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Skinny Smugglers, a French King’s Body, and the Odd European City Home to the Other Cold War Wall
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAlex SakalisGorizia, a small city on the Italy-Slovenia border, is one of the most interesting...
Mikhail Gorbachev death – latest: Transformative Soviet leader dies aged 91
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRussian news agencies have announced the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet...
Ukraine-Russia war – live: Ex-Russian officer says Putin’s forces ‘deteriorating’ as Crimea targeted...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn ex-Russian officer has said Vladimir Putin’s forces are ‘deteriorating’ in Ukraine as the Crimea...
The West Is Avoiding the Big Question About Ukraine
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJoe Biden’s double bill in Kyiv and Warsaw this week is good political optics on the first anniversary of the worst war in Europe in 80 years. Presumably...
Mikhail Gorbachev death: Biden hails Soviet leader’s ‘remarkable vision’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUS president Joe Biden is leading global tributes to the late Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of...
4 generations in the U.S. Navy: This Hampton family has seen 100 years of submarine history
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe grooves of the Will family’s gold-plated dolphins have tarnished. But the submarine warfare...
Inside the former communist utopia about to become an EU Capital of Culture
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSitting in the penthouse bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking down at the bleak modern...
Our Best Stuff Marking the Second Anniversary of the War in Ukraine
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFrom the Dispatch Weekly on The Dispatch (Photograph by Bennett Murray) Hello and happy Sunday. This...
The Lost History of East Germany
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAt the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to...
The 10 European cities that are best in winter
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPerhaps it is the pleasing sensation of sunlight on bare skin, but we are effectively programmed to think of summer as the best time for travel. It is...
