Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of emergency in large parts of the parched rural Zimbabwe. More than a quarter of Zimbabwe's population is deprived of food, the government announced Thursday night.
An Englishman is deceased after he wanted to play a trick with a cheeseburger. After a few beers Darren Bray wanted his food to eat in one bite, but the joke ended in a tragic end.
The controversy over the financing of the European fund of 3 billion euros for the reception of refugees in Turkey is over. The 28 Member States of the European Union Wednesday reached an agreement on the funding. The Netherlands is contributing 93.9 million euros.
The harbor porpoise is still to be found well in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. With counts from land were spotted fewer porpoises, but from an airplane, there were still a lot to see at sea. It is therefore not true that the porpoises withdraw from Dutch waters as previously feared, the Wageningen University reported Wednesday. It is not clear why there are few porpoises are on the coast.
German police on Tuesday received a disturbing phone call inside. On an industrial estate in Traunstein was as passers namely trash compactor full of blood.
The Austrian police have brought near Sankt Pölten two Romanian lorry drivers from the road for more than forty hours of uninterrupted sitting behind the wheel. On closer examination of the tachograph showed that the car was in the last four weeks of continuous road with two exceptions, once an hour and twenty times ten hour break.
An Afghan policeman shot dead Tuesday ten colleagues after he had first poisoned their food. That happened at a checkpoint of the police in southern Afghanistan, said a police spokesman.
America braces for a massive snowstorm. Even President Obama today remains inside. As many as 50 million people in the northeast of the US will be affected by a lot of snow, possibly two feet, combined with a brisk wind.
A dog can taste the meals Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán will be served in his cell. The authorities hope to prevent this way that the notorious drug kingpin is poisoned.
Nearly half a million Syrians are completely devoid of relief, but also for the millions of Syrians who help organizations be able to achieve, threatening food shortages. The Red Cross does not have enough money to keep the emergency levels and therefore starts a campaign Wednesday. Through Facebook, the charity is asking the public for donations.
Around 400,000 people in besieged areas in Syria are in deplorable conditions and need urgent help. This was reported by the Special Envoy of the UN Hilal Elver Tuesday.
An estimated 3,500 people, including many women and children, are being held as slaves by the Islamic State in Iraq.
A third convoy of food on Monday to reach besieged towns in Syria. However, a team of social workers was stopped by armed groups. That made the United Nations said Tuesday in a statement.
Hunger threatens more than 14 million people in southern Africa because of the weather phenomenon El Niño less food can be produced. Previously warned the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations Monday.
The British public hospitals will impose a levy on foods and snacks that much sugar. That the head of the National Health Service (NHS) told the Guardian newspaper.
The famine in the besieged Syrian city of Madaya drives the prices of food enormously. Rapporteurs of the United Nations report that one minor biscuit converted 14 euros must be spent. For a kilo of baby milk powder must be paid already 287 euros.
The two dead sperm whales over a week ago washed up on the German island of Wangerooge, could barely get food. In their stomach are just parts of a squid found. That said the Dutch paleontologist Aart Walen.
Both the EU and the US has strongly criticized Turkey for the prosecution of dozens of academics in the country.
The United Nations warn of famine in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor. The western parts of the city have been used since ten months besieged by Islamic State, giving its inhabitants include touch deprived of food.
In an attack on a food convoy in northern Mali Friday four terrorists and two soldiers slain.
The ICRC wants to terminate all sieges of towns and villages in Syria, so that people can be helped. The aid agency said Wednesday, after three places by laissez citizens could be helped with food, medicine and blankets.
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British archaeologists in the City of Peterborough in the English county of Cambridgeshire found a settlement from the Bronze Age (3000 to 800 BC). They found remains of houses that three millennia ago have been destroyed by fire. The enclosures were built on stilts above a river. The remains after the fire fallen into the water and preserved in the mud of the river.
About three hundred people in the Syrian place Madaya of starvation saved. A convoy of 44 trucks carrying relief supplies could break through the cordon of government troops around the place. Madaya is occupied by rebels, who did not attend the three hundred people. That the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday.
Auxiliaries of the Red Cross and the United Nations on Monday reached the Syrian city Madaya. Madaya is in the hands of the rebels and is surrounded by government forces, leaving 40,000 people in the outside world are closed. Images of starving villagers engaged in recent weeks over the world. In centers of MSF deceased since December 1, 23 people due to hunger.
Help is on the way to the besieged and starving place Madaya, nearly 40 kilometers northwest of Damascus.
The thousands of hunger-stricken people by the Syrian place Madaya must at least until Monday to wait for relief goods arrive. There are logistical problems which the provision of food and basic supplies can not yet begin, a spokesman for the Red Cross said Saturday.
The United Nations and the Red Cross hope to deliver Sunday supplies to the population in the places Madaya, al-Foua and Kefraya in western Syria. In Madaya are 40,000 residents trapped half a year by the Syrian army and the Lebanese ally Hezbollah. In the more northerly places al-Foua Kefraya and 20,000 people are held hostage by fighters of the opposition.
MSF wants residents of the Syrian place Madaya except food also receive medication. That aid agency reported Friday. The location near the Lebanese border has been the scene of months of fighting between the Syrian army and rebel groups.
Pianist Paul Bley, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the past decades, Sunday deceased. The Canadian Bley died at the age of 83 at his home in Ottawa, surrounded by family, it was announced on Tuesday.
