Helmut Kohl, Germany’s long-serving unity chancellor and a towering figure in European unification, has died aged 87 after a long illness. Dr Kohl was elected West German chancellor in 1982 and ...

It all started after the 2004 tsunami, when former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was holidaying in Sri Lanka at a beach villa in the South, when a wall of water came crashing in. Mr. Kohl was plucked ...

ST PETERSBURG, June 17. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his acquaintance with Germany’s ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died on Friday, changed his views on relations between ...

FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee speaks to Joachim Bitterlich former NATO diplomat and advisor to the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He says that Russians are jubilating as for the first time in ...

When Helmut Kohl came to power in 1982, there was no shortage of mockers who saw him as the "transitional chancellor". Declared politically dead several times, Kohl nevertheless became the longest ...

Kohl's time in office ended before Putin's presidency. Former French president Jacques Chirac, who died in 2019, also ...