Pope Francis has called on Saturday for greater efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. The region is currently 'covered by dark clouds', said the head of the Catholic Church Saturday during an ecumenical meeting with religious leaders from the Middle East in the Italian city of Bari.
The head of Frontex, the EU agency that coordinates controls at the external borders of the European Union, warns of a new main route for migrants to Europe. 'If you ask me what my biggest concern is, I will tell Spain', says Fabrice Leggeri in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
The death toll due to the extreme weather in Japan has risen to fifteen. Approximately fifty people are still missing. At least 1.6 million people had to be evacuated. That is what Japanese media report.
In Japan, two people died as a result of extreme rain showers. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in the west and middle of the country have been evacuated because of the rainfall rivers flood and there is a danger of landslides
Severe weather in the southwest of France caused a power outage in hundreds of thousands of households. Storm and thunderstorms mainly affected the Dordogne department. There, in more than 110,000 households, the power went out on Wednesday. It was the most severe thunder in Dordogne in ten years, reported local media.
The left populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador has won the presidential elections in Mexico. According to exitpolls, he got between 43 and 59 percent of the votes on Sunday. Obrador's main rivals, Ricardo Anaya Cortés of the center-right conservative PAN and José Antonio Meade of the ruling center-left PRI, congratulated him on his victory.
While the main problems in Mexico seem to be getting bigger, about 89 million eligible voters can elect the president, parliament and thousands of other executives on Sunday.
The man who, according to the police at the editorial office of a newspaper in the American state of Maryland, opened fire on the people who were working there, was Friday accused of multiple murder. The 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos hated the Capital Gazette and its reporters because they once wrote that he had obsessively attacked a former classmate without any reason, including via Facebook.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will talk in detail about Syria at their summit in July. That is what a Kremlin spokesperson said.
Will Erdogan remain the big boss in Turkey or will there be an end to his now 16-year regime that over the years became increasingly anti-European, less democratic and strictly Islamic? His main challenger, Muharrem Ince, is just like Erdogan of simple descent, but is politically radically different. Ince wants to tighten its ties with Europe again. Our correspondent went to the birth places of both ruffs.
In its own words, the Libyan Coast Guard picked up 680 migrants from the Mediterranean within one day. On Thursday evening two boats with a total of 237 people were taken off the coast in the west of the North African country, the coastguard reported Friday. There were Africans on board, most of them Sudanese.
While the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) denies it, former tennis player Boris Becker maintains that he has a diplomatic passport of that country and thus enjoys diplomatic immunity. The 50-year-old German is in London in a lawsuit about his bankruptcy.
The French customs has rolled up an illegal online marketplace on the so-called darknet. The forum, known as the Black Hand, offered forbidden products and services for sale for more than two years. This is reported by the French Ministry of Budget.
With the discovery of the toxic substance ricin in a Cologne home and the arrest of the two residents, 'very likely' a very lethal attack with poison in Cologne has been thwarted. This said the head of the German internal security service (BfV), Hans Georg Maassen, against the Rheinische Post.
After a one-on-one meeting and more extensive discussions, a working lunch is now scheduled for the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
An Airbus A340 from Star Alliance went on fire at Frankfurt Airport after the vehicle that had to tow the aircraft caught fire. There were no passengers or crew on board. The fire brigade managed to extinguish the fire quickly.
A North Korean delegation arrived in Singapore on Saturday evening in the run-up to the summit meeting between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and US President Trump. According to local media, the delegation went to the St. Regis Hotel, where Kim is likely to move in on Sunday.
The Iraqi prime suspect of the murder of fourteen-year-old Susanna F. in Germany, according to several media. The 20-year-old suspect, Ali Bashar, had come to Germany as a refugee and fled from Germany to Iraq last week because he came into the picture as a murder suspect.
A record amount of plastic is floating around in the Mediterranean. The flow of tourists will further worsen the situation this summer season, according to a report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It is high time to put an end to this flood of plastic, says the WWF.
A South Korean official has attempted to apply for asylum in the United States in an unconventional way. The man rammed the gate of the American embassy in Seoul with his car, message news agency Yonhap.
The Turkish central bank has again substantially strengthened its main interest rate in an effort to stop the free fall of the lira. It is already the third rate hike in two months. At the bank, everything is currently being done to prevent major economic problems in Turkey as far as possible.
At a major music festival in the German state of Hesse several agents were injured when they were attacked by a large group of party people. According to a spokesperson for the police, about fifteen cops sustained injuries.
A jailer from the prison where the Liège shooter was stuck, on Saturday sent a report to the management about his radicalization, Belgian media reports. In spite of this, he was allowed to go on leave for 36 hours on Monday. Benjamin Herman then shot three people, including two female agents. He is the main suspect of a fourth murder.
The Brazilian president Michel Temer does not appear to be bombarding protests four months before the elections. Temer has given the initiators of the current wave of protest, truck drivers, ultimately for an important part their way.
Lava flows have reached a main road on Hawaii. The authorities have partially closed highway 132. According to local media, it is an important access road to the lower Puna area. Local residents have been called to safety.
Because of the deadly shooting in Liège, the National Security Council of Belgium meets Tuesday afternoon, the body that determines and coordinates the intelligence and security policy. The federal crisis center indicated earlier that the threat level remains at 2, on a scale of 4.
Stricter checks must be carried out on foreign companies. The European Parliament wants to prevent technology and knowledge of, for example, Dutch companies from falling into the wrong hands.
The French president Emmanuel Macron has stood in the gap for freedom of the press. He did so in defense of the opinion magazine Le Point, which depicts the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan as despot on the cover of the latest issue.
In Danish disadvantaged neighborhoods, childcare is mandatory after the first year of life. The main opposition party agreed on Monday with a proposal from the center-right government.
The police in the German city of Munich shot a dog who injured five people in the street. The rottweiler initially attacked passers-by and then also snapped on runners.
