German opposition leader Friedrich Merz said he would seek to pass a disputed migration measure in parliament next week with any party willing to back it, a move critics say could break the firewall with the far right weeks before a federal election.

BERLIN—German police detained an Afghan man suspected of stabbing two people to death, including a 2-year-old, putting immigration back at the center of the campaign for next month’s election. Armed with a kitchen knife,

The arrest of an Afghan asylum seeker suspected of killing two people in a knife attack targeting children in a German park has prompted calls for a much tougher migration stance and fired up campaigning for Germany's Feb.