American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

Like everywhere else in Russia, this city, located between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, is preparing a commemoration of the ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...

A war veteran whose ship was missed by a torpedo by feet just days before VE Day says he is “frightened” as he can see a ...

Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th ...

Friedrich Merz has made his world-affairs debut as Germany’s new chancellor. Merz plans to immediately team up with allies ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...