A grieving family member told DW about how their loved one was killed by security forces in Tehran. Thousands of people have been reported killed but assessing the true scale of the violence remains c...
The plan involves the reopening the Rafah border crossing, a critical lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has maintained it will not advance to the second phase until the remains of the last hos...
Alberta is a very cold place in winter, even by Canadian standards. And yet, in the past week, hundreds of Albertans formed long queues in freezing weather, in big cities and small towns, to sign a pe...
The president of the German Armed Forces' reservists says European troops should be sent to Greenland to block a US takeover of the territory. Meanwhile, heating bills are set to soar amid a harsh win...
The US expected resistance from dozens of Venezuelan air defense systems during the Maduro raid. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images The US expected "significant resistance" from...
"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...
US military forces boarded and seized a seventh oil tanker linked to Venezuela, the US Southern Command said on Tuesday, as the administration of Donald Trump steps up efforts to curb Caracas’s oil ex...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "national language", in an apparent gesture of good will towards the minority following clashes in recent days. The decre...
Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images A Democratic congressional report criticizes the Department of Veterans Affairs for major healthcare cuts. The VA lost over 40,000 workers in 202...
In Gaza on Wednesday, Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians in multiple attacks, including a strike on a vehicle carrying three journalists documenting a new displacement camp. Since the ceasefire too...
New York City's law mandating an option to tip when customers pay for their order takes effect on January 26. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A New York City law requiring a tip prompt...
Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country's exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,”...
Dimon said at Davos that the cap would cause a "disaster." Denis Balibouse/Reuters Jamie Dimon said Trump's proposed cap on credit card interest rates could hurt 80% of Americans. Speaking at ...
The United Nations announced it will assume control of the Al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which houses thousands of people suspected of having links to the Islamic State group, after Kurdish-led ...
Civilians fled a Kurdish-held region of northern Syria on Friday before a deadline set by the army, which seeks to expand its control over the area after driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo. The govern...
Syria's government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces agreed a new ceasefire on January 20 as Washington said the SDF's purpose in fighting Islamic State group jihadists was largely over. Th...
Look for the US and Canada to move farther apart on China policy, even in areas where they were previously aligned, analysts say, days after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a multifacete...
As Russian President Vladimir Putin focuses his attentions on Moscow’s war in Ukraine, his strategic allies around the world have been left feeling neglected – or worse. In Venezuela, officials now th...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...
The US military has started transferring up to 7,000 Islamic State (IS) detainees from prisons in northeastern Syria to Iraq, as Syria’s new government asserts control over territories long governed a...