2 h. ago German president and Duke of Kent, 90, to visit ruins of Coventry Cathedral that was destroyed when city was hammered by Nazi bombs 85 years ago

Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife will lay a wreath at the ruins of of the Cathedral Church of St Michael with the Duke of Kent.

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7 h. ago Kate Middleton handed key role ahead of historic state visit

King Charles will host the German president for a historic state visit in Windsor starting tomorrow, marking the third major state visit this year, with a key role for the Prince and Princess of Wales

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27 h. ago King Charles prepares to host third incoming state visit this year

The King and Queen will this week host German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife

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27 h. ago King prepares to host first state visit by a German president in 27 years

The format has reverted to its traditional form after royal parts of Donald Trump’s state visit were confined to the Windsor estate.

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4 d. ago German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

Frank-Walter Steinmeier travels to Basque town for remembrance ceremony marking ‘terrible crimes’ of 1937Eighty-eight years after Luftwaffe pilots took part in the most infamous atrocity of the Spanish civil war, Germany’s president has visited the Basque town of Guernica to honour the victims of the Nazi bombing and to urge that the “terrible crimes” committed there are never forgotten.Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany’s pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Duchess of Kent ‘would sell all clothes at season end to fund buying new ones’

Lady Helen Taylor has told Tatler magazine how her late mother took confidence on public engagements from the clothes she wore.

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1 week ago Starmer to use G20 summit to shore up support for Ukraine and make deals

The Prime Minister is set to speak to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky alongside the German and French leaders about the US-backed peace plan.

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2 w. ago The world’s digital empires are jostling for power – in Europe, we can’t afford to be useful idiots | Thierry Breton

The EU is under US pressure to unravel its hard-won online safety laws. We must not give inProtecting our digital sovereignty is crucial. The challenge is why European decision makers are meeting in Berlin on Tuesday at the behest of the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron. As individuals, we spend four to five hours a day accessing the internet via our smartphones and other devices, from social networks to online shopping to AI assistants. It is essential, therefore, that we have control over how the digital space is organised, structured and regulated.Europe has already set to work. Between 2022 and 2024, EU digital laws were adopted by an overwhelming majority of MEPs and unanimously by all member states. The Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the Data Act and the AI Act form the common foundation protecting our children, citizens, businesses and democracies from all kinds of abuses in the information space. These four major la...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's city destroying nuclear missile 'spotted for the first time' during test flight

The AGM-181 LRSO, billed as the Air Force's next-generation stealth nuclear cruise missile, is poised to arm both the B-52 and the newly built B-21 stealth bomber

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3 w. ago British Aristocrat Charles March, the 11th Duke of Kent, is Showing His Minimalist, Abstract Photos in London

British Aristocrat Charles March, the 11th Duke of Kent, is Showing His Minimalist, Abstract Photos in London  ARTnews.com

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