Obama’s Berlin speech: History raises the stakes
Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can’t escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement.
Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can’t escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement.
Last week, Cebu hosted a distinguished visitor, Judge Marc Spitzkatz, the director of Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung’s (KAS) Rule of Law Programme in Asia. KAS is the political foundation associated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Germany and is named after the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany who was also CDU’s co-founder.
June 12, Independence Day had me watching a cable news program featuring random interviews of pedestrians and their thoughts about love of country.
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc. World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe harshly condemned the news and prosecutors in Poland have said they’ll investigate.
Vice President Jejomar Binay has called on the government to look into Germany’s dual vocational system and see how it could help reduce unemployment in the Philippines.
German authorities urged 15,000 more people to flee their homes in a city on the swollen Elbe river Sunday as central Europe’s worst floods in a decade also threatened Hungary after causing havoc in the Czech Republic and Austria.
Floodwaters that have killed at least 10 people across Europe on Tuesday morning peaked in the Czech capital Prague and were heading toward Germany, officials said.
A lightning strike injured 39 people, eight of them severely, at a Father’s Day party in eastern Germany.
Police say a gunman shot and killed a local official in the northwestern town of Hamelin before turning the weapon upon himself.
A Jesuit priest kidnapped and tortured during Argentina’s military dictatorship said he and a fellow abductee priest were not denounced to the rightwing junta by Pope Francis.
One person died Thursday as two helicopters collided over Berlin’s iconic Olympic Stadium during a police security exercise for operations against football hooligans, authorities said.
Two small planes collided in midair over central Germany on Saturday and crashed, killing seven people, police said.
Germany’s Cabinet on Thursday approved sending German Patriot air defense missiles to Turkey to protect the NATO member against possible attacks from Syria, in a major step toward possible Western military role in the Syrian conflict.
