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In this Wednesday, November 21, 2018 file photo, Friedrich Merz, former German Christian Democratic Union faction leader, left, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, General Secretary of the CDU, and Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn, right, all members of the CDU, attend a party regional conference candidates for the CDU chairmanship in Seebach, central Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)
December 6, 2018, 3:15 pm
In Germany, three very different contenders vie to succeed Merkel
After 18 years at the helm of Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, retiring chancellor sees rivals old and new looking to remake the party
By Geir Moulson
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, left, talk during a meeting of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, February 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
February 7, 2018, 11:44 am
In first, German coalition agreement slams settlements
Also unprecedented is opposition to Jerusalem being recognized as Israel’s capital and calls for ‘democratic progress’ in Ramallah
By Raphael Ahren
German leaders of the parliamentary group of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far-right party Alexander Gauland (bottom-R) and Alice Weidel (bottom-L) and MPs vote to adopt functioning rules during the first session of the newly elected parliament on October 24, 2017 at the Bundestag in Berlin. (AFP/Odd Andersen)
January 10, 2018, 3:24 pm
German AfD hardens radical, anti-Muslim course
Far-right party members post Nazi-era propaganda, slam ‘gang-raping’ Muslims and ‘marauding, groping migrant mobs’ after months of post-election calm
By Frank Zeller
This combination of file photos on December 1, 2017 shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Martin Schulz, leader of Germany's social democrat SPD party. (AFP/Odd Andersen, AFP/Tobias Schwarz)
December 1, 2017, 4:01 pm
Schulz ready for tense talks with Merkel on ending German impasse
Merkel’s bid to form a coalition with the ecologist Greens and pro-business FDP fell apart last month, leaving the European giant in limbo
By Hui Min NEO
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a press conference on November 27, 2017, in Berlin, following a meeting with her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's leadership. (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL)
November 27, 2017, 6:29 pm
Merkel ready to try again for coalition with center-left Social Democrats
Talks between chancellor’s conservative bloc and two smaller parties collapsed last week, and now her previous partners are open to negotiations
By Kirsten Grieshaber
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Angela Merkel, gives a talk in her home state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, on November 25, 2017, in Kuehlungsborn, northern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Bernd Wüstneck)
November 26, 2017, 9:14 pm
Merkel urged to swiftly seal repeat coalition with SPD
Social Democrats make u-turn after breakdown of talks with Free Democrats and Greens to allow for repeat of grand coalition
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Angela Merkel, speaks after talks on forming a new government broke down on November 19, 2017 in Berlin. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwartz)
November 20, 2017, 3:18 am
What’s next for Germany after collapse of coalition talks?
Failure to form a majority government puts Angela Merkel’s fourth term at risk, with new elections looking increasingly likely
By AP
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Angela Merkel (C) is seen during a break in talks with members of potential coalition parties to form a new government on November 19, 2017 in Berlin. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwartz)
November 20, 2017, 2:07 am
German coalition talks break down, raising prospect of new election
Merkel’s fourth term in doubt as Free Democratic Party leader says no ‘basis of trust’ to forge government over immigration policy disagreement
By Hui Min NEO
Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff on March 20, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
September 27, 2017, 3:16 pm
Rise of nationalist AfD cause for ‘great concern,’ Israeli envoy says
Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff highlights ‘series of anti-Semitic statements’ by Alternative for Germany leaders
By Raphael Ahren
Alice Weidel, a co-head of the far right Alternative for Germany party, seen in Berlin after Germany’s elections, Sept. 25, 2017. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
September 27, 2017, 4:08 am
What you need to know about the far-right Alternative for Germany party
With a platform focused on Islam and migration, and rhetoric tinged with Nazi tropes, the AfD’s strong election showing alarms Jewish and Muslim leaders
By Toby Axelrod
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Chancellery in Berlin (AP/Wolfgang Rattayl)
September 26, 2017, 3:39 pm
In chat with Merkel, Netanyahu says Israel worried about rising anti-Semitism
Congratulating the German chancellor on her election victory, PM refrains from direct comment on rise of far-right AfD
By Raphael Ahren
(L-R) Leadership members of the hard-right party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) Joerg Meuthen, Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland leave after addressing a press conference on the day after the German General elections on September 25, 2017 in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL)
September 26, 2017, 1:16 pm
Israelis veer between restraint, shock at German nationalist gains
Holocaust survivors reminded of 1930s rise of Nazi party as anti-Islam, anti-immigration AfD wins 13% of vote in federal election
By Michael Blum
Guests at an Alternative for Germany party, AfD election party react to the first projections for the German election in Erfurt, Germany, September 24, 2017. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)
September 26, 2017, 1:32 am
How former East Germans helped lift far-right AfD into Bundestag
The nationalist, anti-migrant party’s triumph is rooted in eastern discontent over social gaps and poor living conditions
By Kirsten Grieshaber and David Rising
(L-R) Leadership members of the hard-right party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) Joerg Meuthen, Alexander Gauland, Alice Weidel and Frauke Petry pose before addressing a press conference on the day after the German General elections on September 25, 2017 in Berlin. AFP PHOTO/John MACDOUGALL)
September 25, 2017, 7:01 pm
Neo-Nazi or not? German rules complicate labeling hard-right AfD
Members of third largest party have called for immigrants to be shot, branded Holocaust memorial a ‘monument of shame,’ but branding them Nazis would make them illegal
By AFP
Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party react after exit poll results were broadcast on public television at an election night event in Erfurt, eastern Germany, during the general election on September 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/dpa/Martin Schutt)
September 25, 2017, 5:47 pm
After ballot box success, far-right AfD riven by bitter infighting at the top
Within hours of its unprecedented election showing, co-chief Frauke Petry and four lawmakers in state parliament of Mecklenburg-Pomerania announce split from party
By Hui Min NEO
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