The state of emergency declared due to the forest fire in the German state of Thuringia was lifted on Tuesday. However, ...

Meteorologists had been expecting another heatwave to materialise in Germany in the coming days, but a shift in the weather ...

SUHL, Germany—Ten years ago, this town in central Germany was aging, rapidly depopulating and almost universally white. Today, its population has stabilized, is younger and includes people from ...

Meanwhile, traditional parties have lost ground in Germany, as in other parts of Europe, amid growing voter anger at mainstream politics. Björn Höcke, leader of the far-right AfD party in Thuringia.

It was a balmy summer night in 2020, shortly after the lifting of Germany’s first COVID-19 lockdown, and Omar Diallo and two friends from his home country of Guinea wanted to celebrate Eid al ...

Update: According to preliminary results, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party won the largest portion of the vote in Thuringia’s Sept. 1, 2024, state election — the first such victory ...

In Thuringia, 38% of people aged between 18-24 gave their vote to the far-right party — compared to 33% overall, according to public broadcaster ARD's Tagesschau election analysis.

The SPD is on track to win just 6-7% of the vote in Saxony and Thuringia, a poor performance for what has long been one of Germany's two big-tent parties. Meanwhile, the BSW is expected to win 13 ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...

Preliminary results the morning after Sunday’s elections in the two states saw the AfD with a clear win in Thuringia, with 32.8 percent of votes — marking the first time that the far right has ...