The World Food Programme of the United Nations Wednesday released an app that it should be easier to donate money for food aid for refugees from Syria. The app Share the Meal donations can be made from 40 cents to 146 euros.
The European Commission Wednesday formally decided that products manufactured in the territories occupied by Israel in Jewish colonies should be recognizable. The labels must now state that they come from a country which is occupied by Israel since 1967.
The thousands of refugees crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe, are a fraction compared to the amount of refugees that on the African continent. The United Nations estimates that fifteen million people have left their home.
The chief of the Indonesian organization for Drug Control (BNN), General Budi Waseso, Monday is visiting northern Sumatra to raise crocodiles for his detention project. The reptiles have been found suitable to monitor the general help a prison island specifically for drug offenders. Crocodiles can unlike ordinary jailer not bribe argues the General. This prevents escapes.
If climate change is not a quick halt, poverty is increasing in the world. Another hundred million additional people will live in poverty than in 2030. The World Bank wrote Sunday in a new report.
A rare tropical cyclone pulled over Tuesday Yemen, has claimed the lives of eight people. The storm was the worst endured the country in decades.
In Tehran on Tuesday, a branch of Kentucky Fried Chicken opened and immediately closed again. According to the owner the closure was caused by a misunderstanding : the Iranian authorities thought it was a branch of the US fast food chain.
The European Commission makes 62 million euros for humanitarian aid to Syrians who are displaced within their own country. The emergency aid is to save lives in Syria, where the winter life of the most vulnerable people is even more difficult, let Commissioner Christos Stylianides (Humanitarian Aid & amp; Crisis) Tuesday know.
Restaurants in Brussels serve in many cases fish other than they promise on the map. This appears according to the environmental group Oceana out DNA testing of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
A 62-year-old man who for six days through the Australian outback wandered, managed to keep themselves alive by eating ants.
Russia not only gives military aid to its ally Syria, but also delivered a large quantity of wheat : 100,000 tons. Food aid has arrived in the country for more than four years of a bloody civil war is raging, told the Russian Ministry of Agriculture Tuesday.
Fuss on the Australian Manus Island: an asylum seeker found two human teeth in his lunch. The angry man photographed the find and laid it with an official protest to the leadership of Oscar refugee camp.
The European Commission allocates € 43 million in additional emergency aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. That made Commissioner Christos Stylianides (Humanitarian Aid & amp; Crisis) on Monday during a visit to the country.
By a mass brawl in a refugee center in Germany Itzehoe, above Hamburg, six people were injured. During the distribution of food became Friday about fifty people from two camps in the debate, the police said Saturday. That ended in fighting, which was also thrown which includes tables and chairs.
The Member States of the European Union must honor their commitments they have made to tackle the refugee crisis really fulfilling. EU Minister Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission JeAu-Claude Juncker Friday sent a letter to all 28 countries with the message that they must " deliver ".
Customers of McDonald's quickly get to choose. The hamburger chain starts with an experiment in which people can create their own citizens. The company picks this year known international concepts such as the McCafe and the Salad Bar in Netherlands.
The United Nations existed seventy years. Which is celebrated worldwide on October 24 by exposing 180 sites in more than fifty countries in the official blue of the UN. The Peace Palace in The Hague in the Netherlands the blue object. Which announced the UN.
No fewer than 65 have several hundred war- separated Korean couples have to wait for a reunion and after three days it was already over.
It went fast with the online photo service Google. Google Photos was announced in late May and already has more than 100 million people who use it at least once a month. Has announced that the internet giant.
Although the Iraqi government is doing everything in their own words to an outbreak of cholera in to stop the country are now more than 1,800 people infected with the bacterial disease. At least six people deceased.
Staff from the World Food Programme ( WFP) of the UN for the first time in months to deliver food in parts of eastern Ukraine where the rebels are in charge. WFP reported Tuesday that in the past five days two trucks with food for nearly 16,000 people have arrived in the Donetsk region.
35,000 people have been beaten in recent days on the flight from Aleppo in an attempt to escape the violence that continues to plague the Syrian city . The United Nations are concerned about refugees spend the night in the open now the temperature , especially at night , declining further. " People are in urgent need of food and shelter ," said a spokeswoman for the UN.
Croatia Monday its border with Serbia unexpectedly opened for refugees. On the Serbian side of the border kept themselves according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR estimated 3,000 people in appalling conditions . On the spot it's cold and wet weather . This was reported by the BBC .
Surf Prof Mick Fanning has become a subject of unsolicited commercial of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Australian surfer, triple World Champion , survived in July in Jeffreys Bay on South Africa's south coast, an attack by a great white shark . The spectacular movie about it was worldwide news .
In Serbia, currently more than 10,000 stranded migrants. They can not travel further west because of the limits imposed on the number of Europe to take in refugees . That said UN refugee agency UNHCR Monday , who warned of a shortage of help.
A white man whose body was covered with scabs and dirt removed from a house in the French town of Grasse. The 61 - year-old man has been sitting there for the last twenty years in his darkened room until his mother in her eighties could not stand it anymore and turned on the emergency services .
A food bank in the German town of Dachau refugees will not help . The food bank has previously pedagogical reasons: refugees must learn according to a spokesman with money to go .
The United Nations Refugee Agency , UNHCR, has rescued dozens of children in filthy police cells on the Greek island of Kos. There they were detained in appalling conditions .
A prolonged drought resulting in a very short time in southern Africa to major food problems . At least 13.5 million people are threatened with starvation . The natural phenomenon El Niño is responsible for the drought.
The Member States of the European Union are not doing what they promised to provide the refugee crisis. Too few countries to offer asylum to record from Italy or Greece. Also plunge the EU countries hardly any money in the fund for Syria and Africa and set them too little migration and asylum experts available .
