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Explainer-What can Germany's far-right AfD do with its regional blocking minority?
BERLIN - The far right's first victory in a German state election since the Nazi era does not mean it can form a government, as other...
Sep 12, 20243 min read
Explainer-How Germany plans to tighten border controls in immigration crackdown
BERLIN/PRAGUE/WARSAW - Germany announced plans this week to extend controls to all its land borders and turn away more asylum seekers in...
Sep 12, 20243 min read
Analysis-Far-right state win shakes Germany's fragile coalition
BERLIN - German state elections that dealt a heavy blow to the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government and historic wins for two...
Sep 2, 20244 min read
Russia uses Telegram boss Pavel Durov's case to rally doubters against West
MOSCOW - Russians who still share Western values are being told to choose sides and support their warring homeland or risk being...
Aug 31, 20243 min read
Germany resumes deportations to Afghanistan
BERLIN/FRANKFURT - Germany said it resumed flying convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home country on Friday, days before...
Aug 31, 20242 min read
UK's Starmer calls for European cooperation to tackle far right
BERLIN - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed concern at the growing threat from far-right groups in the United Kingdom and...
Aug 29, 20242 min read
Harris and Walz start Georgia bus tour as Democrats' hopes rise
HINESVILLE, Georgia - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz campaigned together on Wednesday in...
Aug 29, 20243 min read
France's Macron won't name leftist prime minister, prolonging political crisis
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out naming a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front alliance and will instead...
Aug 27, 20242 min read
Factbox-What is Islamic State, the group implicated in Germany stabbing?
DUBAI - Islamic State has described the 26-year-old Syrian man taken into custody after a stabbing rampage in the western German city of...
Aug 25, 20243 min read
Factbox-Who is Pavel Durov, CEO of messaging app Telegram?
Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday...
Aug 25, 20242 min read
NATO air base in Germany raises security level due to 'potential threat'
BERLIN (Reuters) -The NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen has raised its security level "based on intelligence information...
Aug 23, 20242 min read
Iceland volcano erupts, spewing lava fountains
COPENHAGEN - A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday, the meteorological office said, spraying red-hot lava and smoke in...
Aug 23, 20242 min read
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