In honor of the seventy-seventieth anniversary of the communist state, North Korea wants to grant an as yet unknown number of prisoners amnesty. The North Korean state media report that on Monday.

US President Donald Trump sees no reason to believe that Russia was trying to influence the US presidential election. He acknowledged that his own intelligence service accused the Russians, but said Russian President Vladimir Putin was very 'strong and powerful' in his denials.

Israel attacked two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday. The attacks were a reaction to the fire balloons and the firefighters who have allowed militant Palestinians to fly across the border for months. The balloons have caused numerous large fires.

A huge balloon that Trump depicts as an angry baby will soon be seen in the United States. An activist has collected thousands of dollars via the website GoFundMe to order a copy of the flying monster. He wants to leave the 'Baby-Trump' in Bedminster, where the wave-loving president regularly plays a ball.

Armed men have shot fourteen civilians in a remote village in Mali. According to a Tuareg militia, the attackers belong to a criminal gang that is active in the border area with Niger.

They remained upright on the field, but the French world champions melted away one by one at the intimate embrace of Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. In the case of a hugely embarrassing bosom shirt, they could not help but embarrass the courageous head in proper respect for so much honest enthusiasm. A stark contrast with which she put cool fool Putin, who stood in the rain for a long time as a true gentleman, under the umbrella. You have to be the winner if you 'celebrate' your loss.

Paris seems a day after the World Cup finals in a disaster area rather than a place where it is cheerfully celebrated that the country has conquered the world title for the second time in history.

The world economy is still growing well. But it takes less and less to bring that growth out of balance.

When imposing sanctions on companies that trade with Iran, the United States is no exception for European companies. The US government has not responded to requests from Europe. 'No surprise', responded EU foreign-chef Federica Mogherini.

Hundreds of migrants have landed in Italy on Monday. The Italian authorities gave the green light to this, after other European countries had shown their willingness to absorb more than half of the 450 or so asylum seekers.

The death toll due to a suicide attack on a Pakistani election meeting, has risen to about 150. Terrorist group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the massacre in the southern province of Baluchistan, where, according to a high police officer, more than 180 people were injured on Friday.

At least eight migrants, including six children, were stuck in Libya in a container. Another ninety other people who have been removed from the container are in critical condition. They have been transferred to a hospital, local authorities say.

The leaders of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, met in the Finnish capital Helsinki. It is their first official Russian-American summit, although the men have met each other before. The presidents arrived in the presidential palace in the Finnish capital and sat almost next to each other. They did not shake hands with each other for the cameras.

The Mauritanian navy intercepted a boat with migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands. The 125 passengers, according to a spokesperson for the navy, had paid about 850 euros for the failed crossing.

A drug gang that operated from the Netherlands, among others, has shipped an estimated 1.5 tons of cocaine and amphetamine in the past two years. Europol has rolled up the gang in recent months.

Russian President Putin has arrived in Helsinki with some delay for the first US-Russian summit of him and his counterpart Donald Trump in 2017.

Turkey gets a new tap. The Turkish economy was further downgraded by credit rating agency Fitch, from the status BB + to BB, with a negative outlook. The subsequent decline of the Turkish lira was, however, curbed by support from the central bank.

Furious villagers killed almost three hundred crocodiles in Indonesian West Papua. That happened after a 48-year-old man was bitten by one of the reptiles.

Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appealed against his conviction in a corruption case. The authorities arrested Sharif and his daughter Maryam when they returned to Pakistan late last week. Thousands of Sharif's supporters then took to the streets to express their support.

US President Trump embarked on a meeting with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö in Helsinki in the run-up to his meeting with his Russian counterpart on Monday. Trump is in Helsinki for his first official summit with President Putin of Russia. It starts in the presidential palace at 12.20.