France has killed a leader of a terrorist group linked to Islamic State in Mali. Another IS member and a woman and a teenager were killed during the operation. The French Minister of Defense has announced this in a statement.
In the west of Iran, near the border with Iraq, an earthquake took place on Sunday. The shock with a strength of 6.1 was felt in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. There were certainly two deaths and 241 wounded.
The United States will cut more than $ 200 million in financial aid to the Palestinians. The money was earmarked for projects in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, but is now being earmarked for projects elsewhere. That says an anonymous employee from the US Department of State.
He's back. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has not been heard for nearly a year, lives and calls on his followers to make a rare audio message in the West.
Hurricane Lane, the toughest in 25 years that threatens to hit Hawaii, was deflected northbound on Thursday and headed for Oahu. That is the most densely populated island of the archipelago. Schools, government buildings and businesses are already closed. The residents have barricaded their homes and constructed emergency supplies.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen continues his hunt for CNRP's largest opposition party last year. The Voice of America reports from Phnom Penh that former party leader Sam Rainsy has been charged with lese majesty.
The Congolese authorities have given the green light for the use of four new experimental drugs against Ebola. The last outbreak of the deadly virus has so far cost the lives of dozens of people in the African country, which is about sixty times as large as the Netherlands.
The police of the Belgian town of Huy is in his stomach with a bag of money. Cash. Lots of money.
The Aeolus is a hypermodern wind vane that has to go into space this Tuesday. The satellite must, from 320 kilometers altitude, chart the wind on earth. There is still relatively little known about this.
A love letter that arrives eight years later, when you had long forgotten the woman in question. Or a CD from your favorite artist from six years ago, who is now suddenly in the bus. It will happen to the Palestinians in the West Bank in the coming weeks.
A significant part of a motorway bridge at Genoa has collapsed. Italian media report that it is still unknown whether there are victims. The Morandi bridge over the Polcevera River is to the west of the Italian port city.
In Brussels, a solution is being worked behind the scenes for the refugees aboard the rescue ship Aquarius. According to a spokeswoman for the European Commission, the EU administration is 'in contact with a number of member states' that the committee 'approached' about the matter. She did not want to say which countries are involved.
The highest spiritual leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has, according to state television, prohibited all direct talks with the United States. He rejects an offer from US President Trump last month. The White House suggested conversations without preconditions.
Moscow risks a new confrontation with the West. It revolves around the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who has been holding a hunger strike in his cell in Siberia for 89 days and can die every moment according to his family.
The British government is considering banning the eating of dog meat after reports that this practice also occurs there.
The vaccination program against the last outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo can start on Wednesday. This has been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Medical first responders will be vaccinated first. After that, the approximately 900 people are identified who have been identified as at risk.
Ten years after the five-day war between Russia and Georgia, which is being commemorated this week, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has informed the West that Moscow will regard NATO membership of Georgia as a provocation that can lead to 'a gruesome conflict.'
The West Hollywood City Council wants the Donald Trump star to be removed on the famous Walk of Fame. The council voted unanimously for a motion calling for the star to be removed, message The Hollywood Reporter.
Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi (17) and her mother Nariman have been released. The women are on their way to the West Bank, a spokesman for the Israeli prison system confirmed.
At least three Israelis were wounded on a stabbing at the West Bank. Two victims, a man of thirty and a man of fifty, are in bad shape. The attacker would be a Palestinian boy of 18.
The London fire brigade fights a big fire on the upper floors of a block of luxury flats in the West Hampstead district. The fire brigade has been torn out with fifteen cars and more than a hundred firefighters in an attempt to extinguish the fire in an apartment building on Inglewood Road in north-west London, the fire brigade reports.
The situation in Greece after two days of heavy natural fires has improved slightly. The fire brigade could get almost all fires under control until early Wednesday morning. Only in a region about 70 kilometers west of Athens there was still a fire on a hill, said the Greek minister of Security, Nikos Toskas.
The leaders of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, met in the Finnish capital Helsinki. It is their first official Russian-American summit, although the men have met each other before. The presidents arrived in the presidential palace in the Finnish capital and sat almost next to each other. They did not shake hands with each other for the cameras.
The Mauritanian navy intercepted a boat with migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands. The 125 passengers, according to a spokesperson for the navy, had paid about 850 euros for the failed crossing.
Furious villagers killed almost three hundred crocodiles in Indonesian West Papua. That happened after a 48-year-old man was bitten by one of the reptiles.
Even direct employees of President Trump are anxiously looking forward to meeting Trump with President Putin in Helsinki. They wonder in the West Wing: what is Donald Trump's plan of action? Even the concrete purpose of the conversation is unclear. 'I'll let you know after the meeting. I believe in meetings, 'was the only thing Trump wanted to say about that.
Due to a collision between a passenger bus and a tank truck in Iran, at least thirteen deaths occurred. The bus was rammed by an unknown cause just after departure at a stop by the tank truck in Sanandaj in the west of Iran.
The death toll in Japan as a result of the heavy rainfall and flooding has risen to over 100. Dozens of people are still missing, the Japanese authorities report. Because of the heavy thunderstorms and associated torrential rains, parts of the south and west of the country are flooded.
The head of Frontex, the EU agency that coordinates controls at the external borders of the European Union, warns of a new main route for migrants to Europe. 'If you ask me what my biggest concern is, I will tell Spain', says Fabrice Leggeri in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
In Japan, two people died as a result of extreme rain showers. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in the west and middle of the country have been evacuated because of the rainfall rivers flood and there is a danger of landslides
