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Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken announced that his country's navy boarded and diverted a vessel believed to be part of Russia's illicit shadow fleet of oil tankers on Sunday. Francken said the ship was being taken to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, where it would be officially seized by Belgian authorities. What do we know

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The Berlin International Film Festival is awarding the 2026 Honorary Golden Bear to Academy Award–winning actress Michelle Yeoh, in recognition of her outstanding achievements in film and cinema. The award will be presented at the opening ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 12, 2026. Considered one of the most versatile and influential actors of her generation, Yeoh's

A commemorative T-shirt on the Olympics online store marking the 1936 Games in Berlin under Adolf Hitler's National Socialist, or Nazi, government caught the eye of German media on Wednesday.  The shirt shows a man wearing a laurel wreath, the quadriga chariot drawn by four horses atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and core details

Almost seven years ago, Samer Tawk wondered whether he would walk again. "I was young and crazy and was skiing somewhere I shouldn't have been in Lebanon, and I fell 14 meters (46 feet)," Tawk told DW. Now the cross-country skier is preparing to represent Lebanon at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. It is a long-awaited return

It's the kind of story that only the Olympic Games seem to produce: A talented ski jumper, who had yet to win anything of significance, delivers the performance of his life to win Olympic gold. "I don't know how I did it. But I'm so, so proud that I managed to do it," Philipp Raimund

Journalists from Italy's RaiSport on Tuesday announced that they would stage a three-day strike after the Winter Olympics, and would no longer be putting their bylines on Olympics coverage, among other measures.  They are protesting an opening ceremony broadcast by their boss last Friday that started with a wobble and soon fell off the rails entirely.  Paolo Petrecca

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has barred Ukraine's skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing a helmet that honors Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia. "The IOC fully understands the desire ⁠of athletes to remember friends who lost their lives in that conflict," IOC spokesman Mark Adams told a news conference ‌on Tuesday. "He

Even the world's established democracies are increasingly sliding into corruption. Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published on Tuesday, shows a troubling erosion of leadership in combating corruption in the West. The 31st edition of the CPI ranks more than 180 countries and territories on perceived levels of public sector corruption, showing declines for longstanding strong

In early February, German media outlets reported on the strains affecting Germany's gas reserves. The news magazine Focus warned that the "cold snap devours our gas reserves." At the same time, the TV broadcaster ntv said that "Germany's gas reserves would theoretically last for about six more weeks," and warned: "There is hardly any room for