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The battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut remains the fiercest frontline fighting, the Ukrainian military's commander in chief said this week. Follow for live updates.The battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut remains the fiercest frontline fighting,...

The Taliban rulers of Afghanistan say rain and floods over the past two days have killed at least three people and injured at least seven....

Iran-backed fighters were on alert in eastern Syria on March 25, a day after U.S. forces launched retaliatory air strikes on sites in the war-torn country, opposition activists said....

In anticipation of a major counteroffensive, thousands have volunteered to join Ukraine's Interior Ministry assault brigades. Backed by market research and an ad campaign, the units are part of an effort to rebuild the army while intense fighting cont...

Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through Mississippi, killing at least 25 people, injuring dozens, flattening entire blocks and obliterating houses in...

The US indictment against a Russian in custody in Brazil accused of trying to infiltrate the ICC as a spy could spark an extradition clash...

France's midrange pret-a-porter chains are suffering due to the current economic crisis and structural problems...

Vatican returned three fragments of Parthenon temple in what Pope Francis has called a gesture of friendship, it comes as Greece continues its bid to recover remains from British Museum...

The American politician is also a close aide of President Joe Biden...

Barricades have come up at several points near the courthouses in Lower Manhattan as well as outside the office of Manhattan District Attorney...

You have the power to reverse this decision for the sake of Indian democracy, Khanna said in another tweet...

President Joe Biden struck a migration deal to end illegal crossings during an official visit to Canada, he and PM Justin Trudeau also announced steps to counter China's growing power...

'Innovation is developing rapidly in China and I believe it will further accelerate'...

Scores of Indian Americans drove from in and around San Francisco and waived the tri-colour flag to show solidarity with India...

The opposition leader was removed from parliament one day after a jail sentence over defaming Prime Minister Modi. Gandhi says he is being targeted for pushing to probe Modi's key business ally, but refuses to back down....

Russia's assault on Bakhmut has largely stalled amid heavy attrition of Moscow's forces, according to a British report. Meanwhile, Russia's parliamentary speaker proposes banning ICC activities. DW rounds up the latest....

Authorities in the southern US state are still searching for survivors, with the death toll expected to climb further....

An asteroid this size coming so close to Earth is a once-in-a-decade event, although a collision with the planet is not expected. The journey offers astronomers a prime opportunity to study a space rock....

Berlin and Brussels have reached a deal in a dispute over a ban on new cars with internal combustion engines. The agreement relates to the future use of e-fuels in cars....

Supporters of four right-wing Serbian opposition parliamentary parties demonstrated in Belgrade, blocking traffic and demanding the government reject a plan agreed by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti on the process...

EU plans to seize Russian assets following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine are unprecedented and tricky, the chief of the EU task force said on March 24....

China's partnership with Russia has limits, despite rhetoric to the contrary, and Europe should welcome any attempts by Beijing to distance itself from Moscow's war in Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said....

Iran's judiciary has confirmed an 18-year prison sentence for activist Fatemeh Sepehri, an outspoken critic of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after calling on him to resign....

Ukrainian soldiers have been honing their skills to shoot down Iranian-made drones with machine guns. Russian forces have been using the drones to launch attacks across Ukraine, including on residential housing and civilian infrastructure. The Ukrainian m...

Three Iranian women have been arrested after arguing with another woman who was attempting to enforce rules on wearing a head scarf in the central city of Yazd....

The Russian Interior Ministry has added to its wanted list a self-exiled former speechwriter of Vladimir Putin, Abbas Gallyamov, known for his analyses of political and social developments in Russia and the Kremlin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and in...

The U.S. Treasury Department on March 24 issued new Belarus-related sanctions against nine individuals and three entities in response to an ongoing crackdown on the country's pro-democracy movement and civil society....

The demolition of a monument in Serbia honoring the fallen of World Wars I and II has sparked the ire of veterans' groups and locals. A Chinese construction company working on a highway project tore down the towering statues of fighters near the villa...

Antiestablishment protests have largely died down across most of Iran amid a deadly state crackdown. But in the impoverished southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, thousands of people continue to hold weekly protests against the clerical regime....

Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was sentenced to six years in prison last month on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces involved in Moscow ongoing invasion of Ukraine, says she was beaten while in custody....

Bishkek's Lenin District Court has ordered an examination of the language used in a video the government cited when it halted the operations of RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, saying it contains elements of inciting ethnic hatred and war propaganda, an a...

The chest-thumping founder of Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group flexed his political muscle to get a local mayor to back down and allow the burials of Wagner soldiers. But Yevgeny Prigozhin's influence may already be on the wane....

Around 80 motorists have taken part in the 10th Hub Rally Cross in Pakistan's Balochistan Province. Dina Patel, the 20-year-old daughter of veteran racing champions Roni and Tushna Patel, won the women's competition with Taimur Khawaja taking the ...

A pesky local investigative reporter in Bulgaria spends a day in jail after an anonymous tip sends elite cops on "urgent" warrantless raids over...ancient coins?...

Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been placed in a punitive solitary confinement cell for the 12th time since mid-August, his Telegram channel said....

Abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan is difficult for some Muslims with eating disorders, who feel they are neglecting a key part of their faith....

A court in Ukraine has frozen the assets of Oksana Marchenko, the wife of pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk....

The new school year began in Afghanistan this week. But over 1 million schoolgirls above the sixth grade remain barred from attending class....

Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the owner of the mercenary group Wagner, has denied he plans to scale back his military operations in Ukraine and instead concentrate on Africa, where Wagner was previously involved i...

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LONDON (AP) — King Charles III's first state visit as monarch was scaled back Friday, dashing hopes for a triumphal tour to win hearts and minds abroad just as his mother did so successfully during......

A court in the Siberian city of Barnaul has sentenced an officer with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) who was deported from Kazakhstan, where he unsuccessfully sought political asylum, to 6 1/2 years in prison....

Continued mass strikes and protest action have forced King Charles to postpone his planned visit to France on Sunday. It would have been his first official trip as king....

President Vladimir Putin is now a wanted man, the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court on suspicion of war crimes over the illegal transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia. How will it affect Putin's fate and the cou...

Myanmar's largest city has been cut off from the world for almost four years. DW spoke with Yangon residents about what life is like under a military regime....

King Charles' state visit to France has been delayed after trade unions called for another day of nationwide strikes and street protests during his stay, the French presidency said on Friday. King Charles had been due to make his first state visit as ...

The S&P Global PMI output index said the growth was a sign the economy is reviving. The index added that the overall growth is still at a modest rate, with manufacturing taking a big hit still....