Thirty years ago this week, on November 9, the world was stunned to see ordinary Germans tear down the Berlin Wall, the dreaded symbol of totalitarianism. Seemingly overnight, Communist regimes across Eastern Europe dissolved; two MORE
US top diplomat Pompeo is in Germany to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. He knows the country well, as he was stationed here during the Cold War. But how much longer will the MORE
In a verdict Tuesday, the Federal Constitutional Court found that monthslong slashes to welfare benefits known as Hartz IV for “breaches of duty” are unlawful. Under current legislation, recipients of the benefit can have their MORE
Boris Johnson was on Monday night accused of presiding over a cover-up after it emerged that No 10 refused to clear the publication of a potentially incendiary report examining Russian infiltration in British politics, including the MORE
Room 237 of Hamburg’s Hanseatic Higher Regional Court is no ordinary courtroom. Here, particularly dangerous individuals, like radical Islamists, are put on trial — naturally with special security measures in place. This Friday, 68-year-old Vladimir MORE
[…] shocking results from the state’s regional election last night solidify a roiling trend of political polarization in Germany that foreshadows coming instability in both Berlin and Brussels. What happened in Thuringia? Thuringia is the MORE
The Left party landed a historic victory in the German state of Thuringia, preliminary results showed for the regional assembly. The far-right AfD also marked a successful night, overtaking Angela Merkel’s CDU. Voters in the MORE
Spain will on Thursday exhume the remains of dictator Francisco Franco from a grandiose state mausoleum near Madrid and relocate them to a more discreet grave in a country still conflicted over his decades-long regime. MORE
UK police have announced the discovery of 39 dead bodies on Wednesday in a truck container in Essex, a county in southeast England. The 25-year-old driver of the lorry, reportedly from Northern Ireland, has been MORE
By any objective measure, this had seemed like an away banker during what was a fevered buildup. Manchester United, mired in their worst start to a season since 1989-90, were goal-shy; their confidence seemingly in pieces. MORE
Boris Johnson suffered yet another Brexit setback as UK lawmakers voted to delay approval of the UK Prime Minister’s departure deal until Parliament has passed the legislation required to enact it. Johnson must now ask the EU for MORE
A family who spent nine years on a farm “waiting for the end of time” have been discovered by police in the Netherlands after one of them turned up at a local pub, reports say. MORE
In a sense, Watch Over My Parents was created by accident. The service began in 2013, after a heat wave, when a number of overburdened city halls asked their local post offices to check on MORE
Two people have been killed, and one suspect arrested, in a shooting incident near a synagogue in the eastern German town of Halle, according to local police. CNN: One person was arrested, police said, but other MORE
London — A deadly car accident in England has led to a diplomatic standoff with the United States. Harry Dunn, 19, was struck and killed on his motorcycle in late August by a vehicle allegedly driving MORE
Police in the German town of Grünstadt had to subdue an intoxicated man carrying a samurai sword and firing blanks from a starter pistol into the air. A man in a town in Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate MORE
Portugal votes on Sunday with Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists tipped to win a second straight term after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of austerity. Costa‘s likely re-election bucks the MORE
The world’s first museum dedicated entirely to vaginas is set to open in the UK. The London-based Vagina Museum will open its doors for the first time on November 16 following a £50,000 crowdfunding campaign. The museum MORE
source–DutchReview In 2018, the NTR [the independent Dutch public service broadcaster] announced that no original – totally black – Pieten would be allowed. Despite this, people still turned up wearing black paint on their faces. MORE
A nursing home doctor has been acquitted of the murder of an elderly woman with severe dementia following a closely watched euthanasia trial in the Netherlands. The court in The Hague concluded on Wednesday that MORE
Donato Toma, the President of Molise, Italy will give people €700 ($769.65 US dollar) per month to relocate to villages in the area that have less than 2,000 people. Residents who take the president up MORE
Scottish appeal court judges have declared Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament in the run-up to the October Brexit deadline is unlawful. MORE
Infighting and divisions at nationalist party Forum voor Democratie (Forum for Democracy) have cost the new grouping major support, according to a string of opinion polls. MORE
The House of Lords has agreed to get the Benn bill ruling out a no-deal Brexit through all stages of parliament before it is suspended by Boris Johnson. MORE
Amid loud cries from protesters on the streets outside the House of Commons, the lawmakers turned to a key piece of legislation on their agenda that would prevent an immediate no-deal Brexit. MORE