Greece wants to get rid of the overcrowded refugee camps on the islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. ' We will soon bring a large number of migrants to the mainland, to relieve the islands, \'said Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis Wednesday. He announced that the refugees ' guarded buildings\' be accommodated.
On two Indonesian islands are smashed remains of a space rocket. The rocket scrap Monday struck a house and a barn, but residents claimed the police were unharmed.
The government attracts 4 million euros for expansion of the Marker Wadden. This made Secretary Martijn van Dam (Economic Affairs) Saturday announced during a visit to the first man made island in a newly constructed island group in the Markermeer.
"The forest fires that ravaged Indonesia for months last year, believed to have more than 100,000 people killed. This is mainly due to the inhalation of fine dust, which contained large amounts of carbon."
"In an explosion on a ferry tourists between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok on Thursday two people died. Thirteen crew members were injured."
"The Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte wants US special forces are withdrawn from the south of his country. Their presence makes offensives against local Islamist factions difficult, because they sought hostages, Duterte said Monday."
Japan wants both Vietnam and the Philippines provide new patrol vessels. Japan helps the allies as Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea to cope. Japan itself embroiled with China in a similar battle over a set of uninhabited but strategically located islands in the East China Sea.
Outgoing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is also Friday failed to win the confidence of the Spanish parliament for a second term. Unless the next two months, yet found a solution to the political deadlock, making it the countdown began for new elections. This is the third trip to the polls in a year.
The Spanish Parliament grants outgoing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy no additional term. Rajoy had the Cortes asked for their trust, but lost as expected, the confidence vote Wednesday.
The outgoing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain hopes this week in the Spanish parliament to get the support of at least six members of parliament to form a new cabinet under his leadership. He wants to prevent the country for the third time since December in the polls must.
Police organization Europol sent within weeks two hundred terror experts to Greece to screen in migrant camps on terrorists. That Europol director Rob Wainwright said in an interview with the British Evening Standard.
In a last effort his inheritance to set the fight against climate change safely, President Barack Obama created the largest marine reserve in the world, reports the White House Friday.
Three members of the Turkish Coast Guard are Wednesday killed when they and their boat collided with a freighter arrived. Shipowner CAAC said that the collision happened on the Bosphorus.
A crew of an Indonesian tugboat after nearly two months in captivity escaped terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. When his captors wanted to execute him was the 28-year-old sailor off, told a major of the Philippine Army.
Chinese Ambassador to Japan on Tuesday again emphasized that some disputed islands in the East China Sea completely belong to China. According to him, the conflict between the two countries be resolved through diplomacy and talks.
Approximately five hundred people were evacuated after the outbreak of a major fire on the Canary Island of La Palma, should return home.
The number of refugees trying to reach from Turkey over the Aegean Sea Greece, last month increased slightly. But of a large influx has been up to now no question.
Japan has protested to China after the discovery of radar equipment to a Chinese gas drilling platform near disputed waters in the East China Sea.
The wildfire on the Canary Island of La Palma that emerged devastated by lighting a used toilet paper, now has 3,600 hectares of forest. The fire did not extend farther, said the Spanish Minister for the Environment Saturday.
Japan on Saturday in China protested against the trip of a Chinese fishing fleet to some disputed islands in the East China Sea. A squadron escorted by Chinese coastguards could even Japanese territorial waters are in danger.
Spanish police have arrested a 27-year-old German who has admitted accidentally caused a forest fire on the Canary Island of La Palma. When fighting the fire is a ranger killed.
On the Greek island of Chios raging since Monday morning a fire fueled by strong winds, extreme heat and drought. The places Lithi, Elata and Mesta have been evacuated as a precaution in the southwest of the island, local media reported.
The search for a missing aircraft of the Indian Air Force with 29 people on board yet produced nothing after two days.
In the first half of this year have applied for a total of 12 437 people for asylum in the Netherlands. That's two thousand less compared to the same period last year.
The Faroe Islands are keen on Google Street View, but do not hurry. And therefore, the islands have resorted to major population: sheep. Who rondgebanjerd with a 360-degree camera on their backs. The result: Sheep View 360.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague does verdict Tuesday in a case that revolves around the claim of Beijing that is virtually the entire South China Sea Chinese. The linchpin of the conflict are the Paracel islands, situated between the coasts of Vietnam, China and the Philippines.
There are the last six months 70 093 migrants arrived in Italy, as many as in the first six months of last year. According to figures from the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The number of people crossing was illegal did not survive risen to 2,896; considerably more than a year earlier in the same period.
Spain on Friday the first case of zika infection reported by sexual contact. Madrid A woman walked into the dreaded virus after returning from her partner from a Latin American country.
Great showers and thunderstorms concerns in the night between Wednesday and Thursday to problems in the west of the country. Then around 2:00 pm the storm erupted, the fire quickly got dozens of reports of flooding and lightning, especially on the islands of South Holland and around Rotterdam and The Hague.
