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Ethiopians have begun voting in general elections that are seen as the first major test of prime minister Abiy Ahmed and his ruling coalition.

A hardline cleric has swept to victory in Iran's presidential election. Officials say Ebrahim Raisi has won nearly two thirds of the vote. The only moderate candidate has already conceded. Raisi is a harsh critic of the West. The US has sanctioned him for allegedly overseeing the executions of thousands of political prisoners.

A long-running dispute between the Indian government and Twitter escalated on Thursday, when police in northern Uttar Pradesh state summoned Twitter India's chief for questioning. They allege Twitter encouraged the spread of "hate and enmity" by failing to remove a video being circulated on the platform.

Armenians are heading to the polls in elections called after a disastrous war with Azerbaijan. Armenia lost large swathes of territory in the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in a ceasefire agreement. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is hoping to renew his mandate, but his popularity has dropped after he signed the truce brokered by Russia. Observers warn the conflict could easily flare up again. And there have been reports of unrest at polling booths. Almost three thousand meters above sea level - but only a few meters apart, Armenian and Azeri soldiers stare each other down. Just a matter of months after a brutal war saw thousands killed and war crimes committed against prisoners. At this proximity, tempers can flare. Commanders eventually put an end to this brawl but recent weeks have seen repeated shooting and Armenia

NATO leaders had branded China a security risk to the alliance and criticized its "opaque" weapons development programs. "China's stated ambitions and assertive behavior present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to alliance security," NATO leaders had said in a communique. The final communique was NATO's first change of focus for an alliance created to defend Europe from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

France is reopening to foreign tourists after the pandemic devastated business. The capital Paris is enticing visitors with bargains and unusually empty museums. But as DW's Lisa Louis found out, the city has some tough competition. Paris loves its tourists. That's the message young, multilingual ambassadors are trying to spread.

he first astronauts for China's new space station have blasted off for the country's longest crewed mission. The Long March-2F rocket carrying three astronauts lifted off on Thursday at 9:22 a.m. local time (0122 UTC) from the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi desert of northwestern China. Shenzhou-12 is the third of 11 missions — four of which will be crewed — needed to complete China's first space station. The astronauts, wearing their spacesuits, were seen off by the commander of China's manned space program and other military

Unidentified gunmen shot dead six polio workers in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday during a polio vaccination drive. Police in the province of Nangarhar blamed the Taliban for the attacks. The group has denied responsibility. The latest killings come just two months after three female polio workers were killed in the provincial capital Jalalabad, also during a polio vaccination drive. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for that killing.

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Several G7 leaders are summit hopping, heading from England to Brussels, where NATO is holding a meeting of its 30 heads of state and government. US President Joe Biden wants to strengthen America's ties with the alliance after the Trump administration. For the first time, NATO leaders are expected to adopt a statement pledging more action against global warming. NATO's troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is also on the agenda. Members are also expected to call on China to respect international commitments. Ahead of the opening, secretary general Jens Stoltenberg clarified its position on Beijing. And G7 leaders wrapped up their summit, addressing some of world's biggest challenges – including the pandemic, and climate change. But more than anything, the summit in Cornwall, England was a chance to reassert transatlantic unity, after the fractious

Four members of a Canadian Muslim family who were killed on Sunday when a pickup truck jumped the curb and ran them over were targeted in an anti-Islamic hate crime, Canadian police said on Monday

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Germany has officially acknowledged that it committed genocide during its colonial-era occupation of Namibia, and announced a financial settlement of some 1.1 billion euros. That money will be spent over the next thirty years on infrastructure, healthcare and training programs to benefit the Herero and Nama communities, who suffered under German exploitation.

As some countries begin to reopen their economies after months of coronavirus restrictions, people are welcoming the slow return to normality. For residents in Venice, the lockdown has been a blessing. For months, cruise ships have been banned from docking in the historic city.

With just months to go before elections, Russia's government is cracking down on the opposition. At least two Kremlin critics have been arrested. At St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport on Monday, Russian opposition politician Andrei Pivovarov was pulled off an aircraft just minutes before takeoff

Published on May 26, 2021 Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province, is the most tense issue between Beijing and the U.S. Taiwan argues it is on the frontline of democracy against Chinese authoritarianism and is increasingly facing military harassment. Nick Schifrin speaks to Joseph Wu, Taiwan’s foreign minister, about the issue, and the role the U.S. can play in mediating conflict in the region.

Published on Jun 5, 2021 The hashtag #FreeThe21 has brought international condemnation for Ghana: The 21 are LGBT activists who were detained in late May. Sixteen women and five men have been charged with illegal assembly - because they organised and attended a training event. DW's Isaac Kaledzi reports from Ho in southeastern Ghana.

Published on Jun 4, 2021 Germany's most senior cleric has offered his resignation to Pope Francis. Munich's Cardinal Reinhard Marx said that he wanted to share responsibility for what he called the "catastrophe of sexual abuse" by members of the Catholic church. Marx has long been a leading voice in the call for church reforms. Those calls have been growing louder as sex abuse investigations revealed a decades-long cover-up by the clergy.

Published on Jun 5, 2021 Almost 100 Million Mexicans are expected to vote on Sunday in the biggest election in the country's history. These midterms will see the election of 500 deputies to Congress, as well as governors and mayors. But the polls will take place against a backdrop of political violence that includes murder. Almost 90 politicians or candidates have been killed since last September.

Published on Jun 5, 2021 A massive sinkhole in Santa Maria Zacatepec, Puebla, Mexico, is 20 meters deep and contains huge amounts of water. When it first appeared, it measured 5 meters in diameter, but within hours it grew to 80 meters wide. It is continuing to grow and now threatens to swallow a nearby house. The cause of the sinkhole could be subsoil water variations. Experts point to overexploitation of aquifers, although its precise origin is still a mystery. Meanwhile, neighbors just hope the hole stops expanding. The Governor has warned local residents to stay away from the area.

Published on Jun 5, 2021 Nigeria's government says it's suspending Twitter indefinitely, after the company deleted a controversial tweet from the country's president, Muhammadu Buhari. The social media platform removed Buhari's post from, saying it violated the site's rules against abusive behavior. In the tweet, Buhari threatened to punish members of a secessionist movement in the country's southeast. Nigeria's information ministry accused Twitter of double standards – in ignoring violent messages from a separatist leader. The country's information minister Lai Mohammed questioned twitter's actions labeling them as 'very suspect.'

Published on Jun 5, 2021 It has been 40 years since the first case of AIDS was reported. Since then, nearly 35-million people have died from HIV-related disease. While there is still no cure, there has been great progress in developing treatment. Today infected people only have to take one pill a day. But HIV is still the leading cause of death for women of childbearing age in southern Africa, which has the world's highest infection rate. In the Kayelitsha township in Cape Town, one health campaigner is working to make sure people stay on their medication