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Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - Germany on Friday recognized the right of same-sex couples to wed, a major step for gay women and men living in a [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - In forceful remarks before Germany's Parliament on Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to defend the international climate agreement spurned by the Trump [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - An apartment building in a northwestern German city was evacuated Tuesday because of fears that its exterior insulation is similar to materials [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - There is a German word, 'Wechselstimmung,' that means a mood for political change. Americans felt it. So did Britons. The French, too. [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - Inside the red-brick building that now houses the German capital's newest and perhaps most unusual mosque, Seyran Ates is staging a feminist [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - For decades after the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II, Germans had trouble defining themselves as a nation. But the arrival of [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - Germany issued an arrest warrant for a 26-year-old Iraqi national with suspected links to the Islamic State group who is being held in connection with [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - Germany's general prosecutor on Wednesday took over the investigation of three explosions targeting a local soccer team, suggesting a possible terrorist connection to the attack. [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German investigators said Wednesday that letters uncovered after explosions targeted a local soccer club suggest the attack could have links to Islamist extremists, whose demands [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner To save the house of civil rights icon Rosa Parks from the wrecking ball, American artist Ryan Mendoza shipped it halfway across the world. Now it's on [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - Germany officially unveiled a landmark social media bill Wednesday that could quickly turn this nation into a test case in the effort [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN -- The father of a German pilot who was found by investigators to have purposely crashed a commercial airliner into the French Alps in 2015 held [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - The 66-year-old conspiracy theorist and former tour guide was undoubtedly eccentric. He dressed in public like an ancient Druid and occasionally traversed [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - President Donald Trump's first meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have resembled the comedic awkwardness of a Sasha Baron Cohen movie. [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - He has tried to close the door on Muslim refugees. She opened it. He calls himself a tough negotiator. She's an even-tempered [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner and Kareem Fahim BERLIN - The arrest of a German journalist in Turkey on terrorism-related charges sparked demonstrations in Germany on Tuesday and a growing diplomatic rift [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German officials on Sunday evacuated hundreds of people from Hamburg Airport and briefly closed the facility after dozens of passengers reported eye irritation and breathing [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner and Anthony Faiola BERLIN - On a September day in 2015, Syrian refugee Anas Modamani took one of Germany's most emblematic selfies. Snapping himself alongside Chancellor Angela [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN -- Police on Wednesday arrested an asylum seeker from Tunisia on suspicion of plotting an Islamic State-linked terrorist attack in Germany in a case that is [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - Germany's main opposition party sought Wednesday to inject new life into its election hopes after a surprise move to select a combative former E.U. official [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - A day after the inauguration of Donald Trump, prominent leaders of Europe's right-wing populist parties will gather in the German city of Koblenz in what [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - It was every God-fearing Christian's worst nightmare about Muslim refugees. 'Revealed,' the Breitbart News headline screamed, '1,000-Man Mob Attack Police, Set Germany's [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola, Stephanie Kirchner and Souad Mekhennet BERLIN - The prime suspect sought in the deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market - a 24-year-old Tunisian migrant - was [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German police mounted a manhunt for a Tunisian asylum-seeker whose identity papers were found inside the truck used in this week's deadly [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German police were staging a manhunt for a male asylum seeker with Tunisian papers in connection to this week's deadly assault on [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola, Souad Mekhennet and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called the deadly truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market a likely 'act of [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola, Souad Mekhennet and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called the slamming of a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 and [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - Call it the high school that stole Christmas. As the holiday season approached, the administration of Istanbul High School - an academy [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German prosecutors are investigating a 12-year-old boy who allegedly plotted a nail bomb attack at a Christmas market in the southern city of Ludwigshafen, officials [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner After an unprecedentedly dirty presidential election campaign in Austria and ahead of the 2017 parliamentary elections in Germany, politicians in both countries are increasingly on the defensive [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - In a recent tweet, a German lawmaker used a highly specific term to describe her anti-migrant angst. Suggesting her country's national identity [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday announced her intention to seek a fourth term in office, even as she downplayed her ability [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner and Anthony Faiola BERLIN - The latest attraction in the German capital is an underground chamber about the size of a small living room, a devotional portrait [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - German police on Tuesday morning arrested five men accused of recruiting members for the Islamic State terror organization. The suspects, aged between 26 and 50, [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner and Anthony Faiola BERLIN--One year after the height of Europe's migrant crisis, Germany - a nation that took in more asylum seekers than the rest of the [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner BERLIN - The leaders of Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine on Wednesday agreed on a road map designed to revive the halting peace plan for Eastern Ukraine [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchner In his famous 1963 speech, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed to the world 'Ich bin ein Berliner,' showing solidarity with a divided city at the center of [...]