Another special rocket launch of SpaceX, the company that recently shot a Tesla in space, but this time with a little less success. It was intended that a part of a launched rocket would return carefully to the earth, to plop into the safety net of a ship on open sea, so that it could be reused. However, the part just fell off and splashed in the water.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been vigorously accused of Iran at the annual International Safety Conference in Munich. The country is 'the biggest threat to our world', Netanyahu said, holding a piece of a drone.
The European Union expects China to release the Swedish-Chinese bookseller Gui Minhai so that he can be reunited with his wife and daughter. Beijing must allow consular and medical assistance from Sweden, according to the EU foreign service.
At the headquarters of the American intelligence service NSA in the state of Maryland, Wednesday may have been shot. Many police units and other emergency services are on site. According to American media, three people were injured. The situation was quickly under control, the authorities reported.
US forces have killed dozens of Russian mercenaries in Syria last week. That means an American official and three Russians who are familiar with the case.
Israel has carried out attacks on Iranian targets in Syria. In addition, an F-16 fighter plane was shot from the air by the Syrian anti-aircraft, reports the Israeli army. The pilots were able to leave the plane in time and are safe. According to local media, the F-16 crashed in the north of Israel.
Shortly before the official opening of the Olympic Winter Games, the Holland Heineken House in South Korean Gangneung was opened this morning.
We have not yet succeeded in launching a new SpaceX rocket with a red Tesla Roadster. The game breaker is the strong wind high in the sky above Cape Canaveral's space base in Florida.
A brand new rocket has to start its first test flight on Tuesday. On board is immediately a striking cargo. No satellites, no astronauts, but a car. It is the red Tesla Roadster from the businessman Elon Musk.
The Israeli Air Force attacked a base of Hamas after a rocket was fired from Israel in the Gaza Strip. How many victims have fallen is not known.
According to senior government officials, the US government is prepared to start new military actions against Syria if necessary to prevent President Bashar al-Assad from using chemical weapons.
President Donald Trump of the US has called for unity among Americans in his first State of the Union. In the speech, similar to the Dutch speech of the throne, he also called for an atmosphere of optimism in the country. 'This is our new American moment. There has never been a better time to experience the American dream. '
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An American satellite was launched on Thursday to investigate the edge of the atmosphere, the outer shell of the earth. There, more than a hundred kilometers above our heads, the atmosphere slowly merges into the infinity of the universe.
Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has instructed his men to disable him if he emerges as a dictator. 'I do not joke', he emphasized during a visit to an army base.
The Syrian army has made a strategically important conquest in the northwest of the country. Together with allies, it managed to recapture the air base in the province of Idlib on the rebels.
The Houthi rebels in Yemen have again fired a rocket on Saudi Arabia. The Saudis intercepted the projectile, an army spokesman said.
For the west coast of the Netherlands, Belgian F-16s intercepted two Russian bombers this morning. It was TU-160 Blackjacks. They flew in international airspace, but were intercepted for security reasons.
A day after the false bomb threat in Hawaii, the Dutch take stock: the 'typical American' panic has passed by our countrymen, although Prescilla (27) almost crawled into the closet, brotherly next to her cats.
A Colombian employee of an oil company was kidnapped by ELN rebels. The abduction was a few days after the expiry of a cease-fire with the government, just when UN top executive António Guterres visits the country, reports the BBC. According to the police, the man was taken from his workshop in Saravena near the border with Venezuela.
The American company AECOM is looking for crew members for flights where supreme secrecy is required, in an area close to the very secret Area 51. The job does require specific characteristics.
The Colombian ELN rebels have again carried out attacks on Wednesday. This happened shortly after the expiry of a truce with the government, said high military sources. This can have consequences for the peace talks with the insurgents.
A boat with refugees has sunk off the coast of Libya on Tuesday. The Libyan coast guard has saved sixteen passengers, fifty others have probably drowned.
Saudi Arabia once again said that it had intercepted a ballistic missile. The missile had been fired at the city of Najran by the Yemeni Houthi rebels, an army spokesman told news channel al-Arabiya. A television channel controlled by the Houthi \u0026 # x27; s reported that an army base was the target of the missile.
An attack on a Russian base in Syria cost two soldiers at the end of last year. Extremists fired mortar shells on New Year's Eve at the complex, according to the state press agency TASS quoted Thursday by a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The German parties SPD and CDU / CSU have agreed to enter a new phase for the formation of a government. However, it is still exploratory talks and not formal negotiations. The parties held discussions on Wednesday about the continuation of the discussions.
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, will visit his German colleague Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday. Ankara confirmed on Wednesday that Cavusoglu is coming to the home of Gabriel, the Lower Saxon city of Goslar, this weekend. Gabriel visited Cavusoglu in November in the constituency where the Turkish politician has his base.
An American soldier was killed in fighting in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. Four others were injured, the US military said on Tuesday.
The British police have arrested a man who has tried to invade the US military base Mildenhall in the middle of England. The intruder drove the terrain from the base with his car past the checkpoint. Immediately after that the base went into a 'lockdown' and was thus shut down from the outside world.
A Russian, a Japanese and an American are on their way to the international space station ISS. The three went on the Sunday from the base Baikonur in Kazakhstan by Soyuz rocket.
