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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is making a whirlwind trip through Berlin and Paris on Friday in a bid to shore up European backing at a critical moment for his country’s fight against Russia, with United States support wavering and Ukraine desperately in need of more arms. Arriving in Berlin on Friday morning, Mr. Zelensky […]
WASHINGTON — From Washington to Milan to Paris, tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched Saturday, calling for a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. The marches reflected growing disquiet about the mounting civilian casualty toll and suffering from the Israel-Hamas war. Protesters, particularly in countries with large Muslim populations, including the […]
UC Berkeley African American Studies Professor Leigh Raiford and Berkeley Law Professor Saira Mohamed are among the 26 winners of the annual Berlin Prize, semester-long residential fellowships given to top scholars, writers, composers and artists from the U.S. Raiford, who is also the director of Berkeley’s . . .
Comment on this story Comment Most outbound commuters on the U3 line of Berlin’s U-Bahn subway system exit long before reaching the penultimate stop, nestled between the Grunewald forest and the Free University. But Moses Pölking remembers the uneasiness he felt when he was riding the train and first spotted the station’s peculiar name on […]
BERLIN — Keira D’Amato was on I-95, driving north to catch a flight out of Dulles Airport. The American women’s marathon record holder was on her way to Berlin . She wondered what she forgot. She is an anxious packer, she said. But she was still excited. She has run the Berlin Marathon before. She […]
September 22, 2022 at 4:00 a.m. EDT A mural in Baghdad depicting the late Iraqi artist Mahood Ahmed, one of several painted by Wijdan al-Majed in the city. (Alice Martins for The Washington Post) BAGHDAD — When three Iraqi artists were invited to exhibit their work at this year’s Berlin Biennale, the organizing themes — […]
Arriving as part of BERLIN, BERLIN 3, Highsnobiety’s week long ode to the capital we call home, this Tresor x Highsnobiety t-shirt pays homage to the iconic Berlin nightclub and techno label. The graphic style is produced in a medium weight cotton fabric and adorned with iconography that commemorates Tresor and the third edition of […]
The Latest on the Russia-Ukraine crisis: BERLIN — Protesters have flocked to the Russian embassy in Berlin to decry Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to deploy troops to separatist regions of eastern Ukraine. People were waving yellow-blue Ukrainian flags and chanting “We stand united . . .
A Stars and Stripes flag flutters in the wind outside the new U.S. Embassy next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin July 3, 2008. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay BERLIN, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Police opened an investigation in August into several cases of so-called Havana syndrome among staff at the U.S. embassy in Berlin, Der Spiegel reported […]
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