German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under fire from lawmakers from across the political spectrum — including his own foreign minister — for refusing to approve a further €3 billion in military aid for Ukraine unless it is funded with additional (...)
At least 100,000 scores by the pioneering 20th century Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg have been destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The sheet music was kept at his family's music production company — which burnt down in the Pacific (...)
Germany's far right is in a buoyant mood.
On Saturday, while its conference was under way in the eastern city of Riesa, in Saxony, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) laid out ambitions to close Germany's borders, resume buying Russian gas and, in (...)
Elon Musk praised the co-leader of the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "very reasonable" on Thursday, urging Germans to vote for the far-right party in what is the latest high-profile sign of the tech billionaire's involvement in (...)
The feud between Europe and the world's wealthiest man is heating up after several European leaders accused Elon Musk of interfering in national debates.
The French president, the German chancellor, and the British and Spanish prime ministers have (...)
Several politicians in Germany have pushed back against US President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that NATO's European members should spend 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, more than double the current target.
On Tuesday (...)
The Greens have kicked off their electoral campaign starting with a tour of the German city of Lübeck.
The first rally was headlined by the outgoing Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Member of the Bundestag Felix Banaszak, direct candidate for the (...)
German officials have called for restrictions on illegal fireworks as well as harsher sentences for rioters attacking emergency workers after five people were killed, and dozens of civilians and police officers were injured across Germany on New (...)
Five people have been killed and dozens of emergency workers were injured as a spate of incidents involving fireworks marred New Year's Eve celebrations in Germany.
Despite calls for a nationwide ban on the private use of fireworks, they continue to (...)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, will open the country's first dedicated anti-Muslim racism reporting center in spring 2025, local media reported.
The center, called MEDAR, will document and report crimes and attacks targeting (...)
Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced on Friday he has agreed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's request to dissolve parliament and has set 23 February as the date for the new elections.
Steinmeier was widely expected to adhere to the date (...)
Saxony-Anhalt's Interior Minister has defended security measures in Magdeburg two days after a car drove into the city's Christmas market, killing five and injuring more than 200.
"Police made intensive preparations to secure Christmas markets (...)
German authorities received a warning last year about the suspected perpetrator of a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, a government office revealed on Sunday.
The attack left five people dead and over 200 injured.
"This was taken (...)
Germany was left in mourning on Saturday after an individual intentionally drove into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring over 200 others.
Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a confidence vote in parliament, paving the way for its dissolution and fresh national elections.
Scholz gained 207 votes in the 733-seat parliament to his name, nowhere near the 367 majority he needed to hold (...)
Across Germany Syrians have been celebrating in the streets the downfall of former president Bashar al-Assad. But now many will be feeling less euphoric, as some politicians question their future in Germany.
There are around a million people with (...)
Germany's Olaf Scholz arrived in Ukraine on Monday for his second trip to the region during his tenure as Chancellor.
His visit comes both at a time on escalated Russian attacks on Ukraine and as his government faces political crisis at home that (...)
The former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was once described as the world's most powerful woman. Here she talks to the BBC's Katya Adler about Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat -- and how she handled Donald Trump.
Angela Merkel led Germany (...)
In the 44 years since Beckhoff Automation opened for business, owner Hans Beckhoff says he hasn't seen an economic crisis like this one.
"You can usually expect a crisis about once every five to eight years," says Beckhoff. "This time it's a (...)
The world is already becoming dangerously overheated, and climate change is accelerating, says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), as the COP29 UN Climate Summit kicked off in Azerbaijan's capital city Baku on Monday.
The latest WMO Global (...)
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he is willing to hold a confidence vote in parliament before Christmas after the ruling three-party coalition collapsed under a week ago.
In an interview on Sunday night with public broadcaster ARD, Scholz (...)
Germany's governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
The chancellor said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, (...)
German police on Tuesday arrested eight alleged members of a far-right militant organization suspected of plotting a neo-Nazi takeover in eastern Germany.
More than 450 law enforcement officials raided properties across the state of Saxony as well (...)
Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday following Tehran's execution of Iranian-German dual citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, who had spent four years in an Iranian prison on terror charges.
Sharmahd, 69, a (...)
Iran has executed German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, following his conviction for "leading terror operations", state media is reporting.
Sharmahd was sentenced to death last year for "corruption on Earth", having been accused of leading a (...)
