Category: DW News

Biden: ‘Freedom will always triumph over tyranny’ In his first State of the Union address, Joe Biden said that in standing with Ukraine there was [more…]

China is undertaking its largest military exercises in decades off the shores of Taiwan this week in response to the visit of the highest-ranking US [more…]

Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Tehran on Tuesday for talks with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts on key issues affecting the region. Iranian President [more…]

How useful are face masks during the coronavirus crisis? Experts can’t really agree on this: Should we wear them? And if so: who should wear [more…]

China’s deadliest aviation disaster in decades could have been deliberate. A media report citing US officials says crash of China Eastern flight MU 5735 COULD [more…]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Bundestag in a video call for the first time on Thursday morning before the German parliament opened. The Ukrainian [more…]

North Korea on Thursday officially confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak and ordered a national lockdown, state news agency KCNA reported. The isolated nation has never [more…]

A clean-up operation is underway in China’s central Henan province after devastating floods. Days of heavy rain has left much of the region submerged. At [more…]

The war in Ukraine has prompted huge financial sanctions against Russia. Despite the sanctions the Russian currency is astonishingly strong. Vasily Astrov from the Vienna [more…]

Inflation has driven Lebanon’s currency to historically low values in recent weeks. The crash of the Lebanese pound is playing its part in the companies [more…]