Germany’s Merkel, Steinmeier In Live Tv Debate (ap)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, foreground, delivers a speech while German Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung and German Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Ilse Aigner, background from left, listen in the German Federal Parliament in Berlin, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday pledged Germany's support for a thorough investigation of an airstrike in Afghanistan that may have killed civilians, but said her government won't accept premature judgments from critics at home or abroad. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)AP – German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces off in a live television debate Sunday night against challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who needs a strong performance to lift his struggling center-left party’s prospects two weeks before elections.

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