Alican Uludag, a longtime correspondent for DW in Turkey, has been in pre-trial detention since February 20. The proceedings against him have dragged on for weeks — partly because of structural problems in the Turkish judicial system.
Russian artillery and aerial strikes across Ukraine killed at least nine people on Tuesday, including a child, officials said. Meanwhile, Ukrainian drone strikes ona region east of Moscow, and Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine, killed five, also including a child.
A gunfight outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul has left one attacker dead and two others detained, authorities said. Turkey's Interior Ministry said the man who had been "captured dead" and "had connections with a terrorist group that exploits religion." What happened at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul?
Think life is great in Germany? Many of the country's young people disagree. A growing number of Germans aged between 14-29 say they are actively planning to leave their homeland. In the recent study called "Jugend in Deutschland" or "Youth in Germany," some 21% of young Germans surveyed say they are actively planning to leave Germany to find a better life.
Think life is great in Germany? Many of the country's young people disagree. A growing number of people in Germany between the ages of 14-29 say they are actively planning to leave their homeland.
Authorities in the northern French city of Bully-les-Mines say that the driver of a high-speed TGV train was killed early Tuesday morning in a crash involving a loaded semi at a street-level crossing. A large contingent of emergency services and technical crews were quickly dispatched to the scene.
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At least three people were killed and 15 more injured in Russian drone attacks on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Monday morning, according to local authorities. Among those reported dead were a 30-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter, plus a 53-year-old woman, after a drone struck a multi-story residential building.
Pyotr Trofimov (name changed) had only been in Germany for three weeks when he received the news that his father had passed away in St. Petersburg. Had it not been for Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he would have still been in Moscow and not in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth.
The leaders of Serbia and Hungary announced on Sunday that explosives were found near a pipeline in Serbia that transports Russian gas to Hungary. "Our units found an explosive of devastating power," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a post on Instagram.
Looking at an ordinary map of Estonia, Narva is simply another city on the eastern borders of the European Union. But the city of around 52,000 is more significant than that. Narva, in Estonia's Russian-speaking east, is becoming a flash point for debates about European security, identity and the future of the bloc.
Looking at an ordinary map of Estonia, Narva is simply another city on the eastern borders of the European Union. But in fact, the city of around 52,000 is more significant than that. Narva, in Estonia's Russian-speaking east, is becoming a flashpoint for debates about European security, identity and the future of the bloc.