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  • Sports News‘Stasi club’ BFC Dynamo: What happened to the record East German champions?

    ‘Stasi club’ BFC Dynamo: What happened to the record East German champions?

    With the anniversary of German unification on Sunday, the 10-time East German champions are languishing in the fourth division. BFC Dynamo are a unique club battling with the specters of past and present. SOURCE: DW News

  • World NewsSouth Korea looks to Germany for reunification pointers

    South Korea looks to Germany for reunification pointers

    With just seven months left before he steps down as president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in and his government remain committed to their long-held dream of reuniting the two halves of the Korean Peninsula into a single nation. And, with Germany as one of the very few countries with recent experience of a similar amalgamation of two states, Unification Minister…

  • Sports NewsBundesliga: Fredi Bobic has work cut out at perennial crisis club Hertha Berlin

    Bundesliga: Fredi Bobic has work cut out at perennial crisis club Hertha Berlin

    Hertha Berlin slipped to a fifth defeat of the season at home to Freiburg. Despite massive funding from investor Lars Windhorst, sporting director Fredi Bobic has a huge job on his hands. He insists it will take time. SOURCE: DW News

  • World NewsStudents sleep in parks to protest rising rents in Turkey

    Students sleep in parks to protest rising rents in Turkey

    For 18 months, in-person classes were suspended in Turkey because of the pandemic. When universities opened their doors again, many students were in for a nasty surprise: Rents have become almost unaffordable. This is partly because of inflation and the corresponding price fluctuations, which have also affected the housing market. On top of this, Turkey’s government has not ensured that…

  • World NewsEU to launch ALMA work placement scheme for jobless youth

    EU to launch ALMA work placement scheme for jobless youth

    Carmen Quintana Gomez follows the same routine each day: wake up, breakfast, job search. “Everybody knows that they’re not going to have a job,” she said. “That’s how people think here.” For months now, the 25-year-old graduate from Spain’s capital, Madrid, has been out of formal education, training or employment — like around a quarter of Spaniards her age. She…

  • Sports NewsAntisemitic incidents mar Union Berlin’s win over Maccabi Haifa

    Antisemitic incidents mar Union Berlin’s win over Maccabi Haifa

    A pro-Israel group says its members suffered antisemitic abuse during Union Berlin’s Conference League game against the Israeli champions. The fans were in a block next to the away end at Berlin’s Olympiastadion. SOURCE: DW News

  • World NewsDrought devastates northern Kenya | Thaiger

    Drought devastates northern Kenya

    Kenya’s arid northern counties of Garissa and Wajir face severe drought, with nomadic pastoralists already losing many domestic stock. Climate change and poor rainfall has been blamed. SOURCE: DW News

  • World NewsSouth Korea looks to Germany for reunification pointers

    South Korea looks to Germany for pointers on overcoming reunification hurdles

    With just seven months left before he steps down as president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in and his government remain committed to their long-held dream of the two halves of the Korean Peninsula being reunited into a single nation. And with Germany one of the very few countries with experience in recent history of a similar amalgamation of two states,…

  • World NewsFrom peaceful protests to war: The evolution of Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict

    From peaceful protests to war: The evolution of Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict

    Over the past five years, the English-speaking regions of Cameroon have rapidly morphed into a war zone. Lives have been lost, properties have been destroyed, and the humanitarian crisis continues to intensify. In its latest report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlighted the impact on education: “Since the beginning of the crisis in 2016,…

  • Thailand NewsWho is The Thaiger?

    Who is The Thaiger?

    Formed in 2018 as a digital rebrand of The Phuket Gazette, one of Thailand’s largest and most well-known English language regional print newspapers, The Thaiger expanded beyond local Phuket news, going nationwide. Our Thai language offering was launched just a year later and has long since surpassed the readership of the English news, with local Thais coming to read about…

  • World NewsTunisia’s first female PM: Mere symbolism or credible change?

    Tunisia’s first female PM: Mere symbolism or credible change?

