A Brussels court on Tuesday ruled that Etienne Davignon, a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat, must stand trial over war crimes linked to the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of Democratic Republic of Congo. Davignon, a former European commissioner, was among ten Belgians accused by Lumumba's family of complicity in his murder.
Gerry Adams, probably Northern Ireland's most prominent Republican politician during the internal conflict with the UK known as "the Troubles," testified in London's High Court on Tuesday, accused by victims of being ultimately responsible for bombings in England by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
For many people, the arrival of an electricity bill might be met with a degree of dread. But in the small German village of Feldheim residents barely give them a second thought. "In my old apartment, I used about 2,400 kilowatt hours a year.
The largest US air base outside the United States is located in Ramstein, Rhineland-Palatinate. This state in southwestern Germany is also the ancestral home of US President Donald Trump. It is home to the world's tallest cold-water geyser, which shoots up 60 meters, and, of course, there's the wine.
The corn in the fields stands several feet tall — it hasn’t been harvested in a long time. Villages are destroyed and deserted. Burnt-out car wrecks line the roadsides. There is no sign of fighting — the area in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border looks downright eerie.
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It was with obvious pride that Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk took to social media on February 6. Sharing a picture of an article in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled "The Poles Are Coming," he wrote, "See how this phrase has changed over the past 30 years.
At a nuclear summit near Paris earlier this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described the transition from nuclear energy undertaken by some EU countries as a "strategic mistake." Nuclear power, she said, is a "reliable, affordable source of low-emission electricity." She announced new EU financial assistance for nuclear power plants.
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One in eight people living in Germany has experienced discrimination at least once in 2022. That is the alarming finding of the study "How Discrimination is Experienced in Germany," which was presented on Tuesday in Berlin by Ferda Ataman, the Independent Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination.
The first of five regional elections in 2026, which took place in the wealthy southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, has resulted in an unexpected victory for the ecologist Greens.
"We are the winners of the evening," said Tino Chrupalla, co-chairman of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in virtually every interview he gave on election night. Markus Frohnmaier, the AfD's top candidate in Baden-Württemberg, struck the same note: "I am very, very satisfied!"