Nearly a year to the day after the Chinese city of Wuhan went into lockdown to contain a virus that had already escaped, President Joe Biden began putting into effect a new war plan for fighting the outbreak in the U.S., Germany topped 50,000 deaths, and Britain closed in on 100,000.
BERLIN (AP) — The death toll from the coronavirus in Germany has passed 50,000, a number that has risen swiftly over recent weeks even as infection figures are finally declining.
“Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World II Tell us About our History and Ourselves” by Keith Lowe; William Collins (302 pages, $29.99) ––– A pedestal is a risky place to take a stand. In America, official tributes to leaders from Robert E. Lee to Abraham Lincoln have been destroyed or defaced. In Europe, memorials to Communist dictators have been torn down. In the Middle East, even ...
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that Germany is extending its pandemic restrictions, including the closure of schools and stores, until mid-February amid concerns that new mutations of the coronavirus could trigger a fresh surge in cases.
PARIS — For America's allies and rivals alike, the chaos unfolding during Donald Trump's final days as president is the logical result of four years of global instability brought on by the man who promised to change the way the world viewed the United States.
BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Tuesday it is extending the country's lockdown by three weeks until Jan. 31, tightening curbs on social contacts and planning limits on people's movements in the worst-affected regions as it tries to reduce stubbornly high infection figures and worrying numbers of coronavirus-related deaths.
Unless it calls for a special meeting, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education will not meet again until Jan. 12, making i…
In November, we noted the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, beginning in 1945. This “world court” gathered to judge the accountability…
POWELL, on reports that a U.S. voting server is in Germany: "That is true, it's somehow related to this but I do not know whether good guys got it or bad guys got it."
Germany marks the 75th anniversary of the landmark Nuremberg trials of several Nazi leaders and in what is now seen as the birthplace of a new…
The landmark Nuremberg trials of several Nazi leaders are now seen as the birthplace of a new era of international law.
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Hungry to see the world, Mark Elliott joined the Army, following in the footsteps of his family’s two generations of Army veterans.
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In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina.
The World Health Organization has announced a new daily record high in coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide, with more than 350,000 infections reported to the U.N. health agency on Friday.
Bavaria's governor calls it a "model case of stupidity" after virus infections were tied to bars visited by a woman accused of flouting quarantine rules.
Heidi Klum has been given permission to take her kids to Germany later this year while she's filming 'Germany's Next Top Model' after reaching a custody agreement with ex-husband Seal.
Heidi Klum has filed for an emergency hearing after claiming Seal has stopped her from taking their four children to Germany.
For people in the U.S. looking to travel to the U.K., they’ll have to wait due to the growing number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. Veuer’s …
For people in the U.S. looking to travel to the U.K., they’ll have to wait due to the growing number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. Veuer’s …