Conservative frontrunner to be country’s next chancellor aims to submit tough migration proposals to MPs next week

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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused his main rival in the federal elections next month of breaking a taboo by signaling his openness to pushing disputed measures on migration through parliament with the far-right Alternative for Germany.

Following the fatal knife attack in Aschaffenburg in northern Bavaria, the 28-year-old suspect is to be brought before a magistrate on Thursday,

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, after elections next month, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for a deadly knife attack targeting children.

Following the killing of two people in Bavaria by an Afghan refugee, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed his frustration over the recurring occurrence of such horrific events and called for a thorough investigation into the presence of the perpetrator in Germany.

Two people, including a two-year-old boy, have been killed and three others were injured in a stabbing attack in Bavaria

A man has been arrested after the knife attack in the southern German state of Bavaria. The motives for the stabbing are still unclear, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it "an act of terror."

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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the growing influence of Germany's far right at a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Saturday evening. The protesters used lamps and their mobile phones to form what organizers described as a "sea of lights" directed against the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Chancellor Olaf Scholz reminded Germans Thursday of their responsibility for the "civilisational rupture" of the Holocaust, in a speech marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.