Never before in the history of Germany's Green Party has there been this much of a personality cult: Robert Habeck is the top candidate and central to his party's election campaign: His face is ...

A journalist, historian, and author called an eye-popping new report "shocking" that the CIA offered buyouts to its entire ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

BERLIN — Angela Merkel isn’t done. The former German chancellor doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, arguing that his party crossed a red line by ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

She didn't think it was right "to remain silent in such a crucial situation," Merkel said on Wednesday at an event hosted by Die Zeit newspaper. It was "a question of fundamental importance." ...

The Spokane Valley City Council voted to sue one of its own members this week in the continuing drama over the actions of City Councilman Al Merkel. The extraordinary measure is aimed at forcing ...

That is why Angela Rayner’s decision to cancel this opportunity for millions of people across the country has me seething. In a move worthy of notorious North Korean despot Kim Jong Un ...

The move broke a long-standing taboo in German politics against any cooperation with the far right. Merz’s predecessor and former Chancellor Angela Merkel promptly condemned his tactics.

Ons Jabeur has admitted she quit practice 15 minutes into her first session with her husband Karim Kamoun. The three-time Grand Slam finalist appointed the former Tunisian fencer as her fitness ...

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