Moroccan authorities have five arrests made in the investigation into the murder of two Scandinavian female tourists in the south of the country. That made the head of the...
The Indonesian meteorological service has confirmed that Saturday's tsunami was caused by the collapse of part of the Anak Krakatau volcano in the Sunda Strait. Because of the tsunami...
South African justice has issued an arrest warrant against the wife of former Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, 53-year-old Grace Mugabe. The order comes from a...
Colombian security forces have saved the niece of the world-famous writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. The kidnappers had claimed 4.4 million euros for...
US President Donald Trump will appoint Mick Mulvaney as acting Chief of Staff of the White House. He replaces John Kelly, who, according to the president, stays on until the end of the year.
Some 'Yellow Hesjes' like to see him replaced Emmanuel Macron: General Pierre de Villiers. But the former highest military of France, who last year stepped up after an argument with the...
Among the three deaths caused by the shooting in the French city of Strasbourg is a Thai tourist. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Southeast Asian country it is a 45...
After three 'black Saturdays' and blockades throughout the country, Emmanuel Macron finally speaks. The measures that the president is going to announce must calm the Yellow Hesjes. Their dissatisfaction arose about the increase of an ecotax on fuel, but is now about expensive life and too high taxes in general.
An Australian man who played the video game Fortnite was arrested because he would have mistreated his partner during a livestream. The 26-year-old gamer got into an argument with the woman when she asked him to stop playing and come to eat, the Australian broadcaster ABC.
In the week-long crisis around the 'yellow hesjes' protests, French president Emmanuel Macron wants to publicly express himself on Monday evening. That confirmed sources in the Élysée to the German news agency DPA. The head of state wants to address the people at 8.00 pm with a speech for television.
There was an immense police force needed and even armored vehicles, but extreme violence remained Saturday in Paris. It was not as dramatic as last week, when the Arc de Triomphe was daubed and the head of a statue of Marianne, the symbol of France, was taken. That is a small windfall for Emmanuel Macron.
The 7-year-old Afghan Murtaza Ahmadi, together with his family, fled the Taliban. He went viral online last year after meeting his great hero Lionel Messi.
The Italian police have arrested dozens of Mafiosi, including the new head of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. In total, 46 arrests were carried out in the province of Palermo on Tuesday, police said.
A head physician, anesthetist and the Belgian hospital AZ Zeno in Knokke-Heist were found responsible by the judge for the death of baby Jasper. The eight-month-old boy got tubes and was operated on polyps. During the procedure, a large amount of nitrous oxide was administered instead of oxygen.
George Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was known as pragmatic, calm and diplomatic. However, he does not go down in history as a great head of state. Critics have often portrayed him as colorless and indecisive: strong abroad, weak in his domestic politics. Bush senior died Friday. He was 94 years old.
Russian men between sixteen and sixty years are no longer allowed to enter Ukraine. That is what the head of the border guards declared on Friday. In Ukraine, the state of siege is in force following an incident in the Sea of Azov.
It seems that the presidents of the US and Russia will meet on Saturday at the G20 summit in Argentina. Various media reported having seen a Kremlin document about that meeting.
After his bloody battle against drug trafficking and use, the Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte now turns his eyes on communist rebels who have been active in the country since the sixties. He announced the creation of a 'death squad'.
Paul Manafort had secret talks with Julian Assange in the embassy of Ecuador. That writes the British newspaper The Guardian. The last conversation took place around the time that Manafort became head of the Trump campaign, and a few months before Wikileaks brought out hacked emails from the Democratic Party by Russia.
The French government will not shut down further nuclear plants until 2022, in addition to the already announced closure of the plant in Fessenheim. In a long-awaited speech on energy politics, President Emmanuel Macron said that France will not completely ban atomic energy. In 2022 his (first) term ends as president.
A new umbrella creates strange looks on the street in Japan. It has everything away from a condom.
A camera that traces Chinese who are running red has mistakenly punished a well-known businesswoman who was standing on a bus with her head.
A French tourist was killed in Jordan by a fall in the historic city of Petra. The 28-year-old woman made a fall of 50 meters, according to a statement by the Jordanian civil defense.
The EU does not have to lift its sanctions against Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak. The possessions in the EU of the former head of state, his wife, two sons and their wives, can remain frozen, the European Court of Justice has ruled in a case that the Mubarak family had filed against the EU.
The Indonesian authorities no longer receive a signal from the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed airliner of Lion Air. Nevertheless, the search for the so-called black box continues, the head of the committee responsible for transport safety (KNKT) said before the parliament.
Igor Korobov, the head of the Russian military intelligence service GROe, died at the age of 62. He had been ill for some time, reports the Russian news agency TASS.
Two prominent Kremlin critics have joined forces to prevent a Russian becoming the new head of Interpol. Former oil tale Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the American businessman Bill Browder fear that the Kremlin would use the appointment to influence the police service.
The fugitive former Prime Minister of Macedonia has, according to his own claim, been granted asylum in Hungary. Nikola Gruevski had fled to the country of his political ally Viktor Orbán to escape a prison sentence of two years.
A court in Germany sentenced a man to life imprisonment almost twenty years after the violent death of an 8-year-old girl. According to the judges, the now 42-year-old Rick J. had kidnapped the girl Johanna in September 1999 in the federal state of Hesse and tried to rape her. Her body was found in a forest more than half a year later.
