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...
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...
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...
A struggling currency sparked the protests and Trump’s new tariffs on Tehran’s trade partners will only increase the pain...
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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...
The proposed sanctions would include the freezing of assets for new individuals involved in the recent crackdown, which has reportedly claimed hundreds of lives since protests began nearly two weeks a...
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...
US President Donald Trump is expected to get a briefing over sanction options against Iran, as Washington has been threatening to act against the country. But according to US newspaper Wall Street Jou...
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....
Russia and Venezuela maintain a strategic partnership spanning energy, defense, and diplomacy. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Russia's state-owned Roszarubezhneft says its Venezuelan oil assets belong t...
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...
South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...
Alain Orsoni, who led the separatist Corsican Movement for Self-Determination before becoming the president of Corsican football club AC Ajaccio, was killed by a long-range shot at his mother's funer...
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 Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red stea...
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...
Donald Trump’s sudden 25% tariff on nations trading with Iran puts Beijing squarely in the spotlight. China knows how to evade sanctions and has the muscle to retaliate. DW explores what this showdown...
The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers will meet US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Wednesday....
Canada and China appear ready to kick-start trade talks after years of strained relations, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing this week coinciding with both countries question...