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Today in History: May 7, Nazi Germany surrenders

May. 07, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 7, the 128th day of 2024. There are 238 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 7, 1945, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims (rams), France,...

Polish prosecutors open investigation into judge who fled to autocratic Belarus

May. 06, 2024 15:31 PM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors opened an investigation Monday after a Polish judge fled to the autocratic state of Belarus and asked for protection there. The National Prosecutor’s Office said it is looking into suspicions the judge had acted on behalf of a foreign...

Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West's possible deepening role in Ukraine

May. 06, 2024 14:28 PM EDT

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. After...

Germany recalls its ambassador in Russia for a week in protest over a hacker attack

May. 06, 2024 12:06 PM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Germany said Monday it recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in Berlin following an alleged hacker attack on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party. Germany last week accused Russian military agents of hacking into the top echelons of Scholz's...

A British Palestinian doctor was denied entry to France for a Senate meeting about the war in Gaza

May. 05, 2024 04:29 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — A well-known British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals said he was denied entry to France on Saturday to speak at a French Senate meeting about the Israel-Hamas war. Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta was placed in a holding zone in the Charles de Gaulle...

A candidate for Germany's key party was beaten up while campaigning for European elections

May. 04, 2024 14:27 PM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left party in next month’s election for the European Parliament was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city, the party said Saturday. The incident raised political tension in Germany...

German foreign minister says Russia will face consequences for monthslong cyber espionage

May. 03, 2024 16:27 PM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — Germany on Friday accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other sensitive government and industrial targets, and was joined by NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia’s cyberespionage would have...

Berlin’s government offers to give away villa once owned by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels

May. 03, 2024 10:28 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s government is offering to give away a villa once owned by Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, hoping to end a decades-long debate on whether to repurpose or bulldoze a sprawling disused site in the countryside north of the German capital. ...

The Latest | Hamas will send a delegation to Cairo to keep up cease-fire talks

May. 02, 2024 20:33 PM EDT

Hamas said Thursday it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to keep working on cease-fire talks, in response to Egypt's latest proposal. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said he spoke to Egypt’s intelligence chief and “stressed the positive spirit of the movement in studying the...

Pro-Palestinian banners. Blazing Olympic rings. Workers' May Day rallies confront turbulent times

May. 02, 2024 01:38 AM EDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — Workers and activists around the world marked May Day with largely peaceful protests Wednesday over rising prices, low wages and calls for greater labor rights. Pro- Palestinian sentiments were also on display. Police in Istanbul used tear gas and fired rubber...