[POLA] India’s citizen-led school audits test limits of activism
The student-led “Cockroach” movement is taking its campaign for accountability to government schools, but the activists’ methods are encountering growing resistance from authorities.
The student-led “Cockroach” movement is taking its campaign for accountability to government schools, but the activists’ methods are encountering growing resistance from authorities.
Turkey has announced the creation of two protected zones in a disputed area of the Aegean Sea, sparking an angry reaction from Greece. Does this mark a new chapter in a long-running dispute between the two countries?
A Russian-born businessman heads the investment fund financing the so-called “Trump Route,” a planned corridor through Armenia linking Azerbaijan with Nakhchivan. Who is Konstantin Sokolov, and what role does he play?
As Serbia heads towards an uncertain election, President Aleksandar Vucic is balancing ties with Russia and EU ambitions. But growing geopolitical tensions and pressure at home are narrowing his room to maneuver.
Facing a population decline, fewer potential service members and calls for social equality to be extended to national military service, Korea is inching closer to breaking the taboo on women on the front line.
The Druze minority in Sweida, Syria, is now the only group that hasn’t accepted central government authority. How does the end of an independent Kurdish area impact Druze plans for a different, divided kind of Syria?
As some of Africa’s longest-serving leaders grow older, they are using different tactics to extend their rule. But age, succession battles and public pressure pose new challenges.
The unrest comes one month after a mass influx of migrants from Morocco to the Spanish exclave in North Africa.
For many, Ratko Mladic represented the horrors of the Bosnian War. He was convicted of genocide for the Srebrenica massacre and of other war crimes. Now he has died in detention at The Hague.
DW spoke with people from the Nepali regions devastated by flash floods about the fates of their family members, with a government minister warning that the state was not ready for a disaster of such magnitude.