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.

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.

In the Thuringian Forest or the Harz Mountains, dead spruce trees (Picea abies) dot the landscape like skeletons. Many have ...

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 , ...

German police said Friday that they had opened a sabotage inquiry after several army trucks were torched, with footage on Russian social media claiming the blaze was started by "our people".