1947 – Begins working in the Christian Democratic Union. 1959-1976 – Serves in the legislature of the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. 1969-1976 – Serves as minister-president of ...

Updated at 4:57 p.m. ET Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who for more than a decade and a half helmed a country through historic upheaval, died Friday at age 87. The German leader's political ...

BERLIN (AP) — Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, died Friday at his home in ...

Rats feasting on mounds of rotting rubbish during a refuse collection strike in Britain's second-biggest city have led to warnings of a public health crisis, with no end in sight to the long-running ...

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Kohl worked for German reunification, campaigning in East Germany for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and getting NATO and the Soviet Union’s approval. 1947 – Begins working in the ...