The enormous loss of value of the Turkish lira now also has consequences for foreigners in Turkey. Several money exchange offices in the country have closed their doors today, local media reports and people traveling in the country.
A 24-year-old British who spent many years each weekend on about 15 balloons of nitrous oxide, had to pay for her addiction. The mother of a toddler now suffers from the disease of Lichtheim, which almost completely paralyzed.
The Turkish lira was slightly up in value on Tuesday after the heavy loss of Monday. Traders provide a new sales spurt in the afternoon. Possible diplomatic consultation in the US offers some relief.
Bleeding hands, bruises, burns and respiratory problems: 132 migrants and 22 cops were wounded on Thursday after a group of more than 700 migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this morning. It was one of the most massive and violent storms of the Spanish enclaves in Morocco in recent years, and also illustrative of the youngest problem area in Europe.
The US government has published a list of Chinese products for which it wants to increase import duties by 10 percent. In total, it is about 200 billion dollars worth of goods. With the list, President Donald Trump's government is heading for a further escalation of the trade war between the United States and China.
A programmer in Israel is suspected of trying to sell sensitive cyber technology. The man asked on the so-called dark web, the hidden part of the internet, converted more than 42 million euros for the stolen data, the Israeli Ministry of Justice announced.
Former Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia was officially indicted on Wednesday for obscuring hundreds of millions from the 1MDB state fund. On Tuesday, Razak was arrested, Wednesday he declared to be innocent before a court in Kuala Lumpur.
An important new space telescope, the James Webb, has been delayed again. The launch of the probe has been postponed for two years. He will go into space at the earliest in early 2021 and not next year, as intended.
The US military is preparing for the reception of immigrants at two military bases in Texas. US government sources said that the intention is to set up temporary camps on Fort Bliss and the Goodfellow Air Force Base.
If Macedonia has solved the name issue with Greece and continues as Northern Macedonia, the European Commission sees no objections to start negotiations with the Balkan country on accession to the EU. Before the European foreign ministers decide on further enlargement Tuesday in Luxembourg, the Macedonian minister Nikola Dimitrov makes one final appeal to the Netherlands not to block the accession talks.
A 28-year-old New Zealander stole two toes from an exposition with stuffed human bodies. The toes have now been returned. They would be worth $ 5,500.
An American policeman has found an engagement ring worth 20,000 dollars (about 17,000 euros) with a metal detector. The owner called the police on Saturday when she realized she had lost her ring. An agent on site found the ring back with the detector after ten minutes.
A 28-year-old man from Auckland, New Zealand, had to appear on Monday because he was accused of having stolen two human toes from an exhibition of Body Worlds Vital.
US President Donald Trump has given his approval for levies on Chinese goods, worth $ 50 billion.
A vase that was recently wrapped in a newspaper in a shoebox was found between the mess in the attic of a house in the French countryside and raised 16.2 million euros in Paris Tuesday. The auction house Sotheby has announced this. At the French branch, no amount had ever been paid for a single item. The value of the Chinese gem of the 18th century, which proved to be very rare and in excellent condition, was estimated at 500,000 to 700,000 euros.
Fifteen Kosovars have been arrested in Catalonia because they have robbed hundreds of tourists in recent years. In the last six months alone, they would have stolen at least 150,000 euros worth of stuff. It is not known whether the Dutch are also among the victims.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates support Jordan with an aid package worth around $ 2.5 billion (more than EUR 2.1 billion). This was agreed by the leaders of the countries during consultations in Mecca about the 'economic crisis' in Jordan, reports the Saudi state press agency SPA.
The 55-year-old Angela Sartin-Hartung lost her memory due to a serious collision: with all its consequences. The American could not remember anything about her own marriage and the man she had married to? She did not know anything about that anymore. Luckily she was visiting Cupido for the second time.
Few hotel guests walk in with a bag of potatoes. The 30-year-old James Johnson did it, not to mention wearing a bra. When the surprised staff pulled the police, it turned out that the Englishman was about to take a potato bath.
Bill Browder has only one goal in his life: justice for his Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitski. He died in 2009 in a Russian cell. Killed by guards, according to Browder. He is now committed to the Magnitski law. This ensures that people who grossly violate human rights or commit corruption on a large scale can no longer enter a country and their assets are frozen.
The European Union is going to spend more aid money intended for humanitarian crises on education. In 2016 it was 4 percent of the budget, this year 8 and next year 10 percent.
The Brussels District Court acquitted eighteen of the nineteen suspects of the diamond robbery at Zaventem airport in early 2013 because of lack of evidence. In the robbery, the perpetrators took out 37 million euros worth of diamonds from a plane belonging to a Swiss airline.
A former prominent official of the Communist Party in China has been sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption. This is reported by the Chinese state press agency Xinhua.
In the criminal proceedings about the December murders, lawyer Irwin Kanhai asked for an acquittal for three suspects on Monday. According to him there is insufficient evidence that in December 1982 Stephanus Dendoe, Ernst Gefferie and Iwan Dijksteel were closely involved in the murder of fifteen prominent Surinamese. The Public Prosecutor demanded 20 years in prison against the three at the end of last year.
A married Bible study teacher from a high school who had sex with a minor student was dismissed and immediately arrested.
European privacy watchdogs will jointly develop a strategy for dealing with social media that collect and use personal data. The reason for this is the data leak at Facebook, as a result of which user data came into the hands of data analysis company Cambridge Analytica.
Taxi app Uber stops delivering packages in the United States. The company raises its service Rush in fierce cities after fierce competition.
A man from the US state of Washington was arrested after sending several bombships to military locations in the US and a CIA office. According to the Federal Police FBI, the packages have not exploded.
A 60-year-old American woman is married to a hundred-year-old tree in a park in Fort Myers, Florida. The woman hopes to save the ficus.
Suppose you find a lottery of a million dollars on the ground. Do you keep it or track down the rightful owner? A merciful employee of a Clerk gas station in Kansas, America, opted for the latter.
