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The outcome of the US-North Korea summit in Singapore is a headache for Japan. None of Tokyo’s priorities were addressed by Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Japan must now reorient itself, DW’s Martin Fritz writes....

After Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev agreed to rename his country Northern Macedonia, President Gjorge Ivanov declared he would not sign off on the deal with Greece. The Greek government faces troubles of its own. The...

Volkswagen was handed a fine of €1 billion ($1.18 billion) on Wednesday by district prosecutors in the central German city of Braunschweig, close to VW’s headquarters in Wolfsburg. “Volkswagen accepts this fine and acknowledges its responsibility,” for...

The 30-year-old Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopter which crashed near Krumovo air force base, killing both pilots, probably suffered a technical problem, officials said. A Mi-17 military transportation helicopter crashed on Monday evening near Krumovo air force base...

Serbia’s health and environment ministries agreed to begin a state-sponsored investigation of the alleged effects on public health caused by the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar and Environment Minister Goran...

Kosovo’s Minister for Trade says that while Pristina wants to scrap trade barriers with Tirana and create a ‘joint market’, Albania is doing nothing in practice to support the initiative.   Kosovo’s Minister of Trade, Bajram...

Social Policy Minister Biser Petkov quit because he couldn’t meet demands made by protesting parents of disabled children – but after initially accepting his resignation, Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov ordered him back to work. Prime Minister...

Canadian diplomats are scrambling to mend a deteriorating relationship with its largest trading partner after senior US officials maintained the rhetorical barrage first unleashed by Donald Trump at the G7 meeting in Quebec. Foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland...

Hundreds of migrants stranded on board the Aquarius rescue vessel in the Mediterranean will be transferred to Italian ships and taken to Spain, the French charity SOS Mediterranée has said. The 629 migrants, including pregnant women and...

Some of Africa’s oldest and biggest baobab trees have abruptly died, wholly or in part, in the past decade, according to researchers. The trees, aged between 1,100 and 2,500 years and in some cases as wide...