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Skip next section Thousands of protesters call for review of far-right parties04/11/2026April 11, 2026Thousands of protesters call for review of far-right partiesA few thousand people attended rallies in German cities calling for the Constitutional Court to review whether far-right parties should be banned. Police said that up to 2,000 people took part in a rally in Munich organised by the PRÜF campaign. PRÜF, which means “check,” is also an acronym with the letters standing for “Prüfung Rettet Übrigens Freiheit!” — Review Saves Freedom. Berlin saw around 1,000 people gather while in Potsdam the number was around 800 although organisers put…

German automakers are in a crisis due to stagnant sales, falling profits and constant strategy shifts. Can the industry recover?

Amid the rhetoric and rabble rousing of JD Vance’s promotional tour of Budapest in support of the “fantastic” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the significance of one of the venues may have been lost on many. The US vice president addressed a pre-election rally on Tuesday at the MTK Sportpark in Hungary’s capital, Budapest. The venue, opened in 2025, is used by various sporting departments of the MTK Budapest club, whose football team are one of Hungary’s most successful, with 23 national titles. MTK’s president is Tamas Deutsch, a Member of European Parliament and member of Orban’s Fidesz party.Vance targets EU while campaigning for Orban in…

Police have removed pro-Palestinian protesters who glued themselves to the entrance of a Berlin arms factory. Meanwhile, inflation is tracking back up as the Iran war stymied hopes that it was under control.

Some things are hard to calculate in dollars and cents. NASA’s space programs definitely fall into this category. The agency has an enormous annual budget, and its portfolio includes powerful spacecraft, telescopes and weather and asteroid forecasting. It’s difficult to measure the scientific and material gains born from its basic research that have entered everyday life, such as memory foam, scratch-resistant lenses or home air purifiers. But while the Artemis II mission made history when the Orion capsule carried four astronauts farther away from Earth than any humans in history, many questioned the cost and overall point of space travel. Artemis II, Orion and $93 billion During its 10-day…

German boxer Julia Igel has insisted she is not frightend of Olympic champion Imane Khelif, despite telling DW that she considers her Algerian opponent to be “male” amid questions over Khelif’s eligibility for the female category. “Someone that might have something to do with the male gender shouldn’t be in women’s boxing,” Igel said ahead of the fight in Paris on April 23. “You can’t say you’re a woman and you feel like a woman. Just the punching power and the danger that you face when you have a male in front of you, it is different.” Khelif is not transgender…

It all started in 1993 when the rock band Pearl Jam were looking for an alternative venue that was not controlled by Ticketmaster, which it was boycotting at the time.  The Empire Polo Club, a desert oasis in the Coachella Valley in California, hosted some 25,000 people for their gig, giving the promoters the inspiration for an outdoor festival at the same site.   In October 1999, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was born as an alternative to the unruly and chaotic Woodstock festival from a few months earlier. Global acts from Rage Against the Machine to the Chemical Brothers and Morrissey performed at the event. Despite its success, the promoters lost money.  …

Telenor is facing a class action lawsuit in Norway over the actions of its subsidiary in Myanmar.  The case alleges that Telenor Myanmar passed phone data of more than 1,200 people to the country’s military junta following the 2021 coup. The company, which is 54% owned by Norway’s government, has since withdrawn from Myanmar as internal conflict intensified in the aftermath of the removal of a more civilian-led government under Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi that temporarily ruled the troubled the country. In 2014, amid hopes for a new system of governance in the Myanmar, Telenor set up a subsidiary in…

The four astronauts aboard theArtemis II mission’s Orion spacecraft spoke to the press from space for the first time since completing a lunar flyby that took them a record distance from earth. After becoming the first humans to directly observe the far-side of the moon, emotions are running high as the crew prepares to reenter the earth’s atmosphere and splash down on Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast. “Human minds should not go through what these just went through,” said NASA’s Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman. A crescent earth seen rising from the moonImage: NASA/Handout/REUTERS “We have…

The latest strike to hit Germany’s flagship carrier hails from the cabin crew union UFO. Meanwhile, Berlin is walking back a contentious plan about young men seeking permission to go abroad for long periods. DW has more.