A dramatic silhouette and reputation for British engineering excellence long made the Avro Vulcan bomber a favourite at ...

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In Bochum, a town in the German industrial Ruhr valley, cheesemonger Heike Wischnewski said she was contemplating casting her ballot for the far-right Alternative for Germany. The 60-year-old, whose ...

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy ...

The country’s new government will need to quickly demonstrate its resilience and that it can take on the task of showing that Europe counts.

Friedrich Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, promises a more assertive foreign policy aligned with a strong ...

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The deeper rot in German governance will require more fundamental reforms than any coalition is likely to deliver.

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he ...

VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has ...

Sidelined from talks on finding an end to the war in Ukraine, the European Union is scrambling to find a security strategy ...

The US was refusing to co-sponsor a draft UN resolution marking three years since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that backs Kyiv’s territorial integrity and again demands Russia withdraw its troops, ...