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Syrian suspect in Berlin stabbing wanted 'to kill Jews', police say
A Syrian man arrested after a stabbing attack at Berlin's Holocaust memorial that wounded a Spanish man had been harbouring a "plan to kill Jews", police and prosecutors said Saturday.
Scholz hits back at US over Ukraine, free speech
Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday stressed his support for Ukraine's sovereignty and defended Germany's commitment to free speech in a pushback against recent broadsides from the Trump administration.
Germany on eve of elections under shadow of US-European rift
German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday on the eve of key elections in which conservatives hope to win despite the dramatic rise of the far right targeting a record score.
Attacks, 'firewall' row, Trump: German vote's rocky run-up
Germany's rocky path towards Sunday's early elections began when the outgoing coalition government collapsed on November 6, the very day Donald Trump won re-election to the White House.
Disinformation blizzard targets Germany before election
Stories of a pre-election state of emergency, police escorts for toddlers and forged ballot papers -- a blizzard of online disinformation has targeted German voters ahead of Sunday's election.
Suspect arrested after stabbing at Berlin's Holocaust memorial
German police said Friday they had arrested a male suspect over a stabbing that badly wounded a 30-year-old Spanish man at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial near the US embassy.
German far left in surprise comeback ahead of election
Germany's far-left Die Linke party has enjoyed a late poll surge ahead of Sunday's elections, boosted by a spirited anti-fascist speech by its new rising star that quickly went viral.
German leaders say 'too early' to debate sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday it was still too early to discuss sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, an opinion echoed by his main rival in this weekend's elections, Friedrich Merz.
Germany's Gen Z shifts to the right as election looms
The mood is upbeat at a pre-election meeting of Germany's young conservatives where a speaker's harsh attack on the Greens' climate policies sparks applause from the Generation Z activists.
How tense immigration debate is complicating Germany's search for workers
Hospital manager Kathrin Leffler says she worries Germany's tense pre-election debate on immigration will make it harder to recruit enough skilled workers from abroad to fill a growing labour shortage.
German hate speech watchdog rejects Vance's 'Orwellian' accusation
Germany's online hate speech watchdog rejected Wednesday a suggestion by JD Vance that its efforts to police crimes on the internet were "Orwellian", the latest broadside from the US vice president.
Birkenstock sandals are not art, top German court rules
They may be the trendy footwear of choice for Hollywood A-listers and pop stars, but Birkenstock sandals are not works of art, Germany's top court ruled Thursday.
How Germany's poor feel ignored or stigmatised in election campaign
Watching Germany's election campaign, pensioner Renate Krause finds it hard to stomach how some politicians speak about financially struggling people like her, an approach she calls "bashing the poor".
Germany's Merz vows tough migrant policy to stall AfD's rise
Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz on Wednesday called on voters to give him a strong mandate to restrict immigration and rebuild the economy to ward off the rise of the far-right AfD.
Chancellor candidates Scholz and Merz to clash in final German election debate
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz will face off in a final head-to-head debate Wednesday, four days before the election, in a campaign overshadowed by the rise of the far right.
'Disinformation campaign': Kremlin propagandist sets sights on German election
From a fabricated sex scandal to a fake museum heist, disinformation aimed at influencing Germany's high-stakes election is originating from dozens of AI-generated German sites apparently linked to a US fugitive turned Kremlin propagandist.
How German politicians want to slay the nation's 'bureaucracy monster'
German politicians make a lot of laws and regulations but on the campaign trail, many are raging against the country's notorious bureaucracy, labelling it a monster that needs to be slayed.
'Grannies Against The Right' hit the streets in Germany ahead of election
True veterans of German anti-fascist protests, the "Grannies Against The Right", are known to sport colourful knitted hats whilst rallying their mission to safeguard democracy for future generations.
US tensions plague final phase of German election campaign
Germany enters the final week of election campaigning on Monday, with the debate more heated than ever amid controversy over alleged US interference in favour of the far right.
US Vice-President Vance clashes with Germany over far right
US Vice-President JD Vance Friday urged Germany's mainstream political parties to drop resistance to cooperating with the far right, hours after Berlin rejected American "meddling" ahead of its election.
German president says Trump team ignoring 'established rules'
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday said the Trump administration "has no regard for established rules" as he opened the Munich Security Conference.
Suspect held over German asylum shelter attack plot
Police have arrested a suspect over a plot to bomb a German asylum seeker shelter, prosecutors said Thursday, amid an inflamed debate on migration ahead of a general election.
Germany's Commerzbank to cut thousands of jobs
German lender Commerzbank said Thursday it plans to cut about 3,900 jobs, around 10 percent of its workforce, as it seeks to fight off advances from Italian bank UniCredit.