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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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