    After Wednesday’s appointment of geology professor Najla Bouden Romdhane as the first female prime minister in the Arab World, the 63-year-old is facing mixed feelings in Tunisia. While some wonder if Bouden could become the symbol of women’s progress and empowerment in Tunisia and the Middle East, others fear that President Kais Saied might exploit her limited political experience to…

  • World NewsAfghanistan: Why has ICC excluded US from war crimes probe?

    Afghanistan: Why has ICC excluded US from war crimes probe?

    The call by prosecutor Karim Khan to resume an International Criminal Court (ICC) probe into potential war crimes committed in Afghanistan is a development many human rights defenders are applauding after the Taliban takeover of the war-torn country. Until now the investigation covered crimes alleged to have been committed on the territory of Afghanistan since May 1, 2003, as well…

  • World NewsLife of Myanmar refugees in an Indian border village

    Life of Myanmar refugees in an Indian border village

    Hundreds of people opposed to military rule in Myanmar were forced to flee to the neighboring Indian state of Mizoram in the middle of September. Heavy fighting between the junta and opposition forces this month wiped out an entire town on the India-Myanmar border. DW spoke to people from one of the Indian villages in Hnahthial district in Mizoram state…

  • World NewsMombasa’s no-nonsense female rickshaw driver

    Mombasa’s no-nonsense female rickshaw driver

    In Mombasa’s Old Town Farida Shenga starts her day tidying up her rickshaw. Shenga became a rickshaw driver in 2005 after her husband died, leaving her as the family’s sole breadwinner. After buying a new rickshaw with a friend, she then had to learn how to use it. On the road, she is an iron lady: careful, but tough. Men…

  • World NewsPakistan: Will a Premier League partnership jumpstart professional football?

    Pakistan: Will a Premier League partnership jumpstart professional football?

    Michael Owen, a former England national team and Real Madrid football player, has signed a three year contract to promote football in Pakistan, with a Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) approved league. However, PFF, the country’s controversial football governing body, is not recognized by FIFA. Owen last week was announced as the official ambassador of the Pakistan Football League (PFL), launched…

  • Sports NewsChampions League: Leroy Sané all smiles in big Bayern Munich win

    Champions League: Leroy Sané all smiles in big Bayern Munich win

    Bayern Munich got the win expected of them at home against Dynamo Kyiv, but it was the performance of former Schalke winger Leroy Sané that caught the eye. SOURCE: DW News

  • World NewsIndian Right Livelihood winner: ‘Blurred lines between ecology and human rights’

    Indian Right Livelihood winner: ‘Blurred lines between ecology and human rights’

    Ritwick Dutta, a founding lawyer of the Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), which works with communities through a grassroots approach, was thrilled to receive the Right Livelihood Award. “Our work is not so publicized and to be honored in this way is definitely a recognition of the fight against some of India’s most significant environmental threats,” Dutta told…

  • World NewsThe Egyptian women reviving an ancient musical tradition | Thaiger

    The Egyptian women reviving an ancient musical tradition

    SOURCE: DW News

  • World NewsThe music uniting Tigrayan soldiers and refugees amidst conflict / The Tigrayan musical traditions helping soldiers and refugees heal

    The music uniting Tigrayan soldiers and refugees amidst conflict / The Tigrayan musical traditions helping soldiers and refugees heal

    A conflict between the central government in Ethiopia and the northern region of Tigray has spawned a dire humanitarian situation. Amid widespread famine and death over the past year, Tigrayan soldiers and refugees alike have taken comfort in the healing power of their own musical traditions. Reporter Emily Johnson met with some of the musicians at a refugee camp in…

  • World NewsEthiopia’s Tigray crisis: What’s the latest?

    Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: What’s the latest?

