Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Having established a clear lead over both the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens, this motley movement of ...

The European Parliament urged the European Union on Thursday to freeze direct budget support for Rwanda until it breaks links ...

In Germany, as elsewhere, “democracy” means whatever the ruling class says it means. Often, that means banning dissident political parties.

International: The outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has spread to neighbouring countries, with Sweden ...

The first of these congresses took place in December 1947 and was designed to be a cross-party assembly representing the entire people of post-war Germany. In March 1948 ... were held in the Palace of ...

Despite a regional summit to stop fighting in the eastern Congo, no resolution is in sight. The European Union is also trying ...

With Hutus at the helm, there was systematic repression of the Tutsis. This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, ...

The recent fighting in eastern DRC, which has been scarred by violence for the last 30 years, has led to at least 2,900 ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have taken control of the strategic Kavumu airport that ...

Pupils in the regional capital Bukavu were returning to school, an AFP journalist saw, after schools shuttered in the city ...