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Hundreds of thousands of people fled Russia in 2022, after it invaded Ukraine and announced a mobilization. Since then, some have returned but not necessarily forever. DW spoke to a few of them.

For a long time, Fuád Lawal had difficulties getting simple information about Nigeria’s history online, until a work trip in 2019 when he stumbled upon 1980s newspapers in the Usman Dan Fodio university library in Sokoto, Nigeria.

How can a much bigger European Union function effectively? Will key national interests be overridden for the benefit of collective decision-making? How should European institutions and budgets adapt to a union of more than 30 members? These are some of the big questions that European leaders are currently mulling over.

State election vote projections in Germany show the conservative CDU and CSU parties were the day's winners, with losses for Chancellor Scholz's governing coalition. The far-right AfD, meanwhile, has gained ground.

DW's Jochen Rosenkranz was in Tel Aviv when Israel was attacked by Hamas terrorists. As the rockets rained down, he witnessed a city paralyzed and met people shaken to their very core.

We look at the developing situation in Israel and Gaza to understand some of the deeper underlying issues behind the unprecedented weekend incursion by Hamas. Why did the offensive happen now? What triggered the attack, and how much of a factor was the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, when Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel?

We look at press reaction to Hamas' surprise attack on Israel. Both the Israeli and Palestinian press take aim at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – some blaming him for long ignoring the question of Palestinian statehood, others accusing him of being too lax. We finish with a look at the international papers' focus on Israeli victims and hostages.

The six inmates who were killed in the infamous Guayas 1 prison were suspected of assassinating of Ecuador’s presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in August.

Creativity. Emotions. Artificial intelligence is pushing further and further into primal human domains. The existential question arises: What actually makes us what we are, when the uniqueness of the human being is challenged?

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake, and a series of powerful aftershocks, hit western Afghanistan, destroying villages and leaving hundreds dead. Tremors could also be felt in neighboring Iran.

There are currently 42,000 women serving in the Ukrainian army, around 5,000 of whom are at the front. Women have officially been able to serve in the military since 2018, but discrimination is still a problem.

The Israeli military has said militant-Islamist Hamas fired rockets from Gaza, and has urged residents around the Gaza Strip to stay in their homes.