Two major wildfires have been burning in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia. Meanwhile, several people were ...

A recent survey published on Thursday showed that almost two thirds of Germans think 14 year olds should be barred from ...

Emergency services are battling forest fires in several locations in eastern Germany. Villages have been evacuated in the ...

Update: According to preliminary results, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party won the largest portion of the vote in Thuringia’s Sept. 1, 2024, state election — the first such victory ...

In Thuringia, 38% of people aged between 18-24 gave their vote to the far-right party — compared to 33% overall, according to public broadcaster ARD's Tagesschau election analysis.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...

Bjoern Hoecke, top candidate in Thuringia of the far-right Alternative for Germany, gestures as he walks through the state parliament, in Erfurt, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

The state elections, for parliaments in Saxony and Thuringia, two regions in eastern Germany, were widely billed as the most important since reunification, and not in a good way.

Thuringia's politics are particularly complicated because the Left Party of outgoing governor Bodo Ramelow, who led a minority government, has slumped into electoral insignificance nationally.

The police in the German state of Thuringia are thoroughly probing an arson attack against military trucks in Erfurt amid ...

Thuringia is home to dozens of castles and palaces, the legacy of rulings counts, princes and dukes. From the infamous 900-year-old Wartburg Castle in Eisenach , ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...