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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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