Photos: Global stories of 2025 in pictures
A powerful visual timeline showcasing the pivotal events that reshaped our global landscape throughout the year....
A powerful visual timeline showcasing the pivotal events that reshaped our global landscape throughout the year....
For the first time in decades, Somalia is abandoning its clan-based political system and allowing residents of Mogadishu to choose local representatives directly under the "one-person, one-vote" princ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Imralı is a prison island associated with Turkey's historical conflicts. ✓ The island mirrors the nation's strugg...
Experienced Ukrainian troops showed their Western trainers that, particularly in urban environments, they wanted to move slowly. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images A British trainer who worked with ...
Prime Minister Kurti's governing Self-Determination party won nearly 50% of the vote, results showed with most of the votes counted. It is not yet clear whether he will be able to form a cabinet witho...
US president to meet Ukrainian counterpart in Florida...
Russia launched missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions, ahead of President Volodmyr Zelenskyy’s key meeting with US President Trump. Follow DW for more....
These are the key developments from day 1,400 of Russia’s war on Ukraine....
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA - JUNE 24: U.S. Navy sailors stand along the deck as they prepare for the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to depart from the Naval Station Norfolk on June 24, 2025, in Norfolk, V...
At a moment of regional tension and uncertainty, Israel reported the targeted killing of an Iranian agent in Lebanon....
Authorities detained 16 foreign crew members but did not reveal their nationalities or the tanker's flag, Tehran-run state media reported....
Chinese AI advances and the effects of Donald Trump’s trade war have boosted markets outside the US...
The left-leaning Vetevendosje party secured a commanding victory in the parliamentary vote following a 10-month political impasse that prevented government formation in February....
Civilian airports in Rzeszów and Lublin were temporarily closed in the early hours of Saturday. After several hours, air traffic at both airports was resumed....
Analysts say caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party will come first but lack a majority, leaving ethnic minorities key to ending the stalemate....
'Main reason for optimism' is a belief that war in Ukraine will end in 2026 with Moscow's 'objectives' achieved....
When the United Nations General Assembly unanimously recognised Turkmenistan’s status of permanent neutrality in December 1995, few could have predicted quite how central this principle would become t...
Local anti-poverty groups have had to scramble and scale back this year as the Trump administration targeted safety-net programs. They are bracing for what may come next. (Image credit: Rich-Joseph Fa...
The latest attack comes as presidents Zelenskyy and Trump prepare to meet in Florida on Sunday amid ongoing efforts to end the war....
The ceasefire, which came into force around noon local time, calls for no further military movements by either side and no violations of either side’s airspace for military purposes....