German governor elected with far-right help leaves the job

BERLIN — A German state governor installed with the help of a far-right party said Saturday he is resigning the post with immediate effect, three days after his election shook the country's politics and stoked new tensions in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government. Thomas Kemmerich's announcement came as leaders of Merkel's governing coalition, meeting in Berlin to discuss the fallout, demanded that he go and the legislature of the eastern state of Thuringia "promptly" choose a successor. They called for that to be followed quickly by a new regional...