(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected by lawmakers as the country's 10th chancellor on Tuesday, hours after suffering a humiliating defeat in a first round of voting on an ...

A Christian Democratic Union victory long looked likely despite the unpopularity of the 10-month-old national government. But ...

The Green party scored a surprise win at the state election in Baden-Württemberg. The results came as a blow to the conservative CDU and the center-left SPD, who are still trying to make sense of what ...

Hours after he suffered a historic defeat, Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor of Germany on Tuesday. The leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had been widely expected to win ...

BERLIN (AP) — Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round. The ...

(CNN) — Germany’s Friedrich Merz has formally become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented defeat signaled deep discontent within his coalition. (CNN) — Germany’s Friedrich ...

BERLIN — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause and a palpable sense of relief in the parliament chamber after a historic loss in ...

Fighting by the Allies on the western front and Russian soldiers on the eastern front eventually led to the defeat of the German Nazi forces. On May 7, 1945, the German Third Reich signed an ...