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As Latvia steps up surveillance, the discovery raises questions about who built the underground passage and whether more could be hidden along the border. DW’s Riga bureau chief explains what the tunnel means for European security. #dwcurrentaffairs Chapters: 00:00 Latvia discovers new tunnel at border with Belarus 01:09 Belarus‘ hybridContinue Reading

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“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protestersContinue Reading

Astronauts make history repairing the ISS | Space photo of the day for Aug. 25, 2026

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026. (Image credit: Roscosmos/Anna Kikina) Intensely focused and tethered to a floating laboratory in the vacuum of space, two astronauts spent over 6 hours working on the International Space Station during a historic spacewalk. What is it? Two astronauts aboardContinue Reading

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European Commission says it is ‘assessing’ Spain’s request after some 70,000 migrants surged into North African enclave., European Commission says it is ‘assessing’ Spain’s request after some 70,000 migrants surged into North African enclave. Spain has formally requested emergency funding from the European Union to address the migration situation inContinue Reading

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A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan. Satellites watched cracks spread rapidly before the 76-square-kilometer slab finally broke free on August 4. It is the glacier’s biggest calving event since 2012, and scientists say two even larger piecesContinue Reading