The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast rose to at least 23. Most of the victims fell in the state of North Carolina, where the coastal town of Wilmington was cut off from the outside world by the high water. The flooding can last for weeks.
In several places in Germany Sunday was demonstrated, by the extreme right and by opponents. In Cologne, for example, 12,000 people took to the streets for a more generous refugee policy.
In the east of Germany, foreigners were attacked and injured twice a day on Saturday night. In Hasselfelde two men attacked a group of young Afghans at a sports complex. A seventeen-year-old boy was injured. The police assume that the attackers are Germans.
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast has risen to at least eleven. By the hurricane and by 'epic amounts of rain \u0026 quot; large parts of the southeastern coast of the US are flooded.
The German internal security service BfV wants to expand considerably. Sources at the Ministry of the Interior told the magazine Der Spiegel that the top of the security service is aiming for almost a doubling of the number of employees. 3100 people now work at the service. That should be 6000 in 2021.
Rain, rain and more rain. Florence has brought more than a meter of rain on some places on the American east coast and it is still plentiful. At least seven people were killed, US media reported.
While hurricane Florence is operating along the American East Coast, an even heavier tropical storm is currently flying over the Philippines. Typhoon Mangkhut is especially a threat to Luzon, the northernmost island in the Philippines where the capital Manila is located.
A woman drowned during a baptismal ceremony in the sea near South Africa. During the ceremony she was seized by an undercurrent. The South African rescue brigade went out to sea, but the Miracle lifeboat could not mean anything more to the woman. A kilometer away her physical remains were found.
The police in Norway found the kayak of the missing Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis. The canoe was in the area where other things of his have been discovered before. What these are, the police do not want to say yet. According to good friend Ancilla van de Leest, there would be identity papers from Kamphuis.
The American emergency response service FEMA has asked the EU for satellite images of hurricane Florence. That request has been granted. Current images that the European Copernicus system has made of the American East Coast are made available by the European Coordination Center for Disaster Relief, so that Washington can map out the situation better.
For Americans living on the east coast, the countdown has started. Another day and a half and then Florence comes ashore. A very heavy hurricane, meteorologists warn. ' He could even become the heaviest category '', says Johnny Willemse of Weeronline.
More than one and a half million people on the American East Coast have been ordered to leave due to the arrival of Hurricane Florence. The super storm is the toughest to threaten the area in three decades. Florence is currently a hurricane of the fourth category with wind speeds of up to 210 kilometers per hour.
The Russian forces have started the enormous multi-day military exercise Vostok 2018 (East 2018). More than 300,000 Russian soldiers participate in this. It is about the biggest maneuvers since the fall of the Soviet Union.
On the east coast of the United States more than one million people have been advised to leave because of the approaching hurricane Florence. The powerful hurricane is expected to land onshore in North and South Carolina on Thursday. The emergency state has now been declared there, as well as in Virginia and Maryland.
The tropical storm of Florence has sunk so fast in the Atlantic on Sunday that there is now a hurricane with wind speeds of 120 kilometers per hour. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami expects Florence to develop into a whirling storm of category 3 or higher over the next 24 hours.
The 22-year-old man who died in the East German town of Köthen after a fight, according to the police, succumbed to a heart attack. That appears from the preliminary section report. The acute heart failure has 'no direct causal connection with the injuries sustained,' according to the Commissioner of the Saxony-Anhalt East.
In case of protests by nationalists against immigration in Chemnitz in the east of Germany, a Jewish restaurant was attacked nearly two weeks ago. The newspaper Die Welt reported on Saturday that on 27 August, ten neo-Nazis, stones, bottles and a well-worn steel pipe were tossed to the restaurant.
For the time being, Denis Poesjilin is in charge of the Ukrainian separatist republic of Donetsk. The politician follows the pro-Russian separatist leader Aleksandr Zachartsjenko, who recently died in a bomb attack. Pushinil was the chairman of the parliament of the 'People's Republic'.
The head of the German internal security service (BfV) doubts whether right-wing demonstrations in Chemnitz have been a hunt for foreigners. According to Hans Georg Maassen, there is no taxable evidence that such manhunts have taken place. He says that Friday in the German newspaper Bild.
Israel closes its embassy in Paraguay. The country is doing this in protest because Paraguay is relocating its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
Paraguay moves its embassy in Israel back from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The government of the new president Mario Abdo Benítez finds the decision of the predecessor of Abdo, Horacio Cartes, unwise and undiplomatic.
In the Indian city of Calcutta, a busy highway bridge collapsed during a heavy rain shower. Several vehicles have been dumped in depth. Nothing is clear about the number of victims.
The Muslim terrorist who single-handedly ensured stricter security checks at airports is dead. Nevertheless, the laptops will still have to be removed from the bag in the future and the bottles of water thrown away: Ibrahim al-Asiri has trained a large group of jihadists in the production of ingenious bombs.
The mother of John McCain, who died at the age of 81, will be the most notable guest at his funeral next week. She is now 106 years old.
Russia will hold the biggest military exercise in almost forty years next month. The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that yesterday. 'The exercise has no precedent in terms of geographical scale and troop strength,' says Shoigu.
The police in East German Chemnitz is investigating ten people who have shown the Hitler salute during demonstrations and riots of the past few days. No arrests have been made yet, according to the police on Tuesday.
France has killed a leader of a terrorist group linked to Islamic State in Mali. Another IS member and a woman and a teenager were killed during the operation. The French Minister of Defense has announced this in a statement.
The police in Germany issued two arrest warrants in connection with the death of a 35-year-old German in the East German city of Chemnitz. The two wanted men are a 23-year-old Syrian and a 22-year-old Iraqi. They would have stabbed the victim several times after a fight on Saturday night. Two others were injured.
On Wednesday night in the US, Trump twittered that he had asked Foreign Affairs Minister Pompeo to study carefully the 'land and farm expropriation' and the 'large-scale murder of farmers' in South Africa. He responded to a broadcast by Fox News, in which the intention of the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was discussed to change the constitution to simplify the expropriation of farms.
Some of the people who had to leave their homes because of the large forest fire in southwest Brandenburg can return home. The evacuation of the village of Frohnsdorf was lifted on Friday afternoon, said Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke of the German state during a visit to the area.
