It all started after the 2004 tsunami, when former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was holidaying in Sri Lanka at a beach villa in the South, when a wall of water came crashing in. Mr. Kohl was plucked ...

Few politicians have been more lauded during their careers and more excoriated in retirement than Angela Merkel. The former ...

MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. The late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl did much to develop relations between Germany and Russia, Naina Yeltsina, the widow of first Russian President Boris Yeltsin ...

Kohl was the chancellor who oversaw the reunification of Germany "One of the greatest leaders in post-war Europe," was George H W Bush's tribute to former German chancellor, Helmut Kohl ...

Despite occasional differences, Mr Kohl forged alliances with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan Helmut Kohl, Germany's ex-chancellor and architect of reunification ...

In Feb. 2024, the president claimed he spoke with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl – who actually died four years earlier. White ...

When Helmut Kohl came to power in 1982, there was no shortage of mockers who saw him as the "transitional chancellor". Declared politically dead several times, Kohl nevertheless became the longest ...

MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was a historical figure that changed Europe and the entire world, Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament ...

This paved the way for a takeover by the center-right Christian Democratic Union — and to Helmut Kohl leading Germany for 16 years. Lindner’s detailed text, which reads as if weeks of work went into ...

EU leaders and former heads of state from Europe and elsewhere will meet in Strasbourg on 1 July to pay tribute to the late German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, in the European Parliament. Donec et ...