Niger: How might an ECOWAS military intervention unfold? (www.dw.com)
West Africa’s defense chiefs were wrapping up a meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Thursday where they discussed the possibility of a military intervention if diplomatic efforts fail to reinstate Niger’s ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum....
Baltic states seek to decouple grid from Russia (www.dw.com)
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are seeking to disconnect from an energy grid network shared with Russia and Belarus by early 2025. Vilnius is pushing from an earlier exit from the grid, which Tallin opposes.
Europe marks Holocaust memorial day for Sinti and Roma (www.dw.com)
Sinti and Roma people from across Europe gathered at the Holocaust memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Wednesday to remember the murder of an estimated 500,000 men, women and children by Nazi Germany during the Second World War....
Ancient Peruvian whale may be most massive creature recorded (www.dw.com)
Scientists have described fossils that are believed to have belonged to an extinct whale that may have been heavier than any other creature, including the largest dinosaurs....
Rhino poaching declines in South Africa amid crackdown (www.dw.com)
South Africa recorded a slight decline in the number of rhinos killed for their horns in the first half of 2023, authorities said on Tuesday....
Could China take Kuril Islands claimed by Japan and Russia? (www.dw.com)
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, Moscow is forced to funnel more and more of its military and economic resources to its western border. In Tokyo, conservative voices are hinting that the war could give Japan a chance to take control of what the Japanese call the Northern Territories. The strategically located islands...
Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says (www.dw.com)
In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions....
Afghanistan: Taliban burn musical instruments (www.dw.com)
Taliban’s religious police reportedly burned a number of musical instruments in the western province of Herat, according to a Sunday report by the state-run news agency Bakhtar....
French minister says decoupling from China unrealistic (www.dw.com)
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Saturday cast doubt on the possibility that Western countries could ever break with China economically in a bid to avoid over-dependence on a single trading partner and mitigate national security risks....
Kenya offers to lead Haiti policing mission to combat gangs (www.dw.com)
Kenya’s foreign minister said on Saturday that Nairobi was willing to lead a multinational force into Haiti....
The 'dangerous' feminists behind a Lebanese media outlet (www.dw.com)
“What is it that scares our societies the most — but we think about it every 40 minutes?,” presenter Maria Elayan asks at the beginning of the video. There’s a drum roll, then the answer: “Sex. You’re surprised, right?”...
Germany: Ukrainian refugees living in mining 'ghost towns' (www.dw.com)
If you open Google Maps to look at the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, you’ll notice three large pale patches. They represent three colossal open-pit mines — Inden, Hambach and Garzweiler — where the energy company RWE is extracting brown coal (lignite) from the earth....
Germany's auto industry: suppliers' confidence waning (www.dw.com)
In early July, multinational engineering and electronics giant Bosch, or — to be more precise — the supplier division of the company that produces automotive components and other industrial products, announced an agreement between management and employee representatives on the future prospects of 80,000 employees in Germany,...
Muslim nations call for boycott of Swedish products (www.dw.com)
The diplomatic fallout over the burning of the Quran outside a mosque in Sweden is threatening to escalate into a trade war after calls from Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa came to boycott Swedish products....
Germany: AfD to join far-right partners in EU parliament (www.dw.com)
Fascism is still on the rise:...
Burning ship off Dutch coast has more e-cars than thought (www.dw.com)
A freight ship that caught fire off the Dutch coast and has been burning since, as fire extinguishers try to figure out ways to tackle the incident, has been carrying nearly 500 electric cars, far more than previously reported, the company that chartered the ship said....
Typhoon Doksuri makes landfall in China (www.dw.com)
Typhoon Doksuri swept into China’s southeastern region on Friday, unleashing heavy rain and violent gusts of winds....
Russia's influence on Africa (www.dw.com)
Russia is trying to undermine democracy in more than two dozen African countries, according to a new study from the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an academic institution within the US Department of Defense....
More than 900 migrants drown off Tunisia's coast in 2023 (www.dw.com)
More than 900 migrants have drowned off Tunisia’s coast so far this year, the country’s Interior minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday....
Sweden: Quran burning protests leave PM 'very concerned' (www.dw.com)
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Thursday said he was “very concerned” about the large number of applications police had received for anti-Islam protests in the Scandinavian country....
Thailand: Why many men become 'short-term' monks (www.dw.com)
After graduating from university, Palath Dilokloetthanakorn, then 22, did what many other young Thai men do before starting their careers: he joined a Buddhist monastery....
Romania: War edges closer to NATO's border (www.dw.com)
Early on Monday morning, barge pilots and workers on the Romanian side of the river opposite the Ukrainian Danube port of Reni stared in disbelief at the skies, filming a swarm of approaching drones on their smartphones....
Disabilities in Syria: A 'hidden' crisis (www.dw.com)
The al-Hassan family have been victims of Russian-launched cluster bombs twice in Syria now, both times with horrific consequences....
Ukraine updates: Russian missile attack targets Odesa (www.dw.com)
Moscow launched 19 missiles via land, air and sea on the Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukraine said on Sunday....