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A camel drinking in the desert – photographed from beneath the water? Dueling wrasse fish in Japan? Just two of the stunning, unexpected images from this year’s competition. The Underwater Photographer of the Year is back!The competition spans 13 different categories, pushing photographers from around the world to capture the magic of the underwater world – from intricate macro details to dramatic wide-angle scenes. With a record-breaking 7,000 submissions from over 600 photographers, this year’s contest highlights the growing fascination with underwater visual storytelling. This year, Spanish photographer Álvaro Herrero has won the overall Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025…

The world went from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s deep — and deeply paranoid — bureau during the pandemic to this week’s U.S. President Donald Trump’s very selective negotiating table. The former was meant to keep European leaders — and their germs — at a distance; the latter is used to decide a country and its people’s fate. Without said country nor people joining the conversation, of course. Although Trump and Putin did not physically sit together in Riyadh on Tuesday to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine, their trusted emissaries did: Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov and Secretary…

The X owner and Tesla CEO said he has never asked for personal favours from the president, and both men claimed he would avoid conflicts of interest. US President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk have given their first joint TV interview, which aired on right-wing outlet Fox News. During the interview, conducted by prime-time host Sean Hannity, Trump stressed he intends to curb inflation and claimed that Musk’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, could uncover over $1 trillion (€958.8bn) in what the administration deems “wasteful” government spending.Specifics, however, were few. In response to Hannity’s question…

Europe suddenly has to do it all — all alone, all at once. Still in shock after U.S. President Donald Trump’s unequivocal pivot toward Moscow, European leaders are grappling with the real possibility that they won’t be able to count on NATO — and the reality that the EU might not offer much of an alternative format. That said, companies and capitals are looking to Brussels for a way to prop up struggling industries while not abandoning climate goals. And German voters will decide on Sunday whether to side with Trump and Elon Musk to support the far-right Alternative for Germany…

The inner circle of US President Donald Trump has recently become vocal on Romanian politics, now showing interest in the case of the Tate brothers. First it was US Vice President JD Vance who unexpectedly called out Romania at the Munich Security Conference last weekend for allegedly undermining its democracy by annulling its presidential elections.Then, South African-born billionaire Elon Musk went on his platform X to show support for ultra-nationalist presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, after invisible campaign gerrymandering caused the vote to be annulled as Romanian authorities suspect Russian interference in the elections.Now, Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell has taken…

In dieser Extra-Ausgabe spricht Gordon Repinski mit Autor, TV-Moderator und Host des Podcasts Apokalypse & Filterkaffee, Micky Beisenherz, über die zurückliegende Legislaturperiode – vor allem aber auch über die Zeit nach der Wahl. Wo steht Deutschland? Was erwartet uns? Was würde ein Kanzler Merz anders machen, und wo muss er aufpassen, nicht zu früh an unüberwindbare Hürden zu stoßen? Warum wird Europa jetzt auf die Probe gestellt, und wie sieht die Perspektive aus? Ein rund 30-minütiges Gespräch, in dem es trotz der zuletzt ernsten Wochen sehr humorvoll zugeht.Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es morgens um 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski…

Carried out by a Saudi national, the December attack has intensified anti-immigrant sentiment, with migrant advocacy groups reporting a 70% increase in incidents involving racism. A deadly car-ramming attack on Magdeburg’s Christmas market in December has triggered a sharp rise in anti-migrant sentiment in the city, leaving many members of the migrant community fearful for their safety, a national advocacy group has said.A Saudi-born doctor, who had lived in Germany since 2006, drove his vehicle into the crowded holiday market, killing five women and a nine-year-old boy and injuring 200 others.Authorities say the suspect, who is in custody, does not…

“I don’t regret [the target],” he said. “I just — I regret, maybe, the way that we went about it.” His old boss May would “recognize the Conservative Party is under new management,” he added.  The party’s shift to disavow its old keynote green policy comes as it seeks to hammer Labour ministers over the government’s clean energy policy stall. Labour is sprinting to decarbonize the power system so that it runs on 95 percent clean power by 2030, with the promise this will cut energy bills. The Conservatives say it will force up costs in pursuit of a “misguided…

“Everyone who is in the occupied territories is a hostage of the Russian regime,” Ukrainian journalist and human rights activist Maksym Butkevych, who spent over two years in Russian captivity, told Euronews. Ukrainian journalist and one of the country’s most prominent human rights activists, Maksym Butkevych, spent more than two years in Russian captivity. He enlisted in the Ukrainian military in February 2022, when Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Butkevych took part in the defence of Kyiv, and when the Russian forces were pushed away from the capital, he was sent to eastern Ukraine. In June 2022, he was…

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