Belgium will have a seat in the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member for the period 2019-2020. That was determined on Friday with the support of 181 of the 190 Member States present. The Belgian representative in New York, Marc Pecsteen, will become part of the important advisory board of the UN from 1 January. Since its inception, a Belgian has been chosen five times before.
A well-known impersonator of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a cold reception on arrival in Singapore. The man, whose artist name is Howard X, told the Bloomberg news agency that he was detained for about two hours at Changi Airport.
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.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Greece to demonstrate against a possible compromise on the name of neighboring Macedonia. Campaigners held demonstrations in 23 cities. They wore banners with inscriptions like ' Macedonia is Greek \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; and ' respect our history \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
With a big explosion, Tuesday came an end to the help Benjamin Kok gave in the disaster area around Fuego volcano in Guatemala. The Dutch chef had to leave in a hurry, but on Wednesday, despite all the dangers, he returned with great conviction. He does not want to leave the locals in the lurch.
Heavy prison sentences for a gang of people smugglers in Greece. Two Afghans and a Syrian are sentenced to no less than 360 years in prison on Crete. An Iraqi henchman was given 357 years in prison. They must each also pay a million euro fine. The level of the penalty is especially symbolic, because they have to be released after 25 years.
The spouse of an EU citizen of the same sex from outside the EU has the right to stay with his or her partner throughout the European Union. That has been determined by the European Court of Justice.
The German police have seized a record amount of LSD. It involved a total of 49,500 trips in colorful colored papers. In addition, nearly as many xct pills were found. The prosecutor in Mainz presented Monday a batch of drugs totaling 646 kilos with an estimated value of 10 million euros.
Fear of spiders. It happens to many people, but with the 22-year-old Demi Sweeney the fear was so great that they invented a very special way to get rid of the spider.
A quarter of a century ago, the first one emerged in the Amsterdam Pijp, now there are 146 all over the country: meeting centers for people with dementia and their informal caregivers. Meanwhile, there is international interest in the low-threshold and affordable provision that was once devised at the Psychiatry department of VUmc in Amsterdam. On Thursday, the official announcement of an international network (\u0026 # x27; MeetingDem Network \u0026 # x27;) will provide even more foundation and, hopefully, the initiators, even more follow-up abroad.
Her twitter account states that she feels great, but for three weeks there is no sign of First Lady Melania Trump.
Two illegal immigrants have admitted before the London court that they have been reimbursed over 140,000 euros in expenses by pretending to be victims of the disastrous fire in the London Grenfell Tower. The two, both 51, lived for about three-quarters of a year at the community's expense in a hotel in the Kensington district, the BBC reported.
Pope Francis, a great sports enthusiast, has given his first blessing on the first women's football game of the Vatican. The duel is part of a sports and family celebration at the Pio XI complex on 10 June. Two teams of staff members have the scoop. The episcopal press service SIR published that news.
Almost all residents of the Congolese city of Mbandaka who are most at risk of becoming infected with the Ebola virus have been vaccinated against the dreaded disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this on Tuesday. In total, more than 400 people who have had contact with Ebola patients have been vaccinated.
The 55-year-old Angela Sartin-Hartung lost her memory due to a serious collision: with all its consequences. The American could not remember anything about her own marriage and the man she had married to? She did not know anything about that anymore. Luckily she was visiting Cupido for the second time.
An Iranian asylum seeker has set himself on fire Tuesday afternoon before the eyes of civil servants in the district office Göppingen. Presumably the 35-year-old man did so in protest against the rejection of his application in Germany. Witnesses said that the Iranian had the strong impression of wanting to rob himself in this way. The man was seriously injured to the hospital.
Several passengers of an Indonesian plane were injured after a man had made a false bomb alert, Indonesian media reports. At that moment the aircraft was still on the ground in Pontianak, capital of the province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
The Israeli anti-aircraft fire has shot a number of rockets from the air in the south of the country. According to the army, the missiles came from the Gaza Strip.
The Belgian trade unions fear that officers who injure or kill people with a taser will be prosecuted, because the use of such electric shock weapons in Belgium is not legally regulated. They demand that a trial in fourteen police zones with the use of the weapon be terminated immediately as they receive support from the Public Prosecution Service.
The Israeli Air Force has again attacked positions of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip. The reports of the Palestinian authorities are confirmed by the Israeli army. For the time being, there are no reports of injuries and deaths, writes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
A werewolf, a young grizzly bear or perhaps a relative of the mythological Bigfoot? Experts and nature lovers are puzzled since a farmer in the American state of Montana last week a \u0026 # x27; wolfish \u0026 # x27; animal shot dead that came a few hundred meters away from his cattle.
A 29-year-old teacher had a bloodbath on Friday morning at a school in the American Noblesville. A student suddenly opened the fire in the classroom.
North Korea is still ready to meet with the USA to discuss the issues where possible. That's what the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan said on Friday after US President Donald Trump canceled the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a day earlier.
Europe and the United States are far from compromising on Washington's position on the nuclear deal with Iran. The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said this in Washington on Wednesday after an interview with his American colleague Mike Pompeo.
Bill Browder has only one goal in his life: justice for his Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitski. He died in 2009 in a Russian cell. Killed by guards, according to Browder. He is now committed to the Magnitski law. This ensures that people who grossly violate human rights or commit corruption on a large scale can no longer enter a country and their assets are frozen.
A woman in Great Britain was sentenced to life imprisonment for an acid attack on her former friend Mark van Dongen from Rijsbergen. Berlinah Wallace (48) is eligible for early release after twelve years, reports the BBC.
After centuries of speculation, the final answer is quickly coming: does the Loch Ness monster exist?
The European Union needs to step up its efforts to keep the nuclear deal with Iran alive. The Iranian foreign minister said this during a meeting with European Commissioner for Energy, Miguel Arias Canete.
The conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and parliamentary leaders of the European Parliament can be seen on Tuesday for the public. Parliament President Antonio Tajani announced that on Twitter.
A tweet from US President Trump has raised many eyebrows. He spelled the name of his wife wrong.
