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Leaked photographs have emerged in the German press of the former chancellor Gerhard Schroder, who has refused to denounce his friendship and business ties with Vladimir Putin, as the guest of honour at a reception hosted by the Russian embassy in Berlin.Schroder and his wife, So-yeon Schroder-Kim, reportedly rubbed shoulders at the event on Tuesday with Egon Krenz, 86, the last Communist leader of East Germany (GDR).

Vladimir Putin has told Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine that the whole country is praying for them, as he used his Victory Day speech to defend his invasion of Ukraine.Speaking on the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Russian president drew historical parallels between the second world war and fighting in Ukraine.

A tumultuous year of fighting has passed since Vladimir Putin last addressed Russian soldiers on Red Square in Moscow to mark the country's victory over the Nazis.But the Russian leader's Victory Day message to the nation on Tuesday was nearly identical to that of last year as he cast the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against an aggressive, Russophobic and woke west.

One of the anti-Kremlin groups responsible for an armed incursion into Russia this week, the Russian Volunteer Corps, is led by a far-right extremist described by German officials and humanitarian groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, as a neo-Nazi.The Volunteer Corps, made up of Russians who oppose Vladimir V. Putin's war, does not have any public affiliation with the Ukrainian Army.

The annual event commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.But it's hard to watch without thinking about that other war Russia's invasion of Ukraine.STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Russia held its Victory Day celebrations.Soldiers in dress uniforms marched with arms swinging across Red Square outside the Kremlin.

At least six Russian regions have scrapped 9 May Victory Day parades that mark the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany amid fears over Ukrainian strikes, with a region 400 miles from the border being the latest to cancel.The governor of Saratov announced the parade there would not go ahead because of safety concerns, adding to a string of cancellations that are a glaring admission of the country's military vulnerability more than 14 months into the war.

At the age of three I told my Nana There's been a mistake, I'm not a girl; at 17 I made my identity public knowledge.I am Jasper, a now 24-year-old transgender man, almost seven years into my transition and happier than ever.The happiness I now feel was hard fought, as is the case for many trans and gender-diverse folk like me.

Before he was a dungeon-pilfering rogue, a Starfleet captain, or a handsome prince, Chris Pine was an English major.And while he's ended uplike many an English major before himmaking a living in a different field, dude still loves to read.And he reads everything when we met at his house in Los Angeles a few months ago, the volumes in his on-deck circle ranged from Lucy Ellman's Ducks, Newburyporta stream-of-consciousness novel told in a single run-on sentence that stretches over 1,000 pagesto Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner's page-turner Heat 2. Ahead of our meeting, he'd agreed to give us a top-five list of recent favorites; by the morning of the interview, he'd managed to narrow it down to around twenty.

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As the war enters its 441st day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Wednesday, May 10, 2023: Russia launched about 15 cruise missiles at Ukraine's capital, the second attack in as many days.Ukraine said its air defence systems shot them all down after air raid alerts were heard across two thirds of the country.

In a speech from Red Square to mark Victory Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the world is again at a "turning point.""Today, civilization is again at a decisive turning point.A real war has been unleashed against our Motherland," he said during a parade in Moscow on Tuesday.

Russia, on Tuesday, celebrates the anniversary of the Soviet's victory over Nazi Germany during World War II, overshadowed by battlefield failures in Ukraine, growing tensions with the West and tighter security for the Kremlin at home.Dubbed Victory Day, this is one of the biggest national holidays in Russia where people commemorate the sacrifices of the Soviet Union and over 20 million Soviet lives that were lost during World War II.

Russia has stepped up night time aerial attacks over the past week ahead of a renewed Ukrainian counteroffensive.Air raid sirens have been heard in the capital Kyiv and across two-thirds of Ukraine continuing more than a week of a renewed Russian air campaign.Ukrainian emergency services issued air raid alerts for Kyiv and most of central and eastern Ukraine early on Tuesday, extending from Vynnitsya in the west to all eastern regions and south to Kherson and the Odesa region on the Black Sea, the Reuters news agency reported.

