The First World War ended 100 years ago today (Sunday) after a civilian peace delegation dispatched by the German government,…
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Latvia warns of cyber attacks
Covert Russian cyber attacks against Nato members could lead to deaths and potentially escalate into military conflict, Latvia’s foreign minister…
Kohl’s surprise vision
After the death at the weekend of the architect of German reunification, Helmut Kohl, aged 87, his legacy is a…
Atoning for imperial sins
Few Britons know about the 1860 destruction of the Peking Summer Palace at the end of the Second Opium War…
By-elections put Corbyn in spotlight
Copeland in Cumbria largely voted to leave the European Union last year. Source: Wikimedia UK by-elections in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent…
Analysts warn Kaliningrad becoming hotspot
The former Konigsberg Stock Exchange. Isolated buildings survived the Soviet invasion. Source: Wikimedia As tension mounts with its neighbours, Kaliningrad’s maritime…
Bosnia unhappy with Karadzic sentence
Burial of 775 identified victims in 2010 in Srebrenica. Source: Wikimedia The predominantly female survivors of the 1995…
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Nato sails to block migrant EU access
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