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“Pivotal moment” is an understatement for what Romania will go through this weekend, as the country decides between two starkly different presidential candidates: the centrist, pro-EU mayor of ...

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

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TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...

Clint Curtis was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to be Shasta County's registrar of voters, but his work experience is being questioned.

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Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne speaks about what surprised him about the conclave, praising Pope Leo XIV’s “warmth ...

Germany is wrongly targeting Alternative for Germany via its intelligence service. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also ...