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Germany recorded a large rise in violent crime in 2023, the first year without pandemic restrictions, police statistics published Saturday showed....

After the US cut China's access to cutting-edge chips, the EU and US are concerned about the country's dominance of semiconductors used in everyday technology....

For more than a year, China's central bank has been buying up large amounts of gold. The move, along with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, have helped spike the price of the precious metal to new highs....

A missile launcher which "cannot be deactivated" has prompted the Danish military to close the Great Belt strait, a route used by cargo ships to access the Baltic Sea....

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has reportedly floated a five-year, €100 billion package that allies are set to discuss in Brussels. Ahead of the meeting, he said Ukraine's NATO membership was a question of "when, not if."

Saudi Arabia was recently chosen to head the UN's Commission on the Status of Women, despite protests from international rights organizations and ongoing repression back home....

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has reportedly floated a €100 billion package over five years, which foreign ministers meeting in Brussels are set to discuss....

Between 1904 and 1908, Germany's colonial forces reacted to a rebellion by Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia with brutal violence and prison camps. The trauma and political repercussion remain unresolved....

Over the past year, the U.S. has strongly reiterated that it would fulfill its obligation to defend the Philippines, its oldest treaty ally in Asia, if China was to attack the Philippine military. However, the European position is more opaque....

Authorities say that remains discovered belong to a 2-year-old who went missing from an Alpine hamlet in July....

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Austrian police said a "functional explosive device" was discovered at the entrance of a Jehovah's Witness hall in Kalsdorf....

Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has become more controlling than at any stage in the past four decades - rarely good news for free enterprise. In this episode we ask if that lust for control at all costs is the main reason why so many people - both within China and outside of it - have lost faith in a global...

Russian investigators implicated Ukrainian nationalists were tied to the attack on a concert hall near Moscow claimed by ISIS-K, but the US says it is "nonsense propaganda."...

Raids have been carried out in Warsaw and the southern city of Tychy as part of an investigation into Russian espionage....

Chinese authorities are seeking to spur growth in the world's second-largest economy, which is facing decreasing demand for exports. US companies in China have increasingly complained of an unfair business environment.

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Violence by armed groups has escalated in Haiti, the poorest country in the Caribbean. The issues go back to the era in which Haiti was ruled by the colonizing power France.

The mass abductions happened in the region, which is home to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's dreaded Sinaloa drug cartel. Authorities are looking for the missing people with the help of the military.The search continues for the remaining 24 victims abducted on Friday in La Noria, outside Culiacan, the state capital....

Media companies claim Telegram is allowing users to upload their content without permission. A Spanish court has now ordered for the platform to be suspended as a "precautionary measure."