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Accounts from former prisoners and investigations by human rights organizations have led to accusations of systematic torture in Israeli detention facilities. At least 98 Palestinians died in captivity. The debate in Israel, however, is focused elsewhere.

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Jay Taylor, 13, killed himself on camera after allegedly being driven to do so by a sadistic online group with ties to Hamburg. Here, his parents tell the story of their struggle to save their son.

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Is the ceasefire in Gaza going to hold? In an interview, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty expresses cautious optimism. Hamas must be disarmed, he says, and the West must do more for reconstruction.

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She's not a big fan of electric cars and solar energy, but she does like coal: Diana Furchtgott-Roth wrote the blueprint for Trump's energy policy in "Project 2025." DER SPIEGEL wanted to know more about how the Heritage Foundation strategist thinks.

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Reality is sometimes even more shocking than conspiracy theories - as demonstrated by the Jeffrey Epstein case. U.S. President Donald Trump wants it to go away, but his erstwhile friendship with the sexual predator continues to overshadow his presidency. And even his followers are demanding that he release the files.

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With the Grand Egyptian Museum now finished in Giza, pressure is mounting on Germany to finally return the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti. Berlin says it was acquired legally. But that argument isn't persuading the Egyptians.

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Reality is sometimes even more shocking than conspiracy theories - as demonstrated by the Jeffrey Epstein case. U.S. President Donald Trump wants it to go away, but his erstwhile friendship with the sexual predator continues to overshadow his presidency. And even his followers are demanding that he release the files.

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Beijing long allowed Mongols in China to live out their cultural identity. That, though, is now over. Xi Jinping has decided that they must assimilate into the culture of the Chinese majority.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin appears uninterested in peace in Ukraine, and there is no end to the war in sight. Kyiv has increasingly reached the conclusion that the country must do all it can to guarantee its own security.

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The murder of Charlie Kirk has fanned the flames of the Trump administration's lust for thought control. The hunt for his enemies and dissenters, long since begun, has entered a new and dangerous phase.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

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German police have been searching for years for Jan Marsalek, who is suspected of having embezzled billions of euros through Wirecard and thought to be working as an agent for the Russian intelligence agency FSB. DER SPIEGEL tracked him down in Moscow.

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Russia has continued to provoke NATO and the EU. The drone incursion into Polish airspace earlier this month has Western leaders scrambling for answers. Putin, meanwhile, has made it clear he won't be backing down any time soon.

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The research ship Polarstern spent two months in the ice of the Arctic this summer. What they found could be evidence of an ecological collapse.

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Donald Trump deported the makeup artist Andry Hernández out of the U.S. and into a Salvadorian high-security prison. He has since been freed - and become a symbol for the erosion of the rule of law in the United States.

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Munich native Daniel G. is suspected of killing unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip as a soldier in the Israeli army, thus committing war crimes. Here, DER SPIEGEL reveals how it reported on the case.

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Two snipers in the Israeli army are thought to have committed war crimes in Gaza. Video evidence appears to corroborate those accusations. One of them is a young man from Bavaria.

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Anas Fteiha works as a photojournalist in the Gaza Strip. A photo of him taking pictures of people waiting for food at an aid distribution site caught the attention of a tabloid in far-away Germany. Now, the Palestinian is scared for his life.

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U.S. President Bill Clinton sincerely wanted to bring Russia into the NATO fold. European countries, though, were strictly opposed, particularly Germany. Previously classified documents from the 1990s reveal German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's two-pronged strategy.

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Only very few defense attorneys in Russia are still prepared to represent opposition activists in court against charges of being "traitors" and "terrorists." Maria Bontsler is one of them - and is now in prison herself.

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Lange wurde eine Hungersnot in Gaza vorhergesagt. Jetzt ist sie da. Internationale Helfer, Mütter von mangelernährten Kindern und der Chef einer Suppenküche berichten über den verzweifelten Kampf um Nahrung.

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DER SPIEGEL depends on reporters in the Gaza Strip for its coverage of the war there. One of them is Ghada Alkurd. She has been working tirelessly since the beginning of the war - but now she and her family are facing starvation.

