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Germany's spy agency has placed the far-right AfD party under surveillance for extremism
The BfV can now monitor the the phones, emails, and finances of Germany's main opposition party and…
Bill Bostock
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Germany's right-wing eurosceptic AfD just hit a new record in polls as Merkel struggles with the refugee crisis
A populist backlash against immigration is potentially a more serious threat to the cohesion of Eur…
Mike Bird
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The far right scored its biggest election victory in Germany since World War II
The Alternative for Germany secured 32.8% of the vote in the German state of Thuringia, taking a ni…
Hannah Abraham
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European leaders are scrambling after a surge in support for the far-right
After EU voters decided on a new European Parliament, results showed a strong surge in support for …
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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As power in Europe teeters further to the far right, the UK has done the opposite
Despite Farage's Reform UK gaining steam, it wasn't nearly enough to translate into victories, spli…
Matthew Loh
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A far-right German politician and the granddaughter of one of Hitler's henchmen had dog feces smeared on her in a 'disgusting' attack
Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, had dog feces sme…
Alia Shoaib
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Oil worker says he was fired for saving a moose calf from being eaten by a black bear, report says
Mark Skage said he put the moose calf, which he named Misty, in his truck and took her to a wildlif…
Alia Shoaib
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Elon Musk attacked German support for migrants and promoted a call to support a far-right extremist political party
Elon Musk appears unhappy that the German government provided a little more than $2 million to grou…
Charles R. Davis
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Putin's plan for winning the war in Ukraine could be starting to become reality
Russia has long hoped to triumph by continuing the war for so long that the West gets exhausted. Si…
Tom Porter
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A far-right terrorist group accused of plotting to overthrow the German government was influenced by American QAnon conspiracies, prosecutors say
The group — which prosecutors say believe a "conglomerate of conspiracy myths" — was accused of pla…
Jake Epstein
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Putin's plan to wear down support for Ukraine in a war of attrition seems to be working, though it's not risk-free
Putin is planning on wearing down Western support for Ukraine, which depends on its allies for mone…
Tom Porter
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How a rogue doctor who called the vaccine 'needle rape' was made an Idaho public-health official in its worst COVID crisis yet
The story of Dr Ryan Cole shows how the state's public health apparatus was reshaped by COVID skept…
Mia Jankowicz
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Billionaire FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to private Putin meetings
Vladimir Putin's outreach to Peter Thiel, made through a Russian diplomat, occurred in 2018 at a pa…
Mattathias Schwartz,Hans-Mart…
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A far-right party just made big gains in the east of Germany days after reports one of its leaders marched with neo-Nazis in 2007
The AfD rose to political power in 2017 on a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment following Merkel's de…
Eliza Relman
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Germany's far-right party has drawn controversial comparisons to Nazis and they're forcing the country to reconsider how it deals with the Holocaust
"History doesn't stand still and doesn't repeat itself," Evans told Insider. "I think the threats t…
Eliza Relman
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Germany's far-right populist party is poised to surge in the former Communist East 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Alexander Gauland, the AfD's national co-leader, referred to the Nazi era as a "speck of bird poop"…
Eliza Relman
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A German politician from an anti-Islam party resigned and converted to Islam
Arthur Wagner, a German politician from the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (Af…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Germany's latest domestic-terror attack is another sign that xenophobia and nationalism have supplanted the lessons of the Holocaust
In the United States, far-right terrorism incidents doubled between 2016 and 2017, according to Koe…
Isaac Scher,Isaac Scher
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A German far-right leader compared the Nazi era to 'a speck of bird s---' on German history, triggering a massive backlash
Marco Buschmann of the opposition FDP said, "Any politician who deliberately tries to minimize the …
Christopher Woody
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France commits 200 million Euros for India's COVID-19 response
Recalling the importance France attaches to facing global challenges through multilateral cooperati…