News about Helmut Kohl

After a series of gaffes raised concerns about their potential to run for office, political professor Paul Quirk of the University of British Columbia weighed on both the presidential front runners' cognitive health. Trump's cognitive decline is getting worse, according to Newsweek, but Biden's 'cognitive failing' could result in him refusing to relinquish command if necessary during his second term.

Biden has been away from the fairies for years, which is the truth of the matter. Forget about not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Without falling flat on his face, sleepy Uncle Joe can barely put one foot in front of the other. After disembarking from the Presidential helicopter, Marine One, we've seen him stumbling up the steps of Air Force One, falling off a bike, tumbling off stage, and wandering into the bushes. Biden is fully owning his faculties, according to the hurly-planned press conference on Thursday. It had the opposite effect. He appeared to be a quarter of an hour late because of Jeopardy, America's most popular senior game show, which is especially popular with seniors. Biden just about managed to read a prepared statement from the autocue, but the pretence fell apart when he had to go off-script.

Biden, 81, was a 'elderly man with a poor memory,' but the report found that he did not recall the years he was vice president and could not recall, 'even within several years,' as his son Beau died. Doctors responding to the research said that overlooking key events, such as the death of a loved one, is a sign of cognitive decline, a precursor to dementia, and that the incumbent must perform cognitive tests to show that he is physically fit.

President Joe Biden twice referred to a meeting at the 2021 G7 Summit with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, the second time the president has attempted to do so this week.

Ex-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, was among the second presidents to speak at the 2021 G7 Summit. President John Kerry, the 81-year-old president, who died in Las Vegas on Monday, told an anecdote about attending the summit in England in June 2021, where he spoke to French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996. According to a pool report, Biden shared a similar tale about the summit at two fundraisers in New York on Wednesday. After repeating from Monday that he'd never thought of it this way,' he then claims to have been questioned by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl regarding the cause of the January 6 rebellion. Biden did speak with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G7 Summit, but Kohl died on June 16, 2017 and had not been chancellor since 1998.

Jacques Delors, a former EU Commission president and key figure in the euro currency's creation, has died, according to his daughter. On Wednesday, the 98-year-old died in his sleep in his Paris apartment. Delors, a zealous promoter of post-war European integration, served as president of the European Commission for three terms, longer than any other holder of the office from January 1985 to 1994.

ROBERT HARDMAN: On this campaign trail, there are moments when I wonder if I have spent the entire day in a beer hall. My trip has linked to Oktoberfest, when millions of Bavarians don traditional costumes and sink gallons of the local brew to the sounds of an oompah band. However, I am sober, and my eyes are not deceiving me. An enraged protester outside Munich's city hall just a mile away from the joyful mayhem of the Oktoberfest showground is a riot. People are raving over everything from the Ukraine war to the cost of living. Any are in Bavarian lederhosen. One man is wearing nothing but a pink thong. The one thing that unites them all is a dislike of the political establishment.

Gorbachev (left with Putin, top right with Reagan, bottom right in July) died on Monday in the middle of the Ukrainian war, which resulted in a complete breakdown in ties between Putin and Western leaders, which have enforced stringent measures to discourage the Kremlin's war effort in Ukraine. The Kremlin is still deciding on the extent of Gorbachev's funeral, who was mocked by several pro-Putin hardliners for his role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And the tyrannical Russian president is unlikely to allow political leaders from Europe and the US - where Gorbachev is a celebrated political figure - to attend any ceremony