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Chess is forbidden under Islam. That Sheik Abdullah al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, yesterday on the Saudi television announced.

A group of international scientists has discovered an enormous icy abyss under the ice of Antarctica. They speak of a 1 100-kilometer gap. No ravine on earth is so big, reports the journal Geology, the journal of the prestigious Geological Society of America.

In a nature reserve in southern Namibia are Monday two German holidaymakers found dead. The 47-year-old mother and her 21-year-old daughter were found in a gorge of the Fish River Canyon, which is located near the South African border.

One denies the two terror suspects in a possible attack on New Year's Eve in Brussels that he has written a letter,, martyr '. According to the lawyer of the accused his client, Mohammed K., this letter written after the death of his father in 2014 and writing nothing to do with a terrorist act.

Two members of the Brussels Kamikaze Riders motorcycle club on New Year's Eve would carry out an attack on the Grand Place in the Belgian capital. They also had their eyes on the nearby police headquarters. This is stated in a farewell letter found by one of the suspects, Mohammed K.

In Belgium, in the night of Monday to Tuesday two suspects arrested in connection with a terrorism investigation. The arrests are separate from 'Paris', reports the Flemish broadcaster VRT.

The Ministry of Interior has the terror level for police offices in Brussels increased from two to three. That is the second highest level. The reason for this decision are new, concrete evidence of an attack in and around the head commissioner of police on the Grote Markt in Brussels, Het Nieuwsblad writes Tuesday.

Smartphone Makers launched last year grand total of 175 new models in the Netherlands. According to data from GSMinfo.nl, reports Nu.nl. A total of 32 manufacturers responsible for the diverse offerings.

An American tourist was stabbed in the night of Wednesday to Thursday at the Grand Place in Brussels. Police have arrested three suspects.

Soldiers continue at least next month set the scene in Brussels. The federal cabinet decided on Wednesday that they remain provisionally patrol arising from terrorist threat. The threat level in the Belgian capital is currently three, the second highest.

King Willem- Alexander is Saturday to Rotterdam to take out a march-past of the Marine Corps, composed 350 years. Along the City Hall on the Coolsingel walk with its 2000 Marines and veterans.

A study in the Vatican for possible financial malpractice has led to a surprising discovery. Hidden in the office of a priest, behind an old canned Vienna sausages, investigators found $ 20,000 cash. That German media report Wednesday.

The anti- EU and anti- immigration Front National (FN) is the largest in France. In the first round of regional elections gained the nationalist front of Marine Le Pen Sunday nearly 30 percent of the vote. Several French media Monday about " le choc (Shock) after the FN Sunday had achieved a historic breakthrough.

While almost all German cities pluses letter regarding the number of tourists, keep the hotel bookings in Dresden, the pearl on the Elbe behind. For the first time in years the number of visitors walk back and stand 20,000 jobs in the tourism industry at risk, reports the German newspaper Die Welt on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin to his French counterpart Francois Hollande said that terrorist acts compel both countries to work together against a " common enemy ". He stated that Moscow is ready to work together with Paris.

In the Walloon Auvelais and Verviers, the Belgian police carried out raids Thursday. No one was arrested, made the Belgian federal prosecutor in charge of investigating the terrorist attacks in Paris, known.

There was flour and baking powder in the letters that are delivered Thursday at the Grand Mosque in Brussels. This research has shown the powder.

In Brussels precaution proclaimed an anthrax alarm after the Grand Mosque Thursday powder letters were concerned. Eleven people have come into contact with it- said to be white- powder : nine the mosque and two agents. Two rooms of the mosque from the outside world have been sealed off.

In the center of Brussels, the Radisson Blu sealed off. Heavily armed soldiers leave anyone out.

Brussels has since Saturday than in many places like a ghost town, where heavily armed soldiers gay clubbers have vedreven from the streets, not everywhere in the Belgian capital rules the fear of terror.

Special units of the Belgian police have four people arrested Saturday at the Grand Sablon in the heart of the city. The four were in a suspicious car, said a spokesman.

The Grand Place in Brussels has been evacuated Friday. This is done at the request of the federal crisis center.

France has for the third consecutive day air attacks on the Syrian stronghold of Islamic State (IS) Raqqa. Ten warplanes took part in Tuesday 's attacks, said Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

He had prepared himself for yet another boring night shift as a receptionist of the hotel where he has a second job. But Stéphane Leibovitz (30) spent much of the night in the basement, where he together with him for strangers almost three hours blocked for one of the gunmen in Paris.

An important Egyptian Islamist lawyer, Shawqi Allam, has condemned the bloody attacks in Paris as " shocking, senseless, heinous and cowardly attacks ". The so-called Grand Mufti is a Sunni scholar who is appointed by the government in Egypt. He is regarded as an authority in the field of Islam.

In the wake of six bombings in Paris Friday, there is increasing clarity. Seven terrorists were slain. When the bloody attacks were 129 people killed and 352 others injured, 99 of them are in critical condition in the hospital, said prosecutor Francois Molins Saturday in Paris.

The German government parties have finally reached an agreement Thursday on an accelerated asylum procedure. The Christian Democratic leaders, Chancellor Angela Merkel of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer of the CSU (Christian Social Union) together with the Social Democratic leader, Deputy Prime Minister Sigmar Gabriel of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) agreed which come before special shelters.

Israel and Germany are seventy years after the end of World War II suddenly disagree on who took the initiative for the massacre of the Jews. Following is a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that would have grand mufti of Jerusalem in November 1941 Hitler suggested to not expel the Jews but to eradicate. That would have led to the Holocaust, the extermination of the Jews in Europe.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds Hitler, " not the final responsibility for the Holocaust, " he said at the 37th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.