Month: July 2024
Germany honors plotters who tried to kill Hitler | DW News
It’s been 80 years since the failed assassination plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Today Germany is commemorating the uprising — at the Resistance memorial centre [more…]
How political polarization has become deadly in Slovakia | Focus on Europe
Death threats, assassinations – the fight between political groups is escalating in Slovakia. Democracy and the rule of law lose out. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1 For more [more…]
Anant Ambani, son of Asia’s richest man, gets married in lavish wedding in Mumbai
The four-day wedding celebrations began on Friday with the traditional Hindu wedding ceremony and will be followed by a grand reception that’s expected to run [more…]
Russian court jails US reporter Evan Gershkovich for 16 years for ‘espionage’ | DW News
A court in Russia has sentenced a Wall Street Journal reporter to 16 years in prison. After three days of closed-door hearings, the court in [more…]
Bangladesh imposes curfew and deploys army to curb massive quota protests | DW News
Bangladesh is under a nationwide curfew after weeks of protest turned violent. Military forces are now patrolling the streets of the capital Dhaka in a [more…]
Massive IT outages: How severe are they and who is affected? | DW News
A global tech outage is disrupting companies worldwide from airlines to broadcasters and banks. The US is issuing a ground stop on all its flights [more…]
Would a Trump victory inevitably lead to democratic backsliding? | DW News
On Thursday night, Trump closed Day 4 of the Republican National Convention with a lengthy GOP acceptance speech in which he called for ‘unity’. Since [more…]
Former German Ambassador to US: ‘No reason to panic’ over Trump’s VP nominee J.D. Vance | DW News
Former German Ambassador and former head of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, speaks to DW’s Ines Pohl at the Republican National Conference. On the [more…]
Zelenskyy takes his case for continued military support to US governors
NATO members this week agreed to a new programme to provide reliable military aid to Ukraine and prepare for its eventual membership in the alliance. [more…]
Live: ICJ delivers opinion on Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territory | DW News
The UN’s International Court of Justice will deliver its advisory opinion in respect of the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel [more…]