The Latest Breaking News from Olaf Scholz

Germany’s Cabinet has approved a draft 2024 budget that foresees lower spending with defense among the exceptions

Moscow briefly closes airport amid reports of drone attack; Jens Stoltenberg’s term as Nato secretary general extended by a year

Missile strike targeted a military funeral in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, local official says

Child among people injured in attack in Sumy; Lynne Tracy visits Wall Street Journal reporter in prison after court upholds FSB request to extend his detention

Poland and Hungary's refusal to go along with a widely agreed EU revision of asylum rules soured a summit of the bloc's leaders that wrapped up Friday – detracting from unity on other issues including on Ukraine – citing racial unrest in France as an example of unsuccessful migrant integration.

Leaders of Germany’s main opposition bloc are calling for voters turned off by the government to back them in two major state elections this fall

As the war enters it 492nd day, these are the main developments.

Death toll in Kramatorsk rocket attack rises to 12 as rescue operations end; Ukraine claims to be making advances towards Berdiansk and Mariupol

The Moscow Times Russian-language service and a military blogger reported Surovikin’s arrest over links to Wagner force.

German chancellor says uprising is sign of weakness as Russian president greets crowds in Derbent

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is insisting that right-wing populism won’t gain the upper hand in his country, days after a far-right party won control of a county administration for the first time since the Nazi era