With their anti-migrant tirades, the establishment parties are pursuing two goals: two goals: dividing the working class and building a police state.

BERLIN (AP) — Government officials and local residents attended a solemn Mass Sunday to honor a child and a man killed in a knife attack in Germany, an assault that amplified the debate about migration ahead of the Feb. 23 general election.

Berlin blames Bavaria. Bavaria blames Berlin. With migrants suspected in several deadly attacks, German politicians are jostling for position with calls to reform migration ahead of February's federal election.

[Omer Messinger/Getty Images] BERLIN – Germany's election campaign reached a fever ... including a two-year-old boy, in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday. He announced on Friday that his party would introduce a parliamentary motion ...

Police identified the suspect as an Afghan man. Politicians gearing up for an election responded with comments about migration and law and order.

A memorial service has commenced in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg four days after an attack there resulted in two deaths. "Today we are full of sorrow," Aschaffenburg parish priest, Martin Heim,

The chairman of the party and fraction of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, gives a press conference in the German parliament in Berlin, in reaction to the knife attack on January 22 in Aschaffenburg.

Germany’s opposition leader says his party will bring motions to toughen migration policy to parliament next week in one of its last sessions before the country’s election.

Germany's opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner.

With Germany reeling from another deadly knife attack by a migrant suspect, experts warned that the inability of asylum seekers to access mental health services has added to their existing vulnerabilities.

Tens of thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of the Feb. 23 election

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of Germans on Saturday protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of a Feb. 23 general election.