The eldest son of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday. He had been treated for a long time because of depression, the Cuban state media reported.
The parliament of Romania agreed on Monday with the appointment of the social democrat Viorica Dancila as prime minister. She is the first female prime minister of the country. The parliamentarians also expressed confidence in the new cabinet.
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Foodstuffs like 'rich in fiber and vitamin D' while the product is bursting with sugar should be banned. The European consumer organization BEUC calls on Brussels to make EU legislation that puts an end to misleading health and nutrition claims.
The deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont does not exclude the possibility that he will go to Catalonia next week to be sworn in as the leader of the Spanish region. ' There are many possibilities '', he said in Brussels after a meeting with the president of the Catalan parliament, Roger Torrent.
On 11 June 1962, three detainees escaped from Alcatraz, which was then one of the most secure prisons in the world. The prisoners lacked every trace, but this week a local television channel has seized new evidence: a letter that one of the escaped prisoners in 2013 would have written to the police.
The net is increasingly closing around bitcoins. Countries restrict trade in the so far unregulated crypto coins and financial derivatives. That can lead to a crash, warn asset managers.
The ex-premier of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, told the Catalan broadcaster that it is best possible to lead the regional government from Belgium. It is much easier to hold that function in Brussels than in a Spanish cell, according to Puigdemont. The Spanish judicial authorities are looking for him because of a series of offenses committed when he, as the regional prime minister, wanted to separate Catalonia from Spain in October with an illegal referendum.
Twenty countries have announced, after consultation on the North Korea crisis, that they are considering imposing additional unilateral sanctions on the country beyond the sanctions of the UN Security Council resolution. That is what the United States and Canada state in a joint declaration after the meeting in Vancouver.
Sleeping for at least seven hours a night can help you eat less sugar. This is evident from a new British survey, Time reports. To reach this conclusion, the sleep and diet of 42 healthy adults was followed for four weeks.
Egypt holds presidential elections from 26 to 28 March. The incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to throw a second term.
CIA director Mike Pompeo calls President Donald Trump 'fully suitable \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; to lead the country. Pompeo responded to the program Fox News Sunday on a critical new book, in which the competence of Trump is questioned.
The Egyptian former prime minister Ahmed Shafik (76) does not participate in the coming presidential election in his country. On Sunday, he stated in a statement on Twitter that he had come to the conclusion that he was not the ideal person to lead the country in the coming period.
A group of 25 one-legged Egyptian footballers has taken the lead and has started to set up a real competition for one-legged in Egypt.
The police in Sulzbach, Germany, had to suffer a lot from a Christmas gift that a six-year-old girl had received. With her brand new mobile phone, the preschooler called nineteen times the emergency number of the police.
The typhoon 'Tembin' unexpectedly spared Vietnam after the devastation in the Philippines with more than 240 deaths. The tropical storm rose in the night from Monday to Tuesday in the most southerly provinces of Ca Mau and Bac Lieu. But the gusts of wind weakened in the morning from 135 kilometers per hour to 60 kilometers per hour and ultimately did not reach the country.
The Spanish king Felipe VI called upon the Catalan policy makers three days after the regional parliamentary elections to act responsibly and wisely. 'In Catalonia, the road must not lead again to confrontation or exclusion,' said the monarch on Sunday evening in his Christmas speech on TV.
An international research group dealing with North Korea has raised the alarm about the lame and downright dangerous state of the nuclear facilities in the country. According to '38 North 'it is a miracle that no disastrous nuclear disaster has taken place yet.
The Netherlands supports the European Commission's proposal to use the toughest EU procedure against Poland. 'You must always take a threat to the rule of law seriously,' says Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra.
EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans wants to use the toughest procedure against Poland. He asks the Member States and the European Parliament to agree to the activation of Article 7 from the EU Treaty.
US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May held telephone discussions on the Middle East peace process on Tuesday. The White House said that they have talked about measures that could lead to peace in the area.
After weeks of unrest and uncertainty, the highest electoral tribunal in Honduras, President Juan Orlando Hernández, has been declared the winner of the presidential election. The election was held at the end of November, but it was unclear for a long time who would become the new president.
German education and the police are dealing with pepper spray at schools with an increasing number of incidents. Students spray the brightly caustic spray in a classroom and see what the result is.
Eighty days after the German parliamentary elections, the leaders of CDU, CSU and SPD started the run that should lead to a new coalition government. On Wednesday evening in Berlin, it was a scintillating conversation between Chancellor Angela Merkel, her Christian-Democratic colleague Horst Seehofer and Social Democrat Martin Schulz. Beforehand it had already been agreed that nothing should be brought out about the course.
President Donald Trump will sign an order to bring Americans to the moon again, ahead of a manned mission to Mars. The White House has announced this on Monday.
The United States recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. That message will be announced by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, reporting different media on the basis of White House employees.
The incumbent Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández can basically prepare for a new term. The National Electoral Council announced on Monday, after all the votes had been counted, that Hernández had been supported by 42.98 percent of the electorate. His rival Salvador Nasralla came to 41.39 percent, about 52,000 votes less.
Greece and the eurozone countries have reached a tentative agreement on Saturday on reforms that Athens will implement in exchange for support.
Two people were killed in Honduras during fighting between security units and protesters. The authorities announced that on Saturday. The death toll has therefore risen to at least three. More than twenty people were injured. The police performed hundreds of arrests and announced a curfew.
The pharmaceutical company Johnson \u0026 amp; Johnson launches a large-scale test of an AIDS vaccine. The American company will vaccinate 2,600 women in southern Africa. A mix of two developed vaccines is used for this.
