Again a member of the British cabinet of Theresa May has resigned from dissatisfaction with the Brexit agreement with the EU. After minister Brexit Dominic Raab and Deputy Minister Shailesh Vara, Minister Esther McVey announced her resignation on Thursday.
The British minister for the knitting of the Dominic Raab has resigned. He did not agree with the agreements on Northern Ireland in the agreement on the Brexit with the EU, he said on Thursday.
Amnesty International has taken Aung San Suu Kyi, the government leader of Myanmar, her highest award. The reason is that, in a shameless way, she has betrayed the values for which she once stood \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
A plane from the Kazakh airline Air Astana was in great distress during a test flight over Portugal on Sunday and could barely land. After the pilots had first considered making an emergency landing in the sea, it was finally possible to reach the airport of Beja with great difficulty, 150 kilometers southeast of Lisbon, reported Portuguese media.
Now that Donald Trump has put his Justice Minister Jeff Sessions aside, the big question is what will happen to the research of former FBI director Robert Mueller. As a special prosecutor, he has far-reaching powers to review the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Democratic politicians are very worried. But the first Republican senators have also spoken.
President Trump has already voted early by post. And with him a record number of Americans. Everything seems to indicate a big turnout for these congressional elections. In spite of rain along almost the entire east coast, polling stations report great pressure.
Britain and the EU would have reached a secret agreement stating that Britain remains part of the Customs Union after the Brexit. This would keep the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland open and one of the biggest obstacles in the Brexit negotiations would be removed.
European countries are disappointed that the US is again sanctioning Iran, now that the Americans have withdrawn from the nuclear deal with that country. France, Germany, Great Britain and the EU state in a joint declaration that the atomic agreement 'does what it is meant to do.'
The interior lighting of a barbecue is a resident of the Belgian town Herstal fatal. Smoke development in the terraced house was so great that the two residents were seriously poisoned.
North Korean women are powerless against sexual violence by government officials. Unwanted sexual behavior occurs even so often that it is seen as a normal phenomenon in daily life in the isolated dictatorship, concludes Human Rights Watch after talks with dozens of displaced North Koreans.
Kidnappers in Colombia have claimed 4.4 million euros in ransom in exchange for the release of a great cousin of the world famous writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez who died in 2014. The police announced that on Wednesday.
The death toll due to the severe weather that Italy has been tormenting for three days has risen to eleven on Tuesday. Someone is also missing. A large part of Venice came under water. On videos you can see how tourists waded through the water of the flooded St. Mark's Square and how a restaurant, despite a low water of at least twenty centimeters, still served pizzas.
In the American state of South Dakota, Rodney Berget (56) was executed on Monday by a lethal injection. He received the death penalty after he killed a guard seven years ago in a failed outbreak from a prison. It is the first death sentence since 2012 that is being carried out in this state.
Approximately 147 million Brazilians can choose the new president on Sunday and polls indicate a great victory for the right wing populist and ex-military Jair Bolsonaro. His opponent of the left-wing PT (Workers' Party), Fernando Haddad (55), had to do so in recent polls with the support of 43 percent of the respondents. The rest supported the 63-year-old Bolsonaro who was seriously injured by an assassination attempt in September. He only campaigned in the background.
Germany too needs hundreds of thousands of new homes quickly. The offer is small and the prices are rising. The Merkel government introduced a kind of child benefit for their own home to stimulate the market. Families and single-parent families, provided their taxable income is not too high, can receive a subsidy of 1200 euros per child per year for the purchase or construction of a house. The scheme is guaranteed for ten years.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The Turkish authorities are interviewing employees of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Prosecutors in the metropolis take the statement of five employees of the diplomatic post, says a source against the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
Greece has responded with delight to the first round of voting on the name change of neighboring Macedonia. The Macedonian parliament voted Friday night with the new name Republic of Northern Macedonia. The majority of two thirds needed to implement the name change in the constitution was met exactly: 80 of the 120 deputies agreed. The change is not yet final, because more voting rounds will follow.
After a day of rest tomorrow the heavy weather breaks loose in Spain with great intensity. In Valencia, fellow countrymen are preparing for even more water. 'We have packed enough food.'
The Dragon Quest games in Asia are just as big as the iPhone in the West. As soon as a new part appears, people are standing in front of the stores rows to get the game. With this eleventh game in the official role-playing-game series, developer Square Enix sticks to the strong traditions that have made the series great.
Nearly three hundred Syrian White Helmets have left Jordan. They are taken care of in Western countries, reports the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died when he was questioned at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That statement Saudi Arabia will give for the death of Khashoggi, CNN reports on the basis of anonymous sources.
The ambassadors of 27 EU members minus Great Britain have been told that there will be no Brexit agreement on Sunday. EU officials thus contradict an earlier report that the Brexit negotiators would have reached an agreement on the departure of Great Britain from the EU on Sunday. The Politico website reported that on the basis of information from three EU diplomats.
Belgians cast their vote on Sunday in municipal and provincial elections. They are the first polls since 2014 and are seen as an important indicator for the parliamentary elections in May next year. Approximately 8.2 million Belgians can vote for municipal councils and in Flanders and Wallonia also for provincial councils.
In the case of air strikes in the Yemenite region of Hodeidah, according to Houthi rebels, at least nineteen civilians were killed on Saturday. Jet fighters from the coalition fighting against the rebels under the leadership of Saudi Arabia attacked a checkpoint in Jabal Rass when two buses passed by.
After the release of the American preacher Andrew Brunson and his departure from Turkey, the presidents of Turkey and the United States can get together again through Twitter. Brunson, who was held in Turkey for about two years on suspected ties with terror organizations until Friday afternoon, was at the center of a serious dispute between Ankara and Washington.
Six people were killed as a result of hurricane Michael in the southwest of the United States. Most of the deaths have fallen in the state of Florida, namely four. People also died in the states of Georgia and North Carolina. The authorities fear that the death toll can still start running.
The government of Malaysia wants to abolish the death penalty. The parliament will discuss the bill on Monday, reporting Malaysian media. The planned executions are provisionally suspended.
The Italian economy remains 'in an unacceptable way' and at least seventeen million Italians have therefore come into great difficulties. This is what the Treasury Secretary Giovanni Tria said on Tuesday in the margins of a session with the Parliament's Finance Committee.
The death toll as a result of the earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi has risen from 1558 to 1763. According to the emergency response service there is fear that there are still more than 5000 missing persons.
