Ukraine marks 18 May as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People. The reason it still matters in 2026, and not only as a date on a calendar, is that the people ...

On Monday, May 18, Ukraine marks the Day of Struggle for the Rights of the Crimean Tatar People and commemorates the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatars on the 82nd anniversary of their mass ...

After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then the plant was in the USSR, it is part of northern ...

The union membership rate in the U.S. was only 9.9% in 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor's statistics, but the push to unionize remains strong in many companies. Unions were also a major point of ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...

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An overview of the sanctions adopted by the EU in response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, its human rights violations, hybrid threats, and illegal annexation of Crimea and of the ...