The 'flash appointment' of Martin Selmayr as the highest official of the European Commission can not pass. A large majority of the European Parliament (464 against 205) asked the committee to reconsider the appointment of the Secretary-General.
Two Ecuadorian journalists who were kidnapped with their driver are all three dead. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said that Friday.
Paul Ryan, the Republican president of the US House of Representatives, is holding up as a Congressman after his current term. He will not go for a re-election in November and will go into retirement in January, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
In an attic of the museum Hoyt Sherman Place in the American state of Iowa a painting by the Dutch master Otto van Veen was discovered. The work bears the name Apollo and Venus and was probably made in the year 1600.
Russian hacker Jevgeni Nikoelin is extradited to the United States. The Czech Republic put him on the plane, confirmed the government in Prague Friday.
The Belgian lawyer of the Catalan politician Carles Puigdemont thinks that his client will be released under certain conditions in the short term. Puigdemont would then be able to freely await the handling of the international arrest warrant issued against him, lawyer Paul Bekaert told the Belga news agency.
President Trump does not intend to dismiss special investigator Robert Mueller. This stressed the chairman of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan. 'I have been assured that his resignation will not even be considered,' Ryan said without providing details.
Ringo Starr, the drummer of the legendary band The Beatles, has been knighted for his merits for the music. The 77-year-old received the award from Prince William during a ceremony in Buckingham Palace.
Senator Rand Paul has said he will 'do everything' to prevent Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel from being appointed as foreign minister and director of the CIA. The Republican from Kentucky admitted on TV at CBS News that he probably will not be able to stop these nominees by President Donald Trump.
Trumps ex-campaign leader Paul Manafort has filed a petition with a federal court that the charges against him will be rejected. According to Manafort, special prosecutor Robert Mueller has exceeded his jurisdiction because he wants to prosecute Manafort for crimes that are not related to his investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 American elections.
Almost half a year after the elections of the German Bundestag, the government parties sealed the new big coalition (GroKo) under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). The leaders of the CDU and SPD put their signature on Monday in Berlin under the government program agreed at the beginning of February.
Escortgirl Anastasia Vashukevich (who calls herself a vlogger Nastya Rybka) is not welcome in the US. The 21-year-old Belarussian has made himself useful as a 'sex coach' in Thailand, but is stuck because she did not have a work permit. The US Department of State finds its offer from a Thai cell to come up with evidence of Russian interference with the US elections 'bizarre.'
An American aircraft carrier was recovered at a depth of three kilometers in a nautical no man's land. The discovery Tuesday of the USS Lexington in the Coral Sea by an expedition of Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, according to experts is a big achievement. 'These are the final limits that are being demolished.'
In the Coral Sea the wreck was found of the American aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The Lexington foundered on 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea after being hit by several Japanese torpedoes and aircraft bombs.
The film 120 BPM has won most Césars on Friday night. The drama about gay activists who fought in France in the early nineties for recognition won six prizes, including those for best film.
The castle of Pieter Paul Rubens is for sale. For 4 million euros you can become the owner of Kasteel Elewijt ('Het Steen') near Antwerp, De Standaard and The Art Newspaper report. The master lived there from 1635 until his death in 1640 and painted some of his works, such as 'Landscape with the tower of Castle Steen' and 'View of Het Steen in the early morning'.
The United Kingdom has 632 pubs that listen to the name Red Lion. Kayleigh Snell and Paul Kyatt have visited them for the past two and a half years. 'Who says you get tired of drinking', laughs Kayleigh- indeed, to the Marillion song from the eighties. 'We both lost at least ten kilos.'
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 American elections, has adjusted the charges against Trump's ex-campaign leader Paul Manafort. This is now also suspected of secret payments to major European politicians in 2012 and 2013 to lobby for the pro-Russian government in Ukraine.
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has issued new charges against Paul Manafort, the former campaign leader of US President Donald Trump. Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates have, according to Mueller, been laundered for more than 30 million dollars (more than 24 million euros) and withheld from the tax authorities.
The head office of the British-Dutch group Unilever will probably come to the Netherlands at the brexit. The British government is taking this seriously seriously, reports the Financial Times.
The special prosecutor for Russiagate Robert Mueller has sued a Dutch citizen. It concerns lawyer Alex van der Zwaan.
Members of the British Eurosceptic populist party UKIP voted in favor of the resignation of their leader Henry Bolton at an extraordinary general meeting. That is what party chairman Paul Oakden said. According to Oakden, 63 percent of 1,378 voters have canceled their confidence in Bolton.
Pope Paul VI will be declared holy this year, according to Pope Francis.
The US Congress has approved a new budget for the federal government. The House of Representatives agreed to the proposal in the early morning, after the Senate had given green light before. President Trump must now sign his signature.
The US Senate has yet approved a new budget for the federal government. This means that the House of Representatives can now express its opinion on the proposal.
At the expiration of the midnight deadline (local time), no agreement has yet been reached in the US Congress about a new budget. Formally, a new shutdown of the US government services is entering.
Russiagate, or the possible interference of the Kremlin in the American elections, has received a spectacular follow-up in Russia itself. Anti-corruption blogger Aleksej Navalny, who is excluded from the presidential election next month, says he has evidence that billionaire Oleg Deripaska was the secret emissary of the Kremlin in 2016 with Paul Manafort, then the campaign chief of Donald Trump.
There is a chance that the American government will have to deal with a shutdown again. Rand Paul, a Senator from the Republican party, disagrees with many of his colleagues about a new budget for the US government.
The mention of 2025 as a possible date of accession to the European Union of six Balkan countries is very unwise. That is what the VVD, CDA, D66 and the PvdA believe in the European Parliament.
Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, wants the chairman of the intelligence committee to replace Devin Nunes. She has submitted a written request to House President Paul Ryan.
