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A view of fighters firing at Syrian Army troops in the Rashidin district on the outskirts of Aleppo
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
A building destroyed by shelling, Dobropillya, Donetsk region in Ukraine, November 2024
People stand near a sign encouraging people to vote, on the day before Ireland's general election, in Greystones, Ireland
DW The Day Moderatorin Nicole Frölich (Artikelbild)
Afrika Liberia Entführung
Aerial photo of thousands of unsold new cars waiting at a distribution center in Essen, western Germany. November 29, 2024. The cars are of various makes, but include multiple recognizable Volkswagens.
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A view of militants in camouflage jackets preparing a rocket attack
An interior view of the restored Notre Dame Cathedral
Pakistan Eltern von vermissten Geflüchteten
DW Euromaxx (Sendungslogo Composite)
The office of the Public Prosecutor General in Karlsruhe
Bremerhaven, Deutschland | Containerhafen
Russland | Rubel | Geldscheine
The Sinfoniker, long known for innovation and political statements, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the Robotersinfonie
DW Shift Sendungslogo
KI-Tools erstellen perfekte Playlists – aber wie erkennen sie KI-generierte Musikstücke?
KI bietet Kunstschaffenden in Musik, digitaler Malerei und Installation neue Möglichkeiten
Georgia pro-EU protests on Friday, November 29
Trump and Modi in the US in 2020
Model Clara Holmes
George Michael, left, and Andrew Ridgeley, right, both men are smiling and wearing white shirts with popped collars.
Singer Bill Kaulitz on stage points his fingers in the air, wearing a suite made of mirror tiles.
DW Podcast  | Science Unscripted
DW Planet A | Das verborgene Talent der Elektroautos
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Magazin Afrimaxx 29.11.2024 | Afrimaxx Paul Siguqa Rodney Zimba
Magazin Afrimaxx 29.11.2024 | Afrimaxx Armand Diangienda Beethoven of Africa
Christopher Akpo adjusts the hood of a red jacket worn by a model.
Magazin Afrimaxx 29.11.2024 | Kigali cleanest city
DW AfricaLink
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Äthiopien Sportler Mikiale Tsegay
DW Shift Sendungslogo
DW Projekt Zukunft Sendungslogo Englisch (Tomorrow Today)
South Korean climate activists march down a street in Busan with a large placard that reads: Drastic plastic reduction now!
Hand holding 20 Euros
Living Planet 210318 Podcast Picture Teaser
Broshures on assisted dying titled "TIME FOR CHOICE"
Mikroskopische Aufnahme | Menschliche T-Zelle wird vom HIV angegriffen
DW In Good Shape Sendungslogo Composite
Greenpeace activists are placing a banner saying "stop deep sea mining" on the ocean, several small Rib boats with a few people each are gathering around the banner.
Avignon Gisele Pelicot vor Gerichtsgebäude
Rescuers use heavy machines to clear mud from a road following a landslide that hit several vehicles in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra.
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US President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Keith Kellogg shake hands in 2017
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Mikroskopaufnahme Fettleber
Cholesterin - Cholesterol, Triglyceride und HDL-Con
Symbolbild | Frittiertes
Olive oil is poured onto a spoon.
A demonstrator carrying a European flag faces riot police officers during a protest staged outside the Parliament Building in Tbilisi
Chadian Soldiers move in a file formation during ambush training at Exercise Flintlock 2019 February 23, 2019 in Atar, Mauritania
power generators in the streets of Lviv
DW Eco India (Sendungslogo Composite)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to the media after the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in Astana, Kazakhstan
children holding containers, queueing for food in Gaza
DW News Africa Christine Mhundwa (Composite)
An artwork at Dakar Biennale 2024
A woman sits under a shelter with bare, red earth and speaks to DW.
Svenja Schulze
Dr. Zippy Okoth, Film Director and Senior Lecturer
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DW Video | Daniel Gallegos Banda, Immigrant Advocate
Skyline of Taiwan's capital, Taipei
DW Podcast | Inside Europe | provisorisch f ROAD
A group of women walk through the mud carrying buckets.
