President Donald Trump has given everyone at Davos something to talk about with his actions on the first day of his second term.

The German economy shrank for the second straight year in 2024 as worried consumers held back on spending and Chinese competition ate into the country’s traditional exports of cars and industrial machinery.

Thousands of people have demonstrated against a convention of the far-right Alternative for Germany, blocking some roads and delaying the meeting’s start as the country's major parties launched their campaigns for next month's general election.

President-elect Donald Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric at U.S. allies and potential adversaries with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended into Canada and the Danish territory of Greenland, and southward to include the Panama Canal.

Elon Musk livestreamed his chat with a leader of Germany’s far-right party, using the power of his social media platform, X, to amplify the party’s message ahead of an upcoming national election.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, however powerful.

Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win re-election, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe.

It's been a decade since Islamic extremist gunmen stormed the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a deadly assault that shook France to its core.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned “lies and misinformation” that he says are undermining U.K. democracy.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's staying “cool” against critical personal comments made by Elon Musk but finds it worrying that Musk makes the effort to get involved in Germany's general election by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany party.

Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s population held elections in 2024, and voters' message was often: “You’re fired.”.

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has caused uproar after backing Germany’s far-right party in a major newspaper ahead of key parliamentary elections in the Western European country, leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor in protest.

Church bells rang out in the German city of Magdeburg exactly 24 hours after authorities say a man drove into a busy Christmas market, killing five people and injuring 200 others.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk that only a far-right party can “save Germany.”.

European Union leaders insist no decisions can be taken about the future of Ukraine without its consent or behind their backs.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a confidence vote in the German parliament, putting the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy on course to hold an early election in February.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia.

The fall of Syria’s authoritarian government at the hands of jihadi militants has set off waves of jubilation, trepidation and alarm around the world.

Europe's economy has enough difficulties, from tepid growth to trade tensions with the U.S. Dealing with those woes is only getting harder due to the political chaos in the two biggest European countries, France and Germany.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in the war.

A senior figure in the party whose departure from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition three weeks ago put Germany on the road to an early election has resigned in a furor over an internal document whose title referred to “D-Day.”.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has no plan to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he said support for Ukraine was the U.K.’s top priority at this week’s G20 summit.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what appeared to be the first conversation with the sitting leader of a major Western power in nearly two years.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early election in February.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he will ask for a vote of confidence on Dec. 16, paving the way forward for an early parliamentary election in February.

German media are reporting that Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to ask for a vote of confidence in his government on Dec. 16.

Tens of thousands have celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital.

German Eonomy Minister Robert Habeck says he hopes to become his Green Party’s candidate for chancellor in the coming election.

Around 50 European leaders have reassessed their trans-Atlantic relations at a special summit in Budapest, in the hope that Donald Trump's second U.S. presidency will avoid the strife and political pitfalls of his first.

Germany’s leader is expected to lead the country with a minority government after the collapse of the coalition.

Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he is firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which could undermine the ruling three-party coalition that relies on Lindner’s pro-business party.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Istanbul.

U.S. President Joe Biden told European partners that it’s important for Ukraine’s Western allies to “sustain our resolve” in supporting the country.

President Joe Biden has long believed diplomacy is about personal relationships — and he’ll spend Friday in Berlin with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as his time in office is on the cusp of ending.

President Joe Biden is heading to Germany this week and will go to Angola in December.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it’s important that allies’ aid to Ukraine doesn’t decrease next year.

A top official with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party has announced his resignation, a year ahead of an election in which the center-left Social Democrats face an uphill struggle.

Commemorations and protests are being held across the world to mark a year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg.

German and Kenyan officials have signed an agreement to promote the recruitment of skilled Kenyan workers who can fill gaps in Germany’s labor market, and to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans who don’t have the right to stay in Germany.

Germany’s interior minister has ordered temporary controls at all German land borders as a response to irregular migration and to protect the country from extremist threats.

Keir Starmer hasn't had much of a summer honeymoon.

German exit polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany is on track to become the strongest party in a state election for the first time Sunday in the country’s east.

The far-right Alternative for Germany could become the strongest party for the first time in two state elections Sunday in eastern Germany.

The leaders of Germany and the United Kingdom plan to draw up a treaty meant to deepen the two nations’ trade, defense and other relations.

As the far-right Alternative for Germany gains more power in eastern Germany, companies there find it increasingly hard to attract the skilled foreign workers they desperately need.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people.

