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Byline: Katrin Bennhold Preliminary results indicated an outcome so tight that it could take months of talks to form a new government at a critical moment for Europe. BERLIN - [...]

Olaf Scholz, the leader of the center-left Social Democrats, narrowly won the night. But now the hard part begins -- building a durable governing coalition. BERLIN -- For a moment [...]

Preliminary results indicated an outcome so tight that it could take months of talks to form a new government at a critical moment for Europe. BERLIN -- After 16 years [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold For some refugee families who traveled to Germany during the migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016, gratitude for Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to welcome them comes via [...]

In the next national Parliament, the far-right Alternative for Germany party is likely to remain a pariah force. But it looks assured, too, of a role in shaping the country's [...]

Mr. Scholz, a Social Democrat who is modeling himself as the candidate of continuity, has a fair shot at being Germany's next chancellor. BERLIN -- When Olaf Scholz asked his [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Annalena Baerbock, the 40-year-old candidate for the Green Party, is likely to have a say in Germany's next government, no matter who wins this month's election. BOCHUM, [...]

Annalena Baerbock, the 40-year-old candidate for the Green Party, is likely to have a say in Germany's next government, no matter who wins this month's election. BOCHUM, Germany -- The [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold The race to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel after 16 years in office is the tightest in years. But the two leading candidates are anything but exciting, and [...]

The race to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel after 16 years in office is the tightest in years. But the two leading candidates are anything but exciting, and that's how Germans [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Steven Erlanger With elections looming in Germany and France, European politicians are determined to avoid the sort of populist backlash that followed the 2015 refugee crisis. [...]

With elections looming in Germany and France, European politicians are terrified of another mass movement of migrants. But experts say the comparison with 2015 is flawed. BERLIN -- Even before [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold A long history of bad land use decisions exacerbated the death toll and damage of Germany's recent megaflood. Some say now is the time to rebuild differently. [...]

A long history of bad land use decisions exacerbated the death toll and damage of Germany's recent megaflood. Some say now is the time to rebuild differently. RECH, Germany -- [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold In rich countries, the momentum is growing for giving additional doses to the fully vaccinated, though many experts say the focus should be on getting first doses [...]

In rich countries, the momentum is growing for giving additional doses to the fully vaccinated, though many experts say the focus should be on getting first doses to people around [...]

Byline: Amanda Taub and Katrin Bennhold Far-right movements have long dreamed of a moment that ends society as we've known it. Now, experts say, so-called accelerationist thinking is proliferating in [...]

The military officer, known as Franco A., is charged with plotting political murder in a case that has spotlighted networks of far-right extremists inside German security services. FRANKFURT -- One [...]

It is the first time in Germany's postwar history that a party represented in the federal Parliament has elicited this level of scrutiny as a potential threat to democracy. BERLIN [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Michael Schwirtz Leaderless but united by racist ideology that has been supercharged by social media, extremists have built a web of real and online connections that [...]

Leaderless but united by racist ideology that has been supercharged by social media, extremists have built a web of real and online connections that worry officials. BERLIN -- When insurrectionists [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Armin Laschet, a close ally of Germany's chancellor, hopes to succeed her when she steps down after fall elections. But that is far from certain. BERLIN - [...]

Armin Laschet, a close ally of Germany's chancellor, hopes to succeed her when she steps down after fall elections. But that is far from certain. BERLIN -- Germany took a [...]

Global leaders watched live as a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, and many saw it as a warning to global democracies, placing the blame squarely on President Trump. BERLIN -- [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold OFFENBACH, Germany - At the height of Europe's migrant crisis, a bearded man in sweatpants walked into a police station. His pockets were empty except for an [...]

OFFENBACH, Germany -- At the height of Europe's migrant crisis, a bearded man in sweatpants walked into a police station. His pockets were empty except for an old cellphone and [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Death threats linked to police computers and the discovery of far-right chat groups in police departments across Germany have fed concerns about far-right infiltration. FRANKFURT - Traveling [...]

Death threats linked to police computers and the discovery of far-right chat groups in police departments across Germany have fed concerns about far-right infiltration. FRANKFURT -- Traveling for work and [...]

Byline: Adam Nossiter and Katrin Bennhold Austria and France both suffered deadly attacks in recent weeks. The responses offer a glimpse of the political shape-shifting around Europe's complex relationship with [...]

Austria and France both suffered deadly attacks in recent weeks. The responses offer a glimpse of the political shape-shifting around Europe's complex relationship with Islam. PARIS -- October's knife slayings [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Nine years late and $4 billion over budget, the airport is already outdated. Repeated blunders dented the image of German efficiency, but the 'poor but sexy' capital [...]

A gunman killed by the police was an Islamic State ''sympathizer,'' Austria's interior minister said. The police were searching for possible accomplices on Tuesday morning. BERLIN -- A terrorist attack [...]

Nine years late and $4 billion over budget, the airport is already outdated. Repeated blunders dented the image of German efficiency, but the ''poor but sexy'' capital has long been [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold and Carlotta Gall The testimony by the man, who claimed to be an intelligence agent, offers insight into President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pursuit of foes and undermines [...]

The testimony by the man, who claimed to be an intelligence agent, offers insight into President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pursuit of foes and undermines the conviction of a U.S. Consulate [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold As the U.S. conspiracy theory goes global, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on Germany's far-right fringe. Counterterrorism officials [...]

As the U.S. conspiracy theory goes global, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on Germany's far-right fringe. Counterterrorism officials worry. BERLIN -- [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Thirty years after Germany came back together, the former East has become the stronghold of a once-marginalized movement that now sits in Parliament. BERLIN - They called [...]

A report by the domestic intelligence agency listed more than 1,400 instances in which soldiers, police officers and intelligence officials were suspected of extremist actions, posing ''a significant danger.'' BERLIN [...]

Almost exactly a year after a far-right extremist shocked Germany by attacking a synagogue during Yom Kippur, another assault targets a synagogue in Hamburg. BERLIN -- A man wearing army [...]

After years of playing down the risk of far-right infiltration in the military, political leaders are confronting an issue that has become too dangerous to ignore. BERLIN -- After a [...]

Byline: Selam Gebrekidan, Katrin Bennhold, Matt Apuzzo and David D. Kirkpatrick ISCHGL, Austria - They came from across the world to ski in the most famous resorts of the Austrian [...]

ISCHGL, Austria -- They came from across the world to ski in the most famous resorts of the Austrian alps. Jacob Homiller and his college friends flew in from the [...]

A police department in western Germany discovered five chat groups with extremist content, feeding concerns about far-right infiltration of the country's security services. BERLIN -- A police force in Germany [...]

The poisoned Russian opposition leader plans to return to Russia, his spokeswoman says. BERLIN -- Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who is recovering in Berlin after being poisoned, [...]

Mr. Navalny talked with a German prosecutor about being poisoned. Word of his improvement came as France and Sweden confirmed that he had been sickened by Novichok, a Russian nerve [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Among German conspiracy theorists, ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, the American president is surfacing as a rallying cry, or even as a potential 'liberator.' BERLIN - Just before hundreds [...]

Among German conspiracy theorists, ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, the American president is surfacing as a rallying cry, or even as a potential ''liberator.'' BERLIN -- Just before hundreds of far-right activists [...]

Byline: Katrin Bennhold Germany has handled the pandemic well and its government enjoys high public trust. But the minority opposing coronavirus rules includes a far-right faction that worries officials. BERLIN [...]

Germany has handled the pandemic well and its government enjoys high public trust. But the minority opposing coronavirus rules includes a far-right faction that worries officials. BERLIN -- It was [...]