    After months of rising tensions, fighting broke out in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region in November 2020, pitting Tigrayan forces against the central government and forces from neighboring Eritrea. Nearly a year later, both sides face allegations of human rights abuses as the conflict continues. William Davison, senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, updates us on the situation. SOURCE: DW…

  • World NewsGuinea’s coup leaders try to keep investors happy

    Guinea’s coup leaders try to keep investors happy

    In the view of one official working in Guinea for the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, the military coup of September 5, which toppled President Alpha Conde, has not disrupted the mining sector as much an some had predicted. “Everything is stable, business is going on,” he told he told news agency AFP. “It’s just a transition period we are going…

  • World NewsTunisia’s opposition stands up to president’s power grab

    Tunisia’s opposition stands up to president’s power grab

    At first, they praised him for taking such direct action to resolve Tunisia’s problems. But over the past few days, President Kais Saied has come under increasing pressure from some of his former allies. On July 25, faced with economic turmoil, the COVID-19 pandemic and political gridlock, Saied suspended Tunisia’s parliament, dismissed sitting Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and granted himself…

  • World NewsThe tragedy of Babi Yar: An assembly line of death in Kyiv

    The tragedy of Babi Yar: An assembly line of death in Kyiv

    Anna Furman has been able to identify around 28,300 names so far. “In the past year, more than 1,000 new names were added,” the project manager at the Ukrainian Babi Yar Memorial Center told DW. But Furman and her colleagues still have a lot of work to do. Exactly 80 years ago, on September 29 and 30, 1941, the Nazis…

  • World News2021 Right Livelihood winners fight for climate and justice

    2021 Right Livelihood winners fight for climate and justice

    Marthe Wandou Marthe Wandou has been fighting against sexual violence and promoting women’s and children’s rights in Cameroon for decades. Founded in 1998, her nongovernmental organization, Action Locale pour un Developpement Participatif et Autogere (ALDEPA), applies a holistic approach focusing on education, abuse prevention, and providing psychosocial care as well as legal counsel. ALDEPA also seeks to effect broad societal…

  • World NewsWary of China, US and EU forge alliance on technology

    Wary of China, US and EU forge alliance on technology

    The chip crisis turned dire when the coronavirus hit. As demand for electronics was skyrocketing in the spring of 2020, manufacturers warned they were running short of semiconductors — key components needed to make devices from smartphones to cars. They had good reasons: In the following months, the shortage forced factories to shut down assembly lines. Tech companies postponed product…

  • World NewsEthiopia: War and optimism collide as Abiy Ahmed prepares to form a new government

    Ethiopia: War and optimism collide as Abiy Ahmed prepares to form a new government

    On October 5 2020, the mandate of the current Ethiopian Parliament expired. Planned elections had been postponed — officially because of the COVID-19 pandemic — sparking swift criticism from opposition parties. That same day, the leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) — the dominant party in the country’s northern Tigray region — declared they would no longer recognize…

  • World NewsWho will be Japan’s next prime minister?

    Who will be Japan’s next prime minister?

    Japan’s minister for vaccines and reform, Taro Kono, is way ahead of his rivals for the job as head of the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) when party members and its elected politicians vote on Wednesday, according to opinion polls. Despite that popularity, analysts believe that quietly agreed pacts and promises between the party’s rival factions will ensure a…

  • World NewsYo, dude! Surfing dogs on Huntington Beach

    Yo, dude! Surfing dogs on Huntington Beach

    America is known for its crazy competitions, and the annual Surf City Surf Dog event on Huntington Beach, California, is definitely one of them — a totally rad get-together for the world’s top surfing dogs. SOURCE: DW News

  • World NewsMember of European Parliament wants Bulgarian cops watched

    Member of European Parliament wants Bulgarian cops watched

    At a press conference in Sofia recently, Sophie in’t Veld, the chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, accused Bulgarian Prosecutor General Ivan Zhev of invoking “extraordinary powers” to target the opposition. In ‘t Veld, who led a European Parliament delegation to Bulgaria in December to investigate reports of official misdeeds, said Zhev had…

  • Sports NewsWorld Cup every two years? A reform that could divide football

    World Cup every two years? A reform that could divide football

    FIFA wants to hold a World Cup biennially instead of every four years. Europeans and South Americans are strictly against it, while other continents are open to the planned reform. SOURCE: DW News