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Germany's conservatives face scrutiny after far-right AfD candidate wins top post | DW News
The political fallout from the election of an AfD politician to one of the highest offices in Saxony-Anhalt is continuing to grow. Attention has now shifted to who may have helped…
Berlin commemorates October 7 terror attacks | DW News
Three years after Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks on Israel, hundreds gathered in Berlin to remember the roughly 1,200 killed and show solidarity with the victims and their famili…
Three years after October 7 — Gaza still lies in ruins | DW News
Three years after the October 7 Hamas attacks, Gaza lies in ruins while violence, settlements and fears of annexation are reshaping the West Bank. We speak to Palestinian politici…
Footballer Leonel Messi's final match for Argentina | DW News
Lionel Messi says he's "grateful, proud and at peace" after ending his Argentina career. He got a goal and two assists against Benin during his 208th and final game in Buenos Aire…
Why this Chemistry Nobel matters for modern medicine | DW News
Why do living things almost always use just one version of certain molecules, while the mirror-image version is largely absent from nature? It's a question that puzzled scientists…
Israel commemorates October 7 at site of Nova music festival | DW News
Three years after Hamas' terror attack on October 7, Israelis marked the anniversary with memorial events across southern Israel, including at the site of the Nova music festival …
Former BND Chief arrested: Can Germany still be trusted with secrets? | Berlin Briefing Podcast
Germany’s former spy chief arrested… for spying. A surreal scandal. Your Berlin Briefing unpacks Germany’s biggest intelligence scandal for decades. The former head of Germany’s f…
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for breakthrough on mirror-image molecules | DW News
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how one molecular mirror image can become dominant over the other. Their work hel…
Brazil's election: What's at stake for Washington? | DW News
The US is closely watching Brazil's presidential election, now heading to a runoff, and it has a clear favorite: right-winger Flavio Bolsonaro over incumbent President Lula who's …
How the October 7 terror attacks changed power dynamics in the Middle East forever | DW News
After the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a massive military offensive in Gaza. The war has left most of the Strip in ruins and killed more than 74,200 peo…
Fleeing the war in Yemen | DW News
Djibouti has become a refuge for almost 4,000 refugees fleeing the war in Yemen, many of them in fishing boats, across the Bab el Mandeb Strait. Renewed fighting between the Saudi…
How did the October 7 attacks change Israel? | DW News
Today marks three years since the Hamas terror attacks against Israel killed nearly 1,200 people. It prompted an Israeli military response that killed more than 74,000 Palestinian…
German politicians call far-right election 'taboo breach' | DW News
Lawmakers from the German center-left Social Democrats took to the streets after a far-right AfD lawmaker was elected as parliamentary speaker for the first time on a state level.…
Ukraine struck by 'massive' wave of Russian drones and missiles | DW News
More than 18 people have been killed across Ukraine, after what President Zelenskyy described as a "massive" Russian wave of drone and missile attacks. A strike on a high rise in …
Germany's jobless youth | DW News
Germany says it needs workers. Yet some young people spend years searching for apprenticeships and never hear back. Why are thousands of training places going unfilled while so ma…
Israelis mark third anniversary of Oct. 7 terror attack | DW News
On October 7, 2023, militants from Hamas and other groups launched the deadliest terror attack in Israel's history, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage. This year m…
Ukraine’s AI gun turrets take on Russia’s drones | DW News
Ukraine says AI-assisted robotic gun turrets are now shooting down Russian jet-powered attack drones over Kyiv. More than a dozen automated turrets have been deployed around the U…
Indian police detain opposition lawmakers | DW News
A protest demanding the resignation of the country's election chief over a controversial voter list revision saw several opposition lawmakers in New Delhi detained by police. The …
Video captures tanker on fire in Black Sea | DW News
A video circulating on social media shows a Liberian-flagged oil tanker on fire off Russia's Black Sea coast near the city of Sochi. Russian authorities say it was apparently hit …
French student protests gain momentum | DW News
Hundreds of thousands of secondary students and faculty across France are demanding better conditions for their schools in a demonstration that’s only gaining momentum since it ki…
Civilian ships in the crosshairs of Russia's war on Ukraine | DW News
After three recent incidents of vessels being targeted in the Black Sea, what exactly is going on in this vital European waterway? Russia says one of the ships was targeted by Ukr…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with protests in Greece | DW News
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Greek parliament in Athens to oppose the visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Protesters were especially critical of US and NATO…
Lithuania: Lawmakers approve plan to remove a ban on hosting nuclear weapons | DW News
The decision is the first step to amending the constitution and comes despite a series of threats from Russia. The Kremlin has said it will aim its nuclear weapons at Lithuania if…
Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason | DW News
Former German spy chief August Hanning was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted treason in a case that ranks among Germany's biggest intelligence scandals since the Cold…
What happens when a former German intelligence boss is accused of spying on his own side? | DW News
Germany has been shaken by a major espionage scandal. August Hanning headed the BND foreign intelligence service from 1998 to 2005. Now he's facing charges of treason and espionag…
The true price of the Philippines' sachet culture | DW News
Small purchases help families survive from day to day. But behind the Philippines’ sachet economy lies a much bigger cost — one borne by communities, the environment and the clima…
Russia denies epidemic risk after pneumonic plague researcher dies in Siberia | DW News
Russia has denied imposing quarantine measures after a lab worker at a Siberian plague research institute reportedly died of the disease. Moscow has told the World Health Organisa…
Nobel physics prize for Antarctic 'ghost particle' hunt | DW News
Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for turning a vast block of Antarctic ice into a detector for neutrinos from deep space. Studying these tiny cosmic…
Nir Oz survivors grapple with memories of October 7th attack | DW News
Nir Oz kibbutz in southern Israel was devastated during the October 7th terror attacks. Amit Siman Tov lost her mother, her brother and his family. Three years on she is fighting …
Three years after the Hamas terror attacks, trauma continues on both sides | DW News
How have the October 7th attacks on Israel and the resulting Gaza war affected Israelis and Palestinians? DW Reporter Tania Krämer reports on a generation of children in Gaza grow…