Author: Geir Moulson
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” The former opposition presidential candidate is a “key, unifying…
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in Paris signed security agreement with France after similar deal with Germany
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a bilateral security agreement with France
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NATO chief warns against dividing the US and Europe or undermining their joint nuclear deterrent
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NATO’s chief is warning member countries not to allow a wedge to be driven between the United States and Europe
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Poland, France and Germany vow to make Europe stronger as fears grow over Russia and Trump
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The governments of Poland, France and Germany are vowing to make Europe a security and defense power with a greater ability to back Ukraine
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Germany, EU launch work on ‘new Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine
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BERLIN • German and European Union leaders gathered experts Tuesday to start work on what Germany’s chancellor described as a “new Marshall Plan” for the rebuilding of Ukraine. The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored initiative that helped revive western European economies after World War II. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose country currently chairs the Group…
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Europe, US reel as virus infections surge
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NEW YORK • Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the U.S., forcing many places to reimpose tough restrictions they had eased just a few months ago. Well after Europe seemed to…
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Germany says Soviet-era nerve agent used on Russia’s Navalny
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BERLIN • Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the same type of Soviet-era nerve agent used in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, the German government said Wednesday, provoking outrage from Western leaders who demanded Moscow provide an explanation. The findings — which experts say point strongly to Russian state involvement…
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Old-time plane crashes in Swiss Alps, killing 20
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BERLIN — An old-time propeller plane crashed near-vertically at high speed into a Swiss mountain, killing all 20 people on board, police said Sunday. The Junkers Ju-52 plane, operated by the Swiss company Ju-Air, went down Saturday on the Piz Segnas mountain above the Alpine resort of Flims, striking the mountain’s western flank about 2,540…
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Prosecutors: German nurse may have killed over 100 patients
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BERLIN — A nurse who is already serving a life sentence for two murders may have killed more than 100 patients over several years at two hospitals in northwestern Germany, prosecutors said Thursday. Investigators have completed toxicological examinations on patients who died during Niels Hoegel’s time as a nurse in hospitals in Oldenburg and Delmenhorst,…
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Man with knife attacks 8 people in Munich; suspect arrested
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BERLIN — A man with a knife attacked eight people in Munich on Saturday and then fled, police said. The suspected assailant, a local German already known to police for theft and other offenses, was arrested a few hours later. No one was seriously hurt in the attack that started at around 8.30 a.m. in…