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By Chris Hampson, NBC News Director of International News LONDON – It get darks very early in London at this time of year. By five o’clock it’s pitch black.
Tonight, though, the sky is lit up with the bright and sparkling explosions of fireworks.
Bonfires blaze in towns and villages across the country.
If you want to [...]

By Andy Eckardt, NBC News Producer
MAINZ, Germany – I vividly recall the car journeys I would take as a teenager from Frankfurt to Berlin. In those days, the trip to the isolated city of West Berlin, which was located in the heart of East Germany, required us to take the so-called “transit route” through communist [...]