Deborah Cole

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Deborah Cole

If you’re considering moving to a German ex-communist model city that is trying to lure new residents with a range of perks, including free accommodation and rounds of drinks with locals, take it from Tom Hanks: Eisenhüttenstadt has many charms. While filming outside Berlin in 2011, the Hollywood actor and history buff took a mini field trip 60 miles east to what he called Iron Hut City and was instantly smitten. “An amazing architectural place,” he said, pronouncing it “fascinating”.

3 weeks ago | lucianne.com | Deborah Cole

Original ArticlePosted By: 4250Luis, 6/1/2025 12:32:38 PMUkraine has launched a "large-scale" drone attack against Russian military bombers in Siberia, striking more than 40 warplanes thousands of kilometres from its own territory, a security official said. The claims could not be independently verified. But if confirmed, the attacks would mark Ukraine's most damaging drone strike of the war to date, amid an escalation in cross-border incursions before planned peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Deborah Cole

A passenger train derailed in western Russia late on Saturday after a bridge above collapsed and fell on to the tracks, killing several people. Officials said at least seven people were killed and 30 were hospitalised in Vygonichskyi in Russia’s Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine. Russian Railways blamed “the collapse of a span structure of the road bridge as a result of an illegal interference in the operation of transport”.

1 month ago | msn.com | Deborah Cole

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Deborah Cole

The German chancellor’s drive to keep a campaign pledge of more robust backing for Ukraine is running into roadblocks within his own government as he prepares to welcome Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Berlin. Friedrich Merz made a full-throated declaration on Monday, hours before Zelenskyy’s one-day visit was announced, that Germany was for the first time lifting previous range restrictions on weapons supplied to Kyiv, along with Ukraine’s other main western supporters.