Germany's far-right AfD seeks to downplay meeting with extremists

Lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have sought to downplay revelations that AfD leaders met secretly with radical extremists. AfD lawmakers in parliament plan to discuss the revelations internally in the coming days, parliamentary group secretary Bernd Baumann told dpa on Tuesday ahead of a scheduled meeting of the group in Berlin. The news outlet Correctiv revealed that several top AfD officials met with far-right figures in Potsdam, including Martin Sellner, the long-standing Austrian leader of the far-right extremist Identitarian movement. Attendees at the Pots...