She was tortured with axes during Kenya's struggle for independence from British colonial rule.
As Britain celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of its monarch, this old fighter wants to send her a message: "Let Elizabeth bring what belongs to me."
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A five-year-old boy who had not received the measles vaccine went on holiday to Costa Rica with his parents.
The country had been measles free for five years before his arrival.
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Finnish woman takes drug test in the wake of leaked footage showing her partying with friends like a completely normal person: p.dw.com/p/4Fndn
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EXCLUSIVE: China is tracking every movement of its Uighur minority to find reasons to detain them, a leaked document DW obtained from a whistleblower shows.
People have been arrested for growing beards or having too many children: p.dw.com/p/3Xr4C
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: a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation : a muddled mess.
#Debates2020
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A Bavarian radio station found its name trending worldwide with the hashtag #Bayern3Racist, after a presenter upset fans of K-Pop boy band BTS by comparing the band to the coronavirus.
''Now we have to go back to the beginning. We have to trace every single case.''
Angela Merkel explains why contact tracing is critical to control the #coronavirus epidemic in Germany.
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UPDATE: The finance minister of the German state of Hesse, Thomas Schäfer, apparently committed suicide in despair about the scale of the state response required to tackle the #coronavirus crisis, initial investigations suggest.
A survivor of Auschwitz and the death camp's infamous doctor Josef Mengele, has passed away in Poland during a trip to the Holocaust site at the age of 85.
The Romanian-born Kor has devoted her life to Holocaust awareness.
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UPDATE: Taliban fighters hunting one of our journalists have shot dead a member of his family in #Afghanistan and seriously injured another.
The militants were conducting a house-to-house search to try and find him, but he is now safe in Germany.
BREAKING: Brazil election exit polls suggest leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may win outright in first round against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
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"Germany is really embarrassing itself right now."
has joined climate activists in Germany who are resisting the demolition of the Luetzerath village for a coal mine expansion.
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Why is Germany's #coronavirus death rate so low compared to other countries?
As — one of the country's leading virologists — explains, it mainly comes down to one basic thing.
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Being forced to leave her own country for speaking out against the military – this is the story of , the women's rights activist and a fugitive on Pakistan's most wanted list:
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“The situation is serious. Please take it seriously.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel says in a rare TV address that beating the #coronavirus is Germany's greatest task since the end of World War Two.
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New emails suggest coordination between State Department and #Clinton camp dw.com/p/2S3ve?maca=e #Wikileaks #clintonemails
"I don't think I am exaggerating when I say that never in the past 15 years have we all experienced such a difficult year," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her annual address.
She finished the speech — watched by millions — with a personal note.
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BREAKING: Denmark's secret service has helped the United States spy on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European politicians.
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When asked who posed the greatest threat to world peace, Germans in a recent poll overwhelmingly pointed to one person.
The five options were , or any of the leaders below. Whom do you think they saw as the most dangerous leader? p.dw.com/p/3VM9U
- N. Korea's Kim Jong Un4.5%
- China's Xi Jinping41.3%
- Iran's Ali Khamenei46.1%
- Russia's Vladimir Putin8.1%
28,499 votesFinal results
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#BREAKING: Gay marriage legalized in Germany 🏳️🌈
Same-sex partners granted full marital rights, including adoption p.dw.com/p/2ffXF
For the second night in a row, a DW reporter was shot at by US police while reporting on #BlackLivesMatter protests in Minneapolis. In a separate incident, the DW crew was threatened with arrest: p.dw.com/p/3d5y7
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It was one of the most brutal nights in Nigeria, since the #endSARS
protests began.
DW correspondent witnessed the moment when shots were fired at a peaceful protest in Lagos.
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"I respect pacifism," said
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a May Day rally, "but it must seem cynical to the citizens of Ukraine to be told to fight back against Putin's aggression without weapons."
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BREAKING: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won the key battleground state of Wisconsin. #Election2020
"I don’t fear death. Not when the children are out here fighting for democracy."
82-year-old Uncle Wong is part of a community group that puts itself between police and protestors since pro-democracy demonstrations erupted six months ago. DW spoke to him earlier this year:
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With #coronavirus lockdown measures still in place across the globe, around 1.8 billion Muslims are facing a #Ramadan like never before.
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So here goes: Contrary to your assertion, crime here has actually fallen off dramatically! Criminal offenses totaled 5.76 million in 2017, the lowest number since 1992 = the lowest crime rate in more than 30 years. Pleasure.
The "Napalm Girl" photo from the Vietnam War shocked the world and remains one of the most iconic pictures in history.
But what happened to the little girl in the center of it?
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"A dialog is not enough. We need to have counter measures," former Hong Kong lawmaker and pro-democracy activist told DW.
"Concentration camps in Xinjiang, human rights violations in Hong Kong... [this] is not going to be fixed just by talking to China."
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Hans Frank was responsible for the murder of millions in Poland.
"He was also my father. My Nazi father. What a filthy swine."
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BREAKING: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been taken into custody.
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