US President Donald Trump investigates whether the American election system is vulnerable to fraud. Sources in the White House said Thursday to the NBC channel that a committee is being formed under the leadership of Vice President Mike Pence.
The government will make extra 2 million euros extra for strengthening the rule of law in Somalia. The money is specifically intended for legal assistance in the region and support of mobile courts. Minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) announced the contribution at an international conference on the country in the Horn of Africa.
A meeting with Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, in Luxembourg, is a shy jochie Thursday a little too much. The guy was allowed to hand over the beautiful Kate, but suddenly burst into tears.
The French police ended in Lyon a fight between about fifty members of the Ajax hard core and about the same number of hooligans from the Olympique Lyon club. The newspaper Le Progrès announced Thursday that the two groups of wednesday evenings went to the fist in the district of Gerland, where the same name is the stadium of Olympique.
Burney Fonseca, aka 'Nini', has been convicted of custody of Helmin Wiels as a murder broker for 25 years. That is what the court in Willemstad announced today. It was this week exactly four years ago that the most popular politician of Curaçao was shot on the beach of Marie Pompoen.
North Korea reserves the right to 'ruthlessly punish Americans stuck in the country'. That US media reports that Pyongyang takes up US citizens to use them as a change in negotiations, according to KCNA State Press Office, of 'ignorance'.
The CDU of Chancellor Angela Merkel suddenly took a small lead in the polls shortly before the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. That is bad news for the Social Democratic SPD, which suffered two defeats earlier this year.
German Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (Finance) has called for a separate parliament for countries using the euro as a means of payment. That should lead to further integration of the euro zone, the governor said in a Thursday published interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The movement of the forthcoming French president, Emmanuel Macron, has so far found around 450 candidates for the parliamentary elections. The elections for the French Lower House, which counts 577 seats, are about one month. The new movement is called 'The Republic on its way! (Before: On the way!) And announced that Thursday all 577 candidates will be known.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is dealing with eye problems in Singapore. As a result of a disorder, it appears that the 93-year-old leader has been in public sleep as a whole, his spokesman told the state newspaper The Herald.
US Secretary of State Jim Mattis (Defense) stressed in London on Thursday that the United States still stands for the protection of NATO ally Turkey. He did according to his spokeswoman in a conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
North Korea is demanding extradition demands of 'terrorist suspects' who would be involved in a plan to kill leader Kim Jong-un. Deputy Minister Han Song Ryol (Foreign Affairs) said in Pyongyang that his government 'wants to find all terrorist maniacs and ruthlessly wipe out', Chinese and North Korean state media reported.
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel does not yet feel like sending additional German soldiers to Afghanistan. 'I do not think we should be the first to increase our capabilities,' she said Thursday after an interview with NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin.
The 63-year-old killer of the Maastricht Femke Wetzels was found dead in his cell in the Belgian Hasselt on Thursday morning. According to the Belgian media, René Fripont committed suicide.
Over 63,000 minors without guidance from a parent or other minor have applied for asylum in the European Union last year. That's a third less than in 2015, according to figures published by Eurostat Eurostat on Thursday.
Oil cartel OPEC puts more crude petroleum in the market this year than expected. It aims to reduce shale producers in the US.
The 30 million blind and partially sighted people in the EU have access to more books, newspapers, magazines and sheet music. Barriers to copyright of audio and braille books have been eliminated. The Member States and the European Parliament have reached a negotiating agreement in Brussels.
A closest employee of Russian President Vladimir Putin draws behind the scenes in Eastern Ukraine. Vladislav Soerkov divided among other things top positions in rebel area, saying three former leaders of the pro-Russian separatists.
Prince William and his wife Catherine are on the 7th of June in the smallest city in Belgium. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge commemorate in Mesen the 1917 Mine Battle. It was a milestone in the history of the First World War.
The Kremlin is cautiously optimistic about the possibility of improving the relationship between the United States and Russia. That said a Russian government spokesman Thursday after a visit by Prime Minister Sergej Lavrov (Foreign Affairs) to US President Donald Trump.
Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway may continue to monitor parts of their internal borders until mid November. The EU Member States agreed in majority on Thursday.
The US secret service CIA has set up a special unit for North Korea. The Korea Mission Center will focus mainly on the country's threat and its incalculable leader due to its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
A Russian blogger has been sentenced to a conditional imprisonment after playing Pokémon GO in a church in Yekaterinburg. The Public Prosecutor's Office wanted to send him to a labor camp for more than three years, but the judge did not agree with it.
A Syrian asylum seeker was sentenced to life imprisonment in Austria for assassination of twenty injured and defenseless soldiers from the army of President Bashar al-Assad. The 27-year-old man was ex-warrior of an anti-Assam militant from the city of Homs.
British Telecom cuts four thousand jobs away. Those disappear in its international activities.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and the new South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, have exchanged a telephone call on Thursday about the situation on the Korean peninsula. The conversation lasted forty minutes and according to Moon's spokesman, for the first time, a Chinese president called a South Korean official to congratulate him or her, according to the South Korean press office Yonhap.
In the flooded areas in Canada there has been hope that the water level drops rapidly. Rain is forecast again this weekend.
The Court of Justice, the supreme court in Suriname, determines whether or not the criminal proceedings will continue due to the December killings. President Desi Bouterse is chief suspect.
On an earthquake in northwest China, eight people were killed in the city of Taxkorgan on Thursday morning. Another eleven people were injured, state government agency Xinhua said. The earthquake had a power of 5.5 and shook parts of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
A severe earthquake hit the north of Antarctica on Wednesday, local time. The epicenter was located near the British Southern Sandwich Islands.
