BERLIN—Germany’s popular foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is set to become the country’s next president despite Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition parties’ initial opposing the appointment. The agreement on filling Germany’s highest public office with a veteran politician from the left-leaning Social Democrats averts a confrontation in the coalition ahead of the presidential election in February and less than a year...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 14, 2016 09:25 UTC