Mount Tindaya on the Canary island of Fuerteventura is probably entirely a work of art. If the City Council of Fuerteventura and the board of the Canaries agree, then the dream life of the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida fulfilled. He pleaded sixteen years for the realization of the artwork.
New Zealand is still possible asylum seekers who are not allowed to stay in Australia. The New Zealand Prime Minister John Key comes to Australia on Thursday to talk about his colleague Malcolm Turnbull.
Since have achieved 76 607 migrants from the Aegean Greek territory early this year until mid-February. At least 320 people crossing did not survive. Most of the refugees came from Syria. This is evident from figures published by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR on Monday.
Twelve people have been rescued southeast of Cuba by the crew of a cruise ship. The Disney Wonder was last weekend, according to CNN on the way to the Cayman Islands when the rickety boat was discovered with the Cubans.
Refugees and migrants continue to flock to cross over to Greece. Since the beginning of the year until February 3 67,400 people made the crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, says UN refugee agency UNHCR Saturday.
With the closing of the Monday deadline by which candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize can be submitted, circulated in the media, as usual, quite a few names. Frequently mentioned are the inhabitants of the Greek islands that accommodate Syrian refugees.
A US Navy ship in the South China Sea islands close by dangers which are claimed by China, among others.
It works better and better migrants who enter a false identity when they arrive on the Greek islands to pick out. Improved screening is partly due to the expansion of the European border agency Frontex and additional Greek border guards, set Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri.
The plan of the government to send refugees on Greek islands by ferry back to Turkey in exchange for the inclusion of 250 000 refugees in Europe, has beaten no dent in a packet of butter in Brussels.
The protests in Greece against the intention of the government to cut back 15 percent on pensions and to introduce new taxes, expand. On Thursday morning for the second day in a row, people took to the streets and has stopped work in different sectors.
In an accident with a tourist boat off the coast of Nicaragua are certainly thirteen people from Costa Rica, was killed.
Heavy snowfall and the onset of frost has caused in parts of Italy nuisance. Especially on the East Coast Monday hundreds of schools remained closed, Ansa news agency reported.
Police in Indonesia have arrested three people suspected of being involved in the attacks in Jakarta Thursday. They would have threatened a woman, the local station MetroTV reported on the authority of the police.
It still offered a somewhat uneasy sight: the Spanish 'Infanta' Cristina in the dock, along with sixteen others, including her husband, former handball international Inaki Urdangarín. Princess's husband is on trial for money laundering and tax evasion, and was there for 26 years in prison can get.
The arrival of refugees by sea also remains early in 2016 continue. The Greek coast guard discovered the bodies of four refugees in the Aegean within 24 hours. The finds were made near the island Fournoi, as reported by the Greek coastguard with Monday.
About 3,600 refugees are transferred Thursday to mainland Greece. These are people who crossed in recent days from Turkey to islands such as Samos, Chios and Lesvos. Most come from Syria and want to western Europe.
A Spanish tourist during a vacation in the Canary Islands bitten by a shark. That happened on Christmas Day for the coast of the resort town of Aguimes on the island of Gran Canaria.
Japan has officially protested to China after three ships of the Chinese coastguard unheralded Japanese waters were in danger. One of the vessels was, according to Tokyo armed with guns, the Japanese Kyodo news agency reported Saturday.
A fisherman from El Salvador which bobbed around after a shipwreck 438 days at sea, is being sued by the family of the man he ate to survive.
Economic growth in the legal fishing in Indonesia last year was more than 40 percent after the country has declared war on illegal fishing.
On the island Kouloukoua in Lake Chad are Saturday at least thirty people have been killed and more than eighty people were injured in a triple suicide attack on a market. This was reported by the French news station Radio France Internationale.
Greece allows people of European border security agency Frontex next week will assist in registering refugees and taking their fingerprints. That happens at the border with Macedonia, Frontex late Thursday.
Family of the Syrian Kurdish boy Aylan, whose remains on a Turkish beach shocked public opinion in many countries will be living in Canada. Canadian media reported Friday that a Canadian aunt Aylan, Tima Kurdi, has announced that her brother Mohammed arrives with his family quickly in Canada and comes to live with her . Canada takes over as the new prime minister Justin Trudeau fulfill his election promise to end the year 25 000 Syrian refugees.
American actor David Canary is deceased. That was on November 16, but was not known until Tuesday. Canary was 77 years old.
The number of refugees arriving in Greece, suddenly dropped sharply. Sunday 155 people came to the Greek islands and 478 migrants arrived in the ports of Athens and Kavala. That is much less than in recent months was the case, the International Organization for Migration reports (IOM) Tuesday.
The 10-year-old Aaron Anderson is perhaps the loneliest boy in Britain. He is the only child in the Skerries, an archipelago just east of the Shetland Islands. If boyfriends has his dog, some ducks and sheep.
A French cruise ship came to the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic in trouble by fire in the engine room. All 347 passengers were evacuated in an operation in which the British Navy came to the rescue, as British media reported Thursday.
Fourteen refugees, including seven children, have drowned Wednesday in the Turkish part of the Aegean Sea after their boat sank. Turkish rescue workers managed to catch 27 others alive from the water.
Five Greek ferries have Tuesday morning put a total of more than 6,000 migrants in the ports of Piraeus and Kavala ashore. A majority of these people wants to travel to Western Europe, reported the Greek radio.
