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It was apparently meant as a joke but nobody in Iceland found it funny. In January, Billy Long, US President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Nordic island nation joked to some members of the US Congress that Iceland should become the 52nd US state and that he would be governor. There was immediate

In the early hours of Wednesday, a speedboat carrying 10 Cuban exiles drew near the coast of Cuba. It appears to have set out from Florida . It was intercepted by a patrol boat of the Cuban coastguard. There was an exchange of fire that left four people in the speedboat dead and the other six injured.

As the fallout from today's US-backed Israeli strikes on Iran unfolds, Lebanon's situation remains particularly precarious. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has repeatedly said that his country will not interfere in foreign disputes. Earlier this week, he urged Hezbollah to not drag Lebanon into "another adventure." In January, Naim Qassem, secretary-general of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, said that any US attack on Iran

It sounds like the plot of a screenplay, but it happened to two Berlin film students in real life.  Moritz Henneberg and Julius Drost had created an animated short film for their final project at university. "Butty" tells the tale of a household robot that gets kicked out when it can 't  do its job properly. When t he two

Michael Schoellhorn, the CEO of Airbus Defence and Space, says the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), the long-planned Franco-German fighter jet and air defense project, will survive but that "there will have to be some restructuring in certain parts." Speaking in an exclusive interview with DW, Schoellhorn, whose company is one of the two main partners in

After winning gold in Italy, becoming the first South American to win a Winter Olympic medal, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen said: "I just hope that Brazilians look at this and truly understand that your difference is your superpower." Pinheiro Braathen, who competed for Norway in the 2022 Winter Olympics and is the son of a Brazilian mother and

The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), Germany's first political party, are struggling to muster their optimism in a year when five of Germany's 16 federal states are set to elect new parliaments. According to the latest opinion polls, the SPD could be voted out of power in two states that is has governed for decades. In two

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was given the red carpet treatment on arrival in New Delhi on Wednesday, as he heads to the AI Impact Summit 2026.  Lula is traveling with more than a dozen ministers and a large business delegation including CEOs of leading Brazilian companies, as he seeks to intensify trade ties

What do we know about the deal? Germany's Hapag-Lloyd, the world's fifth-largest container shipping line, has signed a deal to acquire its Israeli rival Zim Integrated Shipping Services for $4.2 billion (€3.5 billion). The merger agreement was signed on Monday, following advanced talks. It was unanimously approved by Zim's Board of Directors but needs the formal

The films couldn't be more different. "No Good Men," by Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat is a feel-good romantic comedy. "Roya," by Iranian director Mahnaz Mohammadi, is a distressing psychological drama. Despite their contrasting styles, the works have one thing in common: They feature the distinctive directorial approaches of two female filmmakers who drew on their