Late Pope Benedict’s top aide to be given a new job
Rome, Italy Reuters Pope Francis will decide on a new role for German Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, a critic of the pontiff who was the long-term senior aide to his predecessor Benedict, in the coming days, Gaenswein said. Gaenswein made the comment to Italian RAI public television in an extract from an interview to be broadcast […]
German aid worker freed after kidnapping four years ago in Niger, says employer
Dakar, SenegalReuters A 63-year-old German aid worker, Joerg Lange, has been freed more than four years after he was kidnapped in western Niger near the Malian border, his employer, humanitarian organisation Help, said in a statement on Saturday. Armed men on motorcycles kidnapped Lange in April, 2018, near the Nigerien town of Inates in borderlands […]
Essay: Karl, Karel or Karol? The translation confusion over King Charles III’s name, explained
NEIL BERMEL, a professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the various responses to the translation of King Charles III’s name…
Eco-friendly locomotive will be “rolling ambassador” for German Protestant festival
A special locomotive bearing the motto of the 2019 Kirchentag, Germany’s biggest regular Protestant festival, will travel the length and breadth of the country as a “rolling ambassador” for the event that takes place this year in June in the western German city of Dortmund. Painted in the red livery of Germany’s national rail company, […]