Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Friedrich Merz's political journey, stance on immigration, leadership style, and economic promises as the potential ...

It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and ... in 1955 to a well-known conservative, Catholic family. His father was a local judge and a ...

Mohammad Azmouz, a Syrian barber living in Berlin, called casting his first-ever vote on Sunday at 57 an indescribable ...

Arif Haidary, an Afghan refugee who arrived in Germany 10 years ago as an unaccompanied minor, has difficulty understanding ...

Shunned by liberal Germans, anti-immigration AfD is now the second strongest party in Germany. It's also favored by President ...

Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not ...

Ursula von der Leyen, the first woman to lead the European Commission, is on a significant two-day visit to India. Her ...

Amid an economic downturn, Germans with an immigrant background are more worried about their finances than the rest of the ...

Dr Fehmida Mirza became the first woman Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the first in the Muslim world ...

In Africa and parts of Asia to be a woman is to have lost the lottery of life. In countries like Somalia or Pakistan, female ...