The right-wing party came in first with 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU trailing far behind at 17.5%
The stories about Adolf Hitler’s sex life are lurid, bizarre and sometimes difficult to believe. But how much of it is actually true?
The news came as a shock in Germany, where around 40,000 Americans are stationed: a strategic and symbolic military presence that has held since the postwar era. The withdrawn troops are due to leave in the next six to 12 months.
Berlin plans a rearmament to make the Bundeswehr “the strongest conventional army in Europe,” internal documents show
Euro slides as investors bet that long-awaited trade agreement will hurt Eurozone economy
Non-voters and young people turned out for the AfD and far left, depriving the CDU of an enthusiastic mandate
Preliminary results show CDU/CSU will be largest party but success of Alternative für Deutschland likely to complicate formation of a government
There is a major operation in Berlin following a terrifying knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial.
Belongings strewn on ground after car drives through crowd in Munich
German officials faced mounting criticism on Sunday over the failure to prevent a deadly Christmas market attack in Magdeburg as it emerged that the 50-year-old suspect had made online death threats against German citizens and had a history of quarrelling with state authorities.
German officials hunted for clues on Saturday after a 50-year-old Saudi national with a history of anti-Islamic comments drove his car into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing five people, including a small child, and injuring more than 200 others.
Kiev is against Western leaders talking to Moscow about negotiating an end to the conflict