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Skip next section Antarctic research ship 'Polarstern' returns from 6-month mission May 15, 2026 Antarctic research ship 'Polarstern' returns from 6-month mission Image: Jörn Hüneke/dpa/picture alliance The more than 40-year-old German research vessel Polarstern — Polaris or Pole Star in English — has completed its last half-year mission to Antarctica.  The ship returned to its home

Usually, it tends to be Muslim men who go to pray on Fridays in the mosques of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As is customary in Islam, women are not required to go to the mosque to pray on the holiest day of the week. However, more and more, devout Muslim women in the Western Balkan country want

Thirty-four European countries plus Australia, Costa Rica and the European Union as an entity on Friday signed up to a future special tribunal that will seek to prosecute Russia for crimes committed during its invasion of Ukraine.  The plan has been in the works since soon after Russia's full scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine's President

While not a fan of the bloated 48-team World Cup this summer, Andreas Rettig admits anticipation is high as Germany enter the decisive phase of their preparation. Following two consecutive World Cup campaigns that saw Germany fail to get out of their group, the Director of Football at the German Football Association (DFB) knows the

Pakistan has taken on a leading role in the peace efforts between the US and Iran, hosting talks and serving as an intermediary for backchannel diplomacy between the warring parties. For Islamabad, the stakes are high. Officials view stability in the Gulf as closely tied to the country's own economic and security interests. A broader

Less than two years after winning a landslide election victory that ended 14 years of center-right Conservative party governments in the UK, Keir Starmer is hanging by a thread. His center-left Labour party lost well over half of their local council seats in elections held across England last week, with most going to right-wing, anti-immigration

The high-profile Beijing summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping ended with bombastic, positive statements — especially from the Trump White House, which called the US president "the dealmaker-in-chief" — but with little info known about concrete deals between the two rival superpowers. Trump praised Xi during the visit, calling him a "great leader" and

As Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in on Tuesday, observers and political leaders across East Africa reflected on the trajectory of a man who in 1986 emerged from military fatigues, and a country wracked by civil war, to then rule for 40 years. Regional leaders, including the Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi, President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania

Udo Lindenberg comes from Gronau, a small town near the Dutch border. His hometown is so proud of its most famous son that it dedicated both a public square and a larger-than-life statue to him. At its unveiling in 2015, Lindenberg himself described the monument as the "Statue of Liberty of Gronau." Years later, the

Skip next section UAE to fast-track pipeline bypassing Hormuz May 15, 2026 UAE to fast-track pipeline bypassing Hormuz The United Arab Emirates has moved to speed up construction of an oil pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ordered state oil giant ADNOC to accelerate