Germany’s mainstream conservatives won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s second-largest party, according to provisional results following ...

Projections indicate that CDU won the highest number of votes, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) saw a major surge. (AP photo) ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to take the helm of the nation after his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), secured the largest vote share in the country’s ...

But German voters will have to wait weeks before a government is formed because of the way Germany's electoral system is set up. It rarely gives any party an absolute majority and opinion polls ...

Germany’s conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, is poised to become the country’s next chancellor after his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) secured the largest share of votes in the national ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

with Friedrich Merz set to become the new chancellor. The ruling Social Democrats are seeing a decline, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is gaining ground. Merz, known for his ...

U.S. stock futures rose early Monday as the market looked to recover after the S&P 500 had its worst day of the year Friday. S&P 500 futures rose 0.3%, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party secured a win in the recent election, positioning themselves to spearhead the next government coalition. Their campaign ...

when an Afghan asylum-seeker wandered into a park in the wealthy southern state of Bavaria and used a kitchen knife to stab to death a 2-year-old boy and a man looking after him. According to those ...

ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which appeared to be set for its best-ever result. Voters had turned out in large numbers all day in the election, which boiled down to a ...