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Germany is seeking to have Nicaragua’s Gaza genocide case thrown out at the International Court of Justice, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction. Nicaragua accuses Germany of violating the Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to Israel, as Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen explains.

Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter Makaziwe Mandela is being taken to court over her plan to sell personal items that belong the former president.
Some organisations argue the objects are part of South Africa’s national heritage and should not be sold or taken out of the country.

A court in Argentina has ordered the daughter of a senior Nazi officer to return an 18th-century painting after it was spotted in a property advert of her home. The painting will be delivered to the heir of the original owner, a Dutch Jewish art collector who fled the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in the 1940s.

Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South Africa

It’s been six months since the United States went to war with Iran. Donald Trump said it would be ‘over quickly’.

Instead, it has dragged on, with the military might of the US held at bay by a force a fraction of its size.

Here’s everything you need to know in three minutes.

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Historical novelist Robert Harris writes about the Roman Empire - and says the parallels of disillusionment with modern day politics are ‘impossible’ to ignore. In this episode of Ways to Change the World, he tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that Donald Trump’s 'vanity projects' and strong man tactics remind him of Emperor Augustus, how the pressure to appease the masses is ‘crushing politicians into a form where it’s impossible for them to operate’ and why historians might look back and see the Brexit vote as ‘the first big crack’ in British democracy.

Known as the Butcher of Poland, Hans Frank warped the law to encourage persecution, enslavement, starvation, and genocide, and James wants to know more.

How close was D-Day to being called off? How did the Allies deceive the Germans? Was Omaha beach that bloody? Dan Snow and D-Day expert Stephen Fisher discuss the nail-biting 72 hours before and during D-Day - the largest seaborne invasion in history.

This is life in Gaza near Israel's advancing ‘Yellow Line’, where two million people are now crammed into just 36 per cent of the Strip marked out by the Israeli military amid continued airstrikes, despite the ceasefire with Hamas.

Protests have erupted across Tunisia as power cuts, water shortages, rising living costs and environmental pressures fuel growing public anger. Al Jazeera’s Reem Takieddine explains.

The burial of Polish victims recently exhumed from a World War II massacre has taken place in western Ukraine. The ceremony marks a significant step as Kyiv and Warsaw seek to overcome tensions over one of the most painful chapters in their shared history. DW's Grzegorz Szymanowski reports from the site.
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Six months after the United States and Israel launched military action against Iran, the conflict shows no sign of coming to an end.

As Washington turns its focus to economic pressure, Tehran remains defiant - with the Strait of Hormuz seen as key leverage.

The uncertainty keeps economies and markets volatile, pushing up prices around the world and straining international relations.

A conflict that US President Donald Trump said would last a few weeks has now lasted half a year, so where do we go from here and when might the war end?

The UK government has launched a scathing attack on Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza. The Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said ‘terrorists’ were carrying out ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, which is illegally occupied by Israel, and said they were doing so with the backing of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Mr Miliband announced sanctions on trade with settlements and declared that UK policy was now officially that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was unlawful. The UK announcements are the most direct condemnation of Israeli policy since it was founded as a state, and follows a summer of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian communities in the occupied territories.

Jamaica is petitioning the British king to refer three questions about the Transatlantic slave trade to a London court. Was the enslavement of Africans unlawful under English law at the time? Does it constitute crimes against humanity under international law? Does Britain therefore have a legal obligation to provide redress? Jamaica hopes the answers could establish a legal basis for reparations. This campaign is part of a broader push for countries to pay for their roles in the Transatlantic slave trade. A UN committee said last month that governments are obliged by law to consider paying damages.

A little-known chapter of D-Day history has now become a major film. Three days before the Allied landings, the weather looked perfect. But meteorologist James Stagg believed a storm was coming, and his forecast helped change the date of the invasion.

BAFTA-winning actor Andrew Scott, known for Fleabag, Ripley and Sherlock, tells David Sillito what drew him to the remarkable real-life figure he plays in Pressure – and why Stagg’s story still resonates today.

More than 44 years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands, Argentina is reasserting its claim over the territory once again.

Ratko Mladić, dubbed the ‘butcher of Bosnia’, who ordered and carried out the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica three decades ago, is dead.

The Bosnian Serb general was serving a life sentence at The Hague. He was 84.

Mladić was one of the most notorious figures of the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia.

His forces carried out both the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre.

While on the run, he gave what was possibly his last interview to Channel 4 News.

From March 1976, Argentina was ruled for several years by a military junta led by General Jorge Videla. Some 30,000 people were abducted and murdered by the regime’s security forces. Many of their children disappeared - but where did they go?

Following the military coup in 1976, a systematic campaign of repression began. Around 30,000 Argentinians were abducted and murdered by the security forces - including some 500 women who were pregnant or had recently given birth. For years, no one knew what had happened to the children of these 'disappeared' women. Had they perished along with their mothers? Or had they perhaps survived?

The series crashes forward to 30th August 1940, as Britain stands on the brink of defeat, facing its most intense day of fighting in the entire battle. It was the battle that changed the course of history – but at its heart were the many thousands of brave men and women who worked tirelessly to save Britain.

Archaeologist Giselle Kiraly comes face to face with ancient Egyptian coffins, including one which may have been re-used for multiple corpses. Join us as we learn how these coffins were built, what the decorations mean and how they're being preserved and analysed in the Petrie Museum.

BIGGEST Iron Age Hoard ever found.

Over 900 gleaming gold coins. A mystery over 2,000 years in the making. Unearthed in the village of Great Baddow near Chelmsford, Essex, The Great Baddow Hoard is the largest discovery of Iron Age gold coins ever found in Britain. Buried deep in the earth during the Late Iron Age - around the same time Julius Caesar was launching his first invasions of Britain - this incredible collection of decorated staters is being revealed to the world in a brand new exhibition at the Museum of Chelmsford.

Europe's largest street festival, Notting Hill Carnival, is marking its 60th year this weekend.

The event, split across Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday has only ever been cancelled three times - first in 1970 following severe local community and police tensions and again during the Covid restrictions.

The Carnival brings more than two million people each year to the now sought after streets of West London.

We’ve been at the pre-party to check out the planning and preparation.

NATO is holding military drills in Iceland, to strengthen the alliance's defense of critical sea routes and undersea infrastructure in the Arctic north. Air and naval forces from ten nations are taking part in the Northern Viking exercise that takes place every two years. DW News correspondent Teri Schultz joined a Canadian ship practicing anti-submarine warfare.

To honor around 600 French soldiers who died during the Sino-French War in 1885 in fortifications near Taiwan, Keelung residents burned a paper warship and prepared a feast with baguettes and wine for the spirits during "Ghost Month."