Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to silence dissent. Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Rhineland region are ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off ...

A series of recent terrorist attacks in Germany is casting a shadow over preparations for Carnival season, which begins in earnest this year at the end of February. "Security measures have been ...

Revelers are costumed as Britain's Queen and her guards in the central Heumarkt in Cologne, Germany, as thousands of carnival enthusiasts parade through the streets on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, ...