Investigative Journalism
It began gradually, like everything that ultimately becomes irreversible. First, the lightness disappeared, then the sand. What once embodied the promise of the South in countless images ...
Brussels, mid-July 2025. A shadow fell across the halls of the European institutions as Donald Trump announced new tariffs from the White House – 30 percent on imports from the European Union, ...
Investigations reveal: The State Technical Commission of the Russian Federation – Gosudarstvennaya Tekhnicheskaya Komissiya, or GosTekhKomissiya for short – is far more than a body for device certification. It is the invisible gear in Putin’s war economy ...
Once upon a time, there was a Bundestag that remembered its dignity. And because the republic stood on shaky ground, it resolved to elect constitutional judges...
It begins with an indictment that was long overdue. For years, the families of the victims of flight MH17 fought for justice - against the machinery of international politics, against Moscow’s refusal to accept responsibility.
Chemnitz/Stade, July 2025 – It was an appearance that should never have happened - and yet it did. Martin Sellner, the central figure of the so-called “Identitarian Movement”
One day before American Independence Day, a new mural was unveiled in the northern French city of Roubaix ...
A country that intends to cut its development aid by one billion euros, with the parliamentary decision scheduled for July 9, that relativizes human rights and deports critically ill individuals without wheelchairs ...
It is a summer that burns – literally. While meteorologists are forecasting temperatures beyond 95 degrees Fahrenheit for the coming weeks and health experts are urgently recommending regular hydration, Berlin ...
It was a hot summer day at Worthy Farm in Somerset when British rap-punk act Bob Vylan took to the West Holts Stage at the Glastonbury Festival ...
"You’re done for – the judge doesn’t like Russia." The sentence hit like a stone. No legal argument, no doubt, no room for interpretation. Just a verdict that had already been made long before any hearing began ...
Follow-up to our previous article on the Compact ruling: Sometimes a glance at Telegram is enough to grasp how far the republic has fallen. Martin Sellner, convicted right-wing extremist, chief ideologue of “remigration,” ...
Paris – With clear words but a diplomatic tone, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has commented on the recent US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities....
In the middle of the night on Wednesday, June 18, someone rings the doorbell of a Georgian family in Brigachtal. The police ask the parents to get themselves and their children ready to leave within an hour...
What lies there is not a cemetery. It is a sewage tank. And inside it: the mortal remains of 796 children – from newborns to nine-year-olds. Buried beneath a patch of grass, in the middle of a housing estate in western Ireland, ...
Barcelona, June 15, 2025 – The sun beats down on the pavement, tourists stroll through the old town, selfie sticks cross with strollers. But suddenly the familiar flow is disrupted...
Ballymena. A small town in Northern Ireland, known for its brick buildings, its Loyalists, and its history. And now also for burning houses, shattered windows, racist manhunts, and a police force firing rubber bullets at its own youth...
They say everything is under control. The state television channels flicker with confidence: inflation is down, the economy is recovering, foreign companies are returning. All that’s left is to determine who is worthy of returning ...
It begins with a sentence as simple as it is cutting: "The circumstances surrounding the entry of the 3 Somalis and the role of left-wing NGOs like Pro Asyl must be clarified." Spoken by Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader of the AfD, ...
It was a sentence spoken with the nonchalance of a man who never had to wait in a basement for the end of a bombing raid. "That wasn't a great day for you." ...
There are stories that make even seasoned observers pause. Cases so cruel in their banality that you feel as if you’ve stepped into the wrong movie. This is one of those cases. And that says a lot ...
It is no longer only the political fringes where the language of contempt is taking root. When Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) declared the day after a constitutionally confirmed legal principle that he would not change ...
From a president, one expects composure, judgment, at least the appearance of moral integrity. But what if, instead, a bouncer takes office - with a criminal record on his back, old acquaintances in shady circles, and a firm determination ...
They are words that sound as if from another era. While Europe groans under heatwaves, extreme weather destroys harvests, and insurance companies begin pulling out of entire regions, Michael Kretschmer strikes ...
It was a day destined to go down in the history of the city of Liverpool: tens of thousands of fans had gathered on Monday to celebrate their club’s Premier League triumph – a title ...
It begins with a handshake. Two women smile into the camera - as if nothing had happened. Mette Frederiksen in sky blue, Giorgia Meloni in the beige of innocence. But what this photo documents is no diplomatic courtesy visit...
Donald Trump doesn’t know what he wants. And that might be because he knows nothing. One moment he’s threatening a 50-percent tariff on European goods, the next he’s postponing the whole thing ...
It begins quietly. With a canceled email address. With a lab that suddenly falls silent. With a grant application that goes unanswered. And yet, it is a tectonic shift: America’s scientific soul – thinned out, dismantled, driven away
It was a Friday evening like so many others - people rushing through the halls of Hamburg Central Station, trains arriving, life running its usual course. Until suddenly everything changed ...
The Naumburg Case and the Failed Deportation of a Syrian Family. On the morning of May 12, 2025, a group of officers entered an elementary school in Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt. In the classroom, a physical education lesson ...
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