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DW Englishby Natalie Muller10h ago
Software engineer Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that programmed the first computers used by NASA's Apollo mission to land humans on the moon, has died at the age of 90.
DW Englishby Madelaine Pitt10h ago
On the morning of October 6, drones hit two commercial ships off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, sinking one of the ships and causing alarm and outrage in both Bulgaria and the EU.
DW Englishby Shakeel Sobhan12h ago
US prosecutors are expected to bring new charges against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, for the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuela, a US official...
DW Englishby Timothy Jones13h ago
What you need to know - Germany and the UK are to launch a new security partnership as British Prime Minister Andy Burnham visits Berlin - The UK leader and Chancellor Friedrich Merz will also...
DW Englishby Emilio Reynoso13h ago
Yemen's Houthi rebels say they struck Saudi Arabia's main international airport in the capital, Riyadh, with a missile attack on Thursday.
DW Englishby Mahima Kapoor14h ago
What you need to know - India's opposition alliance set to stage another protest against the chief election commissioner in Delhi - India's Cockroach group to stage similar protest in Bengaluru -...
DW Englishby Matt Ford15h ago
A filmmaker whose award-winning work has explored conflict in his native Kashmir has been detained by United States immigration officials on suspicion of residing and working in the country...
DW Englishby Matt Ford18h ago
Thousands of people joined a student march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday to protest against the possibility of Flavio Bolsonaro becoming president after the far-right candidate came out...
DW Englishby Felix Tamsut21h ago
A US judge told the state of Tennessee to preserve all evidence related to the failed attempt to execute Christa Pike, whom lawyers say is "angry and confused" after waking up in hospital nearly a...
DW Englishby Carla Bleiker23h ago
It's neither a joke nor fake news but a real report from earlier this week: Donald Trump has backed down.
DW Englishby Jennifer Holleis; Burak Ünveren1d ago
The latest iteration of Saudi Arabia's defense deal with Turkey and Pakistan, the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, is taking shape amid the country's escalating conflict with Yemen's Houthi militia.
DW Englishby Felix Tamsut1d ago
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it could not fully assess the situation of the suspected plague death of a laboratory employee in Russia.
DW Englishby Mark Hallam1d ago
Gerhard Schröder visited one of the Moscow branches of the new Hyperglobus supermarket chain on Wednesday, a few days after being named a member of its supervisory board.
DW Englishby Felix Tamsut1d ago
High-ranking German politicians marked the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place in Israel on October 7, 2023.
DW Englishby Sarah Hucal1d ago
The 1990s in Britain are often remembered through a haze of n,ostalgia consisting of rave culture, Britpop and provocative art and fashion by the likes of Tracey Emin and Alexander McQueen.
DW Englishby Jon Shelton; Timothy Jones1d ago
What you need to know - Chancellor Merz has called the election of an AfD politician to the position of state parliamentary speaker a 'historic break' - A new "Infraplan" outlining next steps in...
DW Englishby Ferenc Gaal1d ago
The European Commission wants to inject new momentum into its enlargement process, which has seen some candidate countries waiting for decades to join.
DW Englishby Shabnam von Hein1d ago
After spending 47 years abroad, Iranian musician Bijan Mortazavi returned to his homeland at the end of September. Mortazavi is one of Iran's most renowned violinists, singers, and composers.
DW Englishby James Shimanyula; Eddy Micah Jr; Isaac Mugabi; Isaac Kaledzi1d ago
South Sudan has scheduled a general election for December 22. It will be the first since the country gained independence from Sudan in 2011. But political tensions are high as preparations lag.
DW Englishby Andrew Zi-Qi Fang; Yu-Chun Chou1d ago
Ya Xi just returned to Shanghai on a red-eye flight after her Golden Week trip to Southeast Asia. "I can stay up all night for a cheaper ticket," she told DW.
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