Iran has rejected a call by three European countries urging it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions.

The United States and Russia have completed a 24-person prisoner swap, the largest in post-Soviet history, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free.

Thousands of people have rallied in several towns in Serbia to protest a lithium excavation project the Balkan country’s government recently signed with the European Union.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised a tentative deal between the European Union and Serbia that paves the way for the disputed excavation of lithium.

Germany's top security official says the country will bar the use of critical components made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE in core parts of its 5G networks in two steps starting in 2026.

Leaders across Europe and from the United States have reacted with relief mixed with concern to the result of the French legislative election.

Rishi Sunak’s campaign to remain Britain’s prime minister showed a lack of political touch.

The German government has expressed concern about a possible victory of the far-right National Rally in France on Sunday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has portrayed himself as thorough and evidence-led throughout his relatively brief political career but there’s always been a nagging question over the keenness of his politcal antenna.

Argentina’s self-described anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei met with German officials on Sunday in Berlin.

A summit of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations has opened in Italy.

U.S. President Joe Biden says the agreement to tap into the windfall profits on frozen Russian assets held in Europe would put that money to work for Ukraine.

The leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed to set in motion a $50 billion loan to help Ukraine.

The far right racked up wins across much of Europe in the EU Parliamentary elections that just concluded.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed for short-term help in repairing his country’s electricity network and long-term investment in its energy system.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni hosts this week’s summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations as the most stable European Union leader.

A four-day election has shaken the European Union's parliament to its foundations.

Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union with major gains in parliamentary seats, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron, who called snap legislative elections.

Projections show that Germany’s unpopular governing parties sank to feeble results and the far-right Alternative for Germany made gains in Sunday’s vote for the European Parliament, while the mainstream conservative opposition was the country’s strongest political force by a distance.

Far-right parties made major gains in European Union parliamentary elections, dealing stunning defeats to two of the bloc’s most important leaders: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The decision by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to leave D-Day commemorations in northern France early has caused a political storm that threatens to derail his Conservative Party’s general election campaign.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to fly home for an election campaign television interview.

The death toll in floods across a large part of southern Germany has risen to four as three bodies were recovered from inundated basements.

An unpopular government with a reputation for constant infighting.

The German parliament has approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names — clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children.

In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June European Union elections was an assassination attempt on one of the bloc’s most controversial figures.

The memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be released in November.

Germany says Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an “absolutely intolerable” cyberespionage campaign.

Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens global security in an apparent call for China to apply greater pressure on its neighbor to end the war.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for fair competition in trade relations with China while warning about dumping and overproduction while speaking to students in Shanghai on Monday.

An independent expert commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

German lawmakers have approved legislation that will make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records.

Germany has legalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will return to the table for cease-fire talks with Hamas.

European Union leaders are debating new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza is accusing Israeli forces of launching an attack near an aid distribution point in war-wracked northern Gaza, killing 20 people and wounding 155 others.

French President Emmanuel Macron is warning Western powers not to show any weakness to Russia as he reiterates his position that sending Western troops into Ukraine should not be ruled out.

On the day that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow, Russian state media leaked an audio recording of German military officers discussing the hypothetical use of Taurus long-range missiles in Ukraine.

The German government has vehemently rejected allegations that Russia’s leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication Berlin was preparing for war against Russia.

German lawmakers have approved a government plan to liberalize rules on cannabis, paving the way for the country to decriminalize limited amounts of marijuana and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy it for recreational purposes.

World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time in blaming the reported death of Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a bilateral security agreement with France.

The governments of Poland, France and Germany are vowing to make Europe a security and defense power with a greater ability to back Ukraine.

As chances rise of a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election race, America’s allies are bracing for a bumpy ride.

U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were seeing double when they met in Washington, D.

President Joe Biden says the Republican holdup on sending new U_S_ aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia was “close to criminal neglect."

The French foreign ministry says it has summoned Russia’s ambassador over the deaths of two French nationals working for nongovernmental organizations in Ukraine.

German lawmakers have approved cuts to fuel subsidies for farmers that prompted angry protests, along with a 2024 budget the government had to revamp after a court ruling blew a hole in its financial plans.

A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic says it will abandon the tactic and move on to holding what it calls “disobedient assemblies.”.

President Joe Biden will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Feb. 9 as the West struggles to provide new aid for Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Russia and Ukraine have launched over a dozen drones at each other's territory for a second straight day.