BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause and a palpable sense of relief in the parliament chamber after a historic ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

At least a dozen members of Merz’s proposed coalition failed to back him in the first vote on Tuesday — despite his coalition ...

For most of the Catholic Church's first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century ...

All four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights Tuesday as Russian forces intercepted more than ...

( The Hill) — President Donald Trump on Monday said he is establishing two new national holidays, one of which will fall on a date already designated as Veterans Day. The holidays, Trump explained on ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

While Japan won’t walk away from its alliance with the United States, the linchpin of the Asian country’s diplomacy and ...

May 8 is the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, which celebrates the Allies World War II victory in Europe. As a nation and ...

Across Europe, in forests, fields and beneath old farmland, the remains of German soldiers are still being found, exhumed and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the events of World War II on the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in a phone call on Tuesday.