Frontex launches new EU border control mission Operation Themis | News | DW
Italy is no longer obligated to receive all migrants rescued by the European Union’s border agency from the Mediterranean Sea after Frontex launched its new mission on…
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Eritrean migrants shot in massive Calais brawl | News | DW
A massive brawl involving more than 100 Eritrean and Afghan nationals in Calais on Thursday left four teenage migrants in critical condition after being shot. Tensions…
14 injured at Frankfurt Airport after hauler collides with bus | News | DW
Police said initial inquiries indicated that the hauler had rammed the bus after ignoring its right of way. The 72 passengers on a Ryanair flight…
Jailed Catalan leaders take case to UN panel: lawyers | News | DW
Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart have lodged their case with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, their lawyers said Thursday. “Their…
Poland′s Senate approves Holocaust bill that sparked a row with Israel | News | DW
The upper house, which is controlled by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, passed the controversial Holocaust bill by 57-23 with two abstentions,…
British MPs vote to vacate Houses of Parliament for much-needed repairs | News | DW
British lawmakers on Wednesday approved plans to vacate the iconic Houses of Parliament for the first time in 77 years to allow major renovation work…
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont admits defeat, vows to fight on | News | DW
Catalonia’s Carles Puigdemont said he was “sacrificed by our own” in an exchange with fellow fugitive lawmaker and former Catalan minister Toni Comin that was published…
Is the Czech Republic moving closer to China and Russia? | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
The leaders of Russia and China were among the first to heartily congratulate Milos Zeman on his re-election to a second term as the president…
Conditional release for Amnesty′s Taner Kilik in Turkey | News | DW
The court ruled Wednesday that Kilic be released from detention in Izmir in western Turkey on the condition that he report regularly to police until a…
France to tighten regulations after ′Nutella frenzy′ | News | DW
In a bid to prevent a repeat of brawls over the popular chocolate spread, France’s Economy Minister, Bruno Le Maire, met with the director of…
Theresa May looks to China for post-Brexit future | News | DW
British Prime Minister Theresa May touched down in the central Chinese city of Wuhan Wednesday with her sights set on the UK’s future outside of…
EU Environment Commissioner rejects member states′ plans to tackle air pollution | Environment| All topics from climate change to conservation | DW
Representatives of nine EU member states summoned to Brussels on Tuesday to explain how they intend to curb air pollution failed to present plans deemed…
Swiss university to offer world′s first yodeling degree | News | DW
Yodeling, the peculiar singing technique that involves rapid and repeated pitch changes, is to be offered as a degree course for the first time. Switzerland’s…
Austria′s Sebastian Kurz backs Hungary′s Viktor Orban against EU migrant quotas | News | DW
Austria should work to ease tensions between western and the eastern EU members, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in Vienna at the joint press conference with…
Moscow laughs off Washington′s ′Kremlin Report′ | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Growing anticipation among Russian media outlets and elite circles over an anticipated report by the US government has quickly turned to ridicule. The so-called “Kremlin…
Poland enlists Interpol in hunt for Nazi war criminals | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Polish state prosecutors have set an ambitious goal for themselves: to find surviving Nazi SS soldiers who committed war crimes at German concentration camps during…
Catalonia: Session to re-elect Carles Puigdemont postponed | News | DW
Catalonia’s parliamentary speaker, Roger Torrent, postponed Tuesday’s vote that would have authorized the region’s separatist leader Carles Puigdemont to form a government. The decision to…
Brexit Diaries 25: ′Maybot′ in Davos | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
A group of businesspeople had been shipped off to a warehouse near Middlesbrough, or in London terms, the middle of nowhere. It was an occasion…