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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is reportedly backing the introduction of border controls on the Polish border in response to a surge of migrants passing through the country and heading to Germany.

Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new govt.

Berlin’s Constitutional Court announced that it will be reviewing last month’s election results, amid widespread reports of irregularities.

The Group of 20 (G20) held a video conference on Tuesday at which they agreed the Taliban must be actively involved in distributing humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan. The group insisted this concession should not be construed as formal recognition of the Taliban’s legitimacy.

All 35 mosques in the German city of Cologne have been granted permission by the local government to publicly broadcast the Muslim call to prayer every Friday between noon and 3 p.m.

Merkel said that Germany remains committed to reviving the international nuclear agreement with Iran — a step Israel opposes.

One of three parties holding talks on forming a new German govt says discussions have “a long way to go” over significant policy differences.

Police in Berlin, Germany, recently launched an investigation into several suspected cases of “Havana Syndrome” at the capital’s U.S. Embassy, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Friday.

Joe Biden and environmentalists are trying to shut down the fossil fuel sector while the world is demanding more oil, gas and coal.

Armin Laschet, the successor to Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has hinted at resigning as party leader.

A criminal gang leader deported to Afghanistan in 2017 has threatened German police, stating that he has a small army of 100 Afghans set for deportation he could incite against them.

The likely kingmakers from Germany’s election said they will hold talks on a possible new govt under the leadership of the Social Democrats.

A 40-year-old Turkish man arrested last month is being investigated on suspicion he may be a Turkish government assassin tasked with murdering opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc sought to win over the environmentalist Greens for a possible coalition on Tuesday.

Police fatally shot a Sudanese asylum seeker armed with a knife at an asylum home in Lower Saxony, after the African man attacked the officers.

Antifa far-left extremists have called for the murder of 53 members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing their home addresses on a well-known far-left web platform.

BERLIN — The first soccer game involving an Israeli team at the stadium built for the 1936 Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany was marred Thursday by antisemitic abuse aimed at visiting fans.

Officials in Germany are investigating why a huge wind turbine collapsed just hours before it was due to be officially inaugurated.

A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant after skipping her trial.

Itzehoe (Germany) — A 96-year-old former secretary at a concentration camp will go on trial in Germany Thursday, one of the first women implicated in Nazi-era crimes to be prosecuted in decades.

The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks.

A recent report by AP News outlines Facebook’s massive crackdown ahead of the German federal elections to prevent the spread of what the Masters of the Universe consider misinformation related to the coronavirus. One analysis found that many users banned for attempting to rebut posts labeled as “misinformation.”

“…we will be very fast in getting a result for this government, and it should be before Christmas if possible,” Scholz told reporters.

Angela Merkel’s party has suffered its worst-ever election results in Germany’s federal elections, according to preliminary results.

Exit polls released after polls closed in the German Federal election revealed a neck-and-neck race between the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with their Bavarian allies and the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD).

German voters are heading to the polls in what could be a major political shift in Germany and Europe as the era of Angela Merkel’s reign as Chancellor ends after nearly 16 years in power.

BERLIN (AP) – German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.

Merkel was met with boos and whistles at a campaign event alongside her successor Armin Laschet in her home constituency just days before Germans go to the polls.  

The Somali migrant who went on a stabbing rampage in Würzburg, Germany, in June, killing three women, is at least eight years older than he claimed and may have had links to the terrorist group al-Shabaab.

President Joe Biden boasted to the United Nations on Tuesday that thanks to his leadership, the United States had restored its relationships with European countries — even while infuriating France just a week ago.

The frontrunner in the race to replace Angela Merkel, the SPD’s Olaf Scholz refused to rule out forming a government with the radical left.

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Gab, one of the earliest free speech friendly alternatives to the established social media platforms, may be forced out of Germany due to the government’s insistence that it censors its users, according to CEO and founder Andrew Torba.

German police arrested a 16-year-old Syrian male, his father, and two brothers on suspicion of plotting an “Islamist-motivated threat” against a synagogue.

A survey pitting outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel against current French President Emmanuel Macron for the head of the European Commission has revealed that many EU countries would support a Merkel presidency.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.