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...
Galaxy said that new Treasury authorities in a Senate draft could mark the largest surveillance expansion since 2001....
Letter seen by FT appears to undermine claims that chair of US central bank misled Congress over renovation...
Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
The BBC intends to ask a US federal court in Florida to dismiss a US$10 billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against the British broadcaster, according to newly filed court documents. ...
Trump issued a threat to Minnesota Democrats on Tuesday in a social media post where he claimed, without evidence, that they were causing unrest throughout the state....
Iranians can call the outside world again after over four days of a communications blackout and a brutal security crackdown that has killed hundreds of people. Follow DW for the latest....
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Trump seeks to shut it down. (Image credit: Steve Helber...
The European Union is contemplating more sanctions against Iran amid a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests that has killed thousands. But could the bloc apply more pressure on the Islamic Rep...
A court in South Korea confirms that an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his martial law imposition in Decem...
The Bavarian state is to give over €1 million to a man who spent 13 years in jail on murder charges that were overturned. Prosecutors had previously called for him to pay for board and lodgings in jai...
The mayor of Ukraine’s capital says Kyiv was targeted by overnight drone attacks that sparked a fire in an apartment building, coming just a day after Moscow launched nearly 300 drones along with 18 b...
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an en...
Australia’s former prime minister and a prominent China scholar, Kevin Rudd, will step down as ambassador to the United States a year ahead of schedule, a move some analysts say underscores a fundamen...
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
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...
Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters rebuked the country’s new Reserve Bank governor, Anna Breman, for wading into US domestic politics after she signed a statement with other global ce...
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A Seoul court says an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his imposition of martial law in Decembe...