Tag: Germany

The Sept. 1 elections in the two eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia have hit Germany like a cyclone, delivering the strongest-ever turnout for an extreme right-wing party in ...

In the recent German state elections, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received the largest share of the vote in Thuringia and ran a close second in Saxony. The ...

Right-wingers and populists have devastated legacy left-wing parties in two state elections in Germany, even if a “software error” in one state was blamed for changing the initial official results, ...

WARSAW, Poland – Poland on Monday held a state burial of the remains of over 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II mass executions that were recently uncovered in ...

Populist anti-mass migration parties made significant gains in state elections in Germany on Sunday, with the right-wing Alternative for Germany projected to have secured a resounding victory in Thuringia. Exit ...

When U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt returned to Washington at the end of 1943, he could barely work. The strain of two years of continuous war leadership had been too ...

An asylum seeker from Syria has been arrested after a mass stabbing at a “festival of diversity” in Germany on Friday evening. According to German tabloid Bild, he came up ...

The suspect in the mass stabbing attack at a German “festival of diversity” reportedly shouted out “Allahu Akbar” and is said to have been a “visitor to a local mosque”. ...

German police are urgently hunting an unknown suspect who fled the city of Solingen after three people were killed and eight seriously injured in a knife attack Friday evening.  The ...

This year, as Germans slog through the dog days of summer—traditionally a downtime for politics in Germany—there’s a conspicuous undercurrent of trepidation in the air. The country has its uneasy ...