The Mexican drug lord Héctor Beltrán Leyva died on Sunday after heart failure. The 56-year-old has been stuck in Mexico since 2014. He had pain in his chest just before he was taken to the hospital and died there, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Former Peruvian head of state Alan García has applied for asylum in Uruguay. García visited the Uruguayan embassy in Lima and requested asylum there, reported the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Filip Dewinter, head of the right-wing Vlaams Belang, is associated with an alleged Chinese spy. It was deported last year after the Belgian intelligence services found that the Flemish organization he worked for had tried to influence important decisions.
'On 11 November, exactly 100 years ago, the Armistice went into Paris, like everywhere else in France,' said Emmanuel Macron this morning at the Arc de Triomphe. 'That was the end of four long and terrible years. In those four years Europe has almost committed suicide. 'In the presence of nearly eighty government leaders, the French head of state commemorated the 'armistice', which marked the end of the First World War.
A court in the Philippines ordered Friday for the arrest of Imelda Marcos (89), the widow of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos has to serve a prison term of six to eleven years for seven convictions for corruption. As governor of Manila she has transferred a total of two hundred million dollars to bank accounts in Switzerland.
The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.
PostNL competitor BPost drops again on the stock market after disappointing results. The company that wanted to buy PostNL in 2016 does not seem to be able to achieve its goals, according to analysts.
It looks like President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will be working together again for the US presidential election in 2020. At a press conference, Trump asked Pence on Wednesday that he would like to be his' running mate 'again in two years' time.
The head of the German internal security service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, has been finally taken early by Minister Horst Seehofer of the Interior. His departure had been in the air for several days.
An 80-year-old German has slaughtered a wild boar with an ax in the parking lot of a Berlin supermarket. First the man chopped off the head of the animal. Then he began to take out the guts of the dead beast.
Spanish and Argentine paleontologists have found the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur. The three dinosaurs were family of the plant-eating sauropoda, of which the brontosaurus is the best known. The new species, which lived 110 million years ago, was named lavocatisaurus agrioensis.
A cut off head in a cool box. Subsequently passers-by were treated near the busiest border crossing between America and Mexico last Sunday. It meant murder number two thousand-many this year in Tijuana. Drug boss El Chapo Guzman may be trapped in New York, Mexico sighs under a successor who is even more bloodthirsty.
The attack on the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was intended to inject her with a deadly, slow-acting poison. That is what the former Colombian head of state Andrés Pastrana says.
The organizers of an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday in London expect more than 100,000 worried Britons to respond to their call. The 'People's Vote' campaign demands a second referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Citizens must also be given the right to vote on the final agreement, if it comes.
The world has a scarcity of resources over its head. At least, that is the conclusion of some scientists from the universities of Cambridge and California. Persistent climate change will complicate the cultivation of barley for making beer.
A woman who became paralyzed during sex has brought a bed company to court. She was 'catapulted' from her bed, a week after her purchase, after a daring maneuver.
A man from the American city of Bristol (Tennessee) lost his leg after his son was driven over him with a lawnmower. The 76-year-old man would have attacked his son with a chainsaw. The 76-year-old man has been charged with attempted manslaughter and violating his probationary period.
The cultivation of poppy is probably legal in Mexico. Future President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says this remarkable step to consider. Poppy cultivation and the production of heroin are rapidly increasing with the southern neighbors of the United States. But the new head of government is tired of the bloodshed of the struggle for cultivation, smuggling and distribution.
Spacemen Aleksej Ovtsjinin and Nick Hague, who had to make an emergency landing on Thursday after their launch, will be able to go into space again next spring. Their flight to the international space station ISS is scheduled for next spring. The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Dmitri Rogozin, said that Friday to the Interfax news agency.
The death toll due to the earthquake in Haiti on Saturday (local time) has risen to fifteen. More than three hundred people were injured. This has been reported by the head of the civil protection service of the Caribbean country.
The US Senate agreed with 50 votes in favor and 48 against the accession of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. The candidate chief judge, put forward by President Donald Trump, was discredited by accusations of sexually transgressive behavior in his high school time.
Where is Hongwei Meng, the CEO of Interpol? He has been missing since the end of September. That made the wife of the first and only Chinese chairman known in the history of the international police organization. Meng lives with her in Lyon, where the Interpol headquarters is located and, at the time of his missing, visited his homeland.
The Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte is very concerned about his health. He takes into account that he has cancer or a serious illness and does not intend to stay on as head of state if that turns out to be the case.
Former president Lee Myung-bak of South Korea was sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption on Friday. He must also pay a fine of approximately 8.5 million euros. The court in Seoul ruled that Lee was guilty of, among other things, abuse of power and taking bribes from companies.
A Palestinian teenager was killed in the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel on Wednesday by a tear gas grenade. It concerns the 15-year-old Ahmed Abu Habel.
The alliance of center-right parties may try to form a government after the Swedish elections. The chairman of the parliament gave Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate two weeks. He is the head of the four-party partnership, which together have 143 of the 349 parliamentary seats.
The number of victims of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit the northwest of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to more than four hundred.
Spidey is back! After the red spandex-wearing spider man was absent for a number of years in the game world, he is now finally admired again in a brand new game.
Emmanuel Macron was right after all. The unemployed gardener, to whom the French president recently publicly said that the young man could best work, has found a job.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, Cardinal Marx, has apologized for all forms of sexual abuse within the church over the past decades. He did so during the presentation of a comprehensive study into the abuse of children and young people.
