The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won 32.8% of the vote in the eastern state of Thuringia. It became the first far-right party to win a major election in Germany since the Nazis in 1938.

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...