the latest: eu ponders uk request for brexit extension

Johnson sent letter to European Union Saturday seeking delay to Britain's impending Oct 31 departure from the bloc, as required by British law. German minister is calling on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to seek solution to Brexit standoff and says he would not have..

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Nearly 40 years after Katrice Lee, British toddler, vanished in West German supermarket toothy smile and.. The father of toddler who disappeared from British Army base Germany 38 years ago has said that his never.. ..

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the unfortunate odyssey of 'lord haw haw,' the nazis' wartime voice in

it was the name for which he will for ever be associated, Lord Haw-Haw was given by Daily Express Jonah Barrington to another of Reichrundfunk's broadcasters to England, possibly British-educated German Wolf Mittler or British Norman Baillie-Stewart.. ... few days later,..

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today in history, august 15, 1969: iconic 1960s woodstock concert

India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. 1961. East German Conrad Schumann to freedom over tangle of barbed wire in scene captured in famous photograph. 1965. ..

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In news meeting Bucharest Thursday, German, British and French foreign ministers announced the commissioning of European special mechanism known as INSTEX.. ..

100 years since world war one

The sinking of German armored SMS Blucher during engagement between German and British dreadnoughts in North Sea, January 1915. Dead German soldiers after Canadian charge during Battle of Somme, France, 1916. ..

the battle of the somme

Somme Offensive commenced on July 1916, as Allied forces attacked German positions by River Somme on Western Front France.. ... Great British Offensive, German Trenches Occupied Derby Daily Telegraph July 1916 Image © Northcliffe Media Limited. ..

the 1914 analogy

At the time, British felt that the Anglo- German rivalry was the rivalry, and British tended to see every mishap that occurred to them as German-inspired. ... In British Foreign Office, Eyre Crowe, the undersecretary for foreign affairs, argued that..

imperialism, the world war and social democracy

In England, France, Germany, United States, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Japan, Canada, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, British and Dutch Indies, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Congo, British and German Africa, Hong Kong and..

the truth behind britain’s rush to war, 1914

Fourth, there is no trail of evidence in German documents that confidence in the power of British Radicals to keep Britain neutral encouraged German militarists to risk war. ... Germans could also point to what did happen in 1914 Russians did invade East Prussia,..

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