Alberta is a very cold place in winter, even by Canadian standards. And yet, in the past week, hundreds of Albertans formed long queues in freezing weather, in big cities and small towns, to sign a pe...
Iran's communication blackout is "more serious" than ever before and restrictions may last beyond the current protests, according to one expert....
The second term of US President Donald Trump has brought unprecedented strain on once-solid German-American relations. The issue of Greenland could be a tipping point. DW looks back on a year of trans...
Thailand’s election season has triggered a dizzying array of cash giveaway offers from parties vying for votes, from a US$2,000 payment for newborns to debt write-offs and US$100 monthly top-ups for t...
GOP Rep. Michael McCaul warned on Sunday that any U.S. military intervention to obtain Greenland would mean war with America's NATO allies....
The region’s vast holdings of US government debt give it leverage with the Trump administration...
Despite US President Donald Trump’s insistence on acquiring Greenland, public support for the idea remains low. A Reuters/Ipsos poll of US residents this week showed that fewer than one in five respon...
China and the Philippines have again exchanged barbs over confrontations in the disputed South China Sea, with each accusing the other of provocation and escalating tensions. The Chinese embassy in th...
The EU's most senior prosecutor told Slovak MPs that a staggering one in three VAT fraud cases investigated by her office has links to Slovakia. How can such fraud flourish in Slovakia and is it a new...
The UN gave the US president a mandate to lead a "Board of Peace" to stabilize the Middle East. However, Donald Trump seems to be increasingly competing with the UN, while sidelining the Middle East c...
Analysts say precedents already exist but implementation could be difficult in practice...
President Ahmad al-Sharaa has postponed his visit to Berlin, for talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, due to the political situation in his country. The repatriation of Syrian refugees was high on th...
The EU is set to sign a long-awaited trade deal with South America's trade bloc, Mercosur. It may offer unexplored opportunities, but critics say the environmental fallout is being sidelined....
Liberal trade policies are giving way to frictions that could lead to outright conflict...
Stars and Stripes newspaper Ullstein bild via Getty Images The military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, is facing new pressure from the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the o...
The moves highlight the growing uncertainty over whether crypto prediction markets are treated as finance or gambling....
Portugal started voting Sunday in the first round of a presidential election in which a far-right candidate could for the first time make it to a run-off, but with the final result hard to call. Polls...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s political future hangs in the balance as she faces an appeals trial in Paris, a case that could derail her party’s ambitions to radically reshape France with an...
Body was originally planned to oversee Gaza but charter’s broad wording suggests it could mediate in other conflicts...
European countries race to respond after Donald Trump threatens tariffs in pursuit of Arctic island...