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Among this year’s top contenders for the Oscars is the film “The Brutalist,” with 10 nominations. It tells the story of a European architect who, after surviving the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, emigrates to the United States, where he lands a building commission. A hit with critics, the three-and-a-half-hour movie has also been honored with prizes at film festivals and has won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards. Along with its epic narrative scope, the film also pays tribute to the divisive architectural style known as Brutalism. That name comes not from the style’s generally rugged, massive and radical look but from its…

Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine started three years ago, and there’s no end in sight. Even if the conflict ended today, the people of Ukraine still wouldn’t be safe. Research suggests the war’s effects on people, wildlife and the environment will last long into the future. The environment suffered $56.4 billion (€53.8 billion) in damage in the first year of the war. The total cost after three years of war is not yet estimated. A report released on the third anniversary of the war found that 229.7 million tons of CO2 emissions were blasted or burned into the atmosphere during…

At least three construction workers were killed and seven injured when a piece of elevated highway collapsed on Tuesday in South Korea. The bridge in Cheonan, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of the capital Seoul, was still being built when the 50-meter long beams holding it up crashed to the ground. The National Fire Agency said they were believed at least one more victim may be under the rubble. Authorities said that the cause of the incident could not immediately be determined.At least one victim was believed to be trapped under the rubbleImage: Hong Ki-won/Yonhap/AP/dpa/picture alliance Acting President Choi Sang-mok told relevant…

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced on Friday that it is suspending operations at Sudan’s largest displacement camp due to escalating violence. “Despite widespread starvation and immense humanitarian needs, we have no choice but to take the decision to suspend all our activities in the camp, including the MSF field hospital,” the global charity said, using its French acronym. The camp in North Darfur shelters more than half a million people, according to United Nations figures. Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensified this month in the camp after the RSF stormed Zamzam…

Germany’s economy has been struggling for more than two years, entering a likely third year of recession in 2025 after gross domestic product in Europe’s largest economy shrunk 0.2% and 0.3% in 2024 and 2023 respectively. Against the backdrop of a dire economic situation, the previous ruling three-party coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz was voted out of office in Sunday’s general election and his conservative challenger Friedrich Merz is set to take over the reins of power. Merz’s alliance of Christian Democratic Union (CDU)and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), won 28.5% of the vote, with Scholz’s Social Democrats…

China’s military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin – after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.Vietnam’s foreign ministry announced the baseline – used to determine limits to territorial waters and exclusive economic zones – on Friday, saying it was to help protect and enforce its sovereign rights. China’s Maritime Safety Administration said the live-fire exercises would be focused on the Beibu Gulf area, closer to the Chinese side of the Gulf of Tonkin, and would run through to Thursday evening.Vietnam has not publicly responded…

Italiiska Vulitsya, or Italian Street, runs through the center of Odesa, a Ukrainian city on the Black Sea, from the train station to city hall. It is home to the Italian consulate, the Philharmonic Theater, a department store and the Bristol Hotel, which was recently damaged by a Russian missile attack. It is always busy. In 1880, when much of Ukraine was part of the Russian tsarist empire, the street, which was named after Italy in 1824, was renamed Pushkinskaya in honor of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. Last July, it reverted to its original name as part of an ongoing…

“With this, believe it or not, we are done,” judge Jose Manuel Fernandez-Prieto told the National Court in San Fernando de Henares near Madrid on Friday, February 14, 2025, marking the end of the trial of Former Spanish football federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales. Neither Rubiales nor the other three others accused in the case exercised their right to make a final statement to the court. The former Spanish FA boss had testified on Tuesday, telling the court that he was “totally sure” that national team forward Jenni Hermoso had consented to the kiss seen by millions after Spain had just won the…

Heads of government from around the world sent messages of congratulations to likely future Chancellor Friedrich Merz following the election results. Despite Merz distancing himself from the US in a speech on Sunday night, President Donald Trump wrote “congratulations to all” who voted for conservatives on his Truth Social website. “Much like the USA, the people of Germany got tired of the no common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration,” he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media site X: “We look forward to continuing our joint work with Germany to protect lives, bring real peace closer…

In late February 2022, Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, starting a war that, three years later, has become one of deadliest and most destructive in the 21st century. Ukrainians and neighboring states and allies have watched in horror as the war unfolded. But there are surprisingly few universally agreed upon figures for the full extent of destruction. The number of civilians killed has most likely been underreported in the broad range of death toll estimates, and what official information the governments of Ukraine and Russia have released has been difficult to independently verify in the chaotic conditions of the war. DW has surveyed data…