Triumphant CDU leader hits out at Washington and calls for stronger European security amid attempts to build government.

Germans are divided on whether a proposed 'European Army' is a good idea for the country.Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Munich Security Conference that with the USA more reluctant to support its Western allies alternative transcontinental defence measures must be sought.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has shot back strongly in defense of his stance against the far-right and said his country won’t accept people who “intervene in our democracy,” a day after U.S.

Federal employees received emails asking them to justify their work. And Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says he’s willing to resign for peace.

After their initial shock at Trump’s false claims that Ukraine is led by a “dictator” who started the war with Russia, the Ukrainian people are rallying around their President.

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the country's second-largest party

Zelenskyy said his idea “wasn’t about replacing the alliance. This is about making Europe’s contribution to our partnership equal to America’s.” Alluding to Germany’s Nazi past ...

Zelenskyy also told The Associated Press on ... the United States itself,” Sikorski said. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, described the new U.S. stance as a “moment of truth ...

Hours before Vance and Zelenskyy were set to meet, a Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective confinement shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region, the Ukrainian president said. Radiation levels have not increased, Zelenskyy and the U.N. atomic agency said.