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Michelin star awarded to Mexican taco stand for first time

EU probes Facebook, Instagram over child protection concerns

Netherlands: New coalition pitches 'strictest' asylum policy

Switzerland: Police arrest knife attack suspect

New Caledonia state of emergency comes into effect

Germany: Money-laundering probe into far-right AfD lawmaker

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico being transported from a helicopter by medics to the hospital

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Slovak PM Robert Fico shot and injured

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in hospital in serious condition after being shot four times on Wednesday.

Former Slovak PM Heger: Political violence on the rise

Slovakia: PM Fico in 'very serious' state after shooting

Slovakia: PM Fico shot in 'an attack on democracy'

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Africa

Workers from Niger and China are seen on the construction site of an oil pipeline in Gaya, Niger, in October 2022

Benin gives green light for Niger's oil exports to China

Benin was initially blocking a pipeline exporting crude oil from Niger to China.

Asia

A police officer walks in front of a row of loading machinery in Chabahar

Is India taking a risk with Iran Chabahar port deal?

Despite the US's warning of sanctions, India has signed off on the continued development of a port in southern Iran.

Germany

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Group coming-out of gay football players: Will it happen?

Critics of the initiative to combat homophobia say it has little chance of creating long-term change.

Europe

North Macedonia's new President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is seen in stage at her inauguration

North Macedonia name dispute reignites spat with Greece

North Macedonia's new president Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova has reignited a decades-old spat with Greece.

Middle East

Palestinians carry national flags and symbolic keys as they rally to commemorate Nakba or "catastrophe" in Arabic, in the West Bank city of Ramallah

What is the Palestinian Nakba and why does it matter?

On May 15, Palestinians mark 76 years of having lost their homeland. What is the Nakba, and why is it relevant?

North America

A bag of pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The pills are disguised as prescription oxycodone painkillers.

Illicit fentanyl is entering the US at highest rates ever

More than 115 million illicit pills containing fentanyl were seized by US law officials last year.

Developing

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Israel-Hamas war: US completes Gaza floating aid pier

The US military has completed building a pier off Gaza's coast that will allow more aid into the enclave. DW has more.

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Israel-Hamas war

Israel and Hamas have been at war since October 7, 2023, when the militant Islamist group attacked Israel. Gaza is bearing the brunt of most of the fighting.

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Demonstrators hold a Georgian national flag in front of an Eternal flame at the Square of Heroes during an opposition protest against "the Russian law" in the center of Tbilisi

Georgia's president plans foreign agent law veto as 'symbol'

Although her veto can be overridden, President Salome Zourabishvili tells DW she will veto the bill as a "symbol."

A glass box is filled with a green liquid on a street

Serbia's suprising solution to air pollution — liquid trees

Serbian scientists are trialing innovative liquid trees to help improve air quality in urban areas.

Pakistan's Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmad administrates the oath of office to Ayesha Malik

Pakistan: Why are there so few female judges?

Across Pakistan and South Asia, women are struggling to become judges and rise up to senior judiciary positions.

Why Putin chose an economist as Russia's defense minister

Andrei Belousov is a longtime ally of President Vladimir Putin. His job will be to strengthen Russia's arms industry.

Kharkiv's bombed-out central square and city hall after Russia's failed 2022 assault

Why Kharkiv is an important city in Russia's war in Ukraine

Russia has launched an offensive targeting Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city.

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Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro dies aged 92

The first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Alice Munro, has died at the age of 92 in Ontario.

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Extreme weather

Heavy flooding, severe storms, record heat waves, extreme weather is on the rise due to climate change. This is affecting people, ecosystems and economies around the world.