The Jerusalem Patriarchate said the trip was made to show a "powerful expression" of solidarity. The clerics were joined by diplomatic representatives from more than 20 countries. DW has more.

As Japan prepares to vote for the House of Councilors, right-wing politicians are challenging PM Shigeru Ishiba over immigration. They complain of rowdy tourists, shady foreign workers — and rich Chinese property buyers.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Israel's actions in Gaza are not "acceptable," in his summer press conference. Stay with DW for the latest.

US television presenter Stephen Colbert says his commercially successful and acclaimed "The Late Show" will end in May 2026. The timing follows his sharp criticism of CBS parent Paramount over a legal deal with Trump.

Germany has been described as an analogue country in a digital world. Meanwhile, Estonia has digitized all of its government services, including applying for divorce. How has Estonia become Europe's digital leader?

The 27 European Union member states have agreed on an 18th round of sanctions targeting Russia for invading Ukraine. The measures are intended to further reduce Moscow's income from the export of oil to non-EU countries.

German Interior Minister Dobrindt is hosting colleagues for a mountaintop summit on harsher migration policy across the EU. The meeting comes as Germany deports dozens of Afghans. Stay with DW for the latest.

A chartered flight has returned a group of Afghans from Germany after failed asylum claims and criminal convictions. The deportation from Leipzig included early-morning transfers under police supervision.

The US designated The Resistance Front (TRF), the group behind the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people, as a terrorist organization and called it a "front and proxy" of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

The House of Representatives has passed Donald Trump's $9 billion funding cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid, sending it to the White House to be signed into law.

Brazil's leftist leader has condemned Donald Trump over the US threat to impose tariffs on Brazilian goods. Trump says the tariffs are punishment for legal proceedings against conservative ex-President Jair Bolsonaro.

As Donald Trump battles the shadow of the Epstein case, he has called for the release of related documents and threatened to sue the WSJ over a "false" report alleging he wrote Epstein a lewd birthday letter in 2003.

US President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with "chronic venous insufficiency," according to the White House. Images of Trump's bruised hand and swollen legs sparked rumors about the 79-year-old president's health.

EU ambassadors are expected to approve the 18th package of sanctions against Russia on Friday. Slovakia had been blocking the package over concerns regarding a separate EU proposal phasing out gas imports from Russia.

Three people were killed and several others were injured in the strike on Gaza's only Catholic church, which was widely condemned.

Israel's attacks on Syrian territory served other purposes than to protect the Druze minority, observers say. What is driving Benjamin Netanyahu's agenda in Syria?

In an interview with DW, the mayor of Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, explains what he thinks of US President Donald Trump's recent 50-day ultimatum to Russia. In 50 days more civilians could die, he says.

Austrian skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media. The 56-year-old shot to global fame in 2012 with his record-breaking free-fall from space.

A day after the Ukrainian prime minister stepped down, he was appointed defense minister. His deputy Yulia Svyrydenko, who played a part in closing a minerals deal with the US, is Ukraine's new prime minister

Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich, who won last year's Chicago marathon in record time, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned substance hydrochlorothiazide.