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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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,..

farsnews

In news meeting Bucharest January, 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. ..

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germany plans to suspend arms sales to saudis; other european

Merkel's move followed joint statement from German, French and British foreign ministries highlighting an urgent need for clarification of what happened to Khashoggi, Washington Post contributing columnist, after he entered Saudi Consulate Istanbul on Oct 2... ..

the downfall of france [excerpt]

In the month that had intervened since then German invaders had not secured complete success. British expeditionary force hung on Narvik. But the larger bodies of British troops landed at several points on Norwegian coast, and French and Polish troops that had accompanied or followed..

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 strange triumph of liberal democracy

In Contesting Democracy, Jan-Werner Müller, German-born, British-educated scientist who teaches at Princeton, traces the central ideological narratives of European politics during the century, arguing essentially that the order emerged and has proved durable because it offered novel and..

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..

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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