Germany’s new chancellor suffered a major blow before his term even began — after dramatically losing a secret leadership election. Friedrich Merz is the first leader to suffer such a defeat ...

Launched shortly before the start of World War II, the project could have made Germany’s naval power equal to that of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, and it called for the construction of 10 ...

Never before in German history had a presumptive chancellor ... reference to terrorist vehicle rampages in Christmas markets and elsewhere.) After the BfV’s announcement, Germany’s media, barely ...

Cities such as Dresden, Germany, lay in ruins in 1945 (Credit: Getty Images) Eighty years after the end of World ... had been professional arborists before the war, he says, "but private citizens ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause and a palpable sense of relief in the parliament chamber after a ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin ... life at the age of 18 for a cause that was also criminal.” Weeks before the burial in Halbe, an exhumation took place in the Polish city ...