Category: DW News

President Xi Jinping has vowed to reunify mainland China with self-ruled Taiwan – adding to growing tensions between the two governments. Speaking to mark the [more…]

US President Joe Biden announced a “first tranche” of economic penalties against Russia on Tuesday. The sanctions target Russia’s VEB and Promsvyazbank banks. Biden added [more…]

While US President Donald Trump refuses to accept the result of the presidential election, many world leaders congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. In her first extended [more…]

The last Ukrainian troops remaining in the besieged port of Mariupol have defied a Russian deadline to surrender. More than 10,000 civilians have been killed [more…]

A rally in support of the embattled Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko was dwarfed by an opposition protest more than 100,000 strong. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko [more…]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘miscalculated’ when he invaded Ukraine, and that the war has strengthened both NATO and the [more…]

Beijing fears the same lockdown fate as Shanghai, with COVID cases cropping up across the Chinese capital. Meanwhile in Taiwan, the government is keen to [more…]

With Russia now pushing for full control of southern and eastern Ukraine, Western countries are ramping up their support, supplying billions of Euros worth of [more…]

On Monday, the Philippines will hold consequential elections. People from the 1980s may likely remember the People Power Revolution that toppled the Marcos dictatorship there. [more…]

Russia’s president is calling on Ukraine’s last remaining defenders in Mariupol to surrender. The fighting is focused on the Azovstal steel plant where civilians and [more…]