World faces 'new type of war'
German President Joachim Gauck said on Sunday the world is confronted with a "new type of war" perpetrated by terrorists bent on killing those who refuse to follow their "barbaric ideology". ......
View ArticleWorld confronted by 'new type of war': German president
German President Joachim Gauck said Sunday the world is confronted with a "new type of war" perpetrated by terrorists bent on killing those who...
View ArticleWorld leaders mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
World leaders appealed against anti-Semitism on Tuesday as they marked UN Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year coincides with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi...
View ArticleFrench, German leaders visit Nazi massacre site in central France
French President François Hollande on Wednesday welcomed his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, for a visit to the abandoned village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France, where 642 people were killed...
View ArticleGermany offers fund to defuse Greek war reparation claims
German President Joachim Gauck dismissed Greek demands for compensation for Nazi-era crimes during a symbolic visit to Greece on Thursday, and instead offered to set up a new fund to remind Germans of...
View Article70th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation a time for reflection
The Yomiuri ShimbunSeventy years have passed since the Auschwitz concentration camp, a symbol of the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany, was liberated in the final phase of World War II by the then...
View ArticleFrench, German Presidents Mark World War I Anniversary
Lisa Bryant PARIS — French and German presidents evoked the bloody lessons of World War I and hailed the emergence of a largely peaceful Europe Sunday, as they marked the centenary of Germany's...
View ArticleMuslims in Germany fear fellow Germans' wrath
A young woman wearing a headscarf sits behind the counter of her decoration shop surrounded by ribbons, bows and piles of colored paper in the western German city of Cologne. The scent of oriental...
View ArticleMuslims in Germany fear Germans' wrath
A young woman wearing a headscarf sits behind the counter of her decoration shop surrounded by ribbons, bows and piles of colored paper in the western German city of Cologne. The scent of oriental...
View ArticleFrench, German leaders pay emotional tribute to WWI fallen
Hartmannswiller (France) (AFP) - French President Francois Hollande and his German counterpart Joachim Gauck paid emotional tributes Sunday to the millions of soldiers who died during World War I,...
View Article>Hollande marks 100 years since World War I's start
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande has commemorated the 100th anniversary of World War I with an appeal to...
View ArticleEurope's leaders hail ties of peace as they mark first world war centenary
Twelve cannon shots rang out across the peaceful wooded hills above the Belgian city of Liège, one for each of the 12 forts which, exactly 100 years ago, were about to face the full force of Germany's...
View ArticleJoined hands heal scars of France and Germany's past
From left: Robert Hebras, 88, one of the last survivors of the World War II massacre in the central French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, German President Joachim Gauck, and French President Francois...
View ArticleWorld leaders commemorate World War I outbreak
LIEGE, Belgium: World leaders leaders on Monday commemorated the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, a small Balkans conflict that went global with the German invasion of neutral Belgium...
View ArticleGreek president urges speedy talks with Berlin on bid for World War II...
Published March 06, 2014Associated Press German President Joachim Gauck, places a wreath at the monument of the Unknown Soldier during his visit to Athens, on Thursday, March 6, 2014. Gauck is on a...
View ArticleFrance and Germany mark 100 years since the outbreak of WW1
French President Francois Hollande and German President Joachim Gauck commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. Photo: Michele Tantussi Hartmannswiller, France: France and Germany...
View ArticleIrish/British engagement in the first World War was morally right
You may have heard George Bernard Shaw say on that promo currently running on RTÉ Radio 1: “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” He might have been talking about Eamonn Maloney...
View ArticleFrench and German presidents mark 100 years since start of first world war
François Hollande and Joachim Gauck embrace at monument in Alsace where remains of 12,000 soldiers are interred...
View ArticleThe 'scream of Oradour' is still heard today
It was meant to be a historic event and became a deeply moving day: German President Gauck and French President Hollande held each other in a long embrace in Oradour, site of a massacre perpetrated by...
View ArticleFrench president marks World War I centenary
View gallery France's President Francois Hollande, right, stands next to German President Joachim Gauck, left … View gallery France's President Francois Hollande, right, stands next to German President...
View ArticleHollande marks 100th anniversary since start of World War I with appeal for...
Published August 03, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 France's President Francois Hollande, right, stands next to German President Joachim Gauck, left, as they pay respect in the crypt of the...
View ArticleHollande marks 100 years since World War I's start
Share PhotoReddit✉ France's President Francois Hollande, right, hugs German President Joachim Gauck, left, as they pay respect in the crypt of the the National Monument of Hartmannswillerkop, in...
View ArticleFrench, German leaders pay emotional tribute to World War I fallen soldiers
HARTMANNSWILLER (France): French President Francois Hollande and his German counterpart Joachim Gauck paid emotional tributes on Sunday to the millions of soldiers who died during World War I, exactly...
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