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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78478649_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JHsg Greece has toughened up on asylum-seekers [Photo: 2021, Samos]Image: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/picture alliance Migrants clashed with police at a detention center in northern Greece, with 35 having escaped the premises after cutting through a perimeter fence before police detained about half of them again, authorities said on Sunday. Greece is a major…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78478538_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JHrp The catastrophe occurred in the early hours of Sunday morningImage: AFP At least 30 people have died after a landfill collapsed in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, officials said on Sunday. Heavy rains overnight caused a large mound of rubbish to collapse at the Dar Es Salam landfill, burying nearby homes before dawn.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78407748_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JGBe Cars waiting in line to refuel at a Rosneft gas station in Moscow on August 17Image: Anastasia Barashkova/REUTERS Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries have triggered a new fuel crisis in Russia. Reuters news agency reports that at least 30 regions are now affected. Unlike the previous wave of shortages, which began…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/77275895_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JHFc Kane was named the Bundesliga’s men’s Player of the Year in the vote organized by Kicker magazine Image: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo/picture alliance Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane has been named men’s Player of the Year in Germany after a record-breaking season for the Bundesliga champions. Bayern coach Vincent Kompany was voted…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78472521_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JGxD Zelenskyy has warned against holding elections in wartimeImage: Thomas Trutschel/IMAGO Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that holding elections in his country amid the full-scale Russian invasion would be highly dangerous, in remarks made in response to a call from the former defense minister to organize a vote. “I believe that in a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78437516_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5J6zO Prescriptions for weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound have more than quadrupled in the US in recent yearsImage: Richard B. Levine/Sipa USA/picture alliance The United States has been grappling with an obesity epidemic since the late 1970s, but there is growing evidence that the constantly climbing obesity rates are beginning to drop.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78474328_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JGpK Kazakhs are voting in an election that was triggered by the adoption of a new constitution earlier this yearImage: Pavel Mikheyev/REUTERS Kazakhstan’s 12.3 million eligible voters will elect the Central Asian country’s parliament on Sunday. The polls come after a new constitution approved in March did away with the Senate to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78473996_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JGde Australia has been grappling with bird flu since JuneImage: Phillip Island Nature Parks/AFP Australia confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal on Sunday, after it found the deadly virus in a long-nosed fur seal. Authorities in the state of South Australia said they found the virus in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78473844_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JGav Munich’s Allianz-Arena is definitely the odd man out on the Sydney Marathon medalImage: Heike Feiner/HMB Media/picture alliance Organizers of the 2026 Sydney Marathon are making the best of the situation after minting tens of thousands of medals engraved with depictions of landmarks from the eastern Australian city along with one that doesn’t belong…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/76989882_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JGYX Ruben Rocha Moya has denied all charges against him and implied they are politically motivatedImage: Carl De Souza/AFP A Mexican state govenor, who is wanted by the US for conspiracy to smuggle drugs, says he sought a temporary but indefinite leave of absence just days after his controversial return to office. “Sinaloa,…