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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump continues to ramp up the pressure on American universities and scientific research institutes. Nobel laureate Thomas Südhof of Stanford University speaks of his own mistakes and about what Trump's onslaught means for the future of science in the U.S.

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The UN Genocide Convention came about as a reaction to the Holocaust. Now, Israel is being accused of violating it. International law experts are divided.

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Tens of thousands of people are leaving China on the search for a better future. And they are taking ever greater risks as they try to escape the long arms of Beijing's enforcers. DER SPIEGEL followed Chen Ye on his odyssey to the United States.

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This week, all eyes will be on The Hague in the Netherlands, were NATO leaders are gathering to discuss the future of the alliance. The biggest question, though, will be whether Trump plays nice - or whether he continues to call the trans-Atlantic relationship into question.

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John Bolton was once Donald Trump's National Security Advisor before they had a falling out. In an interview, he talks about the possibility of the U.S. joining the Israeli war on Iran and whether the regime in Tehran might be facing its end.

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Li Ying was an art student in Italy. But when protests broke out in his homeland, he began disseminating their messages. Overnight, he became the best-known source for uncensored information from China.

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More than 60 people were killed earlier this months as the sought to receive relief supplies at distribution sites in Gaza. Hundreds were injured. Eyewitnesses have levied serious accusations against the Israeli military.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has launched an all-out offensive against American universities. Harvard is doing what it can to stand up to the onslaught. In an interview, Harvard Professor Ryan Enos speaks about the battle with the White House and the future of foreign students on campus.

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Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from malnourishment as a result of the Israeli blockade and supplies are dwindling. One mother is fighting for her daughter. Another has already lost her son.

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Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from malnourishment as a result of the Israeli blockade and supplies are dwindling. One mother is fighting for her daughter. Another has already lost her son.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his wife 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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U.S. President Donald Trump has cast a covetous gaze at Greenland. But why? In an interview, Greenland expert Paul Bierman explains why the exploitation of natural resources on the island is difficult, expensive and has generally not been profitable.

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For 80 years, the United States was the undisputed leader of Western democracies. But Donald Trump is discarding allies and values in favor of power and money as he steers America into the camp of the autocrats.

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Iran needs hard currency for its military and to re-arm Hezbollah. Tehran is now apparently seeking to access billions of dollars that lie frozen in the accounts of a subsidiary of the German stock exchange.

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For the last three years, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been playing the role of a Ukrainian Winston Churchill, confidently defending his country with Western support. Now, Donald Trump has flipped the script.

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In his new book, "The World After Gaza," Indian author Pankaj Mishra is sharply critical of Western support for Israel's war in Gaza. He is particularly disapproving of German politics and memory culture.

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Alexandr Dolgopolov used to travel the world as a tennis professional. Now, he is on the front lines in Ukraine. In an interview, he speaks about the trials and tribulations of warfare and how battling Rafael Nadal on the court prepared him for fighting against the Russians on the battlefield.

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Reporter Wael Al-Dahdouh lost half of his family in the war in Gaza. The entire world was watching as he embraced the dead body of his grandchild. His reaction to the loss brought him fame throughout the Arab world.

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Nighttime attacks, arson, brutal murders: For many years, the Syrian desert was an incredibly dangerous place. Experts believe the last remnants of Islamic State are still there. But are they really?

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Two of her children were held captive by Hamas, as was – until a few days ago – their father. Here, Israeli Hadas Kalderon talks about her fight for the release of her family and the difficult return to a normal life.

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U.S. President Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland - or just take it. Residents say their country isn't for sale, but some are hoping that the attention might help Greenland wrest even more freedoms from Denmark.

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Who still dares to protest the war in Russia? Women. They hold up signs, lay flowers, hide messages in books and write to political prisoners. DER SPIEGEL spent months following three of them.

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The Darién Gap between South and Central America is exceedingly dangerous, but hundreds of thousands of migrants try their luck every year in an effort to reach the U.S. Now, a drug cartel has turned the jungle crossing into big business - and the refugees profit as well.

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