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Organizers of Berlin's traditional New Year's Eve party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate have cancelled this year's show ...
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany was spray-painted on Sunday by climate activists seeking an end to coal, oil and gas by 2030, though Germany is targeting 2045.
In related news, Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that "the Bush adminstration's opposition to an Obama speech at the Brandenburg Gate comes across as more heated — and more overt — than ...
Berlin's government will no longer provide public funding for the city's traditional New Year's Eve party at the landmark ...
Berlin's Brandenburg Gate will have to be cleaned at greater effort and expense than previously thought after climate activists sprayed orange paint on the German capital's signature landmark ...
Members of the group the Last Generation sprayed orange paint onto Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Sunday morning to urge the German government to take more urgent action against climate change.
The Brandenburg Gate is one of Berlin's most famous landmarks. Built in the late 1700s as a monument to peace, Germany's fall in World War II turned it into a symbol of Cold War division.
The Brandenburg Gate was the only landmark to survive the Allied bombardment of the German capital in 1945 – although the square has since been restored to something approaching its former glory.
Brandenburg Gate is the only remaining city gate in Berlin that had been used to represent the separation of the city between East and West Berlin. In the aftermath of fall of the Berlin Wall, the ...
The Brandenburg Gate on Monday. Photo: DPA. After an explosion in St. Petersburg killed 14 people and injured dozens of others, the German capital made a controversial decision not to light up its ...
When Germany rejected his request for the Brandenburg Gate in 2008, Obama spoke instead at the nearby Victory Column in adjacent Tiergarten Park -- and drew more than 200,000 people.