A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department rule that prohibits female inmates from wearing shorts in summer, with the court ruling that the women...
Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...
Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on January 11 during his mother’s funeral. He was 71. Alain Orsoni...
China's trade has reached a "new historical high" in 2025 and Beijing plans to 'open more' in 2026 as Trump's tariffs force producers to push their products in alternative markets....
Last week, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations as they "no longer serve American interests," the White House sai...
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielson said the Arctic territory was facing a "geopolitical crisis" as Trump threatens to take it over. Denmark's Mette Frederiksen condemned "unacceptable pr...
War-related violence in Ukraine killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 last year, a 31% rise in the number of victims from 2024, a UN monitor said....
Honduras electoral authorities rejected on Monday an order by the outgoing president to recount November’s election won by Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura. Asfura, a conservative businessman, was ...
The Islamic Republic is a key player in the Middle East, with close ties to Russia and China. As the regime in Tehran comes under fire, DW looks at Iran's place on the global stage....
French farmers steered some 350 tractors on January 11 toward French Parliament to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America that they fear threatens their livelihoods. They say thei...
Kyiv's attacks on Russian oil terminals and refineries damage their enemy, but impact other economies such as Kazakhstan and risk alienating allies....
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Nicosia, while Ukrainian and US negotiators remain in Paris, looking to iron out more details of Tuesday's "robust" security guarantees agreement. Meanwhile, the fighting con...
Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
US state sues Trump over ICE raids after fatal shooting of mother of three sparks nationwide protests....
The Trump administration plans to replace the US ambassador to Vietnam with a nominee set on addressing “imbalanced” trade relations, as Hanoi’s goods trade surplus with Washington surpassed China’s...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...
The death toll over 16 days of mass anti-government protests in Iran reached 646 as of Monday, according to data published by the the U.S.-based HRANA....
Taiwan has begun co-producing 155mm (6.1-inch) artillery shells with the US, as the island moves to strengthen wartime ammunition resilience amid Beijing’s escalating military pressure and concern ove...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to testify in a Republican-controlled congressional committee's investigation into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, accusing Republican chair James Comer...