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French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a keynote address in German in Dresden on Monday, with much of the introductory segment in German met with applause from the crowd. Macron said he was the first French president to visit Dresden since the reunification of East and West Germany. It comes on day two of his state visit to the country. “I’m speaking here to a part of Europe that has found unity again — German unity. But at the same time [a region] which has allowed us not only to enhance Europe, but to allow Europe to be what it was always…

North Korea has said its latest attempt to launch a new military reconnaissance satellite failed after a newly developed rocket engine exploded in flight.”The launch of the new satellite carrier rocket failed when it exploded in mid-air during the flight of the first stage,” North Korean state media said, citing the deputy director general of the National Aerospace Technology Administration. Large amounts of debris from the rocket were found in the sea just two minutes after launch, South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said. Image: Pic: AP It appeared to come from the northwestern region of Dongchang-ri, at around…

French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a keynote address in German in Dresden on Monday. Macron said he was the first French president to visit Dresden since the reunification of East and West Germany. It comes on day two of his state visit to the country. Macron delivered the address to a crowd of mainly young people. Some of them had traveled from neighboring countries like Poland and the Czech Republic. Earlier, Macron also made a speech at the city’s famous Frauenkirche, available to watch at the livestream above. Macron honors Franco-German Nazi hunters Earlier on Monday, Macron and German President…

Scorching temperatures in Delhi have forced authorities to issue a red alert for the sweeping heatwave that has disrupted routine activities in the national capital. Rohit Garg, 24, a gig worker was admitted to the capital’s Safdarjung hospital when his body temperature rose and he began shivering. Delivering food parcels on his two-wheeler in the blistering heat enveloping Delhi had taken its toll and he fainted at his last stop. “His sugar level dropped and he suffered from severe dehydration. We had to put him through rehydration therapy as he suffered a heat stroke,” Ashutosh Singh, a doctor, told DW. Jagan Das, a…

Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets in the capital city of Yerevan on Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained. The gathering was the latest in a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric in the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese in Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located. Image: Pic: Reuters Image: Pic: AP Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded…

A US congressional delegation met new Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Monday on a visit aiming to show Washington’s continued commitment to Taiwan amid growing assertiveness from China, which claims the self-ruled island as its own. The visit, the first congressional visit to Taiwan since Lai’s inauguration, comes days after China carried out military drills nearby that Beijing said were to test its ability to seize the island.  Beijing also said it had ordered the exercises as “punishment” for an inauguration speech by Lai, whom it calls a “dangerous separatist.” What was said during the visit? Michael McCaul, the head of the House Foreign Affairs…

Despite mass pro-EU rallies and pressure from the West, Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party has shown no sign of repealing the “foreign influence” bill. Critics of the bill, who have dubbed it the “Russian law,” have said the Georgian government intends to implement similar tactics to those used by the Kremlin to crack down on opposition, civil society and independent media. If signed into law, it would require nongovernmental organizations and individuals receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as entities “bearing the interests of a foreign power.” The government has claimed the bill is aimed at transparency. But opponents have said its goal…

A former army officer who has run a marathon on every continent dressed as a fruit or vegetable is preparing to run the world’s highest marathon wearing a lemon costume.Sally Orange, a former major who served in Afghanistan, is in Nepal preparing for the Everest Marathon, which starts at the Mount Everest base camp, to raise mental health awareness. The 50-year-old runs dressed as pieces of fruit because her surname is Orange but said her outfits also help start conversations and break the stigma surrounding mental health. Image: Pic: PA Ms Orange, a former army physiotherapist from Salisbury, said: “At…

Children born with Type 1 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa died in childhood, said Biyi Adesina, a diabetologist in Nigeria. That was certainly true until very recently. Now, increased awareness of the condition throughout the region has allowed many of children with Type 1 diabetes, who depend on daily insulin injections, to live past their first and second birthdays.  But Adesina told DW that diagnosis was just half the battle. In Nigeria’s private health care system, the majority of the population is uninsured. Drugs for non-communicable diseases — such as insulin — are frequently an out-of-pocket expense for patients or their parents.  Parents can’t pay their…

“Who said that the flag doesn’t belong to us?” Abacaxi wrote in one of his Instagram posts. The photo shows models sporting the fashion designer’s Brazilian collection: Clad in flag-inspired yellow and green shirts, skirts and bikinis, they wave the Brazilian flag. The Rio de Janeiro-born designer released the clothing line in the middle of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency, between 2019 and 2022. At the time, the Brazilian flag was seen as a political symbol of the populist right-wing politician and his followers. “He ripped the flag away from us,” Abacaxi told DW in Rio. “The Brazilian aesthetic disappeared from the favelas, Brazil’s…