Chelsea have signed Germany's highly-rated attacking midfielder Kai Havertz from Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen on a five-year contract, the Premier League club announced on Friday.

Germany has in recent years been acting more forcefully against extremism, and banned several extremist groups — including several far-right and Muslim organizations. The latest crackdown comes after a spate of attacks by Muslim extremists and far-right groups plotting to overturn the country’s order.

Gerhard Schröder appeared slightly blurred on the big screens of a room filled with German councillors last month. But it quickly became clear that the former chancellor turned political villain was not the frail man described by his lawyer.

When Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders to a million refugees in 2015, she became the embodiment of “Willkommenskultur” – the postwar concept of being kind and welcoming to immigrants.

Berlin will be the third German city to host a regular-season game when the Indianapolis Colts and Atlanta Falcons square off Sunday at Olympiastadion.

By Tom Sims WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) -Eighteen people have been arrested following a German-led internationally coordinated investigation of online fraud and money laundering networks that used payment service providers,

Michigan announced Wednesday that the team's matchup with Western Michigan to open the 2026 college football season will take place in Ann Arbor instead of Frankfurt, Germany.

The University of Michigan football will kick off another year in Ann Arbor after discussions of an international season opener in 2026.

Nearly one in eight online shoppers in Germany has been scammed by fake online shops over the past two years, a new survey shows. The survey was carried out by polling institute Forsa on behalf of Germany's umbrella consumer group vzbv and made available to dpa.

Syrians no longer have grounds for asylum in Germany now the civil war in their country is over, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, as his conservatives seek to fend off a surging far-right ahead of a slew of state elections next year.