The call came at 11:30 to my home in Munich, Germany, on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, 45 years ago yesterday. As Chief Duty ...

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I am absolutely convinced that without Pope John Paul II, German reunification would not have been possible,” Martin ...

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Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, born on May 5, 1970, in Stryi, Ukraine, is the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, having been elected to this position on March 23, 2011, and confirmed ...

The Nobel Peace Prize honors Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese survivors' group, for its commitment to ending nuclear weapons. Since 1956, they’ve shared powerful testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s ...

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

In Moldova's recent EU referendum, 95% of voters in the region of Gagauzia voted against joining the EU. Why do people there lean toward Russia despite support from the EU and the war in Ukraine? DW ...