Germany

In vowing to pull thousands of U.S. troops from Germany, President Donald Trump is following a pattern of disruptive moves against allies that have dismayed many of his fellow Republicans

President Donald Trump says he is ordering a major U.S. troop withdrawal from Germany, a NATO ally.

After more than a year of thinly-veiled threats to start pulling U.S. troops out of Germany unless Berlin increases its defense spending, President Donald Trump appears to be proceeding with a hardball approach, planning to cut the U.S. military contingent by more than 25%. About 34,500 American troops are stationed in Germany — 50,000 including civilian Department of Defense employees…

Germany’s defense minister is suggesting that U.S. President Donald Trump’s reported plans to withdraw more than a quarter of the American troops out of Germany could weaken not only the NATO alliance but the U.S. itself

Germany’s governing parties have agreed on a 130 billion euro ($146 billion) stimulus package meant to help kick-start Europe’s biggest economy, which has taken a heavy hit from the coronavirus pandemic

A demo of a German coronavirus app was released on Friday which authorities hope will allow the country to safely reopen in time for summer tourism.

A 10-year-old German boy transformed his quarantine boredom into creativity by creating a mini beer garden for a local squirrel.

A top world health official is warning that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening economies without setting up strong contact tracing to beat back flareups of the coronavirus

The world-famous beer festival in Munich, Germany, was canceled by the Bavarian governor and mayor of Munich citing the risk of the spread of coronavirus.

Catholics and Protestants in Dusseldorf attended Good Friday Mass via their cars on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic.

German police say a man intentionally drove a car into a crowd of people watching a Carnival procession in a small central town, injuring around 30 including children

Biting commentary on racism in Germany is featuring prominently among Carnival floats in western cities, hastily put together in the aftermath of a deadly far-right attack last week near Frankfurt

The victims of a racist shooting rampage in Germany are being mourned by family and friends

A suspected far-right extremist has killed at least nine people in separate attacks on two hookah bars in western Germany before killing his mother and himself. Prosecutors say they are treating the case as domestic terrorism.

Authorities say a 43-year-old German who posted a rant calling for the “complete extermination” of various races and cultures shot and killed nine people, most of them Turkish, in an attack on a hookah bar and other sites in suburban Frankfurt

In the German town of Hanau, a longtime immigrant destination with decades of coexistence between people of different origins, residents fear their community was targeted after a gunman shot and killed nine people of foreign background.

Federal prosecutors said Thursday they are taking charge of the investigating into a mass shooting in the German city of Hanau that left 11 people dead, including the suspect, amid reports that he may have had a far-right motive.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent has shaken up German politics by announcing she is stepping down as the governing party’s leader and won’t run for chancellor next year

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army

Shortly before they were rounded up by Nazi troops in Belgium and deported to Auschwitz in 1942, the parents of three-year-old Maurice Gluck placed their only child in the care of a local Christian family. Gluck forgot his Yiddish mother tongue and that he even had parents of his own.