Deborah Cole
Berlin Correspondent at The Guardian
Berlin correspondent, The Guardian and its Sunday paper, The Observer deborah.cole(at)https://t.co/I0cGfqKPzD http://deborahcole.bsky.soci
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6 days ago |
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi |Kate Connolly |Shaun Walker |Jon Henley |Deborah Cole | +1 more
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWinston Churchill’s great-great-grandson Alexander Churchill, 10, lit the VE Day 80th candle of peace during a service at Westminster Abbey today. The youngster, dressed in a suit and tie, stepped forward and made his way up the steps in front of the altar, where he was handed a flame to light the large cream church candle.
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6 days ago |
theguardian.com | Jon Henley |Deborah Cole
Solemn ceremonies will be held at war memorials in towns and villages across France on Thursday as the country honours its dead and marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, a public holiday this year, as it is every year. In Paris, the president, Emmanuel Macron, will lay a wreath at the foot of Charles de Gaulle’s statue, walk up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, rekindle the eternal flame at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, and inspect the troops.
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6 days ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jon Henley |Deborah Cole
A parade on Monday in Wageningen, in the Netherlands, which holds its commemoration on 5 May, rather than VE Day on 8 May. A parade on Monday in Wageningen, in the Netherlands, which holds its commemoration on 5 May, rather than VE Day on 8 May.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Deborah Cole
Germany’s presumed next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has suffered a humiliating setback on his path to power by failing to secure the necessary majority in the Bundestag lower house of parliament to be elected. The ballot on Tuesday was the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a candidate has lost the first round of voting in a country that prides itself on predictability and stability.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Deborah Cole
Germany’s domestic intelligence service has designated the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the biggest opposition party, as a “confirmed rightwing extremist” force, meaning authorities can step up their surveillance as critics call for it to be legally banned.
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