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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Bochum, a town in the German industrial Ruhr valley, cheesemonger Heike Wischnewski said she was ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the right-wing AfD party has risen to popularity amid the region's economic decline. In one city — Gelsenkirchen — individuals ...

Dozens of police teams across Germany raided homes before dawn in a coordinated crackdown on a recent Tuesday. The state police weren't looking for drugs or guns, they were looking for people ...

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany—For 20 years, Stefan Diete, a lab chemist at an oil refinery in this western Germany town, was a member of a far-left party with Communist roots. In this month’s ...

“That is the legend of the Ruhr,” says Gerhard Kienbaum, economics minister of West Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia. “Today it corresponds to reality about as well as the ...

A research team from the University Alliance Ruhr, Germany, has found a catalyst that can be used to convert ammonia into the energy carrier hydrogen and the fertilizer precursor nitrite.

THE withdrawal of the last French and Belgian police forces from the Ruhr ends the effort of France to use a club in collecting reparations from Germany. The Ruhr basin--about the size of the State of ...

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT With over five million residents, it is Germany’s largest urban area and the third-largest in the European Union, right behind London and Paris. The Ruhr is ...

I read with interest Antonia Cundy’s report “Opus Dei group accused of recruiting children” (August 5). The accounts given by former members of the conservative Catholic group exactly match ...