Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of ...

It all started after the 2004 tsunami, when former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was holidaying in Sri Lanka at a beach villa in the South, when a wall of water came crashing in. Mr. Kohl was plucked ...

MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. The late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl did much to develop relations between Germany and Russia, Naina Yeltsina, the widow of first Russian President Boris Yeltsin ...

In West Germany, CDU Chancellor Helmut Kohl also made this a main focus of his campaign. The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), and their leader Willy Brandt, had misinterpreted the mood and ...

ST PETERSBURG, June 17. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his acquaintance with Germany’s ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died on Friday, changed his views on relations between ...

FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee speaks to Joachim Bitterlich former NATO diplomat and advisor to the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He says that Russians are jubilating as for the first time in ...

When Helmut Kohl came to power in 1982, there was no shortage of mockers who saw him as the "transitional chancellor". Declared politically dead several times, Kohl nevertheless became the longest ...