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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/76813071_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JD67 The Caspian Sea is under enormous pressureImage: Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/IMAGO Some of the world’s largest lakes could shrink substantially within this century, with far-reaching consequences for ecosystems and roughly a quarter of the global population living in affected regions. Although restoration efforts have proved successful in some cases, many inland bodies of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78521468_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JSkq Khalid Shiekh Mohammed in US detention in 2017Image: AP Photo/picture alliance Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the terror attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, has been given a trial date. Mohammed was captured in 2003 and has spent nearly 20 years in detention at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. A…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78518329_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JSCL Police in Caen are investigating whether the incident was intentional [File photo: April 2025]Image: Sébastien Dupuy/AFP A person drove a car into a crowd in the northwestern French city of Caen on Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring about a dozen others, firefighters and police said, according to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78284700_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JQzi As temperatures climbed past 40 degrees Celsius across southern Europe this summer, scientists say such extreme heat is increasing due to human-caused climate changeImage: Tiziana Fabi/AFP As a summer of European extreme heat draws to a close, politicians are looking back at the toll. Germany recordedaround 14,000 heat-related deaths, almost two-thirds in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78514912_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JRK5 Tim Curry had a stroke around 10 years ago and suffered severe health issues ever since [FILE: August 2016]Image: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Photo/picture alliance Actor Tim Curry died at the age of 80, Variety, TMZ and other celebrity news outlets reported on Wednesday.  A cause of death was not immediately given but…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/61134520_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JIuC Magdeburg is the state capital of Saxony-AnhaltImage: Heiko Kueverling/Zoonar/picture alliance Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany’s 16 federal states, boasts a rich cultural and historical heritage: Many of the world-famous architects associated with the Bauhaus in Dessau lived and worked here. The towns of Eisleben and, above all, Wittenberg preserve the memory of the great…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78399283_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JQZU Anopheles mosquitoes are most active between dusk and dawn, which can make bites easy to missImage: Roger Eritja/Visually/picture alliance At least one Frankfurt Airport employee has died after contracting malaria in an outbreak believed to have been caused by an infected mosquito brought into Germany on an aircraft. Germany’s DPA news agency…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78509208_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JPgT Ratcliffe had also served as national intelligence chief during Trump’s first administration [FILE: April 2026]Image: Bonnie Cash/UPI Photo/Newscom/picture alliance The Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday that US foreign intelligence chief John Ratcliffe had held a series of high-level talks the previous day in Moscow, but denied reports that he had spoken with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78508615_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JOsy Dozens of people were left missing after the incidentImage: Prabin Ranabhat/AFP Several people were confirmed dead and hundreds more are missing after a flash flood swept through remote valleys in Nepal and Tibet on Wedensday. The floodwaters washed away villages, damaged bridges and destroyed electrical infrastructure on both sides of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78504996_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JOgw People were brought down with the help of rescue laddersImage: Bodo Marks/dpa/picture alliance Nearly two dozen carnivalgoers were rescued after a 90 minute ordeal in central Hamburg late on Tuesday, having been stuck 25 meters (82 feet) in the air on a swing carousel ride. The Hamburger Dom carnival is held in…