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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Friday, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

June 16, 2018, 4:25 pm

Ahead of Macron meeting, Merkel insists migration needs ‘European answer’

German leader facing insurrection from her interior minister amid broad public support for a harder line on immigration

By Agencies

Roses cover the photo of the 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman killed in Wiesbaden, Germany, Friday, June 8, 2018 (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

June 13, 2018, 12:42 am

Murder of Jewish girl in Germany fuels an anti-migrant backlash

Head of Jewish community's governing body speaks out against use of Susanna Feldman's killing as an instrument for xenophobic and anti-migration rhetoric

By Toby Axelrod

Bjoern Hoecke, chairman of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, gives a statement on February 13, 2017, at the Thuringian regional parliament in Erfurt, Germany. (AFP Photo/dpa/Hendrik Schmidt)

June 11, 2018, 6:46 pm

German far-rightists drop bid to expel member who downplayed Nazi past

Bjoern Hoecke can remain in AfD after he had said Berlin memorial to the Jews killed in the Holocaust is a 'monument of shame'

By AP

Police officers of a special unit escort Iraqi asylum seeker Ali Bashar, who is suspected of having killed a German teenage girl, from a helicopter to the police headquarters in Wiesbaden, western Germany, after he was flown back from Erbil to Germany on June 9, 2018. His face was blurred under German law( AFP PHOTO / dpa / Boris Roessler)

June 9, 2018, 11:20 pm

Suspect in killing of Jewish teen Susanna Feldman brought back to Germany

Iraqi Ali Bashar allegedly confessed, saying he argued with victim, 14, then attacked and murdered her; expected to 'rapidly' stand trial

By AFP

Susanna Feldman, 14, a German Jewish schoolgirl, whose body was found buried on the outskirts of the western German city of Wiesbaden on June 6, 2018 (via Facebook)

June 9, 2018, 5:12 pm

Suspect said to confess to rape, killing of German Jewish teen Susanna Feldman

Iraqi Ali Bashar allegedly argued with victim, 14, then attacked and murdered her; expected to arrive back in Germany for trial having fled with his family

By Agencies

Alexander Gauland, co-faction leader of the Alternative for Germany, AfD at the federal parliament Bundestag, attends a congress of the party's youth organization 'Young Alternative,' at Seebach, Germany on June 2, 2018. (Alexander Prautzsch/dpa via AP)

June 6, 2018, 7:18 pm

German far-right leader’s clothes stolen during evening swim

'This is no swimming area for Nazis,' thief reportedly shouts, days after Alexander Gauland said Nazi era a 'speck of bird poop' in German history

By AP

Federal spokesman of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alexander Gauland attends the party congress of the party's youth party "Junge Alternative" in Seebach, eastern Germany, on June 2, 2018.
(AFP / dpa / Alexander PRAUTZSCH)

June 5, 2018, 4:46 am

German far-right leader says Nazi ‘bird poop’ comment misunderstood

After outcry, AfD head Alexander Gauland claims speech decrying focus on Hitler era in German history was meant to convey contempt for Nazism

By AP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech on her government's budget policy at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin, May 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)

June 4, 2018, 4:29 pm

Merkel slams far-right leader’s ‘shameful’ remark minimizing Nazism

German chancellor condemns far-right AfD party leader, says the country bears 'everlasting responsibility' for 'immense suffering' it caused

By AFP

June 4, 2018, 2:02 pm

Moderates in far-right German party mutiny over Nazi bird poop comment

Alexander Gauland accused from within AfD of failing to recognize German responsibility for Holocaust

By TOI staff and Agencies

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks to the press during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Menahem Kahana)

June 3, 2018, 7:30 pm

German president blasts far-right leader’s Nazi past remarks

AfD's Alexander Gauland sparks backlash for calling 12 years under Hitler's rule a ‘speck of bird poop’ in country's glorious history

By AFP

June 2, 2018, 6:30 pm

Far-right leader: Nazi era a ‘speck of bird poop’ in glorious German history

However, Alexander Gauland tells AfD party's youth movement that Germans still must take responsibility for 12 years of Hitler's rule

By Agencies

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Front) talks with Mevluede Genc (R) who lost two daughters, two granddaughters and a niece in the neo-Nazi arson attack in Solingen in 1993, alongside her husband Durmus (C) and her granddaughter Oezlem at the Bellevue palace in Berlin, on May 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/DPA/Steffen Kugler/Germany OUT)

May 29, 2018, 6:51 am

Tense Germany, Turkey mark deadly 1993 neo-Nazi attack

Merkel to attend ceremonies along with Turkish FM and Mevlude Genc, 75, who lost two daughters, two granddaughters and a niece in deadly house fire

By Frank Zeller

Alternative for Germany (AfD)'s demonstrators holding placards and German flags gather at the main station in Berlin to attend the "demonstration for the future of Germany" called by the far-right AfD in Berlin on May 27, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN)

May 28, 2018, 2:53 am

Berlin counter-protesters far outnumber far-right AfD march

25,000 activists rally in German capital, shout 'Nazis out' to eclipse nationalist party's 5,000-strong presence

By Geir Moulson

Demonstrators show posters against a demonstration organized by AfD (Alternative for Germany) in Berlin, Germany, February 17, 2018. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

May 27, 2018, 8:46 am

Bracing for far-right march, Berlin plans massive counter-rally

Huge dance party planned alongside mass protest against far-right Alternative for Germany party, which is slated to demonstrate in German capital

By AFP

In this file photo from February 24, 2016, people wave German flags in Erfurt, central Germany, during a demonstration initiated by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

May 26, 2018, 6:16 pm

Struggling in parliament, German far-right takes to streets

Alternative for Germany to hold 'Germany's Future' rally in Berlin on Sunday, with over a dozen groups set to stage counter-protests

By Frank Jordans