The number of people seeking refuge and political protection in Germany rose in 2024 in comparison to the previous year, official data show. Meanwhile, former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized ...

Merkel slams asylum rejections, railways miss punctuality targets for first half of 2025, and more news from Germany on ...

Four members of a Syrian family have been accused of sexually abusing girls aged 11 to 17 at a swimming pool in Germany.The children, who told lifeguards they had been sexually harassed in the water, ...

BERLIN - Germany's Bundestag lower house passed a bill on Friday to suspend family reunification for migrants who do not ...

President Donald Trump has resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others ...

Germany’s new leader is meeting President Donald Trump in Washington as he works to keep the U.S. on board with Western support for Ukraine, help defuse trade tensions that pose a risk to ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English ... over a television appearance in which she seemed unmoved by the plight of a Lebanese girl who tearfully asked when her family’s asylum ...

In her memoir, Merkel addresses what she calls the magic words used by the CDU and CSU for decisions regarding work and family— ‘freedom of choice,’ which was, in practice, difficult to pursue.

Angela Merkel on a world before and after the Berlin Wall 06:53. ... Her family had moved there when she was an infant because her father, a Protestant pastor, was assigned to a church there.

Merkel, now 70, begins by recounting the first 35 years of her life, in East Germany. A pastor’s daughter whose family was critical of the German Democratic Republic, ... Angela Merkel in 2017.