German statesman Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification after the end of the Cold War, has died, his Christian Democratic Union party announced Friday. He was 87. Kohl served as chancellor ...

Helmut Kohl, the former German chancellor who seized the chance to reunite his country after years of Cold War separation, was a colossus of contemporary European history who became celebrated as an ...

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SPEYER, Germany (AP) — Germany bid farewell Saturday to Helmut Kohl, the former chancellor who steered his country toward reunification in 1990 and whose tireless efforts to ensure peace and stability ...

Current and past world leaders praised former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as a "friend of freedom" and the "very essence of Europe." Kohl, who led Germany for 16 years, died on June 16 at age 87 at ...

Helmut Kohl, the long-serving former chancellor whose life in the political limelight spanned the joyous zenith of German reunification and the shattering nadir of a corruption scandal, died Friday at ...

In 1946as time extended its reach overseas, and the despotic dreams of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito lay in ashesa nascent alliance of free peoples spanning the North Atlantic was just starting to ...

The two cardinals, two archbishops, two bishops and 1,500 prominent guests had come to the Imperial Cathedral of Speyer in Germany, the 11th-century burial place of eight Holy Roman Emperors, not to ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germany's 1990 reunification and mentor to Angela Merkel, has died at age 87, his Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) said on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helmut Kohl stands behind former West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (R), January 1967. (Reuters) Helmut Kohl stands behind ...