By Julia Hitz (DW) – After falling gravely ill earlier this month, Aretha Franklin has died. Franklin won 18 Grammys and had some 25 gold records during her long career. Legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin died on Thursday in Detroit, US media reported. She was 76. Her publicist confirmed the death to…

Turkey is a country in crisis, the Lira’s freefall being a case in point. President Erdogan needs to tackle this, but a diplomatic row with the US could force him to go against his nature, writes DW’s Seda Serdar. Every day the pressure on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is increasing.…

By John J. Metzler - PARIS — The very name Cambodia evokes tragic memories and historical passions. This small Southeast Asian land which was ravaged by the communist Khmer Rouge genocide a generation ago, then occupied by neighboring Vietnam, and later, resuscitated back to life by a long forgotten United Nations peacekeeping and electoral…

(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) SARAJEVO/BONN — A 2004 report describing how Serb forces killed thousands of Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995 is “untrue” and “biased” according to the Serb-dominated entity in Bosnia Republika Srpska (RS) president, Milorad Dodik. Local lawmakers in RS voted to revoke it, DW (Deutsche Welle) reported quoting other news…

  (WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York – President Donald Trump has signed a $716 billion defense spending bill that would delay the delivery of the F-35 fighter jets to Turkey pending a Pentagon report, Turkish Hurriyet Daily News reported. In a ceremony at Fort Drum military base in New York on Aug. 13, Trump expressed his pleasure for Congress’ quick approval of National…

(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York – German chancellor Angela Merkel says that Germany wants to see Turkey prosper economically and is stressing the importance of its central bank’s independence, according to the various news agencies. Merkel said after meeting the head of the Bosnian government on Aug. 13 that Germanybenefits from an economically stable neighborhood and added: “Germany wants an economically prosperous Turkey. That…

(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York – Jewish and Muslim leaders from Germany led a memorial for the victims of the Auschwitz death camp on the 74th anniversary of Nazi deportations from the Litzmannstadt ghetto. The ceremony was part of an educational tour DW (Deutsche Welle) reported.   Rabbi Henry Brandt and Aiman Mazyek of the…