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AfD’s win in Germany has some fearing for the future, while others worry of a return to the past
Participants in a demonstration against the right hold a banner with the slogan "Hunt Nazis! Anti-fascism remains manual labor" in Hamburg, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (Bodo Marks/dpa via AP)
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Germany’s AfD becomes first far-right party to win state election in country’s postwar history
Björn Höcke, party and parliamentary group leader of the AfD in Thuringia and top candidate, leaves the AfD election party in Erfurt, Germany, Monday Sept. 2, 2024. (Daniel Vogl/dpa via AP)
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Far-right state win shakes Germany’s fragile coalition
ERFURT, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 1: Bjoern Hoecke, lead candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Thuringia, gives a press statement at the Thuringia State Parliament following Thuringia state elections on September 1, 2024 in Erfurt, Germany. Initial results show the AfD finishing in first place, at 33.2%, ahead of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) with 23.9% and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) with 15.4%. State elections took place today in both Thuringia and Saxony. (Photo by Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)
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German far-right party AfD wins its first state election
Petra K'pping, Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs and SPD lead candidate for the 2024 state election in Saxony, welcomes German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the SPD's election campaign finale, in Chemnitz, Germany, Friday Aug. 30, 2024. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)
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Germany deports 28 Afghan nationals to their homeland, the first since the Taliban takeover in 2021
Federal Minister of the Interior and Home Affairs Nancy Faeser, second from right, attends the special session of the Bundestag's Committee on Internal Affairs, in Berlin, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
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Under Björn Höcke, far-right Alternative for Germany party is projected to surge in coming state elections
Bjoern Hoecke, leader of the Alternative for Germany in Thuringia (AfD), gestures during an election campaign rally for the Thuringia state elections in Nordhausen, Germany, August 29, 2024. REUTERS/Karina Hessland
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Strike at Lufthansa’s leisure airline Discover extended to September
The logo of German airline Discover is displayed on a board at Munich International Airport in Munich, southern Germany, on August 27, 2024, during a strike of flight attendants and pilots. The flight attendants' union UFO and the pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) called for the strike at Lufthansa subsidiary Discover Airlines over a labour dispute. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP) (Photo by MICHAELA STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Alert at NATO base in Germany was prompted by drone threat, source says
GEILENKIRCHEN, GERMANY - AUGUST 23: The entrance to the military base of the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), at NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen on August 23, 2024 in Geilenkirchen, Germany. Yesterday, the air base announced that it was raising its threat level and ordered all non-mission-essential staff to work remotely. It was the second time this month that the air base has raised its threat level due to a potential threat. NATO made no statement about the nature of the threat. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)
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Suspect in Germany knife attack was motivated by Islamic State group ideology, prosecutors say
Police and ambulances near the scene where people were killed and injured in an attack at a festival in Solingen, western Germany, the German dpa news agency reported, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Gianni Gattus/dpa via AP)
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German police arrest suspect in stabbing rampage that killed three, official says
Police cars sit at a cordon early Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, after several people were killed and injured in an attack at the Solingen's 650th anniversary celebrations late Friday. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)
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The largest urban archeological dig in Germany pits history against housing woes
The excavation at the Molkenmart is the largest urban archeological dig currently underway in the Germany.
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An attack at a festival in a German city kills three people and wounds at least 5 seriously, police say
Police and ambulances near the scene where people were killed and injured in an attack at a festival in Solingen, western Germany, the German dpa news agency reported, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Gianni Gattus/dpa via AP)
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NATO air base in Germany raises security level due to ‘potential threat’
FILE PHOTO: NATO AWACS aircraft stand on the apron at the air base in Geilenkirchen near the German-Dutch border, April 3, 2014. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender/File Photo
european business
Euro zone business activity gets boost from Paris Olympics in August, survey shows
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Paris, France - July 31, 2024 People watching the boxing in a cafe in Paris REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq/File Photo
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Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer retires from international soccer, will focus on Bayern Munich
(FILES) Germany's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer attends a press conference at Al Shamal Stadium in Al Shamal, north of Doha, on November 19, 2022, ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament. Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, a 2014 World Cup winner, on August 21, 2024 announced his retirement from international football on social media. Neuer, 38, played 124 matches for Germany, captaining the side 61 times. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)
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High energy prices are forcing German manufacturers to consider cutting production
An employee takes a sample at the blast furnace at the ThyssenKrupp plant in Duisburg, western Germany on November 16, 2021. - Shares in Thyssenkrupp rose at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on November 16 after press reports about the possible IPO of a unit developing green hydrogen projects. ThyssenKrupp wants to find out, how coal can be replaced by hydrogen in the production of iron in their blast furnaces. Behind this is the "H2Stahl" project, the aim of which is to reduce CO2 emissions in steel production in the future by using hydrogen. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)
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A German court will rule on the appeal of a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp, age 99
FILE - Irmgard Furchner, accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp function, appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, Dec. 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Russia reportedly files claims with Germany on Nord Stream attack investigation
world
At least 23 injured when fire breaks out on a Ferris wheel in eastern Germany
The Ferris wheel after a fire broke out at the Highfield Festival near Leipzig, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (Heiko Rebsch/dpa via AP)
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The German arrest warrant for the Ukrainian diver suspected of the Nord Stream pipeline explosions far from clears up the attack mystery
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