Investigative Journalism
Harald Laatsch sits in the Berlin House of Representatives. For the AfD. And on Friday he does what right wing populists do best: he spreads a lie so obviously false that one has ...
Yevgenia Mykhailivna Bezfamilna was 88 years old. As a child, she survived the Holocaust. She then died alone in her apartment in the historic center of Kyiv, a European capital under constant bombardment ...
Several shots in a residential building in northwest Moscow. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, 64 years old, first deputy chief of the Russian military intelligence service GRU, is taken to a hospital seriously injured. The attacker escapes ...
The past months mark not an ordinary foreign policy dispute, but a structural rupture. When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared at the end of January that Washington was prepared to use force to secure "maximum cooperation" from Venezuela’s leadership, ...
Hungary is taking its case to the European Court of Justice and openly positioning itself against the European Union’s course of phasing out Russian gas imports. With its lawsuit against the REPowerEU regulation, Budapest is escalating a conflict that has long ...
Washington responds soberly, almost routinely. The president shows no surprise that Russia has resumed its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. This comes after Vladimir Putin had previously pledged to refrain from attacking ...
One week. That is all the president of the United States asked for. Seven days of reprieve for a city of millions, while temperatures in Ukraine fall to levels at which power outages are not ...
Anyone who opens X today does not end up where they end up by chance. The homepage feels like a constant barrage of right-wing claims, sharpened misrepresentations, and the same recurring narrative patterns ...
For years, Russia has built a quiet but effective supply system that circumvents Western sanctions and keeps its oil fleet operational. At the center are ship engines and spare parts from a Finnish manufacturer that continue ...
Germany counts a lot. Income, employment, inflation, new housing. But it does not count how many homeless people die. Not nationwide, not consistently, not continuously. Those who die become part of the general mortality statistics ...
You really have to let this sink in. An AfD state parliament member cancels her own event – and instead appears jointly with Martin Sellner, one of the most prominent faces of ...
The attack by Ukrainian drones on the tanker Qendil in the Mediterranean was not an isolated incident, but a glimpse into a web of camouflage, personnel shifts, and informal structures. On board the vessel, which was targeted ...
Shortly before midnight, the Ukrainian Air Force issued an unusual warning. From Kapustin Yar, a Russian strategic missile test site near the Caspian Sea, the launch of a ballistic missile was possible ...
In the shadow of all front lines lies a place where Ukraine’s future could be decided - not by weapons, but by electricity. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, has been under Russian occupation ...
Anyone walking through Tehran today without a headscarf is no longer stopped. No warnings, no fines, no intervention. Young women like Sahar, who does research at a university, take advantage of this - ...
Denis Kapustin is alive. And that is no minor detail, but a slap in the face for the Russian intelligence apparatus. Just days ago, agencies around the world reported his alleged death – hit by a Russian drone, ...
Since September 2023, a criminal trial has been underway in Stockholm that appears outwardly inconspicuous but breaks new legal ground. Two former executives of the Swedish company Lundin Oil are standing trial on charges ...
In Russia’s customs data for the year 2025, a gap of historic proportions has opened up. Around 180 categories of technically advanced goods have simply vanished. These are primarily electronics and industrial equipment, ...
What Alice Weidel is currently selling as a triumph is, upon closer examination, the opposite. The ruling of December 18, 2025, by the Administrative Court of Weimar, Case No. 8 K 1271/23 We, is clear, sober, and ...
Ah, the mother-in-law. Made another comment about your cooking skills? Described your home decor as an “interesting transitional phase”? Or gave you that special look when you ruined the roast for the third time? ...
Three years after its introduction, the citizen’s benefit is effectively over. The federal cabinet has launched a reform that replaces the existing system with a new basic income support and introduces significantly harsher rules ...
Russia’s defense industry likes to present itself as self sufficient, as a closed system fed by its own raw materials and its own technology. That narrative does not hold up under closer scrutiny. Behind the facade of domestic ...
It was the early evening of December 13, 2025, when families filled Bondi Beach. Children were playing in the sand, music was playing, soap bubbles drifted across the lawn ...
Human rights in 2025 – you fight alone, Brother, be sure of that. The times have shifted, cold with a star above them, and the world sways at the edge of a moral abyss. Everything dissolves ...
