Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announces the decision to dissolve the German Bundestag and ...

More than five years after one of the most famous churches in the world was damaged by fire, a renovated Notre Dame cathedral has reopened to visitors. In Paris, “people are so excited,” said ...

The spectacle of bagpipe-playing shepherds still exists in Naples and Rome. Dressed in traditional sheepskin and woollen cloaks with peaked hats, the zampognari pipers come into the city from their ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser travelled to Magdeburg on Saturday, and a memorial service is to take place in the city cathedral in the evening. Faeser ordered ...

A 40-year-old German man was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday, Dec. 18 after admitting he traveled to New Jersey to have sex with a minor, authorities said. In January 2023, undercover ...

Steinmeier has been pictured inside Magdeburg Cathedral alongside Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who visited the site of the attack earlier this morning. A German politician who lives near the Christmas ...

German lawmakers voted this week to dissolve the government. French President Emmanuel Macron recently named the country’s fourth prime minister in a year’s span. What on earth is happening ...

Germany’s election campaign is turning into a fervent ideological clash over starkly differing economic visions. As Germans become increasingly worried about their country’s ailing economy — set to ...

He is offering to get the German economic engine humming again. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin The man most likely to replace Olaf Scholz as chancellor of Germany after the ...

The new stained glass windows are set to be installed at the end of 2026, while the old ones will be taken down and either placed in a museum or in another church or cathedral, Notre-Dame ...

BERLIN, Dec 17 (Reuters) - German political parties presented their election programmes on Tuesday, a day after parliament backed a no-confidence motion in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government ...

The ever-present two dominant parties of German politics, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), unofficially known as the Union, make up one grouping. The Social ...