US President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the "ignorant and hateful" rhetoric of those who deny the Holocaust, as he toured a former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.
Barack Obama is spending a few precious hours in Dresden on Friday. <b>Mark Belcher</b> explores the parts of the rebuilt baroque gem the US president probably won’t see.
US President Barack Obama on Friday started solemn two-day mission of World War II remembrance in the eastern German city of Dresden, where he held talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As Dresden residents prepared to celebrate Barack Obama’s visit to the eastern city on Thursday evening, the German government tried to dispel the impression it had been snubbed by the popular US president.
US President Barack Obama will visit Dresden and the former Nazi camp Buchenwald this week during the German leg of a tour underlining the importance of fighting extremism, past and present.
US President Barack Obama will not visit the German city of Weimar as planned next week due to a “narrow window of time,” a Thuringia state Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is among the best-loved and most-influential politicians in the world – second only to US President Barack Obama and ahead of the Dalai Lama, according to a poll released on Friday.
US President Barack Obama is reportedly considering former Goldman Sachs investment banker Phil Murphy for the next ambassador to Germany, news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported on Tuesday.
US President Barack Obama will visit the German city of Dresden and the former Nazi death camp at Buchenwald in June on a trip also taking in D-Day commemorations in France, the White House said Friday.
Germany is pulling out of a UN conference on racism due to start in Geneva on Monday, but could re-engage during the week-long gathering depending on how it unfolds, said its foreign minister.
The centre-right sister party of the Christian Democrats (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU) sharply criticised US President Barack Obama’s support for Turkey’s entry into the European Union on Monday.
President Barack Obama praised NATO on Saturday for committing up to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan, singling out commitments from France and Germany as proof of their "seriousness of purpose."
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel was snubbed by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday when he continued a mobile phone call instead of greeting Merkel and posing for a group photo with NATO's other 27 leaders on a bridge spanning the Rhine river.
Thousands of German and French students turned out to witness US President Barack Obama’s speech in Strasbourg, France on Friday afternoon ahead of the 60th anniversary summit.
French police said Friday they made 300 arrests in clashes with demonstrators in Strasbourg ahead of a two-day NATO summit attended by 28 leaders including US President Barack Obama.
The German city of Munich, best known for Bayern Munich, lederhosen and the Oktoberfest beer festival, is also home to the world's largest community of Uighurs, an ethnic minority from China's extreme west.
President Barack Obama is sending his Vice President Joseph Biden and a top-level delegation to the Munich Security Conference this weekend to hear what US allies have to say before his new foreign policies go into effect.
Senior diplomats from six world powers will attempt to convince Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions next week at a meeting in Germany for their first meeting since US President Barack Obama took office, a German official said Friday.
An overwhelming majority of Germans wish they could have a Teutonic version of US President Barack Obama, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.
American Vice President Joseph Biden will make his first official trip abroad next week to the annual Wehrkunde conference on security policy in Munich, the White House said late on Tuesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and American President Barack Obama have spoken on the telephone to discuss their common foreign policy goals following the new US leader’s first week in office, Merkel’s spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said on Monday evening.
Germany said Friday it expects Israel to carry out a proper inquiry into allegations it illegally used white phosphorus shells in Gaza but that it was not the time to consider an independent probe.
