie... A police officer holds a floral tribute handed to him by a member of the public to be placed at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The British government’s emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers killed a man in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Germans, French ... German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Trial for captai... FILE -- In this photo from files taken in Naples on Jan. 30, 2013, Captian Francesco Schettino speaks to the media. The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial for manslaughter in the luxury liner's shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany, which killed 32 people. Judge Pietro Molino, at a closed door hearing in the town of Grosseto, agreed to prosecutors' requests that Francesco Schettino should be tried on charges of manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning the vessel while many of the 4,200 passengers and crew were still aboard. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
El Salvador pres... El Salvador's ambassador to the Holy See Manuel Lopez poses next to a brochure of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero at the end of an interview with the Associated Press, in the embassy's office, in Rome, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. El Salvador's president Mauricio Funes meets with Pope Francis on Thursday amid mounting indications that the stars have finally aligned to move slain Archbishop Oscar Romero onto the first key stage on the path toward possible sainthood. El Salvador now has a government made up of former guerilla fighters who battled the same military hierarchy that Romero denounced and support his beatification. The Vatican now has a Latin American pope who channels many of Romero's concerns for the poor and marginalized. And a generation of Salvadorans who would have been vehemently opposed to a church honor for Romero has passed. President Funes' "principal objective" in his whirlwind, one-day trip to see Francis is to encourage "a push" for Romero's beatification and to thank Francis for the support he has already shown, El Salvador's ambassador to the Holy See, Manuel Lopez, told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
UK PM: London at... A tent is erected near the scene of an attack in Woolwich southeast London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack in southeast London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital, with one in serious condition. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Ukrainian journa... In this image made from video Ukrainian journalists covering a government session stand with their backs turned on Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, not in the picture, to display identical posters attached to their shirts, in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The posters read "Today the Journalist. Tomorrow your wife, sister, daughter. Act!" Ukrainian reporters on Wednesday disrupted a government session chaired by the prime minister, suggesting his family members could be the next victims of official inaction after police in Kiev stood by while pro-government activists attacked two journalists covering an opposition protest. (AP Photo/Channel 5) ** TV OUT **
EU steps up figh... German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. European Union leaders on Wednesday sought to advance their fight against tax fraud and close the loopholes for large corporations' tax avoidance schemes. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Scagnetti)
Riots in Stockho... A burning car set on fire in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night, late May 21, 2013. Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by an incident in which police shot and killed a man wielding a knife. (AP Photo/Scanipx Sweden, Fredrik Sandberg) SWEDEN OUT
IMF calls on Bri... Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, center, accompanied by India's Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, right, tour the Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail construction site, in east London, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, Pool)