75 years since end of WW-II: Have we learned any lessons?
Europe and the United States mark 75 years since the end of WW-II on Friday in a somber mood as the coronavirus pandemic forced...
The only infectious disease that humans eliminated? Lessons for COVID-19?
As scientists scramble for a COVID-19 cure and vaccine, the world marks on Friday a pertinent anniversary: humanity's only true triumph over a virus...
Coronavirus unites US & Russia yet nuclear arms divide them
The US and Russia are game for multilateral talks with the world’s nuclear powers and have cooperated on oil and against the coronavirus. Yet...
Trump says coronavirus is worse attack on the US than Pearl Harbor, 9/11
Donald Trump has said the coronavirus pandemic is a worse "attack" on the US than either Pearl Harbor or 9/11, taking aim once again...
The day Hitler lost the Second World War
Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with...
Coronavirus: Britain’s virus death toll becomes third-highest in the world
Britain's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak jumped to 26,097 on Wednesday -- the second-highest in Europe behind Italy and third-highest in the world...
2019 marks the biggest uptick in ‘global military expenditure’ including two ASIAN countries
Global military expenditure saw its biggest uptick in a decade in 2019, researchers said Monday, marking the first year two Asian countries were among...
Terror in time of corona: Germany arrests IS militants
German police have arrested five Tajik nationals on suspicion that they were members of an Islamic State group terror cell that had been planning...
US did not confiscate Berlin-bound face masks: US embassy in Germany
The US embassy in Germany on Monday denied a claim that a Berlin-bound shipment of protective masks had been "confiscated" by the United States,...
Germans complain of US swooping on Chinese masks at airport
The United States diverted a delivery of Chinese-made face masks bound for Germany at a Bangkok airport, a Berlin city official said Friday, accusing...
Coronavirus kills German finance minister without infecting him
Thomas Schaefer, who was the finance minister for the state of Hesse has taken his own life in the wake of the coronavirus crisis....
Domestic violence could rise as people confined to homes
With families across Europe confined to their homes to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, fears are rising of a surge in domestic...