Thousands of demonstrators delayed the start of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) congress on Saturday in the eastern town of Riesa, with protesters blocking access roads and clashing with police,

A day after Donald Trump's inauguration as US president, the mood was jubilant at a small Berlin campaign event of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, despite the biting winter cold.

Trade union announces transport warning strikes in Berlin, Elon Musk's portrait removed from Munich's Deutsches Museum, Scholz raises questions about Afghan knife attacker, and more news from around Germany on Thursday.

The conservatives in Germany are proposing a crackdown on migration policies - including citizenship laws - after the fatal stabbing in Aschaffenburg. But many are accusing them of cooperating with the far-right AfD.

A rejected Afghan asylum-seeker killed two people and left several others injured in a stabbing in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

With a month until Germany votes in the nationwide election, Brian Melican examines the growing influence of the AfD during the campaign – and explains why, in the short term, there is no way of stopping the far-right party’s rise in the polls.