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Lawyers for US President Donald Trump began making their case to the Senate in his impeachment trial. Democrats accuse Trump of abuse of power over his dealings with Ukraine. Trump's legal team says it should be up to American voters to decide his fate.
75 years on, Auschwitz calls to mind chilling images of cruelty of the worst kind. The Nazis murdered more than a million people there. DW's Marc Erath spoke with the people working to conserve the site and the memory of those who suffered there.
More than one million people were murdered by the Nazi regime in Auschwitz. Some local residents risked their lives to help the victims. This is their story.
A powerful earthquake has hit a sparsely populated part of eastern Turkey, killing several people and injuring hundreds more. The epicenter of the quake was the town of Sivrice in Elazig province, but tremors were felt across the region.
Jewish and Muslim leaders have met in Warsaw to pray together, gathering in a synagogue and a mosque a day after a historic visit to Auschwitz. The members of the American Jewish Committee and the Muslim World League were there to mark 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
Millions of people in China are affected by transport bans and traveler screening as authorities try to contain a coronavirus outbreak that started in the large industrial city of Wuhan. The virus, which has since been detected in several other countries, has now reached France.
The cultural and political turmoil of 1920s Berlin has inspired the most expensive German TV series ever made, aptly named "Babylon Berlin." The award-winning period thriller has just returned for a third season, but international fans will have to wait a bit longer.
In Cameroon, locals living near a rundown, former slave site want to turn it into a memorial. They feel that not enough has been done to adequately address the history of the inhumane slave trade.
Life is not easy in a place like Kariobangi. Poverty, crime, drugs, rape and other violations are part of the everyday life of the slum. The Boxgirl project teaches girls young women to box as a way of dealing with violence and poverty.
Large swarms of locusts are eating their way across east Africa in the worst outbreak some regions have seen for 70 years. With dire consequences for food security in already vulnerable countries. Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are the worst affected.
People in China are welcoming the Year of the Rat. It’s not an animal many people associate with positive characteristics. Quite often it’s associated with spreading disease. But it can also sniff out disease. And it has other qualities, too.
A survey commissioned by DW says almost 40 percent of Germans think it's time to stop discussing the Nazi era. Sixty percent disagree.
Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra sparked controversy when he dissolved Congress in September 2019. Though many Peruvians supported his decision, they are disillusioned with the political system. Deutsche Welle has been trying to find out why.
The visit led by Muslim World League leader Muhammad Al-Issa and American Jewish Committee chief executive David Harris was the result of years of talks. It is a sign of more interfaith dialogue.
Despite an unprecedented lockdown in Wuhan and surrounding areas, China hasn't managed to keep the virus contained.
With the spirit of the Rat New Year, zoos are using the opportunity to try and dispel some fears and misconceptions about the rodents.
The German and Turkish leaders could be hoping 2020 brings about progress on some prickly issues. Diplomatically, relations between Berlin and Ankara have been rocky in recent years.
It's never been tried before, and no one's sure it will work: Chinese authorities are attempting to quarantine the city of Wuhan, which is at the center of a coronavirus outbreak that's spreading across Asia and beyond.
The world has marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp with an event at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem. Heads of state and politicians from all over the world came to commemorate the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. But did politics get in the way? Brent Goff asked Stephan Lehnstaedt, professor of Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Touro College Berlin.
As preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics enter their final stages, the organizers also have to consider worst-case scenarios. Because Japan is no stranger to earthquakes, one question they're asking themselves is: What happens if a quake hits during the Games?
Heads of state and politicians assembled in Jerusalem to commemorate six million Jews killed in the Holocaust and to promise to fight anti-Semitism today. A huge gathering of political power at Yad Vashem, the international Holocaust memorial center.
In Germany's health system, thousands of positions are left unfilled. So clinics and recruitment companies are increasingly looking for staff abroad, and they have set their sights also on Namibia. Is this a blessing or a curse for the country?
The international crisis group is sounding the alarm over developments in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. They say growing hostility between countries in the region is threatening to provoke a new security crisis.
