Pope Franciscus has compared the refugee centers on the Greek islands to concentration camps. He said that Saturday at a memorial in Rome. The pope found that the centers are largely deprived of concentration camps in Nazi times by the amount of people staying there.
After previous discoveries in the waters in Belgium, on the coast of Zealand and in the Eemshaven in Groningen, are also now on the coast of three German Wadden packages washed ashore drugs. The German police and the judiciary in terms of eleven packages of cocaine the size of a brick that washed up on the islands of Borkum, Baltrum and Norderney.
Egypt may possibly nonetheless indicate Saudi Arabia two uninhabited islands in the Red Sea. An Egyptian court took Sunday according to sources dashed by a previous ruling in which the transfer of Tiran and Sanafir was banned.
Three bathers on the Canary Island of Tenerife are dragged into a huge wave. Two of them lost their lives, a third person is missing, notify as international media.
Unusually many migrants are the last three days arrived in boats on the Greek islands in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea. From Friday to Monday 443 people reached the islands, reported the Greek authorities.
On the Greek island of Crete twenty traffickers arrested 120 immigrants who were trying to provide Europe. That Greek media reported Friday.
The blood of the Komodo dragon appears to contain that can fight infection 48 substances. It has long been assumed that the largest lizard in the world very purifying and protective substances has in its blood.
The mainland of Antarctica is 17.5 degrees Celsius officially reached a new height record. This was announced by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) of the United Nations.
A helicopter pilot in the Marshall Islands searched for tuna, has saved the lives of three fishermen and a boy holding hundreds of kilometers were driven off. This was reported Radio New Zealand on Thursday. Warned the crew of a large fishing boat picked up the four.
Dubai continues to put on the map with architectural projects. The emirate had artificial islands in the shape of a palm tree and the tallest skyscraper in the world. From 2020 there will be a skyscraper that rotates a round, reports CNN. The building has eighty floors and 388 meters high.
Frontex, the European agency for the management of external borders, has since April last year, 894 refugees and migrants sent back to Turkey. These are people who stayed on islands in the Aegean Sea.
The United States in late January 117 Cubans sent back to their country since the transfer of the presidency. Among Trump's predecessor, Obama received any Cuban who set foot on American soil automatically put a residence permit. But Obama pulled the scheme itself just before he left the White House.
Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica get there soon may be a little brother: scientists would like Zeelandia also recognized as a continent.
Bart van U., the man his sister Lois and former minister Els Borst stabbed shows end justice last year to the murder weapon to have led.
More than 200 pilot whales were stranded on a beach in New Zealand have saved himself. When the tide was they managed to swim back to sea in it.
The United States reaffirm their commitment to the defense treaty signed with Japan. That US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Friday during a visit to Japan. Mattis spoke with, among others, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Donald Trump will respect the agreement with Australia regarding the inclusion of over a thousand refugees but is extremely unhappy with the deal. That has let the White House know Thursday. 'The agreement still has forged by the previous government, is something that annoys him extraordinary,' said spokesman Sean Spicer during the press briefing. 'It does not belong to him totally.'
The tension between Greece and Turkey, partly because of the refusal by Athens to extradite eight Turks, Thursday continued to rise. The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias warned that his country 'will no tension, but will not yield to pressure' from Turkey.
The White House is coming back from an assurance that the US takes on a group of Australia stranded migrants. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull stressed at the weekend that the new US president Donald Trump has agreed to comply with the agreements, but Australian media reported Wednesday that there are major obstacles have arisen.
Turkey's neighbor Greece provoked by sailing in the territorial waters of Greece with a warship. Around 10:30 Sunday morning approached the vessel and two speedboats the Imia islands. The two countries argue over twenty years on these two uninhabited islands in the Aegean Sea.
In the night from Saturday to Sunday has been a major earthquake in Papua New Guinea. About fifty kilometers west of Arawa a quake was measured at the Bougainville island with a magnitude of 8.0.
Greece, other EU Member States and international organizations must pull out all the stops to improve the situation of migrants in the Greek islands. More help is needed immediately. That call did Commissioner Dimitri Avramopoulos Wednesday during a visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, where thousands of migrants staying in harsh winter conditions.
The search in the Indian Ocean for the missing MH370 device is discontinued without a trace has been found of the plane that disappeared in 2014. Which have let the three countries involved in the study Tuesday in a statement.
An Egyptian judge ruled Monday that two uninhabited islands in the Red Sea can not be transferred to Saudi Arabia. The Egyptian government had signed a deal with Riyadh over the two islands, but it led to much commotion among the Egyptian population.
He is from January 20 with his boss Donald Trump one of the defining faces of the new US administration. During a long and sometimes aggressive questioning by the Senate Wednesday averted the new foreign minister Rex Tillerson himself considerably. He departed taking off regularly from the views of the president.
Heavy snowfall and low temperatures have disrupted life in northern Greece. In the port city of Thessaloniki began Tuesday evening traffic chaos. Because it had frozen the last few days providing more than ten degrees the salt caked and could not be spread on the roads.
Despite the icy winter weather and the sometimes strong winds since early this year, 337 refugees and migrants by boat daring to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands. Just on Tuesday, 41 people arrived on the island of Kos.
The Canary island of Lanzarote will Tuesday open the first underwater museum in Europe. British artist Jason deCaires Taylor installing the last pieces of his monumental work with over three hundred life-size human figures in various positions.
Greece is white. Large parts of the country are in the night from Sunday to Monday buried under a load of snow. Numerous rural villages and islands in the Aegean Sea are cut off from the outside world.
The extreme winter conditions in Europe have led this weekend chaos. Dozens of people have been killed by flying the wintry weather, planes were grounded and ferries not matter.
