A grieving family member told DW about how their loved one was killed by security forces in Tehran. Thousands of people have been reported killed, but assessing the true scale of the violence remains ...
At least 47% of executions carried out in Iran in 2025 had been related to drug offences, the UN human rights office said....
Iranian official media on Wednesday said 3,117 people were killed during protests which first erupted in late December and which activists say were suppressed with a deadly crackdown. here are many ve...
Surveillance video captured the moment a suspect opened fire at a police vehicle, sending sparks flying. The suspect was later found dead in his vehicle....
One year into Donald Trump's second term, higher tariffs and sharper threats are straining transatlantic business. German companies in the US are weighing compliance against resistance as uncertainty ...
Trump's Board of Peace was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, but according to its charter the scope does not appear to limit its role to the Palestinian territory....
FRANCE 24's Kyiv correspondent Gulliver Cragg reflects on how, one year into Donald Trump's second mandate, the support of the United States for Ukraine has waned, although, as he points out, the US p...
As US President Donald Trump reaches the one-year mark of his second term in the White House, FRANCE 24's Oliver Farry looks back at his foreign policies and Washington's increasingly fraught relation...
Erfan Soltani, 26, was detained at his home in Fardis on 8 January. Four days later, authorities notified his family a death sentence had been issued and confirmed....
Guatemala is in a state of emergency following a weekend of gang-related violence. Gang-affiliated inmates rioted in three prisons. Seven police officers were killed as authorities took action....
Netanyahu's office said the lineup runs contrary to Israeli policy. The Trump administration had announced panel members who will oversee the transitional government in the war-ravaged Palestinian ter...
Uganda's authorities have shut down rights groups, arrested opponents and their supporters, now they've turned off the internet. After 40 years in office, President Yoweri Museveni has no intention of...
A US immigration officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man fleeing a traffic stop in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the government said, escalating tension over an unwelcome deployment of militarized fede...
It's opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Spanish Prime Minitster Pedro Sanchez will be a prominent absentee; his office says he won't travel given the huge train crash in Sp...
Uganda’s presidential election was plagued by widespread delays Thursday in addition to a days-long internet shutdown that has been criticized as an anti-democratic tactic in a country where the presi...
In Uganda, millions prepare to vote in a presidential election steeped in tension and controversy. President Yoweri Museveni, Africa’s longest-serving leader, is seeking a seventh term in office, but ...
FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday April 14, 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses an outline for what it will take to lift coronavirus restrictions during a news conference at the Governo...
US President Donald Trump on Friday gave a key role in post-war Gaza to former British prime minister Tony Blair and appointed a US officer to lead a nascent security force. Trump named members of a b...
A day after a sweeping deal was announced between the Syrian government and the country's main Kurdish-led force, the agreement appeared to be falling apart Monday. After new outbreaks of clashes Mond...
The deployment was announced the same day the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland met with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington....