The FBI warned Friday for Russian computer hackers who have infected hundreds of thousands of routers worldwide in homes and offices. This gives them access to information from the user or can lay down their internet traffic.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump meet Tuesday at the Washington White House. The main topic for discussion will be the upcoming summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore. Moon and Trump want to do everything possible to let that meeting continue and make it a success.
Nicolás Maduro remains, as already predicted, the president of Venezuela for the next six years. This was announced by the election committee of the country. The incumbent president received 5.8 million votes (67 percent). His main opponent Henri Falcón had to do with 1.8 million votes (21 percent).
The Public Prosecution Service in Bruges appealed against the sentences for the four convicts in the case of the Flemish castle murder.
The first hours of the parliamentary elections in Iraq went quietly. Staatsmedia reported that no major incidents occurred until noon.
Argentina has made three interest rate increases in a week's time, and the record of 40% has now been reached. With this increase, the country tries to keep the peso against the dollar up.
More than 12 million Turkish pensioners, or 15 percent of the population, can expect a check from the government a week before the parliamentary and presidential elections on June 24th.
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.
The Japanese police arrested an escaped prisoner after a week-long manhunt. According to Japanese media, the authorities had deployed thousands of men to track the man, but he managed to stay free for 23 days.
Alan won the quiz 'Who wants to be a miliionaire', but did not get a cent of his prize money.
North Korea will set the clock with neighboring South Korea. That is what media report in North Korea. The new time, thirty minutes earlier, has to start on 5 May. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would have found it painful to see two different times at the summit with South Korean President Moon Jae.
The former campaign manager of Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, has vainly objected to the investigation of special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Manafort had gone to court, but he ruled that he can not initiate civil proceedings to thwart criminal investigations.
The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called Monday's massacre in the city of Toronto 'a senseless attack and a horrendous tragedy'. He ruled out that it was an organized terrorist attack. His Minister of Public Security, Ralph Goodale, had previously said that the collisions with a van were not part of a terrorist conspiracy.
Greece last year achieved its main objectives for capital support from the European Union. There is no reason to borrow more money from Athens.
In case of an accident at the main station in Salzburg, dozens of people were injured according to local media. Two trains, a locomotive and a night train were crashed at around 5 am.
The Berlin Central Station will be evacuated on Friday to clear a bomb from the Second World War. An important part of the center is also shut down while the bomb of 500 kilos is made harmless.
The four men who stand trial for the notorious murder of Flemish project developer and castle resident Stijn Saelens hear their punishment on Wednesday. Two of the suspects are Dutch.
The American CIA director Mike Pompeo secretly met Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea. During the meeting, which took place in the Easter weekend, a possible summit between the North Korean leader and the American president Donald Trump was discussed.
Montenegrin politician veteran Milo Djukanovic has won the presidential election in his country.
The West has lost all influence and credibility in the conflict in the Middle East and therefore only carried out a rocket attack on Syria under the leadership of the US. This is what Syrian President Assad said in a reaction to attacks on his country in the night from Friday to Saturday.
Employees of the United Nations in Syria can not confirm that chemical weapons were deployed last weekend in Duma, a devastated and surrounded suburb of Damascus. According to a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), people who have had problems with breathing have been treated in recent days. Whether or not the health problems have anything to do with chemical weapons, the WHO could not determine on the spot.
Although the play is officially premiered, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child has already broken a record on Broadway. Production in the third week of the previews turned the highest weekly turnover for a non-musical ever.
Staff at four German airports put the work down on Tuesday. The airline Lufthansa therefore cancels around eight hundred flights. This has consequences for about 90,000 travelers.
The 28 member states of the European Union granted their citizenship to 995,000 people in 2016. That was 841,000 a year earlier. More than one in eight naturalized newcomers came from an EU country. This is shown by figures from the European statistical office Eurostat.
The police may have prevented a terrorist attack on the Berlin half marathon today. Four men have been arrested. It would be friends of the Islamic terrorist Anis Amri, who with a truck on the metropolitan Christmas market in 2016 at the Gedächtniskirche killed twelve people and wounded about fifty.
Film lovers can watch the cinema in Saudi Arabia for the first time in 35 years. The Islamic kingdom has signed an agreement with American company AMC Entertainment to open forty film houses in five years.
Two buses with fighters from the extremist group Jaish al-Islam and relatives left the besieged enclave Duma on Monday after negotiations. According to Syrian state media, they go to Jarablus, a place on the Turkish border on the right bank of the river Euphrates that is not in the hands of the government.
In China, a temporary fishing ban is in force on the Yellow River for the first time to protect the fish stocks and the biodiversity of the river. The ban runs until the end of June and is reset every year.
Opposition leader Khalifa Sall (62) was sentenced to five years in prison by the court in the Senegalese capital Dakar. He was accused, among other things, of misappropriating and forgery, but the court did not consider part of the indictment proven. Two employees of Sall, former mayor of Dakar, received the same punishment.
London shuddered, tens of thousands of jobs in the financial sector would disappear after the announcement of the brexit. The departure from the EU is much less bad for the City.
