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The Belgian coastal town of Blankenberge wants to reduce seagull nuisance by giving the birds a contraceptive. The town council has already given the green light for the plan.

The town of Youngstown in Ohio is in the grip of local raccoons who seem to have lost all fear of the people.

One of the injured from the Canadian bus accident with a youth ice hockey team on board died of his injuries. The death toll thus comes to fifteen, reports broadcaster CBC. The Canadian police confirm the death.

The German auction house Weidler brings an oil painting next week under the hammer that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler. The signed 1916 canvas of 63 by 48 centimeters, according to Werner Maser, who wrote several books about the Nazi leader, the young French Charlotte Lobjoie. Hitler would have had a relationship with her during the First World War when he served as a soldier in France.

A tree hugger must pay heavily: Alain now has to pay three tons or sell his house. And it will probably be the last.

Russian minister Sergei Lavrov accuses London and Washington of violating all standards of decency. 'Great Britain and the US, and all countries that blindly follow them, have lost all decency' on the issue of Skripal. They operate according to Lavrov of gross lies and manipulation.

The armed forces of the United States and South Korea started Sunday's joint spring exercise. The starting time was postponed due to the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang in February. This was done in order not to thwart the cautious rapprochement between North and South Korea.

Approximately 30 churchgoers have contracted carbon monoxide poisoning at a Easter vigil in the French village of Lamargelle.

The marriage of the British prince Harry and Meghan Markle costs tens of millions of heavy security.

The former and now arrested Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont would have discovered a tracker in Belgium two weeks ago under his car. According to several media, the lawyers at Puigdemont reported to the police in his home town of Waterloo, near Brussels, the discovery of the GPS channel and filed a complaint for violation of privacy.

A car containing two 39-year-old women and three children has fallen from a cliff thirty meters high on the Californian coast. The five did not survive the horrendous accident.

American civil rights activist Linda Brown died at the age of 76 in her home town of Topeka, Kansas. Brown got the same from the Supreme Court in 1954 that she, as a black scholar, had as much right to education in public schools as white children.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has traveled to China according to the American news agency Bloomberg. Bloomberg relies on three sources that are not mentioned by name.

The tribute to the French police officer Arnaud Beltrame, who took the place of a hostage during a terrorist attack in the southern department of Aude, is Wednesday in Paris from 11.30 am. The Elysée has announced that the meeting is public, the station BFMTV reported.

A 37-year-old man was arrested last week because he had tried to destroy the golden arches of a McDonald's restaurant in the US state of Oregon. He did this because she did not want to make thirty double cheeseburgers for him at that particular restaurant.

The southern French town of Trèbes commemorates the victims of Friday's terrorist attack. Four people lost their lives through shootings and a hostage in Carcassonne and Trèbes. The perpetrator, a 25-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, stated that this was an attack on Islamic State. The perpetrator was killed by the police.

Researchers have found indications that the man who murdered four people on Friday in the south of France sympathized with Islamic State. During a search in the man's home in Carcassonne, the police thought Saturday was a 'religious testament.'

The Venezuelan town of Elorza starts Monday with a market festival, but there is no serious money in circulation anymore. The Venezuelan currency bolívar suffers from hyperinflation, which means that residents with suitcases would have to carry Venezuelan money. The municipality has therefore issued its own currency. It is named after the place and after the nineteenth-century freedom fighter Colonel José Andrés Elorza.

At least eleven people were killed when a bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Afrin. It concerns four fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and seven civilians, said a source in the security services Monday against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.

A wildfire has certainly destroyed 69 houses in the Australian coastal town of Tathra. Dozens of other homes were damaged, reports Australian media. Hundreds of residents fled the approaching sea of ​​flames.

An Islamic policeman who refused to give a hand to a female colleague in May 2017 must pay a fine of 1000 euro. The official made religious objections during his promotion party in the German town of Montabaur (Rhineland-Palatinate). According to the State Ministry of Justice, he accepted the congratulations of the woman by making a small bend with his hand on his heart.

A woman gave birth in the Red Sea near the Egyptian town of Dahab. The special moment was recorded: on photographs you can see that a baby, including umbilical cord and placenta, is suddenly being carried out of the water.

Thieves have stolen the tooth of a megalodon in Australia, a huge shark species that died about 1.6 million years ago. The fossil disappeared from a national park, reports Australian media.

The authorities in the rebel town of Douma in East Ghouta are struggling with the influx of refugees. Thousands of displaced families reside in streets and parks due to lack of space in cellars and other shelters, the city council warns, which speaks of a 'catastrophic' situation.

At least a thousand girls and young women have been held hostage on a large scale, intoxicated with drugs and sexually abused in the English town of Telford. Several girls would also have been killed.

In the Pushkin street in the center of the provincial town of Tver, where the snow is high, the synagogue on this winter day is as deserted as in the countryside. A pack of stray dogs barks among the dilapidated wooden houses, close to a billboard of the Communist candidate at the presidential election next week, the multi-millionaire Pavel Groedinin, with the slogan 'Fatherland, honesty and future!'

Cape Town expects the dreaded 'Dag Zero' to take longer. If rainfall does not occur, there will probably no longer be water from the tap in the metropolis on 27 August. Inhabitants must then report to distribution points to get water rations.

It is the hottest winter ever measured at the North Pole and scientists are therefore very concerned about it. The experts have never seen anything like this. 'This situation is just crazy.'

The Russian army offered fighters in the area around East Ghouta, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, a way out. The Ministry of Defense announced that transport will be made available for the fighters and their families. They can then leave a safe route and are allowed to use personal weapons \u0026 # x27; take.

Zalando chooses its new distribution center for the Netherlands and not for Belgium. This is what the Belgian business newspaper De Tijd says on Tuesday.