Where is Hongwei Meng, the CEO of Interpol? He has been missing since the end of September. That made the wife of the first and only Chinese chairman known in the history of the international police organization. Meng lives with her in Lyon, where the Interpol headquarters is located and, at the time of his missing, visited his homeland.
On Wednesday, British Queen Elizabeth joined the long queue of Heads of State who expressed their sympathy to the Indonesian President Joko Widodo with the victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on the island of Sulawesi.
The official death toll due to the devastating tsunami in the Indonesian Sulawesi region rose to 1234. The death toll stood at 844. The authorities report this. The fear is high that the number of victims will increase considerably.
Flanders is going to have an unmanned boat cross the Atlantic. In May 2019 the vessel, Mahi, departs from the west coast of France for a trip to Guadeloupe.
A naval ship brought 58 migrants and a dog to Malta in Malta. The migrants were picked up from the sea over a week ago by the rescue ship Aquarius off the Libyan coast.
The number of deaths as a result of an earthquake and a tidal wave in the northwest of Sulawesi rose to 1203. This is reported by the Indonesian news site Kumparan, which refers to the national police. The Indonesian authorities have not yet confirmed the number.
The storm Zorba has reached the Greek west coast, but the consequences are- given the ominous expectations-, Greek media reports, although there is damage to the coast.
Update- The authorities of Indonesia confirm that a tsunami has hit the country. Several cities have been hit, including Palu and Donggala. Videos of the event circulate on social media. According to travel organizations, the affected area is hardly popular among Dutch people, although it is not clear whether there are compatriots in the disaster area.
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been hit by two powerful earthquakes. Certainly one person was killed and at least ten other people were injured. 'We expect more damage and more victims,' stressed a spokesman for the emergency response service.
A plane from the airline Air Niugini sank off the coast of the Federated States of Micronesia on Friday. All 36 passengers have been safely removed from the plane.
A solution was found for the 58 migrants aboard the ship Aquarius, which was sailing off the coast of Libya. They are brought to Malta and distributed over four countries in the EU. That's what sources around the Maltese government have stated on Tuesday.
Paris is looking for a 'European solution' for a ship sailing along the coast of Libya with 58 migrants picked up, the Aquarius. French media reported that employees of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, at the request of the aid organizations SOS Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders, look at where the boat can go and where then the migrants go.
Off the coast of Portugal, archaeologists have found a ship wreck that has been there for four hundred years. The ship sank near Lisbon when it probably returned from India with spices.
A 19-year-old boy survived 49 days on a loose raft at sea that drove thousands of kilometers.
Libyan smugglers have recently started using new, fast and powerful motor boats to secretly transport migrants to Italy. That is their response to the successful policy against clandestine immigration by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Often several of these new boats leave at the same time, making it even more difficult for the Libyan Coast Guard to stop them.
The EU should focus on strengthening the external borders of the union and cooperation with countries outside the EU in order to keep the migration within bounds. That said EU President Donald Tusk after an EU summit in Salzburg. 'The migration debate shows that we do not agree on everything but on the goal: to curb illegal immigration. We have decided to focus on what unites us and has already produced results. '
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin's 'deep participation'. stated after shooting a Russian military aircraft off the Syrian coast. According to him, the incident is the result of the 'usual arrogance of Israel \u0026 quot; always the 'dirtiest means'; used for his ' low goals \u0026 quot ;, can be read in a condolence letter. The Syrian state news agency SANA reports this on Wednesday.
A violent storm has blown a caravan on the Irish west coast with a woman in it from a cliff. In addition, the woman who was in her fifties was killed. The \u0026 # x27; Gardaí \u0026 # x27; (police) reported that after a long search the body was found not far from the village of Claddaghduff on a beach. The caravan was difficult to reach for rescuers despite the fact that the colossus did not end up in the sea.
A Russian military aircraft has disappeared from the radar in Syria when a rocket attack took place on the Syrian coastal town of Latakia. There were fourteen soldiers on board the IL-20.
French and British fishermen have made agreements about the catch of scallops. According to the BBC, the British are withdrawing larger boats from the disputed fishing area, in exchange for more fishing rights at other places. State Secretary George Eustice (Fisheries) says he is happy with 'this pragmatic outcome.'
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast rose to at least 23. Most of the victims fell in the state of North Carolina, where the coastal town of Wilmington was cut off from the outside world by the high water. The flooding can last for weeks.
The metropolis of Hong Kong has received the full layer of Hurricane Manghkut on Sunday. In the metropolis, skyscrapers swayed to and fro, streets ran, trees were uprooted and sometimes 12-meter-high waves crashed on the coast.
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast has risen to at least eleven. By the hurricane and by 'epic amounts of rain \u0026 quot; large parts of the southeastern coast of the US are flooded.
The death toll in the Philippines by the typhoon Mangkhut has risen to at least 25. That is what the disaster coordinator of the Philippine government has announced. The majority of the victims were killed by landslides in mountainous areas. Reports on possible victims still have to be received from various areas.
A man who was swimming near the coast of the US state of Massachusetts was attacked by a shark on Saturday. He did not survive the bites of the animal.
Because of the hurricane of Florence, large parts of the southeastern coast of the US have come under water. Chuck Watson, a disaster expert from a research institute in Georgia, said the damage could amount to about $ 20 billion (more than EUR 17 billion).
Rain, rain and more rain. Florence has brought more than a meter of rain on some places on the American east coast and it is still plentiful. At least seven people were killed, US media reported.
The Norwegian police take into account that the missing cyber expert Arjen Kamphuis had an accident. Therefore, the Dutch will also be searched for a railway under the surface of the water.
Two mummified animals from the ice age, a wolf pup and a caribou calf (wild reindeer), have been found in the area where the gold rush of Canada took place. The animals were found in 2016 in the melting ice layer in Yukon and unveiled Thursday (local time).
While hurricane Florence is operating along the American East Coast, an even heavier tropical storm is currently flying over the Philippines. Typhoon Mangkhut is especially a threat to Luzon, the northernmost island in the Philippines where the capital Manila is located.
