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When Chinese fast-fashion online retailer Shein opened its first boutique last week, there were both protests and a crowd of shoppers. The brick-and-mortar shop inside the BHV Marais department store in central Paris hit a nerve and not just because it is in the home of haute couture. It was a love-hate response to the

Two cruise ships are bobbing quietly in the specially expanded port near the city of Belem in northern Brazil on the edge of the Amazon. They will serve as alternative accommodation for more than 10,000 participants at this year's climate conference.    Between 40,000 and 50,000 people, including heads of state and government from almost 200 countries

The artificial intelligence (AI) party is still in full swing, with tens of billions globally pouring into infrastructure, startups and attracting the best talent. Among the headline announcements this year: ChatGPT parent company Open AI, Softbank and Oracle pledged to invest $500 billion (€433 billion) in AI supercomputers, Open AI and chip giant Nvidia announced a $100 billion fund

BBC Director General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday after criticism of the way the United Kingdom's public broadcaster edited a speech by US President Donald Trump. The scandal is the latest to hit the BBC, which has also been accused of failing to maintain its political neutrality in its reporting of

On the day Berlin marked the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was wild to watch the razzle dazzle of America's game on show in the German capital. The Indianapolis Colts beat the Atlanta Falcons 31-25 in overtime. Catching from the tortilla cannon, singing Country Road, watching Jonathan Taylor run 83-yards

A car as a weapon: That brought back memories of the attack by Anis Amri on the Christmas market at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz in 2016 and a similar attack by an Islamic extremist with a truck in the southern French city of Nice. In December 2024, a man drove a rented car into a crowd at a Christmas Market

"I can still clearly remember the morning of November 10," said W. Michael Blumenthal. "My father was arrested early in the morning. Amid the commotion and despite the fact that my mother had forbidden me to do so, I went outside without being noticed. I saw the broken shop windows on Kurfürstendamm boulevard and smoke

Words have meaning. They shape how people feel about an issue, remember events and respond to developments that affect their lives. For decades, people in Germany have referred to the anti-Jewish violence that cascaded across the country on November 9, 1938, as the "Kristallnacht" or "Reichskristallnacht." The translation "Night of Broken Glass" is widely used in English. In

Bundestag President Julia Klöckner, of the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), recently implied that Germany had become the "brothel of Europe" — reigniting the national debate about sex work. In a speech read out at an award ceremony on Tuesday, Klöckner criticized Germany's current legislation, saying sex workers are not adequately protected. "I am firmly convinced that we must finally

It's Sunday afternoon, and 10 people are gathered for a theater rehearsal in a community hall in Lille, a city in northern France. Most of the amateur actors did not get to know each other through the arts scene. They met during France's  "yellow vests" protests.  The grassroots protest movement was at its height in 2018