Polling suggests the far-right AfD is carrying its momentum into another upcoming state election. Meanwhile, former Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged people not to take democracy for granted. DW has more.

Three pro-democracy activists who organized annual commemorations of China's deadly 1989 Tiananmen crackdown were charged under Hong Kong's Beijing-backed national security law.

Prime Minister Peter Magyar has abruptly ended the era of his predecessor's warm relations with Russia: Hungary has expelled 10 Russian diplomats. The Kremlin is considering halting gas supplies in response.

Hungarian PM Peter Magyar has abruptly ended the era of his predecessor's warm relations with Russia: Budapest has expelled 10 Russian diplomats from the country. Moscow is considering halting gas supplies in response.

Firefighters searching for survivors combed through the smoking remains of a ferry off the coast of Coron island in the Philippines. Five people died and over 40 have been rescued

Modi will also meet Xi Jinping as India seeks to balance ties with China and Russia. The wars in Ukraine and Iran could test the group's unity at the summit. Follow DW for more.

The 9/11 plot, including the twin tower attacks, was partly planned by the so-called Hamburg cell. A look at how Germany's national security was reshaped.

Several new laws are aimed at "psychologically exploitative" social media functions for children. Governor Gavin Newsom said the laws target the technology behind addictive use rather than age alone.

The Netherlands and France have moved their gold out of US vaults. Part of the reason is fears about the reliability of the US, but equally important is the need to keep gold closer to home in the event of a crisis.

The Netherlands and France have moved their gold out of US vaults. Part of the reason is fear over US reliability, but equally important is the need to have their gold closer to home in the event of a crisis.

Spanish lawmakers approved a bill that could give citizenship to tens of thousands of Sahrawis and their descendants, amid tense ties with Morocco. The legislation must now pass the senate.

Algeria said that it was closing its airspace and severing ties with the United Arab Emirates. Algiers accuses Abu Dhabi of destabilizing countries such as Libya, Sudan and Mali.

Several people were killed and others injured in a tourist bush crash near the alpine village of Susch in Switzerland's eastern canton of Graubünden.

US tech companies gather, link, and sell more and more information about their users. The scandal involving the dating app Grindr shows how easy it is for highly sensitive data to fall into the wrong hands.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Canada would provide Ukraine with a "very important" air defense package.

25 years after 9/11, the terrorist group al-Qaeda is no longer the global terrorist organization it once was. Its central leadership has been weakened, but offshoots remain strong across Africa and Asia.

The German government wants to follow other EU countries and take more decisive action against Russia's shadow fleet, accusing it of helping Moscow evade sanctions and carry out acts of sabotage.

The Houthi takeover of Mokha comes amid intensified fighting that has sparked fears of a return to civil war. The Red Sea has served as a key alternative to the Strait of Hormuz amid the US war with Iran.

Shortly before Berlin's state parliamentary election, the hacker group Rhysida stole data, tried to extort the Berlin Senate and published the data on the dark web after their attempt failed.

Canceled language exams, disrupted plans to study in Germany and the disappearance of an important cultural link: DW users shared how the closure of Germany's Goethe-Institut in Russia affects their lives.