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[l] at 5/14/25 6:29am
The AfD has issued threats of a "war against the government," complains of a "knife jihad" on German streets and demands that millions be "remigrated." DER SPIEGEL has looked inside the 1,108-page report compiled by domestic intelligence officials.

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[l] at 5/12/25 1:29pm
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is making life difficult for academics and scientific researchers. Many are looking to leave the country as a result. We spoke with four of them.

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[l] at 5/12/25 1:29pm
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is making life difficult for academics and scientific researchers. Many are looking to leave the country as a result. We spoke with four of them.

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[l] at 5/8/25 2:30am
The opera house in Kharkiv was almost destroyed and an undetonated Russian rocket can still be found on its roof. But after a long interruption, the ensemble is once again staging productions - in the basement. Its shows are usually sold out.

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[l] at 5/7/25 2:19am
Surveys in recent years have shown that many Germans want to believe that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Members of the younger generation, though, now want to know for sure - also out of concern for Germany's political future.

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[l] at 5/2/25 7:17am
Rarely has a U.S. vice president had as much power as JD Vance. His ideas for how to deploy that power come from a melange of anti-system radicals and virulent right wingers. A portrait.

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[l] at 4/28/25 3:04am
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Russia is hoping to pull Beijing into the war by deploying Chinese volunteers on the front in Ukraine. Many of them are active on Chinese social media. DER SPIEGEL tried to track them down.

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[l] at 4/23/25 2:17pm
A militant neo-Nazi online subculture is propagating violence against migrants and members of the LGBTQ community. Members of this parallel world, known as "Terrorgram," come from all over the world. And many of them are minors.

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[l] at 4/17/25 6:41am
Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. Today, he plays chess according to a new set of rules and is engaged in an ongoing battle with the World Chess Federation. What is driving him?

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[l] at 4/16/25 9:59am
My transgender daughter is getting the care she needs here in Berlin. But she is no longer able to travel to her second home in the U.S. to visit family and friends. In Donald Trump's America, the transgender community is under attack. And the consequences could be devastating.

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[l] at 4/16/25 9:25am
Fifty years after the end of the war, a group of U.S. veterans spent two weeks traveling through Vietnam by bus. They once came as soldiers. Now, they are searching for forgiveness.

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[l] at 4/15/25 9:16am
Germans in need of new kidneys are heading to Kenya to buy one. The donors are frequently suffering from bitter poverty. Behind the scheme is an Israeli whom the authorities have been after for years.

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[l] at 4/11/25 3:33am
By the time Germany's next elections roll around, the right-wing Alternative for Germany party hopes to be the country's strongest political power. Voter frustration is helping, but does the party actually have a plan?

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[l] at 4/2/25 6:15am
The father took part in the January 6 storming of the Capitol. His son turned him in to the FBI. Now that Donald Trump has pardoned him, Guy Reffitt and his wife are hoping for a return to normalcy - and fearful that it way never come.

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[l] at 3/30/25 4:58am
Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with a chatbot and took his own life at 14. His mother has now filed a lawsuit against the most powerful company in the world.

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[l] at 3/28/25 4:54am
In an interview, Yemeni President Rashad al-Alimi accuses Iran of cooperating with al-Qaida. He says Tehran is working with the terror group and with the Houthis in Yemen to exert control over the Red Sea and the trade routes that pass through it.

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[l] at 3/27/25 5:12am
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus became famous through his revolutionary ideas in development aid. For the last half a year, however, he has been head of the interim government in Bangladesh. DER SPIEGEL spoke with him about his frustrations and his hopes for the younger generation.

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[l] at 3/26/25 2:20pm
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet.

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[l] at 3/24/25 2:57am
Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the authoritarian playbook to do so.

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[l] at 3/21/25 3:50am
The images that began coming out of Bergamo in early 2020 - of coffins being loaded onto military trucks as the coronavirus tightened its grip - spread fear across Europe. And the scars are still fresh today.

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[l] at 3/13/25 10:28am
For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the world's view of Bashar al-Assad. And it also radically altered their own lives.

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