A Kashmiri man in Srinagar selling traditional rose water
Black Friday
Uganda Red Cross workers search for bodies after a landslide following heavy rains buried 40 homes in the mountainous district of Bulambuli, eastern Uganda
This is an undated file photo provided by the Metropolitan Police of Daniel Abed Khalife
An Iraqi oil technician turns a valve at Nahr Bin Omar
DW Eco Africa (Sendungslogo Composite)
DW AfricaLink
To The Point (TOPO)
Women walk on a road near India Gate as the sky is enveloped with smog in November 2024
Three women jump and throw snow at Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, South Korea
A horse drinks water among plastic residues, glass and other materials at the Cerron Grande reservoir in Potonico, El Salvador
Cannabis Cowboys Podcast Teaser
A woman holding the Haaretz newspaper
Avignon Gisele Pelicot vor Gerichtsgebäude
A woman in shackles is lead onto a deportation flight of undocumented Venezuelans in 2023 by a man and a woman wearing reflective safety vests.
A flock of sheep in a pen seen from the air.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sarah are looking through documents on board the Israeli Air Force Boeing "Zion Wing"
Taiwan’s Air Force jets fly past in formation during the inauguration ceremony of Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te, in Taipei, Taiwan on May 20, 2024.
Houthi fighters are seen attending a military parade in Sanaa in September 2024
A plane parked on the tarmac at Incheon international airport in Seoul during snowfall
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
cars with belongings stacked high on their roofs
A protestor holding an EU flag bangs the flagpole against a barricade.
Slavisa Jovanovic
A blue microphone with the white image and text logos of German public broadcaster ARD rests on a mixing case
Voters queue at a polling station in Hochland Park, Windhoek
Eco India Show #311
A man waves the flag of Lebanon in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on November 27, 2024,.
A toddler has just received a vaccination
Mosambik Maputo 2024 | Proteste nach Wahlen
Deutschland | Demonstration der russischen Opposition in Berlin
Volkswagen-SAIC plant in Urumqi, China
DW AfricaLink cover.
Vladimir Kara-Murza (center left), Yulia Navalnaya, Ilya Yashin and other protesters in Berlin on November 17, 2024
A child stands near mattresses as displaced people pack their belongings to return to their villages in southern Lebanon
Namibians queue to cast their votes in a presidential election in Windhoek, Namibia
A voting station in West Java
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, front center right, and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, front center left, pose with the new EU College of Commissioners
Visitors enjoy in snow at the Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea's well-known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea
USA Space l Kennedy Space Center l Besucher besichtigen Lunar Sample
A photo of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk smile as Tusk wags his left index finger
Workers in the production facility of the Leoni factory in Malososte near Nis, Serbia, producing automotive wiring
Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing in military garb and wearing multiple medals and decorations
A man lifts a solar panel as a pedestrian walks by
Raffaele Fitto, the Italian EU commissioner-designate
A woman hands out freshly filtered drinking water from a water dispenser in colorful cups to her pupils in Cameroon.
Rocket after liftoff
DW Projekt Zukunft/Tomorrow Today Sendung I Zuschauerfrage Milchstrasse
Elon Musk speaks at a lectern at a Trump election rally
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Four elderly men with grey hair men sit outside a cafe playing cards. One has a walking stick.
Israeli soldiers walking away from a rocket-damaged building in southern Lebanon.
A journalist records with his mobile phone the smoke rising between buildings hit in Israeli airstrikes in south Lebanon
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France, Avignon | Gisele Pelicot as main wintess of rapes in Mazan
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San Salvador's new public library
Florin Buhuceanu is the first openly gay candidate to run for parliament in Romania
Snow on a roof in Kiev
Rocket blasting off
Deutschland Aufräumarbeiten an der Carolabrücke in Dresden
A new presenter belonging to a group of exiled Myanmar journalists
Close-up of lips kissing a tiny frog. (Photo: dpa/lby)
A skyline of of Lashio with a path of a missile visible above it at night
Pakistan  | Protests for release of Imran Khan
DW AfricaLink
Eco India Show #311
A Christmas market visitor with a hot chocolate.
A woman smiles as she looks into the camera. Behind her are yellow walls with photographs taped to them.
Children crowd round and decorate biscuits
The 77 percent #243 Megacity Lagos 16.11.2024
An elderly woman and a young boy sit outside a makeshift shelter in Gaza
Colored pencils made from newsprint and sorted by color in containers in Serbia.
The background of the photo shows a bombed out 8-storey building in Beirut without a facade. In the foreground, a bulldozer digs up rubble next to a burned-out car while rescure workers look on.
Policemen fire tear gas shells to disperse supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party during a protest to demand the release of former prime minister Imran Khan, in Islamabad .
A woman takes a phone with her phone of another woman standing on the edge of a quai on a lake with mountains in the background. Other people wait their turn to take a photo.
