while Austria sat to the west of the Iron Curtain. The table is a symbol of unity between the three countries (Picture: Metro Graphics) But in 1989, the foreign ministers of Hungary and Austria ...

Today is Thursday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2025. There are 328 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain’s King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he ...

The shocking death of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister – and son of its founding father -- just after the 1948 Communist ...

The possibility of a trade war is fracturing bilateral relations and eroding trust between the North American neighbors. A ...

Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...

Burns had gone from symbol of Empire to symbol of the working ... making Burns a hugely significant cultural figure behind the Iron Curtain. “They stuck to the class-conscious Burns,” says ...

I am deeply thankful to the US for its role in ensuring my parents were born on the “right side” of the Iron Curtain in my home country, Italy. And I continue to be grateful for the US's ...

In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor for a private company in Berlin during World War II. In 1941, she was evicted by a judge from the two sublet rooms ...

The former gray dividing wall, a symbol of the Iron Curtain, was turned into the longest open-air gallery in the world. With their creative wall paintings, artists transformed the relic from times of ...