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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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,

FC Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen made his return to the German national team during the squad’s 2-1 defeat at the hands of Portugal in the UEFA Nations League semifinals.