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 are ...

Gelsenkirchen, in Germany's western Ruhr area, is the poorest city in the country. Garbage lies about in the streets and parks, and vacant and derelict apartments are a frequent sight. Every fourth ...

Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, how the Greens are mirroring the xenophobic policies of the far-right Alternative for Germany.

Ornamental trees and shrubs adorn the grounds of the Ekō House of Japanese Culture in Düsseldorf's Niederkassel district.

The far-right party is walking in the steps of the MAGA movement by courting support in depressed, diverse industrial towns once dominated by the left.

Its success was down to the appointment of Dr. Herman Muendar, a distinguished German "Braumeister" who had made his name in reviving the war damaged breweries of the Ruhr district. Meanwhile the ...

Tiexi—‘West of the Tracks’—is a district of Shenyang, the city once known as Mukden ... merely repeat the decline of the rustbelt in the American Midwest or of the Ruhr in Germany? The same historical ...

Joseph served in the Army Combat Engineers Battalion, and at the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket. He had seen bodies piled to ... educational requirements embodied in the White Plains school district, which ...

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Europe's largest economy contracted for a second consecutive year in 2024, its worst performance in two decades. And ...

Here are five reasons for Germany's ongoing economic slump: Moscow's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Germany in ...