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Global computer systems are slowly coming back online after a massive tech outage caused chaos and confusion around the world. From broadcasters to banks, stock exchanges, and airlines. The outage also affected health care systems, with many hospitals forced to cancel surgeries. The head of the cyber-security firm which caused the crisis says he's deeply sorry for the disruptions, which were traced back to a flawed software update. 00:00 IT crash causes worldwide chaos 02:32 DW speaks with Sven Herpig, Lead for Cybersecurity Policy and Resilience at Interface, a European thinktank specializing in information technology

On Friday, Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a drone strike on Tel Aviv. The attack hit an apartment building in the city center, killing one man and wounding at least 10 others. Israel says it's investigating how its defenses failed to prevent the strike, which deployed an Iranian-made drone. Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the strike was in retaliation for Israel's war in Gaza. The Houthis are an Iranian-backed rebel group that controls several provinces in Yemen, and is aligned with Hamas and Hezbollah. This is the first deadly Houthi strike on Israeli territory.

Germany has become the latest country to ban Chinese telecoms companies Huawei and ZTE from its 5G network - citing national security concerns. DW Business speaks with telecoms consultant John Strand and Paul Triolo, Partner for China and Technology Policy Lead at DGA Group about whether we are entering a new ‘cold war’ and what this could mean for the world.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has signed an EU co-operation agreement with the government of Serbia on lithium excavation. The mineral is used to make batteries for electric vehicles. The agreement has run into resistance in Serbia, as a lithium mine would destroy agricultural in the west. The EU is keen to shift its reliance on China for natural resources towards Europe. DW spoke to environmental activists in Serbia about the project.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel's settlement policies and exploitation of natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territories violate international law.

A court in Russia has sentenced a Wall Street Journal reporter to 16 years in prison. After three days of closed-door hearings, the court in the city of Yekaterinburg found Evan Gershkovich guilty of spying. He was accused of following the orders of the US Central Intelligence Agency to gather information about a Russian factory producing tanks for the war in Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal and the White House deny the charges.

A technical outage is disrupting companies worldwide - from airlines to broadcasters and banks. The US initially grounded all of its flights worldwide, as delays hit airports including Berlin and Amsterdam's Schipol. In the UK, the London stock exchange was temporarily affected and two hospitals in Germany had to cancel non-emergency operations. The problem is being linked to the cyber security firm Crowdstrike and the Microsoft Windows operation system.

Broadcasters, airports and several companies across the world were hit with major disruptions after an update caused a global tech outage. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said it has issued a fix.

Israeli forces continue to bombard northern and central Gaza as tanks push deeper into Rafah in the south. Airstrikes have reportedly hit the city of Deir al-Balah, the last major urban center not to be invaded by Israeli forces. Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip now stands at 38,794. Meanwhile, negotiators from both Israel and Hamas are in Cairo for cease-fire talks.

Israeli airstrikes have killed scores of Palestinians in the north, centre, and south of the Gaza Strip, while tanks have pushed further into Rafah in the south. Israeli missiles struck the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the territory, destroying a mosque and a UN-run school where many people were sheltering. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said that Israeli airstrikes also killed Palestinians in Zawayda town and Bureij. Weeks of intensified bombardment has claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians as Israel says it is targeting leading members of Hamas, some of whom it believes took part in the October 7 terror attacks. Earlier this week, the Israeli military said it had killed two members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in two separate airstrikes in Gaza City. Several areas that Israel had designated "safe zones", including Al-Mawasi in the south, have been struck in recent days, leaving ever fewer options for displaced Palestinians.

What would happen if, under Donald Trump as president, US support for Ukraine was limited or even stopped? DW's Washinton bureau chief Ines Pohl put this and other questions to Michael Link, Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office.

Protesters in Bangladesh have stormed and set fire to the headquarters of the main state broadcaster. Bangladesh Television says many people are trapped inside its offices in the capital Dhaka. Student protests over the last month have seen dozens of people killed in violent clashes. Authorities cut some mobile internet services to try to quell the unrest. The nationwide agitation, the biggest since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was reelected earlier this year, is fuelled by high youth unemployment. Nearly a fifth of the country's 170 million population is out of work or education.

Ursula von der Leyen has secured a second term as president of the European Commmission - the EU's executive administration. The European Parliament re-elected Von der Leyen for another 5 year term with a comfortable majority. She gained 401 of the 707 votes cast. Her election ensures continuity of leadership.

The Seine river in Paris is causing concern ahead of this summer's Olympic Games in France. That's despite authorities spending almost 1.5 billion euros to clean it up. To quell those fears, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo came through on a pledge to take a dip in the water.

Bangladeshi authorities cut several mobile internet services on Thursday for "security" reasons following student protests. "Mobile internet has been temporarily suspended due to various rumors and the unstable situation created... on social media," Zunaid Ahmed Palak, the junior information technology minister, told reporters. Services would be restored once the situation returned to normal, Palak added. Shops and offices were open in Dhaka, the capital, but there were fewer buses on the streets. The government has ordered schools and universities to close indefinitely amid the protests. Why are students protesting in Bangladesh? Students have been demanding the abolition of a quota of 30% reserved for the families of those who fought in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Protesters argue that the reservations have led to widespread unemployment in the South Asian country. Bangladesh has nearly 32 million young people who are out of work or education among a population of 170 million. At least six people have been killed and hundreds injured in the protests in recent days. On Thursday, protests continued nationwide, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators. Authorities had shut all public and private universities indefinitely from Wednesday and sent riot police and the Border Guard paramilitary force to university campuses to keep order. In a speech on Wednesday, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina promised her government would set up a judicial panel to investigate the deaths after police fired bullets and tear gas to scatter protesters. Hasina urged the students to remain patient until the Supreme Court hears the government's appeal against a High Court decision on August 7, which ordered the reinstatement of the 30% quota.

