Uber Technologies invests in the coming period some $ 250 million in the expansion in the Middle East and North Africa. The company behind the eponymous taxiapp wants its services to offer including in other cities in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan, as did Uber Tuesday.
A fire in an empty hotel in the German city of Dresden, which was intended for refugees, was the result of an attack. That said a police spokesman Tuesday. The fire broke out in the early hours of last Saturday.
Mathias Enard with his novel Boussole (Compass) won the Prix Goncourt, the most important literary prize in France. Enard (1972) received the award Tuesday awarded in Paris. The Prix Goncourt is a symbolic sum of 10 euros. More important are the honor and the effect on sales.
The equation Lutz Bachmann made Monday by Justice Minister Maas with Nazi minister Goebbels, the German minds keeps churning. Heiko Maas showed Tuesday, however, that he will not press charges against the leader of the Pegida movement.
Fourteen aid workers have been kidnapped in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Which have notified the United Nations and local activists Monday.
During the Sunday parliamentary elections in Turkey have been some incidents. At a polling station in the province of Kocaeli, east of Istanbul, were supporters of the ruling AK clashed with supporters of the left-wing, pro-Kurdish party HDP.
Günter Schabowski, the spokesman of the East German Communist Party (SED) to November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall heralded his wrong answer during a press conference, Sunday is deceased. This is his widow, Irina Schabowski, the German news agency DPA announced. Schabowski has become 86 years old.
Turkey can go to the polls for parliamentary elections. The first polling stations were in the east of the country open. It is the second time in five months that Turkey chooses a new parliament. Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Justice and Development Party (AK) agreed to new elections because after the last elections on June 7 was not formed coalition government.
Who Sunday morning, the road goes up must take account of dense fog. KNMI has set yellow code warning for the Netherlands, with the exception of Limburg.
Again there are planned shelters for refugees in Germany went up in flames. These are temporary homes in the East German Dippoldiswalde and a vacant hotel in Dresden. There are no people injured.
Iran poses as big a threat to the Middle East as a terror group Islamic State (IS). That said, the Bahraini Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al- Khalifa of Foreign Affairs Saturday at a security conference in Manama.
Four US F-18s have expelled two Russian aircraft because they came too close to an American warship.
An American military airship which had gone adrift, causing blackouts in 30,000 households. The zeppelin-like monster hit unknown reasons apart from its anchors in the state of Maryland, the US east coast, and landed after three hours in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania.
The first bear hunt in the state of Florida in 21 years, was such a success, that has ended after just two days. The Hunters in the Sunshine State last weekend killed 295 bears, which the state closed the hunt again.
Russia is trying to a political process in Syria to launch that should lead to a peace. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov opened Saturday a diplomatic offensive by counterparts from the Middle East and the United States calling.
The Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta has been spared the violence of super storm Patricia. To the relief of present Dutch has even hardly blown in the popular holiday destination.
Condemned as a witch, Mary Bertoletti Toldini di Pilcante was beheaded nearly three hundred years ago and burned. Now the northern Italian place Brentonico again bring to court the case.
Israeli soldiers have arrested Tuesday Hassan Yousef, a prominent leader of the militant Palestinian movement Hamas in the West Bank. Youssef was arrested because he would have called openly for attacks on Israel.
The internationally recognized Libya's parliament approved the proposal of the United Nations to form a unity government Monday rejected . The parliament , seated in the east of the country , wants to continue with the UN-sponsored peace talks with the rival government in the capital Tripoli . The UN had proposed a unity government to end the war in the North African country , accompanied by six potential candidates for key positions.
On the Indonesian island of Java on Sunday at least seven mountaineers were killed when they found themselves in a sudden occurrence of forest fire. The boss of the security forces announced on Monday that five bodies were found Sunday and Monday another two . Two more people are missing. The casualties and missing all come from Indonesia .
US Secretary of State John Kerry will talk with Palestinian and Israeli leaders in an attempt to stem the unrest in the Middle East . He said Sunday in Paris .
A train with refugees which the East German town Schönefeld in Brandenburg had as final destination will be redirected to Berlin. The far-right NPD party has announced to showcase the train station at Schönefeld . The local authorities have indicated no risk to run .
US Secretary of State John Kerry will next week meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Germany . They will discuss the recent wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in which 39 people have been slain , said the Israeli ambassador in Washington Friday .
The United Arab Emirates consider uranium < / strong > to enrich in response to the increased tensions in the Middle East. This said a senior government official, told FoxNews .
Again, a refugee killed in the French port of Calais , on the site of the Channel Tunnel. On the night of Thursday to Friday, the victim was hit by a freight train and dragged more than 400 meters .
In the US city of Boston is auctioning a rare letter written by the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote to a friend , the botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin . The document released converted 190 000 euros.
The growing number of attacks on albinos in Africa , as are held in different countries on the continent soon elections.
Modern man gay sapiens left Africa 80,000 to 120,000 years ago and then moved to China. At the Chinese place Daoxian in a cave 47 human teeth found the first great trek of the human being thus less than 70,000 years forward . This was reported by the renowned British magazine Nature .
The generous policy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel regarding refugees from the Middle East meets with increasing resistance , especially in their own ranks. Within Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is circulating an urgent letter directed against " the politics of open borders " , reported Wednesday the newspaper Bild . According to Bild , there are already 126 signatures , including prominent CDU'ers . Bild speaks of a revolt against Merkel.
Again Israel in deaths and injuries to several outbursts of violence. Most victims died when two men in Jerusalem during the morning rush started shooting around and stabbing in a bus. According to the newspaper Haaretz attacked while two Israeli killed and eighteen wounded , eight of whom would be in bad shape.
