There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps demonstrate.What is nonsense is the assertion that their separation into two countries is the result of some ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... Belgium, in 1648 to weigh the silver in a Hungarian coin called a ducat.

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament delayed him from taking office. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...

They were bitter enemies, seemingly destined to be perpetually at odds after fighting two devastating world wars less than 30 ...

BERLIN — Germany has banned a secessionist group known as “Kingdom of Germany” that proclaimed to run a “counter-state” under the rule of an absolute monarch. German Interior Minister Alexander ...

Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), was sworn in to office as the fifth chancellor of a reunified Germany on Tuesday evening. The neck-snapping events — with ...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stood side by side Monday at Platform 17 of the Grunewald train station, once a central departure point for the ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the map to justify the United States entering World War II—but as one historian told ...

Germany's new government, led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, plans to increase the number of border police to enforce stricter migration policies. Meanwhile, Merz is on his first official trip to ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its ...

People walk in front of the Reichtag Building, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied ...