She has two children with a Sri Lankan-born woman, speaks Chinese and previously worked at global financial institutions — an ...

Dutch far right leader Geert Wilders is being sidelined by geopolitical developments elsewhere, writes journalist Gordon ...

AfD party leader Alice Weidel is known for her harsh rhetoric. In parliamentary debates she has derided Muslim immigrants as “headscarf girls’ and “knife men.” That type of noise makes headlines and ...

The German elections are, in many respects, paradoxical. The electoral shifts, which saw the major parties’ combined vote ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

Adding to the colorful cast of characters in the Trump White House is Rev. Paula White, who preaches the prosperity gospel, as head of a newly resurrected faith-based office at the White House. The ...

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany party achieved its best result ever in Sunday's election. It is now set to be the main opposition party, and that will mean a more prominent role for its ...

At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled The Russian Menace to Europe. The ...

Alice Weidel is the leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party but is married to a Sri-Lankan born woman. A gay woman, she has two children with her partner, but is part of a ...

The victory of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Friedrich Merz was met with relief in Ukraine. The conservative leader has long criticized the supposedly cautious Ukraine ...

German voters gave the far-right AfD party second place in elections, which will make the Christian Democrat Party's Friedrich Merz the next chancellor.