View Of A Cessna 206 Stationair Floatplane In Flight, Alaska
Politicians sit in the German Bundestag in Berlin.
A rescuer walks past DHL cargo plane wreckage, at the crash site near Vilnius International Airport, Lithuania November 25, 2024
Olaf Scholz smiles and squints
A man wearning a white chef's uniform holds a bowl of borscht.
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An armed soldier stands at a market in Kashmir's Srinagar with another security patrol walking nearby
Aerial view of the COMMUS-Mine, Kolwezi, DRC
Angela Merkel on her book cover
DW AfricaLink podcast cover.
Symbol image: shoppers under a cloudy sky in central Berlin
A man surrounded by a crowd holds up a white piece of paper in Beijing, China
Archive photo of a steelworker checking the quality of the steel on blast furnace at a ThyssenKrupp facility in Duisburg, Germany
Unregulated sex serums being sold at so-called sex clinics in Karachi, Pakistan
Inlet separators at the Southern Priobskoye oil field of the Gazprom Neft
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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GirlZOffMute Nigeria
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A Lithuanian medic takes a photo on his mobile phone of the wreckage of a cargo plane following its crash near the Vilnius International Airport in Vilnius
Pakistani Rangers in riot gear stand guard
Eco India Show #311
Protesters holding up a banner reading 'Femicide is no singular incident'
A closeup of snake meat at a market in Nigeria
Alexandra Colmenares, wearing a pink jacket, walks done a busy street in Bogota, Colombia.
A man pushes his bicycle along a road flooded with rain in Lagos, Nigeria.
A symbol photo of a Chinese balloon shortly before it was shot down over Surfside Beach South Carolina. Myrtle Beach USA
People on boats collect recyclable plastics from the heavily polluted Citarum River at Batujajar in Bandung, West Java
Fishermen stand on the edge of a boat, rod in hand, trying to catch fish
a man in an unbuttoned sport coat and white shirt speaks into a microphone, gesturing
File photo: Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) joins former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 2024
Santa Claus officially opening the Christmas season during a ceremony in the Santa Claus Village, in Rovaniemi, Finland
Two African penguins waddle in the shallow water on the beach of the Boulders Beach penguin colony near Cape Town, South Africa.
India Queer Parade
Firefighters work at the scene where a projectile fell in Petah Tikva
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A red light flashes near Volkswagen's factory in Osnabrück on November 6
Ein Gemüsegarten vor einem Alt- und einem Neubau -  Ort: Winterthur
Ding Liren competing during Norway Chess 2024
Visitors gather around a display showcasing a Storm Shadow/SCALP missile in Paris
The tops of high-rise buildings in Karachi, Pakistan, just visible amid smog
Former student Yimika Owoaje sits in his room, speaking to DW's reporter
 Butterfly at the Montreal Insectarium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 1, 2024
At the COP25 climate conference, global representatives including German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock gather to discuss a climate agreement.
Dokus KW 47 - Aufbruch zum Mars
People protesting at COP29
People attend a demonstration in support of rape victims and Gisele Pelicot, who was allegedly drugged and raped by men solicited by her husband Dominique Pelicot, as the trial continues, at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, September 14, 2024.
Googoosh (left) with Niloufar Taghizadeh, director of the film "Googoosh - Made of Fire"
Exhibition „ECCENTRIC. Aesthetics of Freedom“, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
A conscript is seen at a local draft office before departing for military service with the Russian Army
Potrait of  author and satirist Heinz Strunk
Portrait of writer and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann
Traffic at a standstill in bad weather conditions on the M80 near Castlecary, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on November 23, 2024
Marshall Islands Climate Envoy Tina Stege walks after a meeting during the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku
A mine tunnel
Bild einer deutschen Familie vor Eigenheim  - Ort: Emsland
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China's President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with former US President Donald Trump (R)
Two elderly men with gray hair and beards, Jiri Gruntorad and John Bok, stand talking to each other beside a small green tent outside a government building in Prague, Czech Republic
A golden sun rises over forested hills blanketed in snow
Rescue search for victims of Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024
Student activist Umar Khalid speaks in 2020
Women who fled war in Sudan rest in a refugee camp in Adre, Chad, October 5, 2024.
People mourn over the graves of relatives who were killed after gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in the Kurram tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Trump meets with Rutte in 2019 at the White House
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A man holds the flags of Germany and the far-right AfD party
Laos Vang Vieng Touristen
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Backpackers walking down a street in Vang Vieng
Rescuers search for survivors in the wreckage of a building in central Beirut hit by an Israeli airstrike