HOUR BY HOUR Issued on: 09/05/2023 - 07:30 Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to preside Tuesday over Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.Maxim Shemetov, Reuters Russia launched a dozen cruise missiles at Ukraine's capital early on Tuesday, Kyiv officials said, hours before the start of Victory Day celebrations in Moscow marking the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he will change his country's World War II victory day celebration from May 9 to May 8, in alignment with the rest of Europe - thumbing his nose at Russia."It is on May 8 that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis," Zelenskyy posted on social media.

A Russian missile strike overnight destroyed a Red Cross warehouse containing aid in Odesa.The Odesa regional organisation of the Red Cross society said workers and volunteers were not in the 1,000 sq metre unit at the time.The provision of humanitarian aid and the activities of some projects of the Odesa Regional Organisation of the Red Cross of Ukraine have been suspended, the statement added.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Russia's military operation against Ukraine is very difficult but will continue, Tass news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as telling a Bosnian television station on Wednesday.Russia has succeeded in severely damaging the Ukrainian military machine and this work will continue, he added, in a long interview during which he repeated many of Moscow's talking points about the conflict.

A Ukrainian military commander has said that Russian forces in Bakhmut had been pushed back by up to 2km in some areas, after counter offensives.Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, who heads Ukraine's ground forces, made the comments in a post on Telegram.He said: In some areas of the front, the enemy could not resist the onslaught of the Ukrainian defenders and retreated to a distance of up to two kilometers.

Victory Day, Russia's most important secular holiday, lauds two tenets that are central to the country's identity: military might and moral rectitude.But the war in Ukraine undermines both this year.The holiday falling on Tuesday marks the 78th anniversary of Germany's capitulation in World War II after a relentless Red Army offensive pushed German forces from Stalingrad, deep inside Russia, all the way to Berlin, about 2,200 kilometers (1,300 miles).

The shooting down of two drones over the Kremlin which, according to the Russian authorities, was an attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, took place amid a wave of sabotage operations and attacks both on Russian soil and in the territories that Moscow has occupied in Ukraine.Kyiv was swift to deny any involvement for the alleged assault on the seat of Russian government and views the incident as a likely false flag attack to justify an escalation of the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony for nuclear fuel loading at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which is under construction in Turkey, on April 27.(Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via Reuters)RIGA, Latvia - Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of staging a drone attack intended to hit the Kremlin residence and kill President Vladimir Putin, an electric allegation that could create justification for Russia to escalate its war in Ukraine.

On a rainy night in May, German writer Erich Kastner stands among Nazi SA officers and onlookers before a burning pyre that illuminates Berlin's Opernplatz, now called Bebelplatz.Men in black SA uniforms throw piles of books on to the fire.Kastner listens as his name is shouted into a microphone: "Against decadence and moral decay!

Open books (Image: Unsplash) Reading doesn't have to be boring, it can grow your mind and broaden your horizons, especially if you pick the right one.In this article I'll be giving you recommendations based on the genre's bildungsroman (a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education), historical fiction and dystopian fiction.

A legal tussle was unfolding in Berlin on Monday over an attempt by the police in the German capital to ban Russian flags at Victory Day celebrations this week.Before Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Berliners and Russians would gather at the city's monuments to commemorate Victory Day, the May 9 holiday in Russia that marks the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany.

Members of far-right group "Comite du 9 Mai" (committee of May 9) gather to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the death of Sebastien Deyzieu of the "Oeuvre Francaise" ultranationist group, during a rally in Paris, on May 6, 2023.Emmanuel Dunand, AFP The Paris police force and France's interior minister faced questions and criticism Monday over why a march of around 600 neo-Nazis through the streets of the capital was authorised at the weekend.

New wave of attacks launched ahead of Russian holiday commemorating Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.Four people in Ukraine have been killed in air attacks as Russia launched one of its biggest volleys of drone and missile strikes in recent weeks, Ukrainian officials say.The overnight drone attacks hit 127 targets across northern, southern and eastern parts of Ukraine, killing three civilians, the Ukrainian defence ministry said on Monday.

The war in Ukraine has prompted officials across Russia to scale back annual celebrations of Victory Day, the country's most important national holiday, with more than 20 cities forgoing military parades and organizers calling off a popular nationwide march to honor veterans.Security concerns were most often cited for the rash of cancellations of Tuesday's events, but some analysts suggested that the unease had as much to do with fears about domestic disturbances.

