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Stefanie and Norbert Bartel's farm in eastern Germany is a stone's throw from the Oder River and right across from the Polish town of Porzecze on the opposite riverbank. The Oder's lush, fertile banks attract tourists, who cycle along the broad pathways and enjoy the rich birdlife. For the Bartels, whose farm doubles as a

An Istanbul court issued arrest warrants for the eight suspects, including a club president and several referees, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. Murat Ozkaya is the president of Eyupsport, who play in Turkey's topflight Super Lig. Eleven other suspects who had also been taken into custody on Friday have been released on

A German-Polish man has been arrested in the western German city of Dortmund on suspicion of having issued calls to attack politicians, and offering rewards for doing so, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. They said the man, identified only as Martin S. under German privacy laws, also published instructions on the darknet for manufacturing explosives, while calling for

In Pakistan at least 12 people have been killed following a blast outside a district court building in the capital, Islamabad. Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told reporters that the blast was a suicide attack and that police were currently investigating. What do we know so far? "At 12:39 pm (0739 GMT), a suicide attack was carried

Washington will not be sending a top-level team to this year's COP climate summit in Belem, Brazil. The global community expected as much from a president who has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement for the second time, slashed funding for renewable energy, championed fossil fuel projects and told world leaders at

For 75 years, the US has wielded wartime operational control (OPCON) of South Korean forces. The set-up has its origins in the Korean War which erupted in 1950 and largely ended with the truce of 1953. In simple terms, Seoul can command its troops only as long as there is no open conflict, and despite

Indian police on Tuesday launched an investigation into a deadly car blast near the historic Red Fort in the heart of the Indian capital that killed at least eight people.  In the aftermath of the blast, which happened Monday afternoon on a bustling street, authorities have shut down the Red Fort Metro station and closed the

The US Senate late on Monday passed legislation to reopen the government and end the longest-running government shutdown on record. Lawmakers passed the bill 60-40 after agreeing late Sunday to allow the bill to proceed to a vote and  expedite its approval process.  Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called on lawmakers to begin heading back to

It can seem like a strange coincidence to see children parade through the streets of Germany with lanterns to mark St. Martin's Day on November 11 while, at the same time, colorfully dressed carnival revelers shout "Alaaf" or "Helau." Do these things really go together? In fact, Carnival and St. Martin's Day are two customs that share

British-Hungarian writer David Szalay has been awarded the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel "Flesh," a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. The 51-year-old writer beat five other finalists to take the high-profile annual literary award, which honors the best English-language novel published in the United Kingdom or