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

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

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

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

The German parliament wanted to know why the 20-year Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan was a failure and what lessons could ...

However, some Germans blame the CDU, and in particular Mr Merz’s predecessor and long-time chancellor Angela Merkel ... mostly from the Middle East and Afghanistan, in 2015.

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Taliban authorities in northeastern Afghanistan said Wednesday that a gun attack resulted in the death of a Chinese national, while his local interpreter escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based ...

BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...