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International police have shut down what they called "one of the world's largest" online markets dealing in millions of stolen identities and account details, Europol and U.S. officials said on April 5....

The Bishkek police chief is under fire for saying the victims "themselves" are often to blame for rape incidents. The comment -- made in the wake of a rape case involving a teen victim -- has prompted angry protests and calls for his resignation....

While the Taliban aspires to stable relations with its northern neighbors, it "will continue governing with a strong focus on issues inside the country and less regard for concerns outside."...

The U.S. State Department has blocked four Georgian judicial officials from entering the country due to their involvement in "significant corruption," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said....

Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar says Russian forces are carrying out "uncontrolled, barbaric" industrial-scale logging in Ukraine that will "inevitably lead to catastrophic consequences for the environment."...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has "no doubt" Russia has wrongfully detained a U.S. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), but that a formal determination must go through a process before a decision is announced....

Ukrainian assault brigade sappers risk everything to clear the front line of mines laid by Russian forces -- and lay their own. They often work a few hundred meters from Russian positions, leaving them vulnerable to attack. As one sapper told Current Time...

Russia's commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, told a UN Security Council meeting on April 5 that Moscow is coordinating with international organizations to return Ukrainian children to their families....

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his first visit to China since 2019.Macron is accompanied on the visit by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is making her first trip to China as the bloc's ...

Tunisians are deeply dissatisfied with efforts to preserve their environment and the quality of their water -- more than most populations on the planet....

Israeli police said they entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque to disperse "agitators" who reportedly barricaded themselves at the complex. Tensions have been growing at the site amid an overlap of Muslim and Jewish holidays....

Nearly 400 Afghan women who are UN employees have now been banned from working for the organization by the Taliban. Previously, those working with the UN were exempt from the ban....

A first in US history: a former US president has appeared in court to face criminal charges. Donald Trump has hoped the drama around the trial will energize his supporters as he makes a second run for the White House....

China's international trade negotiator has expressed concern over Australia's scrutiny of the operations of Chinese firms there, the Commerce Ministry......

The Chinese consulate general in Los Angeles on Tuesday said any meeting between Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen and US House speaker Kevin McCarthy would be a......

Twitter published the source code for its recommendation algorithm and owner Elon Musk has promised more....

More and more Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are complaining of not receiving their salaries on time, in full, or at all, leaving their wives at home to struggle with getting by and, in many cases, raising kids....

Russia continues to pressure musicians who have spoken out against the country's invasion of Ukraine as the Kremlin seeks to squash any signs of opposition to its unprovoked war....

A focus on Finland's NATO bid has obscured the extent of the country's labor shortage. But a chronic lack of workers is on voters' minds as they head to the polls on Sunday....

In this episode of DW Festival Concert, we listen to Finnish conductor Klaus Mkel directing Mahler's "tragic" symphony and music by his compatriot Kaija Saariaho....

Pakistan's Army said on April 1 that attackers from Iran killed four of its border patrol soldiers....

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on April 1 officially confirmed that it has served a notice of suspicion to Metropolitan Pavlo of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), a former abbot at the famed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, and searched his reside...

Tanzanian traders doing business in Kenya have raised concerns that the weekly demonstrations by the opposition are negatively affecting their business. Kenya is the main destination for Tanzania's corn exports....

While the press once pulled spectacular pranks on April 1, they now have to tread carefully with fake news. A look at some funny journalistic fiction over the years....

What does the future hold for Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) now that the party has been dissolved by the country's military junta?...

In Germany, lay judges hand down verdicts in court alongside professionals. Experts are voicing concern: The influential posts appear to be attractive for people with views hostile to the rule of law....

Moscow will hold the UN Security Council's rotating presidency for the month of April. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has vowed to increase munitions supplies to Russian forces in Ukraine. DW has the latest....

Tennis star Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic said she opposes the decision by Wimbledon to lift its ban on Russian and Belarusian players ahead of this year's tournament, saying she felt for Ukrainians amid Moscow's ongoing invasion of their co...

Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie museum presents 100 works by Gerhard Richter, on long-term loan from his art foundation. At the center of the show is the iconic "Birkenau" cycle....

Thirty-six-year-old Jakov Milatovic could slam the door this weekend on three decades of political domination by Montenegro's first postindependence president. If he wins, as many have predicted, Montenegrins will have taken a big leap of faith....

At least nine women and three children were killed and several others injured in a stampede during the distribution of Ramadan charity at a private center in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, police and rescue officials said....

Consumer price inflation in Pakistan accelerated to a record 35.37 percent in March from a year earlier, eclipsing February's 31.5 percent, the statistics bureau said on April 1....

The International Monetary Fund said on March 31 that its executive board had approved a four-year $15.6 billion loan program for Ukraine, part of a global $115 billion package to support the country's economy as it battles Russia's 13-month-old i...

Russia moved to ban imports of dairy products from Armenia on March 31 amid rising tensions between Moscow and Yerevan....

Ukrainian forces repelled dozens of Russian attacks in the eastern region of Donetsk over the past day, the military said on April 1, as British intelligence suggested that Russia's monthslong winter offensive in the east is beginning to show signs of...

Several hundred people demonstrated in Sarajevo on March 31 against Christian Schmidt, the international community's high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, over decisions he made last year affecting Bosnia's elections law....

More than 20 Ukrainian doctors and nurses have found work at Riga's First Hospital in the Latvian capital. After fleeing Russia's invasion at home, they have helped Latvia's health-care sector, despite language challenges. Latvia was facing a ...

Croatia on March 31 returned a second group of migrants to Bosnia-Herzegovina amid questions about where the migrants should be allowed to apply for asylum....

Andrew Tate, an Internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest....

The United States is seeking to keep more than 1 million rounds of ammunition the U.S. Navy seized in December as it was in transit from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to militant groups in Yemen, the Justice Department said....

The leader of a U.S. neo-Nazi group wanted in the United States for allegedly fomenting violence at political rallies has been apprehended by Romanian authorities in Bucharest....

The authoritarian ruler of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has defended a Russian plan to place tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory and said that Russia could also position intercontinental nuclear missiles there if he and Russian President V...

Russian forces captured Ukrainian soldier Yuriy Kuzminskiy and his comrades on Snake Island on February 24, 2022. During his nine months in Russian captivity, Kuzminskiy says he was tortured and beaten regularly. He claims Russian special forces were hunt...

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev has said a motley group of mafiosos, criminals, and corrupt officials is trying to remove him from power. His critics, however, say that he's the one who's protecting these types of lawbreakers....

Kazakh tycoon Qairat Boranbaev, whose daughter is the widow of the grandson of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on corruption charges....

The 86-year-old pope earlier in the day attended the weekly general audience at the Vatican and appeared in good health...