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On Monday and Tuesday, Lebanese and Israeli civilians once again woke to explosions as fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group continued. "The situation is catastrophic," Sukaina Hemadah, a 37-year-old mother in Beirut, told DW. Since her house in in Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik was demolished by an earlier Israeli air strike, she

NASA will cancel plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit, instead focusing on the construction of a roughly $20 billion (about €17.25 billion) base on the moon's surface over the next seven years.  New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who was sworn in at the US space agency in December, made the announcement at

Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday that two people have been taken into custody and accused of spying for Russia. The two suspects were a 45-year-old Romanian woman, who was detained in the northwestern German city of Rheine, and a 43-year-old Ukrainian man, who was arrested in the southeastern Spanish city of Elda.

After nearly a decade of stop-start negotiations, the EU-Australia free trade deal has finally crossed the finish line.   "Australia used to have Europhobia — now we have at least some Eurovision," Tim Harcourt, of the University of Technology Sydney, told DW. As recently as 2023, talks collapsed at the last hurdle, derailed by fierce opposition from Australian

Soaring World Cup ticket prices have pushed European fans to file a complaint against FIFA. "The cheapest openly available final tickets now start at $4,185," the Football Supporters Europe (FSE) group said. That's around €3,400 — and "more than seven times the cost of the cheapest 2022 World Cup final ticket," the group said in statement

A military drone that crashed on a frozen lake in Lithuania hailed from Ukraine and was aimed at attacking Russian oil assets before going astray, Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Tuesday.  The drone crashed near the border to Belarus the previous day, with the military first reporting that a suspected military drone had entered

"People believe all sorts of things about how the world's going to end," said Matthew Billet, social psychologist at University of California, Irvine, US, in conversation with Science unscripted hosts, Conor Dillon and Gabriel Borrud. "Some people mean human extinction," Billet said. "Some people mean the collapse of civilization or some sort of transformation of

The state election in Rhineland-Palatinate was a success for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party: With 19.5% of the vote, the AfD more than doubled their result from the previous state election five years ago. That number was even slightly higher than the percentage the AfD got in the Baden-Württemberg election two weeks ago. Among

If you spend a day soaking up the Cypriot sun, you'll notice a few subtle signs that this Mediterranean island was once a British colony. You have to drive on the left side of the road here. Power outlets have three holes, unlike most other parts of the EU. On the beach or high in

The Lebanese flag is waved amid the rubble of a Lebanese Civil Defence post destroyed in an IDF airstrike in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, on March 24, 2026. Fabio Bucciarelli/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Fabio Bucciarelli/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty As the war approaches the one-month mark the Trump administration keeps its options