A former Thai monk who was known for his luxury lifestyle was sentenced to a prison sentence of 114 years. A court in Bangkok ruled that Wirapol Sukphol was guilty of, among other things, fraud and money laundering.
Taiwan has upset the Chinese government because Beijing would have banned the new Walt Disney movie about Winnie the Pooh. According to some media, the Chinese ban has been instituted because the Chinese president Xi Jinping on the internet is often mockingly compared with the teddy bear.
The Turkish lira was slightly up in value on Tuesday after the heavy loss of Monday. Traders provide a new sales spurt in the afternoon. Possible diplomatic consultation in the US offers some relief.
The West Hollywood City Council wants the Donald Trump star to be removed on the famous Walk of Fame. The council voted unanimously for a motion calling for the star to be removed, message The Hollywood Reporter.
The British government is going to ask Russia to deliver two men to Britain. They are suspected of committing an attack with the deadly nerve gas novitsjok. According to the newspaper The Guardian, which raises sources from the government and secret service, the text of the extradition request has been drawn up and is ready to be sent to Russia.
Ten crew members of the German rescue ship Iuventa are the subject of a criminal investigation by the Italian judicial authorities. That says the German aid organization \u0026 jugend Rettet \u0026 # x27; (JR), the owner of the vessel trying to rescue boat refugees in the Mediterranean, in a press release.
The Mongolian authorities seem to have put a stop to an attempt to bring an alleged Gülenist to Turkey by plane. The Turkish aircraft was not allowed to take off and eventually left without the kidnapped school director, reports local media.
The German police have Tuesday the 42-year-old woman of the Cologne \u0026 # x27; poison terrorist \u0026 # x27; Sief Allah H. arrested. She is suspected of having assisted her husband in the preparation of a terrorist attack with ricin. The Tunisian-born H. was arrested last month after a large amount of the deadly poison was found in his home. He has been charged with making a biological weapon.
A self-proclaimed prophet was arrested in Ethiopia after he failed to bring a dead person to life.
A 20-year-old Briton was found guilty in London for planning an assassination attempt against Prime Minister Theresa May. The young man, Naa \u0026 # x27; imur Rahman, wanted to use explosives to access the prime minister's office in Downing Street. And he planned to kill her in the chaos with a knife or firearm. The judge found him guilty of preparing terrorist actions. The penalty is determined later.
A South Korean company thinks it has found the wreck of a Russian battleship that sank 113 years ago. According to South Korean media, the naval vessel may have billions of gold on board.
Republican Senator John McCain has completely burned down the press conference of US President Trump. ' It was one of the most shameful performances of a US president ever. The Helsinki summit was a tragic mistake. \u0026 Quot;
Critics from the US President Donald Trump have been baffled at his press conference with Vladimir Putin in Finland. Democrats accuse the president of choosing the Russian leader and ignoring the advice of his own intelligence services.
The Spanish police have a second suspect in mind in the case of the death of Wouter van Luijn, the Dutch filmeditor who lost his life on Spanish Mallorca on Friday. That reports the local newspaper Ultima Hora.
US President Donald Trump says he expects 'little' \u0026 # x27; of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki. Trump made the statement in an interview with the American CBS News that was published on Sunday.
Protestors against US President Trump's policy have fired a big balloon on Friday in London to introduce a baby version of the American president. The baby Trump hangs above the square in front of the parliament with permission from the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
Johnson \u0026 amp; Johnson (J \u0026 J) has to pay compensation of 4.7 billion dollars, approximately 4 billion euros, to 22 women who claim to have received ovarian cancer through the use of talcum powder from the American pharmacy group. This has determined a jury in St. Louis. In the talcum powder, asbestos would have been.
An animal organization in Germany has awarded a reward of 7000 euros to find out the perpetrator (s) of killing a wolf. The dead animal was reinforced with concrete and thrown into a lake near a mine in the Land of Saxony.
A strange bird prevents the opening of the second nudist beach in Belgium.
Israeli fighter planes fired missiles at three positions of the Syrian army near Hader on the Golan Heights Wednesday night. According to state press agency SANA, the Syrian air defense managed to repel the attack. There would only be material damage.
Now Beate Zschäpe, alias the 'Neonazi-bride'. sentenced to life imprisonment, our correspondent Rob Savelberg tells us that there is a fear of protests in Munich.
The American president Donald Trump has made a clear cut to Germany at the NATO summit in Brussels. 'Germany is completely controlled by Russia. The country is a prisoner of Russia. \u0026 Quot;
The US government has met the deadline to reunite 102 migrant children with their parents, but in part. By \u0026 # x27; Logistics \u0026 # x27; problems, according to the Ministry of Justice, about half of the children could see their parents in time.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has put forward a new brexit minister. The 44-year-old \u0026 # x27; brexitize \u0026 # x27; Dominic Raab takes over the department from David Davis, who according to British media has resigned because he disagrees with the strategy of his political boss.
A French judge seized 2 million euros that would be granted on Monday as a subsidy to the Rassemblement National, the new name of the Front National of Marine Le Pen. She therefore accuses the justice department of turning the party around for political reasons. The \u0026 rassemblement \u0026 # x27; (cooperation alliance) would be through his money at the end of August.
Turkey dismisses more than 18,000 civil servants, including police officers, soldiers and academics. That is in a Sunday published decree. The redundancies come on the eve of the expected lifting of the two-year state of emergency. The dismissed civil servants are accused of having links with terrorist organizations or with groups that act against national security \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
Jawad Bendaoud, who in 2015 made an apartment available to the perpetrators of the bloody attacks in Paris in November 2015, is once again behind bars. According to French media, Bendaoud was arrested Wednesday evening in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. He would have wanted a fight with agents and had marijuana in his pocket.
Several versions of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia are unreachable on Thursday. For example, anyone who goes to the Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque and Estonian reference works gets a message and can not read articles. This was done in protest against new European rules for copyright.
The name 'Alsatian sauerkraut' can now only be used by local producers. The 'Choucroute d \u0026 # x27; Alsace' label has been given a protected geographical indication by the European Commission.
The Turkish authorities have ordered the arrest of dozens of army officers. According to state press agency Anadolu, they are suspected of having ties with the organization of Fethullah Gülen, who is held responsible by Turkey for the failed coup in 2016.
