Europe

The essential issues to know as voters in 27 nations head to the poll field to form the following 5 years of European Union insurance policies. More

Beneath the crystal chandeliers of the gilded reception corridor of the Élysée Palace, opened in 1889 with a party for 8,000 individuals, President Emmanuel Macron of France hosted President Biden on Saturday evening at a state dinner meant to have fun a really previous alliance and exhibit that the bond is bigger than its intermittent […] More

Sigmund Rolat, a Polish Holocaust survivor who tapped the wealth he accrued as a businessman within the United States to help cultural initiatives in his homeland, most notably a museum dedicated to the historical past of Jews in Poland that stands on the grounds of the Warsaw Ghetto, died on May 19 at his residence […] More

Jürgen Moltmann, who drew on his searing experiences as a German soldier throughout World War II to assemble transformative concepts about God, Jesus and salvation in a fallen world, making him one of many main Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, died on Monday at his residence in Tübingen, in southwest Germany. He was 98. […] More

President Biden and President Emmanuel Macron of France careworn on Saturday how a lot they agree with one another about world affairs, together with the warfare in Ukraine, at the same time as their international locations have expressed sharply completely different views of the combating in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Appearing briefly collectively earlier […] More

In entrance of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the road has been blanketed in synthetic turf, and a set of gigantic purpose posts has been erected. On the waterfront in Hamburg, two dozen delivery containers have been painted within the colours of the competing nations. Part of Leipzig’s zoo has been handed over for a […] More

Jim McCann, the vice principal of St. Joseph’s Primary School, made his means by means of the hallways, pointing like a proud father to the colourful paper butterflies crafted by his college students that hung from the ceiling. He cheerfully greeted every baby by identify as he handed them. Then he caught his head right […] More

With President Biden in France rallying help for Ukraine’s combat in opposition to Russia, ammunition and weaponry from an support package deal permitted by Congress this spring is arriving on the entrance in portions enough to assist stabilize defenses, troopers and commanders mentioned in interviews. Russia, although, nonetheless holds an artillery benefit, which has been […] More

In the daylight of Normandy, earlier than the surviving American veterans who eight many years in the past helped flip the tide of the conflict towards Hitler, President Emmanuel Macron of France spoke this previous week of the “bond of blood shed for liberty” that ties his nation to the United States. It is a […] More

In 2011, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, News Corporation, confronted a grave risk in Britain. Reporters at one among his tabloid newspapers have been uncovered for hacking the telephones of celebrities, personal residents and, in a single case, a murdered baby for data. Other misdeeds quickly emerged, together with the revelation that for years, tabloid reporters […] More

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark was attacked in a busy sq. in Copenhagen on Friday night in an assault that left her “shaken,” her workplace stated, although she was in a position to stroll away. Police stated they’d made an arrest. “We have a suspect in custody, and we are actually investigating the matter,” […] More

Jeannette Charles, who remodeled a portrait rejected by a royal artwork present right into a profession as a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike in motion pictures and on tv, died on Tuesday in Great Baddow, England. She was 96 — the identical age because the monarch when she died two years in the past. “Mum was […] More