Despite its designation as extremist by the country's intelligence services, the AfD's growing strength poses an immediate challenge to incoming conservative chancellor Friedrich Merz, who takes ...

His grandfather came from Turkey decades ago to work in the coal mines of the western German town of Gelsenkirchen, but Mehmet, 28, says he understands the rise of the anti-immigration far-right ...

Xiaolan accidentally ruins an expensive block of ice. Maomao comes up with a delicious backup plan. Is there anything that Maomao doesn’t know? She used some of the chunks of ice to make ice cream. No ...

‘Great experience’: Friedrich Merz, who’s set to become Germany’s 10th chancellor next week, assigned key ministries to outside figures, who, he said, would “enter the federal government with great ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is poised to lead a coalition government from next week after his junior partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), said Wednesday they had approved a ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for parliament to elect conservative leader Friedrich Merz as ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to lead Germany's new government after the center-left Social Democrats endorsed a coalition agreement on Wednesday. The party of outgoing Chancellor ...

A coalition deal in Germany has paved the way for conservative leader Friedrich Merz to become the country's 10th chancellor since World War II. As part of the deal, outgoing Chancellor Olaf ...

Germany's coalition government has cleared its final hurdle to power after the Social Democrats (SPD) voted in favour of the agreement. Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have approved a deal to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor of the Social ...