Many voters remain undecided, according to the final opinion polls, as the presidential campaign came to an official end.
Two people have died after a gunman opened fire at a regional intelligence office in the city of Khabarovsk, Russia.
Russia plans to knock down thousands of Soviet-era apartment blocks in Moscow. This would require the relocation of up to 1.6 million people - many of whom are very unhappy about it.


Left-of-center parties are bracing themselves for potentially disastrous results in France and Britain.
The government used the three-month long blackout as a weapon against dissent among its Anglophone minority, after simmering tensions erupted into protests last November.
Blasphemy is legally punishable by death in Pakistan, and mobs - like the one that recently killed Mashal Khan - often take matters into their own hands. We spoke to blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya, who had to leave the country due to blasphemy accusations and now lives in hiding in the Netherlands.


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DW's Carl Nasman is live along the former route of the Berlin wall, where cherry blossoms planted to commemorate German unification are now in full bloom.


"The military defeat [of 'IS'] is only the first step. The much more challenging task is to achieve political solutions that will avoid once again creating fertile ground for extremists."
The vote took place under a state of emergency, in place since last year's coup attempt, and campaigns in the lead up the referendum were found to be conducted on an "un-level playing field."
Some have brought the skulls of their fellow farmers who committed suicide due to debts.
The Argentine-Israeli musician is concerned with the rise of the Front National.
Under a dictatorship, Greek people were tortured and their voices crushed. DW News played a crucial role at the time with its critical radio programs. 50 years after the coup, we take a look at how it played out.


Isn't spring supposed to be bright and sunny?


Social media footage provided by Venezuelans captures brutal crackdown by authorities as protests in the country are expected to continue.






















