The Turkish parliament on Friday agreed to a proposal to hold early elections. Turkish voters are now going to the polls on 24 June to elect a president and parliament, more than a year earlier than originally planned.

The Dutch government is not going to take children from Dutch Syria out of Syrian camps. The risks are too great.

The handling of the extradition request for Guus Kouwenhoven (75) has been postponed again. The Dutchman, according to his lawyer, is in a South African hospital because of a serious fracture, the newspaper Business Day reports.

The court of appeal has a Belgian who in 2016 attacked two agents in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek with a knife and sentenced to a prison sentence of fifteen years. Earlier, Hicham D. had been sentenced to nine years by the court in Brussels, but the Public Prosecution Service appealed against it.

A record number of wolves were killed in Norway last winter. Hunters shot thirty wolves, the Ministry of Environment reported. The high number does not mean that the country counts more wolves. The Norwegian government allowed a higher number of wolves to be shot during the past hunting season: 42.

Airline Southwest Airlines has given compensation to several passengers after a fatal accident. Passengers of flight 1380 received an excuse letter and 5000 dollars (more than 4000 euros), CNN said.

More and more refugees are entering Greece via the border river Evros. 'Since March more than 1000 people have crossed the river', warns the Red Cross. The aid organization states that last week it involved more than a hundred people a day.

A jogger has done in a park in Rome and lurid discovery. Under the foliage in Tre Fontane lay the charred and burning body of a woman. The police assume a murder.

Stop the presses! Research at Chapman University in Los Angeles has shown that men with a higher BMI have on average a higher number of bed partners than men with an average and low BMI.

A car driver has been ridden on players and supporters of a Wales football club. Eleven people had to be transferred to the hospital, report the BBC Friday.

President Trump has fully opened the attack on Opec oil cartel. The oil producers keep prices 'artificially high'. The US will no longer accept that, according to the president on Friday.

In the event of new confrontations between the Israeli army and Palestinian demonstrators at the border with the Gaza Strip, an activist was killed on Friday. The man, together with two others, was hit by Israeli bullets at the border fence and later succumbed to his injuries.

A quarrel about the legacy of the wealthy stock exchange trader Michael Morgan Taylor who died during 9/11 has led to a bizarre ruling by the judge.

A 69-year-old man who got a falling bank on his head on Friday, died in hospital. The man was on his way to the baker when the movers tried to pull a two-seater sofa with cords to a higher floor. This went wrong and the bank fell on the head of the unfortunate passerby.

The Brussels court has imposed community service sentences on five rioters who caused destruction in the Belgian capital in November after the qualifying match for the World Cup between Morocco and Côte d'Ivoire. A rapper who had been arrested for calling on the riots via Facebook was acquitted for lack of evidence.

India has once again been startled by rape and murder of young girls. On the night from Thursday to Friday, a nine-year-old girl was found strangled in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Presumably she had been raped for that.

The British pound lost ground on Friday after central bank president Carney dampened expectations about the British economy.

The American president Donald Trump does not go to the funeral of the former first lady Barbara Bush. He sends his wife Melania.

North and South Korea have a direct hotline between the leaders of the countries. The line was opened a week before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae meet in the Panmunjom border town.

On the Asian island of Borneo an ant has been found that can disable his enemies by exploding, so they get a toxic substance over them.