Stretching between Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Pantanal is the world's biggest tropical wetland. So far this year at least 700,000 hectares of it have burned. A major factor is the continuing drought that has dried out more than half the wet area.

On Tuesday, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he was moving his companies X and Space X from California to Texas. Musk has said that the relocation of his two companies' headquarters is in protest at a new gender identity law in California which he opposes. On Monday, July 15th, California's Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed new legislation on gender identity. The bill makes California the first US state to ban schools from informing parents of their child's desire to change their gender identity, or be addressed by different pronouns or names. LGBTQ+ organizations say the law protects transgender children living in hostile family situations. Since the bill was signed into law, a southern California school district has sued Gov. Newsom, claiming the law undermines the parent-child relationship. Emily Rae, a lawyer representing the school district, has said that "school officials do not have the right to keep secrets from parents, but parents do have a constitutional right to know what their minor children are doing at school." Among the critics, Elon Musk has described the new law as an 'attack' on families, and said he would take his businesses to conservative Texas, which also has a lower corporate tax rate. DW interviews Saul Gonzalez, journalist, and host of "The California Report" on Elon Musk's decision.

Ukrainian authorities say the number of children abducted by Russia since the start of the war, stands at more than 19-thousand. Few have made it back home. DW went to Ukraine to speak to one of those who did. 00:20 DW’s Aya Ibrahim meets a Ukrainian teenager who was rescued 04:07 Interview with Mykola Kuleba the Founder and Director of the NGO Save Ukraine.

Germany's armed forces will get a much-needed financial boost, after the cabinet approved the country's annual budget for 2025. But the €1 billion increase is much less than the defense minister asked for - and comes at a cost. Aid to Ukraine will be slashed, as well as funding for foreign service and humanitarian programmes.

Two weeks of intensified bombardment have claimed the lives of hundreds of Palestinians as Israel says it is targeting leading members of Hamas it believes are responsible for the October 7 terror attacks. 00:00 Israel's operation targeting Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif 03:00 Interview with Marina Miron from the War Studies Department at King's College in London

Authorities in Bangladesh ordered schools and universities across the country to remain closed for an indefinite period. This decision came after six students were killed in protests over reforms to quotas for jobs in the public sector. On Tuesday, there was a significant increase in violence as protesters and pro-government student groups clashed, while police dispersed rallies with tear gas and rubber bullets. Education Ministry spokesman M. A. Khair told AFP news agency the shutdown order was issued for "the security of the students." Three of the victims died in the southern port city of Chattogram, more than 300 kilometers from the capital Dhaka, while two were killed in Dhaka and one in the northern district of Rangpur, police said. Authorities deployed the paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in five major cities, including Dhaka and Chittagong, as protesters blocked some of the country's main highways. What triggered the protests? Protests erupted two weeks ago on university campuses as students demonstrated against civil service hiring policies. They want and end to a quota system that reserves more than half of civil service posts for specific groups, including children of veterans from the country's 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, women, people in the impoverished districts, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities. Critics say the system benefits children of pro-government groups that support Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who won her fourth consecutive election in January after a vote with no real opposition. Earlier this month, a Supreme Court bench ordered the reintroduction of job quotas, which were scrapped in 2018 in the face of massive student protests. However, an appeals court ordered a status quo on job quotas until early next month. The protesters called on the government to resolve the issue once and for all.

The Hamas-run health authority says fresh Israeli airstrikes have killed dozens of people in central Gaza. Officials also say strikes at the weekend killed nearly a hundred Palestinians sheltering in a makeshift camp near Khan Younis. Israel says the latest attacks targeted the leadership of Hamas, which carried out the October 7 terror attacks.

The Republican Party confirmed on Monday former US President Donald Trump as its candidate for the upcoming US election and Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate. Vance was greeted at the first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) with a standing ovation, while Trump made his first public appearance since he survived an assassination attempt days earlier. 00:00 Who is JD Vance? 02:47 Ines Pohl, DW Washington Bureau Chief 03:53 Rachel Rizzo, Atlantic Council 09:25 Alexandra von Nahmen, DW Brussels Bureau Chief 11:25 Julius van de Laar, Political Campaign Strategist

Germany's Interior Ministry banned the right-wing extremist Compact magazine, it said on Tuesday. Authorities searched properties related to the magazine in four German states: Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. The aim of the raid was to confiscate assets and evidence, the ministry said. The ban also applies to Compact's subsidiary Conspect Film, and prohibits any continuation of previous activities. Why was Compact magazine banned? "It is a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene. This magazine incites hatred against Jews, people with a history of migration and our parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner," said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. The ban shows "that we are also taking action against the intellectual arsonists who are stirring up a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state," Faeser added. "Our message is very clear: we will not allow ethnicity to define who belongs to Germany and who does not." Compact magazine was classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as extremist, nationalist and anti-minority in 2021. The magazine's holding company is run by Jürgen Elsässer. It has a circulation of 40,000 copies and an online video channel, Compact TV. The company also operates an online store for merchandise, such as a coin with the image of Björn Höcke, the far-right politician from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party who was recently convicted and fined for using a Nazi slogan. In 2020, Meta's Facebook and Instagram social media platforms removed Compact magazine's accounts over hate speech.

Pakistan is planning to ban the political party of the former prime minister Imran Khan. The government claims Khan's PTI party received illegal foreign funding. It also accuses him of inciting rioting. Khan has been in jail for nearly a year and is barred from standing in elections. 00:00 Why Pakistan is seeking to ban PTI 02:42 DW's Beenish Javed tells us if this ban could go through 06:00 Interview with Zulfiqar Bukhari, a spokesperson for Khan's PTI party. We apologise for the technical difficulties with the connection during this interview.