German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump was overshadowed by the drama surrounding Trump and Elon Musk. Merz had arrived in D.C. with a full agenda that ranged from strengthening relations between the U.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany spoke rarely but reverently, and found a warm reception in the Oval Office. Now he hopes to turn rapport into policy wins.

Friedrich Merz, the newly inaugurated German chancellor, will take a seat in the Oval Office on Thursday for his first in-person meeting with US President Donald Trump.

It is also the starkest sign of the extraordinary turn taken by a country that took full receipt of the peace dividend after 1990, sheltering under American protection as its own army withered and its commercial ties with Russia strengthened (see chart 1).

Strikers Ousmane Dembele and Bradley Barcola will be unavailable for France's Nations League third-place clash against Germany on Sunday, the French Football Federation said.

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Germany’s defense chief said his country will need to boost its armed forces by as many as 60,000 active soldiers as NATO member states commit to ramping up defense spending to deter Russia’s military threat.

If Germany is to pay for much needed investments in defence and infrastructure, this needs to change, reckons Clemens Fuest, head of the Ifo Institute, a think-tank in Munich. He has suggested cancelling of one of the country’s many public holidays,

German police say that severe storms in southern Germany forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing late Wednesday after violent turbulence injured nine people on board.

Some U.S. lawmakers do not understand the scale of Russia's rearmament campaign, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday, a day after he held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House.