Central Europe

Donald Trump's narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini's. Which does not bode well.

In slashing the USAID budget, President Donald Trump defunded a leading international criminal watchdog.

Pope Francis, who has died at 88, fought for economic justice with a consistency that distinguished him from the elites of his time.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with the Vatican's No. 2 official after a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration's crackdown on migrants.

The United States and Russia both said on Thursday that they had made progress toward normalizing the work of their diplomatic missions.

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery

Over five millennia ago, Stone Age people in Central Europe crafted wooden handles for their stone tools.

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Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery.

A small rock club is still raging against the dying of the city's Cold War subculture.

Wait, these things weren't weapons?

By Robert E. Hunter Russia, and especially Ukraine, have been centerpieces of the House impeachment hearings, as well as of massive media coverage. But largely lost in the domestic politics focused disarray is serious discussion of the foreign policy aspects… Continue Reading →

Israel faced sharp criticism on Sunday as it stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza on Sunday and warned of "additional consequences" if Hamas doesn't accept a new proposal to e…

NPR's Scott Simon talks to former National Security Adviser John Bolton about the foreign policy implications of Friday's shocking press conference between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.

Learn more about Viking culture and why new research is saying they had extensive trading networks throughout Europe and beyond.

Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades beyond the end of World War II, has died at age 113.

Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany doubled its support, projections showed.

Nine thinkers on the bombshells coming out of Washington.

The nearly 5,000-year-old fortress in Spain has a much more recent burial dating to the Roman era.

The scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin America but also the world.