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In Turkey, seventeen Turkish tourists were killed in a bus crash near Marmaris. Thirteen people got injured.

Russian banks have been victims of massive cyber attacks, but they are all beaten. This told the central bank in Moscow Saturday. Russian media reported that the state railways were unsuccessfully attacked by hackers.

Greece, along with the organization that has been monitoring the EU's external borders (Frontex), has returned 71 migrants to Turkey since Wednesday. The returned refugees came from the islands of Chios, Lesbos and Kos.

North Korea is prepared to speak with the United States under the right circumstances. This said a North Korean top diplomat, Choe Son-hui, Saturday in Beijing according to the South Korean press office Yonhap.

The first twelve warriors of the FARC guerrilla movement have officially returned to Colombian society. They got Friday at a ceremony in the Colombian capital of Bogota certificates from the United Nations confirming that they had deposited the weapons.

The new French president Emmanuel Macron and his center-right ally François Bayrou have resolved disagreement over candidates for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in June. That's what Bayrou said on Friday night.

A US Department of Finance responsible for money laundering research provides financial information to the Senate Intelligence Commission investigating the possible links between Trump faith and Russia. That is what the newspaper Wall Street Journal reports on Friday.

Microsoft has taken measures to protect computers against the ransomware attack earlier in the day in dozens of countries. That has told a company spokesman in a statement to Reuters press office.

Mauno Koivisto, Finland's first left-wing president, passed away at the age of 93. That says the president's office on Friday.

Raise on social media in Brazil about a movie showing a guinea pig in a working microwave. The video was posted online by the 16-year-old Vitoria Muller. The girl got a lot of criticism.

Ebola has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Certainly one and maybe three people have died as a result of an infection with the ebola virus. That reports the Congolese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization on Friday.

Several organizations around the world were hit by cyber attacks on Friday. There are reports about computers hosted by so-called ransomware from, among others, the United States, Great Britain, China, Russia, Spain and Italy.

Pope Franciscus was received by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Friday afternoon at the start of his two day visit to Portugal.

Germany has paved the way for the automotive industry to develop and test self-propelled cars. The German First Chamber adopted a law on Friday that laid down the conditions for self-propelled cars to meet German roads.

Several hospitals in England were hit by a major cyber attack on Friday. Employees have been shut down from their computers and hospitals have to cancel appointments and move patients. This reported the British National Health Service (NHS).

The Kurdish YPG militia leaves again from the area around the city after the fall of the Syrian IS building Raqqa. That commitment has received Turkey from the United States, said Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to play a 'constructive role' in resolving the nuclear threat of North Korea. He said Friday in a telephone conversation with his newly elected South Korean colleague Moon Jae-in, according to the office of the South Korean president. The Kremlin talked about the need for a political and diplomatic solution in the North Korea crisis.

On Friday, members of a Prince family from the United Arab Emirates in Belgium demanded conditional sentences of one and a half years. They stayed for a couple of months in a Brussels hotel in 2008 and would have exploited 23 female staff in a manner similar to slavery.

The US Department of Justice has called for heavier charges and longer imprisonment for criminals. Minister Jeff Sessions (Justice) instructed federal prosecutors to put in a letter in criminal cases the most serious criminal offense that can be proved.

US President Donald Trump tried Friday to explain why he says so often something different than his spokesmen. He is a very active president and just a lot of things, he wrote on Twitter.

The Bulgarian fence along the border with Turkey is almost ready. Alongside this 259 kilometer long external border of the European Union, only barriers to illegal crossing over the last 21 kilometers must be built, said Interior Minister Valentin Radev on Friday in parliament.

A 27-year-old woman from Ireland received compensation of 10,500 euros after receiving hot tea in an airplane.

A North Korean Parliamentary Commission has sent a threatening letter to the US House of Representatives. The North Koreans warn their American colleagues that imposing new sanctions will only lead to further acceleration of the development of nuclear weapons.

Ajax supporters hunt massively for the final of the Europa League between their club and Manchester United. On the internet, tickets for the final match of 24 May in Stockholm change for 1500 euros from owner.

Certainly ten people died when a bomb exploded on a convoy with the Vice-President of the Pakistani Senate on Friday. It's probably a suicide attack, said a police officer.

Emmanuel Macron is visiting a German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, one day after his installation as new president of France. That was announced by the German government on Friday.

A New Zealander has been so seriously maltreated by a five-year-old child that the judge dealing with the case broke out in crying. According to The New Zealand Herald, the magistrate said the boy would 'suffer forever' because of the extreme violence that was used to him.

Overnight talks in the global telecom sector have brought KPN Friday more than 3% price gain.

The Malaysian authorities have expelled three Turkish citizens to their home country on Thursday. The trio is suspected of tensions with the movement of Islamic spiritual Fethullah Gülen, held by Ankara for the failed coup last year.