The European Parliament has put the customs agreement, which had been criticized as being too favorable to the US, on hold. Meanwhile, Trump has said he "won't use force" to take Greenland. DW has mor...
The former UK Cabinet member is the latest high-ranking Conservative politician to defect to the Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage. Another senior Tory, Robert Jenrick, was pushed before he could leave e...
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement in Ukraine with US President Donald Trump’s envoys during marathon overnight talks, and the Kremlin insisted that the territorial issue needs ...
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said they had to withdraw from the al-Hol camp, which holds thousands of Islamic State fighters' relatives, to redeploy elsewhere. It's the second such pullout...
US president Donald Trump appears to have dialed back threats of an imminent strike on Iran. Despite the shift in rhetoric, the airspace over the Islamic Republic has closed to commercial flights. Sto...
With the last stage of Jimmy Lai's national security trial drawing to a close, Hong Kong's High Court is set to decide on the sentence for the pro-democracy tycoon. Will Lai get life in prison?...
Alain Orsoni, who led the separatist Corsican Movement for Self-Determination before becoming the president of Corsican football club AC Ajaccio, was killed by a long-range shot at his mother's funer...
With France’s local elections set for March, attention is turning to homelessness in the race for Paris city hall, as more than 3,500 people were living on the streets of the French capital last year,...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday criticised what he called the EU’s lack of “political will” towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at Davos. Meanwhile, Denmark said NATO chi...
"In politics as in business – a deal is a deal. And when friends shake hands, it must mean something.” Ursula von der Leyen's comments came amid growing tension between Europe and the US over Greenlan...
Syrian government forces entered two northern towns Saturday morning after the command of Kurdish-led fighters said it would evacuate the area in an apparent move to avoid conflict. Two soldiers were ...
Iran will treat any attack "as an all-out war against us," a senior Iranian official said on Friday, ahead of the arrival of a U.S. military aircraft carrier strike group and other assets in the Middl...
François Picard is pleased to welcome independent journalist Laura Jadid sharing a piercing exposé of systemic dysfunction, ethical erosion, and authoritarianism blossoming in the US. In an era marked...
China and Russia concluded a week of joint naval exercises in South African waters on Friday, described by the host country as a BRICS Plus operation aimed at “ensuring the safety of shipping and mari...
The announcement of the ceasefire's second phase marked a significant step forward but left many questions unanswered. Those include the makeup of a proposed, apolitical governing committee of Palesti...
Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...
The BBC intends to ask a US federal court in Florida to dismiss a US$10 billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against the British broadcaster, according to newly filed court documents. ...
Two of the defendants pleaded not guilty before the Hong Kong court, while the other pleaded guilty but pledged to keep working to end one-party rule in China. They're accused of "inciting subversion ...
European Council President Antonio Costa said the EU was weighing a joint response to a new US tariff plan to impose levies of 10% on 8 European nations, including Germany, France and the UK. Follow t...
As the world flocks to Davos, the host country ponders a population cap...