BERLIN — When Angela Merkel became chancellor 16 years ago, George W. Bush was in the White House and Tony Blair was prime minister of Britain. There was no Twitter and no iPhone. Liberal democracy was in seemingly irreversible expansion, with the Orange Revolution having swept Ukraine. On Wednesday, asContinue Reading
BERLIN — Angela Merkel was assured of a place in the history books as soon as she became Germany’s first female chancellor on Nov. 22, 2005. Over the next 16 years, she was credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence, working to hold a fractious European Union together, managing aContinue Reading
Olaf Scholz, designated Federal Chancellor, is pictured during the meeting of the German Bundestag. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images Olaf Scholz was voted in as the new German chancellor by lawmakers on Wednesday, marking the end of Angela Merkel‘s 16 years in power. Scholz, a member of theContinue Reading
MEXICO CITY — The Honduras opposition candidate, Xiomara Castro, inched closer to an astounding presidential victory on Monday morning, promising a new era of democratic inclusion in a nation where despair has driven hundreds of thousands to the U.S. border seeking refuge in recent years. Ms. Castro, 62, held aContinue Reading
Olaf Scholz is expected to lead a new “traffic light” coalition between the Social Democrats, the Free Democrats and the Green Party. Following long negotiations between the three German political parties and the historic election of Angela Merkel’s resignation 16 years later, a left-wing Olaf Scholz, proposed by the nextContinue Reading
In 2018, Mr. Trump skipped a visit to a veterans cemetery further outside of Paris. In 2020, Mr. Trump denied a report in The Atlantic that he had mocked that cemetery as “filled with losers.” On Thursday, Ms. Harris will attend an Armistice Day ceremony with Mr. Macron and deliverContinue Reading
Jason White of the Center will lead the Sunday service on September 22, 2019 at the West Buffalo Bill Center in Cody. CODY – Kanye West’s experience ends in Cody. Whether it was good or bad for the city, most Cody residents would agree that it was memorable.He was inContinue Reading
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government advanced plans on Wednesday to build more than 3,000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, in the first move of its kind since Prime Minister Naftali Bennett succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu in June. A defense ministry planning committee approved the construction of 3,130 newContinue Reading
The skeletons move across a barren landscape toward the few helpless and terrified people still living. The scene, imagined in a mid-16th-century painting, “The Triumph of Death” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, illuminated the psychic impact of the bubonic plague. It was a terror that lingered even as the diseaseContinue Reading
BERLIN — German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy. Polls point to a very close race Sunday between Merkel’s center-right Union bloc, with state governor Armin Laschet runningContinue Reading