German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is in the US ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden, called the flooding a "catastrophe" and said she was "grieving those who have lost their lives".

The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it marks the German ...

Amid the despair and the mounting death toll in Germany and Belgium are questions about how such a disaster could have happened. The flooding followed record rainfall in parts of western Europe ...

Record floods engulfed the historic eastern German city of Dresden today, swamping its Baroque architecture and driving thousands from their homes. A tide of debris-laden brown water also ...

Short, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but nothing is typical about what has been happening there recently.

BERLIN, July 18. /TASS/. The number of casualties in the devastating flood in western Germany has reached at last 156, Koblenz police reported Sunday. The death toll in the Ahrweiler district ...

One image that will remain in many voters' minds is that of Laschet laughing in the background during a somber visit by Germany's president to the flood region. Laschet, who is governor of the ...