KYIV, Ukraine Russia attacked Kyiv with nearly three dozen drones overnight, Ukrainian officials said on Monday, one of the largest waves to directly target the Ukrainian capital and part of a broader aerial assault on towns and cities across the country.Ukraine's Air Force said that it shot down all 35 drones over Kyiv, in what was the fourth large-scale assault aimed at the city this month.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature The strikes come as Russian forces begin evacuating people from the Russian-occupied area around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, with more than 1,600 people, including 660 children, evacuated so far, Reuters reported, citing a Moscow-installed local official.

At least five people were wounded by Russian strikes on Kyiv, city officials said early on Monday, as Moscow launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine.Three people were injured in blasts in Kyiv's Solomyanskyi district and two others were injured when drone wreckage fell on to the Sviatoshyn district, both west of the capital's centre, mayor Vitali Klitschko said on his Telegram messaging channel.

Menahem Pressler, the celebrated pianist who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and, after establishing himself in postwar America, co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio, which became the world's reigning piano-violin-cello ensemble and dazzled audiences for a half-century, died on Saturday in London.He was 99.His death was announced by the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he had been on the faculty since 1955.

With Ukraine stepping up attacks deep inside Russian-controlled territory, there were new signs on Friday of disarray and unease among Russia's military and political leadership as they brace for a looming Ukrainian offensive, for which their forces may be ill-prepared.The latest manifestation of those tensions came from Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, who used what he said were the newly bloody corpses of his fighters as the backdrop for another expletive-laced rant against the top military command.

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group threatened on Friday to pull his fighters out of Bakhmut next week over what he said was a lack of ammunition, delivering the ultimatum after releasing a scorching video in which he castigated top military leaders.In the video posted on social media, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the Wagner chief, is seen walking among rows of bodies that he claimed were Wagner fighters killed in the battle for Bakhmut, the embattled city in eastern Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has denied Russian claims that Ukraine was involved in a drone attack on the Kremlin that was intended to kill the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.The Ukrainian president said on Wednesday: We don't attack Putin, or Moscow, we fight on our territory and defend our towns and cities.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Gary Lineker has told reporters outside his London home that he stands by his criticism of the Government's immigration policy and does not fear suspension by the BBC.

People around the world love listening to Beethoven, driving BMWs and consuming Black Forest cake.These German products are definitely in demand.But what about movies?Berlin, June 24th, 2020.Update: December 5th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - People who say they dislike German films probably have not watched the most impressive ones.

Whatever the provenance of the two drones that approached the Kremlin early Wednesday morning, one thing was clear: The Russian government wanted the world to know about them.The Kremlin made a deliberate choice to quickly make public what it claimed was a drone attack aimed at assassinating President Vladimir V. Putin.

The Kremlin on Wednesday accused Ukraine of a drone attack overnight in a foiled attempt to assassinate Russian leader Vladimir Putin, an allegation that could not be confirmed by independent sources.Russian officials said Putin was not in the Kremlin at the time of the attack.Ukraine said it had "nothing to do" with the attack.

May is traditionally a month for public celebration in Russia, with massive public processions on 1 May for Labour Day and military parades on 9 May for Victory Day, a holiday commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.Not so in 2023.Russia's biggest trade union cancelled its traditional Labour Day demonstrations because of the heightened risk of terrorist activity, while regions near the Ukrainian border called off Victory Day parades so as to not provoke the Ukrainian army.

King Charles III of Britain addressed Germany's Parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday during his first international trip as monarch, emphasizing the close ties between the two nations and applauding the military aid Berlin has given to Ukraine.Alternating between German and English, Charles's 25-minute speech elicited applause as he affirmed the strength of the partnership between Britain and Germany and discussed his own personal ties to the country.

LONDON King Charles III of Britain will travel to Germany on Wednesday for his first trip abroad as monarch, after strikes and protests in France led to the cancellation of his planned state visit there.During a three-day visit to Berlin and Hamburg, the king and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, will attend a state banquet, hosted by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife, Elke Budenbender, at Bellevue Palace, Germany's presidential residence, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace.

Wars are won or lost well behind the front lines.Allies should arm Ukrainians accordingly.For the past four months, people around the world have witnessed the macabre process of Russian forces making repeated assaults near the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut for only the tiniest of gains.By some counts, Russia has lost about five of its soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier lost-to say nothing of massive equipment losses.

