Around much of the Northern Hemisphere, from Hungary to Hawaii, from the drying Rhine River to the now-recovering Rio Grande, or from Casablanca to Californi...

China's central bank ealier today trimming lending rates for the second time this year, taking its key rate down ten points to 2.75 percent. That as latest economic data showed there was need for more stimulus to support the economy. Retail sales and indu...

You may not have heard of most rare earths, but the 17 metallic elements known as rare earths are essential to modern life. They’re in our smartphones, computers, TVs and just about every other electronic device. They also play a major part in plans to cr...

China's massive show of force against Taiwan is expected to begin receding after several days of military drills that encircled the self-governing island.Both Chinese and Taiwanese military vessels remain near the median line in the Taiwan Strait. The dri...

Taiwan has accused Beijing of simulating an invasion of the self-governing island as China continued its large-scale military drills. Taipei says the Chinese army sent several warships and aircraft into the Strait of Taiwan on Saturday. The exercises beg...

Researchers at Yale University say the Russian economy is suffering massive damage due to Western sanctions, despite Moscow downplaying the effect. The authors claim their work casts doubt on Moscow's claims that the economy remains robust and that the We...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is on a four-nation tour to Africa. After visits to Egypt and the Republic of the Congo, Sergey Lavrov landed in Uganda on Tuesday and will continue onto Ethiopia. Like many African nations, Uganda, Ethiopia and Cong...

After World War II, rising consumerism and a reduction in trade barriers led to an ever more deeply connected and interdependent global economy. As more goods got to more people more quickly, the United States emerged as the world’s undisputed economic su...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in the Republic of Congo on an official visit. He praised African leaders for rejecting Western pressure, to cut ties with Moscow. It's the first visit by a Russian foreign affairs minister to the oil-ri...

Nigeria and its oil wealth is a complicated story. The west African nation is the continent's biggest oil producer, and it ranks eleventh in global terms.But...

Wednesday's discussions in Istanbul ended with a tentative agreement about how to transport the grain across the Black Sea. Stockpiles stuck in Ukraine have ...

Amplified by human-induced climate change and water over-consumption, southern Europeans are feeling the consequences of more extreme heat waves and longer droughts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed the West, saying the days of a unipolar world led by the United States were over. In a speech full of grievances at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said what he called the West's economic...

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in person for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. Zelensky...

India is under massive pressure to break relations with Russia over the war in Ukraine. But can it afford to do so – and does it even want to? In Part 1 of “India’s Choice,” a special series on India’s geopolitical dilemmas, DW’s Richard Walker explain...