One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

Alice Weidel, the leader of German far-right party AfD, held secret meetings with Chinese envoy to Germany for years. It has ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept outside the German embassy in Ukraine capital ...

BERLIN (AP) — German far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel pledges to overtake conservative bloc, vows to win first place in next ...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), speaks during the election party at the party's headquarters in Berlin Germany, Sunday, Feb 23, 2025. (PHOTO: AP/Soeren Stache) ...

T he tweet from Elon Musk arrived a few days before Christmas, and it felt like a gift from heaven to Germany’s far-right ...

Alice Weidel may not be the person you would imagine ... Instead, she splits her time between Berlin and Switzerland, along with her partner and their two sons. What's more, she's a West German ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...