Author Michael Rosen has echoed Gary Lineker's statement about perceived parallels between the language used surrounding the Government's immigration policies and Nazi Germany, while speaking on a stage outside Downing Street.The former children's laureate cited Lineker during a speech which condemned the Illegal Migration Bill and Suella Braverman's rhetoric to hundreds of protesters who had marched to Whitehall.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The BBC's sports coverage faced a second day of severe disruptions Sunday as dozens of staff refused to work in solidarity with top soccer host Gary Lineker, who was suspended by the broadcaster after he tweeted criticism of the British government's asylum policy.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The BBC fears it cannot sack Gary Lineker or force him to follow social media rules on impartiality because of ambiguities in his contract, The Independent understands.The corporation would be forced to pay millions if they wanted to oust Lineker and would likely lose any legal claim brought by the Match of the Day presenter, senior figures believe.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The BBC faced an escalating crisis Saturday over its suspension of former soccer star and program host Gary Lineker for comments criticizing the British government's new asylum policy.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Ukrainian refugees are still arriving in the UK a year on from the Russian invasion of their homeland.More than 30,000 Ukrainians have arrived since September, many under the Homes for Ukraine scheme that pairs refugees with host families.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Gary Lineker has said he does not fear the BBC suspending him after his tweets criticising the government's immigration policy put him at odds with the broadcaster's rules on impartiality and social media use.

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker will be "spoken to" after appearing to compare the government's asylum policy to Nazi Germany, the BBC has said.Writing on Twitter, the ex-footballer said the language in which the plans had been set out was "not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s".

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email No 10 has hit out at Gary Lineker over a tweet in which he appeared to compare the Tory government's attempted crackdown on small boats to Nazi Germany.The Match Of The Day host will be given a talking-to by the BBC over the post, which Tory MPs have condemned as foul, ill-conceived and disgraceful.

The Auschwitz camp memorial director equated Nazi crimes of World War II with Russian forces now in Ukraine.The director of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp memorial has compared the recent killing of people in Ukraine by Russian forces with similar suffering experienced during World War II.Marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, set up on Polish soil by Nazi Germany and where more than 1.1 million people most of them Jews perished in gas chambers and from starvation, cold and disease, the memorial site's director compared Nazi crimes to those Russians have recently committed in Ukrainian towns such as Bucha and Mariupol.

The brave new world of better living through planned breeding was ushered in in the summer of 1912, at the first International Eugenics Congress held in London.Although Charles Darwin hadn't intended his theories of natural selection and survival of the fittest to be practically applied to human beings, the generation that followed him had no such qualms.

Actor, artist and singer Robert Clary poses for a portrait in his home studio on Feb. 26, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif.Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP LOS ANGELES  Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, has died.

WARSAW, Poland - The United Nations cultural organization is training law enforcement and judiciary officials from countries on Ukraine's western borders, seeking to prevent the trafficking of looted cultural objects from Ukraine amid Russia's war against its neighbor.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

The European Union has proposed to set up a UN-backed specialised court to investigate possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, and to use frozen Russian assets to rebuild the war-torn country.uropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the EU will work with international partners to get "the broadest international support possible" for the tribunal, while continuing to back the work of the International Criminal Court.

T he 2022 Christmas tree has been unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square, but not everybody is impressed.The tree, which first appeared to have spare growth on its branches when it arrived on Monday, has been called everything from recycled to pathetic.However, some people have leapt to the tree's defence.

HOLOCAUST This photo released by Yad Vashem, World Holocaust Remembrance Center, shows German Nazis stand by ransacked Jewish property during Kristallnacht intake most likely in the town of Fuerth, Germany on November 10, 1938.AP Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938's Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection donated to Israel's Yad Vashem memorial, the organization said Wednesday.

On November 9th, 1938, Nazi mobs destroyed businesses owned by Jews and synagogues all over Germany.Fifty-one years later, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell.Obviously, November 9th is an ambivalent date.Berlin, November 9th, 2021 (The Berlin Spectator) - In Nazi Germany, the November Pogroms took place 84 years ago, to the day.

It's been less than a month, but how tired are we already of hearing about Elon Musk and Twitter?If only Hooter's had been for sale.But here we are, and the world's richest man seems intent on throwing gasoline on the hate, lies and propaganda that already plagued the world's most powerful method of communication.