Germans

An Iranian shadow network, or a mirage?

An investigation by one of Switzerland’s leading newspapers raises as many questions as it answers

A Communist history of hip-hop

East Germany’s little-known musical history and the ongoing fight for recognition

Refugees welcome

A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Original by Oliver Wehrs ‘Refugees welcome’, published in

Spatially challenged

The director of the European Space Agency explains how Europe is both behind, and ahead, in space

Shades of grey

AI-driven colourisation is transforming historical film footage, but could it also distort the past?

Inside Serbia’s student protest

Serbia’s largest student movement in decades is challenging President Vučić’s grip on power

The other Palestine

On the road with the German director of UNRWA for the West Bank Initially established as a temporary organisation after the mass displacement of Palestinians and the 1948 war –

A requiem for Salzburg’s Mozart balls?

The city contends with the end of local industrial production of the chocolate delight. Two hundred and thirty-three years after the death of Austria’s most famous composer and his burial

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