The case of an alleged Russian mole inside Germany’s intelligence service has raised alarms in Berlin, where Russia has long spied aggressively and may have assassinated a foe.

Hong Kong’s leader, John Lee, said Tuesday that the city had no legal basis to act on a Russian oligarch’s superyacht in the city. 

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was the first leader of a Group of 7 nations to visit China since the start of the pandemic.

"More than half of my colleagues have Covid right now," one Beijing resident told NBC News of the virus surging through the capital of the world’s most populous country.

For this piece, a colleague and I tracked down people affected by a new police custody rule. We used FOIA and parliamentary inquiries to compile a complete list of cases spanning several years, and were able to show that the law was primarily used against climate activists.

For this first-of-its-kind data analysis, my colleagues and I examined more than 100 Twitter accounts by German police. The Bavarian Journalist Association awarded it second place in its Price for Press Freedom. It also received the extra prize of the jury from the Surveillance Studies Network.

In one of my favorite interviews, I spoke to a woman whose teenage daughter died by suicide. It’s a thoughtful piece about digital mourning and the mother's perspective on Germany’s strict privacy laws.