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Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II.
2024-09-1

German MEP Matthias Ecke is "seriously injured" in Dresden, Germany, in what is suspected to be a politically-motivated attack against the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
2024-05-4

German AfD politician Daniel Halemba is arrested for using the Nazi salute and possessing banned totalitarian symbols.
2023-10-30

German authorities recover 31 royal jewellery items that were stolen from the Green Vault museum at Dresden Castle in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, in 2019.
2022-12-17

Lutz Bachmann, the leader of the German far-right and anti-Islam Pegida movement, goes on trial in Dresden on charges of hate speech.
2016-04-19

Buses from Poland and Ukraine crash outside the German city of Dresden resulting in at least nine deaths and 40 people injured.
2014-07-19

The swollen Elbe River breaches its banks forcing German authorities to evacuate 10 villages. So far, 21 people have died across Central Europe.
2013-06-10

A freight train derails at the Stuttgart-Feuerbach station, Germany, after a collision with the railway platform. There were no reports of injuries.
2012-11-30

The death toll from an "E. coli" outbreak in Germany rises to 14 as it spreads to other parts of northern Europe.
2011-05-30

Thousands of protesters in Dresden, Germany form a human chain to mark the 66th anniversary of the Dresden bombing and to protest against racism.
2011-02-13