Users of the encrypted mail service ProtonMail can now also pay for their account in bitcoins. According to Proton, that should keep users even more anonymous. Moreover, Proton thinks that the bitcoin is safer than the old-fashioned financial world.
Doctors Without Borders (AzG) temporarily suspend assistance with their own ship to boat refugees on the Mediterranean. The relief organization says Saturday in a statement 'no longer safe to do work because Libya is threatening violence against ships from international aid organizations.'
Human traffickers have reintegrated 180 migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia to the coast of Yemen. Presumably 55 of them drowned, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Thursday.
Two Swiss teens died on Friday when a plane crashed on the camp where they stayed. The pilot also came over. A third teenager became severely injured.
Islamic State (IS) is still guilty of genocide on Yezidi's.
After 75 years, the bodies of a missing Swiss couple were found in a melting glacier. Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin disappeared on August 15, 1942 when they went to milk their cows in the Alps.
By 2016, one in ten babies worldwide are not vaccinated after birth, even against diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus and cervical cough. This is evidenced by data from the World Health Organization and Unicef, presented in Geneva on Monday. In total, it is 12.9 million children of not yet a year old. The WHO estimates that another 6.6 million others have not received the repetition doses.
Nearly a third of the world's population has no reliable clean drinking water according to a new UN study. That is 2.1 billion people, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund UNICEF reported Thursday.
Nearly one hundred thousand migrants worldwide have returned voluntarily to their country of origin via a special UN program last year. More than half of them left home from Germany, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday. The migrants received help from the United Nations on their return journey.
The United Nations considers it unacceptable for Arab countries to demand the closure of Al-Jazeera news channel. A spokesperson for UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein spoke Friday about an 'attack on the right of freedom of expression and expression.'
Nearly half a million Syrians killed for war violence returned home this year. The vast majority, 440,000 people, remained in Syria itself. More than 31,000 people returned from neighboring countries. These figures brought the UNHCR, UN Refugee Organization, out on Friday.
Ukraine is penalized by the organization behind the Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), due to an event for this year's festival. Host country Ukraine blocked the arrival of Russian singer Joelia Samojlova, thus interfering with Russian participation in the festival this year.
The Ukrainian state group tries to recover a deposit that has been paid for organizing the Eurovision Song Contest in vain. Ukraine held the festival in May and paid EUR 15 million to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Yemen currently has 101,820 choler patients. The outbreak of the disease in the country affected by civil war began on April 27th. The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced Thursday that 789 people have died of the disease.
Terrorist Group Islamic State (IS) is killing more and more civilians who flee from the siege of the Iraqi city of Mosul. The United Nations Human Rights Office is concerned about the rapid increase.
Islamic State Warriors (IS) have committed a massacre among Iraqi people who wanted to flee the city of Mosul. That's what the United Nations says. According to the UN, the militants launched 163 men, women and children this month.
Due to the United States' exit from the climate treaty of Paris, the temperature on Earth at the end of the century may have risen 0.3 degrees Celsius more than was expected so far. The WMO, the United Nations Meteorological Service, reported that Friday, and at the same time placed some comments on that forecast.
The French police caught a gang of robbers who had hijacked a money truck in Switzerland. They made between 30 and 40 million euros booty.
The United States sees China's influence as a key to the nuclear issue with North Korea. That said US disarmament Ambassador Robert Wood on Tuesday, two days after a new rocket test by the communist regime in Pyongyang.
Governments should see the international ransomware attack as a wake up call, Microsoft writes on his blog. If a government finds a weakness in a computer system, it must be shared with the rest of the world right away. The company wants a 'Digital Convention of Geneva', a worldwide treaty to protect citizens.
The peace talks in Geneva between the Syrian government and the opposition will continue on 16 May. That said UN mediator Staffan de Mistura Monday.
Nine people died and eight became ill after visiting Liberia in a funeral of a religious leader. That said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. Other sources speak of eleven dead.
The donor countries pledged almost 1.1 billion dollars (1 billion euros) for humanitarian aid to Yemen during the Geneva conference. That was announced by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday after the meeting. The United Nations assumes that approximately twice is needed to fight the famine in Yemen, where every child dies for a period of 10 minutes through malnutrition and disease.
The European Commission extravents 116 million euros for emergency aid and development aid to Yemen. At a donor conference in Geneva, many countries attracted the wallet on Tuesday. Thus, Germany said 50 million euros. The US and countries such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia also made substantial contributions.
Seven million people in Yemen are threatened with famine. According to the United Nations, the situation in the stray country is currently the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. The UN Emergency Aid Office has called on governments and private donors to provide extra money one day before the start of a special donor conference. Of the 1.9 billion euros that is only needed this year, only 15 percent is currently in.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaking during his visit to Russia later this week, not with Russian President Vladimir Poetin. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov Tillerson speaks with his counterpart Sergej Lavrov.
US missile attack on an air base in Syria is a type of repair of the situation in 2012/2013 when Barack Obama renounced action with cruise missiles after a chemical attack by the Syrians. In that sense, the US president Donald Trump wants to distinguish itself from its predecessor, says prof. Ko Colijn, security expert associated with the Clingendael Institute.
France continues to push for a resolution of the UN Security Council on Syria, said French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Thursday. Diplomatic negotiations are far preferable to any military action, he added.
Experts of the United Nations in the field of war crimes investigate the attack by suspected chemical weapons in the Syrian Idlib. Also allegations that a hospital be included attacked, as the UN announced Tuesday in Geneva.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web, this year will have the A.M. Turing Award. That is the 'Nobel Prize in Computing'. The Briton will receive a sum of one million dollars (940,000 euros).
