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CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz talks to supporters at the main election campaign event of the Christian Democratic Union ahead of the German federal Bundestag elections on Sunday, in Oberhausen, Germany, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Conservative opposition wins German election and the far right is 2nd with strongest postwar result

February 23, 2025 at 2:26 p.m.

Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest showing for a far-right party...

Markus Soeder, Prime Minister of Bavaria, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Dieter Reiter (SPD),Mayor of Munich, from right, bring flowers to the site where a car crashed into a Ver.di demonstration the day before, Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Prosecutors see an Islamic extremist motive in the Munich car-ramming attack

February 14, 2025 at 8:33 a.m.

The suspect in the car-ramming attack in Munich that left more than 30 people injured appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive, but there’s no evidence that he was...

A police car attends the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Roland Freund/dpa via AP)

At least 28 are hurt as a driver plows into a demonstration in Germany

February 13, 2025 at 8:09 a.m.

A driver drove a car into a labor union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people including children, authorities said. Officials said it was believed to...

Forensics work on a damaged car sitting with its doors open after a driver plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, early Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

A 9-year-old is among 5 killed in the Christmas market attack in Germany

December 21, 2024 at 10:46 a.m.

Officials say a 9-year-old was among five people killed when a Saudi doctor drove into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.

Participants in a demonstration against the right hold a banner with the slogan “Stop AfD! Racism is not an alternative” in Hamburg, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (Bodo Marks/dpa via AP)

Far-right success in German votes piles new pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government

September 2, 2024 at 8:59 a.m.

Alternative for Germany became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany.

Germany football federation president Reinhard Grindel admitted mistakes in the handling of the controversy over Mesut Ozil's photo with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

German FA boss admits mistakes in handling of Ozil photo

May 13, 2019 at 1:42 p.m.

The president of Germany's football federation conceded he made mistakes in handling a controversy over Mesut Ozil's photo with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but strongly rejected accusations of racism...

Police officers secure the area after a knife attack at a supermarket in Hamburg, Germany, Friday, July 28, 2017. German police say one person died and several people suffered stab wounds.

1 dead, 6 injured after knife attack at German supermarket

August 22, 2019 at 12:17 a.m.

A man armed with a kitchen knife fatally stabbed one person at a supermarket Friday in the northern German city of Hamburg and six others were injured as he fled,...

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