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DW Englishby Okeri Ngutjinazo11h ago
"The Lake Nyos disaster took everybody by surprise. We had no warning signals before it ever took place," said Isaac Konfor Njilah, a Cameroonian geologist and head of a laboratory in the...
DW Englishby Lilia Rzheutska11h ago
Russian attacks on civilian ships have effectively brought the ports in the greater region of Odesa to a standstill. Until recently, they handled about 90% of Ukraine's agricultural exports.
DW Englishby Jeannette Cwienk11h ago
This year, wildfires have already burned more land than the annual average from 2006 to 2025 in Germany.
DW Englishby Natalie Muller11h ago
A person armed with a sword has wounded multiple people at a school in Fagersta in central Sweden, authorities said Friday.
DW Englishby Natalie Muller11h ago
A Swiss man has been sentenced to one year in prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after insulting a sacred Hindu holiday.
DW Englishby Karl Sexton12h ago
Security authorities in Germany uncovered a cache of handguns in a forest near the capital Berlin last year, which they believe was intended to be used to carry out assassinations on behalf of...
DW Englishby Karl Sexton13h ago
Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of charging migrants thousands of euros to bring them from Ceuta, Spain's North African exclave, to mainland Spain.
DW Englishby Natalie Muller14h ago
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is "growing exponentially" and risks spilling over into neighboring countries unless containment efforts are stepped up, the UN's senior Ebola...
DW Englishby Julian Ryall14h ago
North Korea responded on Thursday to claims by US President Donald Trump that he will be holding talks with leader Kim Jong Un later in the year with a broadside of ballistic missiles.
DW Englishby Katharina Abel14h ago
The "Bauhaus Manifesto 2026," published on August 20, was initiated by Germany's Minister of State for Culture, Wolfram Weimer.
DW Englishby Karl Sexton16h ago
What you need to know - More Germans think Berlin 'lacks charisma' than those who find it 'fascinating,' according to a survey - Panda twins Leni and Lotti celebrate their second birthday at Berlin...
DW Englishby Matt Pearson16h ago
While Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are still playing at 39 and 41 respectively, most football fans thought Ronaldinho belonged to another footballing era.
DW Englishby Cathrin Schaer; Omar Albam16h ago
It's been two years, four months, 24 days and five hours, said Syrian man Ahmad Hassan al-Din when asked how long it's been since he last saw his son.
DW Englishby Roshni Majumdar17h ago
The Panama Canal will cut the number of ships passing through it starting next month due to a lack of rainfall as the El Nino weather pattern takes hold over the region, the canal operator said on...
DW Englishby Dharvi Vaid Dhulia17h ago
A charter plane crash at a remote military radar site in western Alaska on Thursday has left all eight people on board dead, according to the United States military.
DW Englishby Shakeel Sobhan17h ago
What you need to know - CJP team assaulted while inspecting school 'in a buffalo shed' in Rajasthan - Rahul Gandhi's protest forces police to lodge complaint of pellet injury - Lingamaneni Sanjush...
DW Englishby Zhor Baki20h ago
There are only a few kilometers between the city of Fnideq in Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta — but the distance between those who dream of crossing that divide and those who chose to stay...
DW Englishby Dharvi Vaid Dhulia21h ago
The United States has deported and sent some 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year in a shifting Trump administration practice that Mexico opposes.
DW Englishby Roshni Majumdar; Rana Taha22h ago
A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted two pro-democracy Tiananmen activists under Beijing's controversial national security law for "incitement to subversion."
DW Englishby Matt Ford1d ago
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was briefly transferred from jail to a private hospital on Friday.
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