Australia has become the first country in the world to enact a law that bars children under 16 from accessing social networks ...
Die Erde von Izium hat lange geschwiegen, doch ihr Schweigen war nie leer. In den Wäldern, die einst nur nach Harz rochen, lagen Jahre lang 449 Menschen, verscharrt ohne Namen,…
Jo Meurer, AfD city councilor in Ransbach-Baumbach, retired teacher, someone who once carried responsibility for children. Today he speaks about migrant and Muslim children as if they were defective goods: “deport”, “worth nothing” ...
Whoever walked through the Palermo parks on this hot December day heard the event long before seeing it. A many voiced barking, an uproar of joy, excitement and pure energy ...
The situation at the front is intensifying at a speed that makes even experienced officers nervous. While Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is speaking in Miami with the Ukrainian delegation about ...
The AfD Gauersheim is inviting people to a “Barbara Coffee” event and wants to provide information about Saint Barbara. Of all parties, it is one whose worldview stands in direct contradiction to the figure it ...
The world is watching as talks in Moscow attempt to create a peace that is not a peace. For five hours, Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Vladimir ...
Around the Temple of Debod, thousands of people stood shoulder to shoulder this weekend. Families, older couples, students, working people, veterans of democracy - a cross-section of ...
Jean-Pascal Hohm, the new chairman of the AfD youth organization “Generation Deutschland,” looks back on a political career that has shown close ties to extreme right-wing networks for years. As early as 2014, he was one of the founding figures of the ...
France is changing something fundamental in its relationship between the state and society. A country that has lived in peace for decades is introducing a paid, voluntary military service for young adults ...
Russia is in season again - at least the kind you hang on your wall when you are politically completely desensitized. The new Putin calendars for 2026 are here, and as every ...
Alice Weidel presented her twelve-point plan today - and sells it as a major turning point. Anyone who listens closely quickly realizes: It is less a plan than political nonsense ...
The Ukrainian delegation has returned from Geneva, and what President Zelensky is now making public shows more clearly than any government spokesperson in Washington how fragile these talks are and how much ...
Mali is on the verge of losing a military government that has relied for years on Russian mercenaries, Russian weapons and Russian backing. Exactly where the Kremlin believed it could cement its influence ...
In Eupen, the small capital of the German-speaking community in Belgium, a group of ordinary citizens meets on Saturdays to discuss issues that would otherwise get stuck in political committees. A truck driver, a physical therapist, a laboratory assistant ...
The world has taken another step toward dangerous warming - but not in the fight against it. In Belém, in the heart of the Amazon, this year’s UN climate conference ...
In Washington, a quiet but unmistakable fracture is emerging even within the Republican Party - a break Trump did not anticipate. Several prominent Republicans are openly opposing key ...
It rarely begins with a chain at the gate or an armed guard. It usually begins with a promise. An enticing offer, an embellished photo, the illusion of a new beginning. For Dashima ...
Until shortly before this article, we were still researching, conducting conversations, gathering information. What Trump calls a peace plan goes further than anything Moscow ever dared to hope for. In Kyiv, people lived ...
Belém - It happens in seconds, yet it changes the mood of an entire summit. Around midday, a fire broke out in one of the pavilions of COP30 in Belém - right in the Blue Zone, ...
Belém showed this weekend what happens when a climate summit does not take place in sterile halls but in the middle of a city that breathes, sweats and struggles. Thousands of people moved through the streets, colorful, loud and ...
Veracruz – Mexiko erlebte an diesem Wochenende einen Ausbruch, der sich schon lange angebahnt hatte. In mehr als 50 Städten strömten Menschen auf die Straßen, vereint durch eine Mischung aus…
It is the moment when even the familiar formulas of diplomacy no longer hold. Brussels negotiates, the capitals hesitate, and time in Kyiv runs faster than Europe wants to admit ...
Belém, Brazil – These days, Belém is not only the gateway to the Amazon but the place where it will be decided whether the world is ready to take its own future seriously ...
There are political promises so bold that one could at least acknowledge the courage behind them. And then there is the AfD, which distributes campaign pledges with a mix of cluelessness and chutzpah that would make ...
Zelenskyy stands before journalists in Kyiv, but the real question has long been hanging heavily over the city: How deep does this new corruption scandal truly go? The resignations of ministers, the removal of half ...