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Ten years after the dramatic summer of 2015, the ultimate protagonist of the "Greek drama" appeared yesterday on the stage of ...
Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, desperate to prevent citizens from fleeing to the West, has fortified ...
There's an odd grave marker in Berlin, and there's also a Russian church that was reborn here. I'll tell you the story.
Though he was born a German, the British scarcely questioned the devotion of young Refugee Klaus Fuchs to democratic principles. His father was a Quaker theologian who had successively defied both ...
Map of Berlin area, showing travelers where the best hotels and attractions are located.
The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with ...
Germany on Thursday urged Iran to keep cooperating with the UN's nuclear watchdog, calling a vote by Iranian lawmakers calling for a suspension of cooperation "a totally wrong signal". Foreign ...
The United Arab Emirates is aiming to connect all seven emirates through a 900-kilometer (559-mile) high-speed rail network.
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered his greatest speech at the Berlin Wall. The powerful voice of JFK famously resounded in the war-torn Berlin - ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ ...
Over the next decade-and-a-half, political, social and economic factors resulted in the formation of the Berlin Wall which divided the country into the German Democratic Republic (GDR, also known ...