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Numerous candles are placed in Aschaffenburg, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 following the fatal attack in a park. (Daniel Vogl/dpa via AP)

Scholz’s challenger vows tough border rules as attack puts migration in German election spotlight

Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month.
 
President-elect Donald Trump smiles after a fireworks show at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader, party chairwoman and candidate for chancellor of the AfD, prepares for a live X interview with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in her office in the Jakob Kaiser House in Berlin, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/Pool Photo via AP)

Musk uses X livestream to amplify German far-right leader’s views ahead of an election

 
French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" editor in chief Gerard Biard, center left, and publishing director Laurent Sourisseau, known as "Riss", attend a commemoration marking 10 years since an Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and the Hypercacher jewish supermarket, outside the weekly's former offices in Paris Tuesday Jan. 7, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

France marks 10 years since deadly Charlie Hebdo attack

 
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announces the decision to dissolve the German Bundestag and schedules a new election for February 23 next year, in Berlin, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (S'ren Stache/dpa via AP)

Germany’s president dissolves parliament, sets national election for Feb. 23

 

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during a plenary session at the German parliament Bundestag where he faces a vote of confidence, Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Scholz loses a confidence vote, setting up an early election in February

 
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Scholz sets Germany on course for an early election as he requests a confidence vote next week

 
Anas Modamani, 27 a Syrian refugee in Germany, shows his famous selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel he took after his arrival in the country, in a Syrian restaurant in Berlin, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Syrians in Germany worried by some politicians’ eagerness for them to go home after Assad’s fall

 
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the presentation of her memories in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. Book title reads "Freedom". (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Merkel recalls Putin’s ‘power games’ and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs

 
FILE - A European flag waves in front of the Reichstag building with the inscription 'Dem deutschen Volke' ('To The German People') in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. German politics are in a disgruntled, volatile state as the country's voters prepare to fill 96 of the 720 seats at the European Parliament on June 9, the biggest single national contingent in the 27-nation European Union. It's the first nationwide vote since center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz took power in late 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

European election tests an unpopular government and a scandal-hit far-right party in Germany

 
FILE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, talks to her office manager Beate Baumann, left, prior to a cabinet meeting as part of a two-day retreat of the German government in Meseberg north of Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's memoirs will be released in late November, nearly three years after the end of her 16-year tenure at the helm of one of Europe's biggest powers, her publisher said Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Memoirs of former German leader Angela Merkel, titled ‘Freedom,’ will be published in November

 
FILE - A Eurofighter from the German Air Force Weapons School takes off for an exercise in Large, Germany, Friday, April 30, 2021. The German government has approved the export of air-defense missiles to Saudi Arabia, underlining a softening of its hard line of recent years toward arms exports to the kingdom. News of the approval comes after the foreign minister said on Sunday that Germany is open to delivering more Eurofighter jets, made by a multinational consortium in which Berlin is involved, to Saudi Arabia. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP, File)

Germany approves the export of air-defense missiles to Saudi Arabia, underlining a softer approach

 
FILE - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble attends a meeting of EU finance ministers at the EU Council building in Luxembourg on Friday, June 16, 2017. Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis more than two decades later, has died on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. He was 81. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Wolfgang Schaeuble, German elder statesman and finance minister during euro debt crisis, dies at 81

 
Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, left, and his Civic Platform member, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, right, flash victory signs during an election campaign rally in Otwock, Poland, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Tusk is leading a march in Warsaw on Sunday aimed at mobilizing supporters in his against-the-odds battle to unseat the right-wing government in the Oct. 15 parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk seeks to boost his election chances with a rally in Warsaw