Can the 'Mercron' dynamic duo deliver for Europe?
Ideally, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will enter into an open political marriage from which all of Europe will benefit, rather than an exclusive relationship that breeds resentment.
Thieves swipe a big chunk of change — all 100 kg of it — from German museum
Thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum before dawn Monday and made off with a massive 100-kg (221-pound) gold coin worth millions of dollars, police said. Police spokesman Stefen Petersen said thieves apparently entered through a window about 3:30 a.m. Monday, broke into a ...
If German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen as less solid in her grip on domestic politics at home, then her ability to push or steer the European ship of state is similarly diminished.
A young German woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria was killed over the weekend in clashes with Islamic State fighters, Kurdish officials and a Turkey-based communist group said on Monday. The Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes and local rebel fighters, have been battling ...
German kidnapped in July by Boko Haram counts blessings after being freed in Cameroon
A German man who was kidnapped by the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group in July and freed said Wednesday he never knew if he would survive the ordeal. Looking haggard and with a long blond-gray beard and wearing a blue-and-white Adidas track jacket, Robert Nitsch ...
U.S. energy secretary defends possible German nuclear waste imports
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Monday defended his agency's controversial move to consider processing spent nuclear fuel from Germany at South Carolina's Savannah River Site nuclear facility, saying the proposal is consistent with U.S. efforts to secure highly enriched uranium across the globe. The ...
German associations donate halls in Tohoku
On barren land in the Kamiosabe district of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, where many homes were swept away by the tsunami spawned by the March 2011 earthquake, a brand new wooden building has become the local community center. Sporting a sky blue exterior, the facility known ...
A German stadium announcer has apologized for describing a wonder goal scored by a Japanese player in a German soccer match Sunday as "a bit like Fukushima," saying it was a "stupid" comment, according to the Die Welt newspaper. The announcer made the comment after ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel's American minders
Germans used to joke that Chancellor Angela Merkel's penchant for fleeting text messages effectively marked the end of historiography. At least American spy agencies have kept track.
What Bismarck can show Red China
More than a century and a half after it was published, Alexis de Tocqueville's "The Old Regime and the Revolution" has become an unlikely best-seller in China. Wang Qishan, China's anti-corruption czar, is reportedly among the senior leaders obsessed with what he sees as the ...
