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 Berlin, according to the organization of a demonstration against racism, about 240,000 people went into the state. That is much more than the organization had expected, because in advance only 40,000 people had signed up. The police did not want to say anything about attendance figures.
Turkey has accepted a proposal from Saudi Arabia to jointly investigate the case of the missing Saudi journalist. A joint team has to investigate 'all aspects' of the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, says a spokesperson for the Turkish president Erdogan against the Anadolu news agency.
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.
It goes with cameras on mobile phones the same way as with razor blades. When the one (Huawei) with three cameras comes on the back, the next one (Samsung) just stops four in its next model. For an even smoother result.
Something went wrong during the launch of a rocket on the way to the ISS space station. The intention is for the two crew members on board to make an emergency landing on earth.
The Flemish government must make a plan within a year for better air quality in the entire region, otherwise a penalty of 1000 euros per day will be imposed. The court in Brussels determined that in a case that Greenpeace had filed.
In the northeast of the Congo, five new cases of Ebola infection were registered one day. That has been confirmed by the Ministry of Health. According to the authorities, the increase is not only due to the constant danger that rebel groups form in the Beni region. The aid workers who try to stop the dreaded disease also receive insufficient cooperation from the population.
You just have to dare; write a biography about Churchill. More than a thousand have been published in recent decades. But Churchill's life can always be rewritten in the light of current political circumstances.
The east of Sicily was hit by a small earthquake in the night from Friday to Saturday. Because of the quake with a force of 4.8, residents of the volcano were startled by Etna. Buildings suffered limited damage and several people were slightly injured.
Russian hackers from the military intelligence service GROe are also associated with a cyber attack in Belgium. In 2014 they attacked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there, writes De Standaard.
Part of the American accusations against seven Russian hackers is that they stole confidential information from sportsmen and spread it to put them in a bad light. Prosecutors in the US state that they penetrated systems of dozens of anti-doping organizations and sports federations.
A Palestinian teenager was killed in the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel on Wednesday by a tear gas grenade. It concerns the 15-year-old Ahmed Abu Habel.
At the edge of our solar system, far beyond all planets, there is a mysterious object. It is a small boulder that takes 44,000 years to orbit around our sun.
A 19-year-old boy survived 49 days on a loose raft at sea that drove thousands of kilometers.
The former head of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, becomes a special adviser at the Ministry of the Interior. His salary remains unchanged. That said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) after a coalition meeting on Sunday evening in Berlin.
The chief of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, who had to leave following controversial statements about disturbances in Chemnitz, does not become a state secretary. This apparently has an important point of conflict between CDU, CSU and SPD. The German news agency DPA has heard about this in coalition circles.
In the run-up to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Germany, opponents of the head of state have planned a series of demonstrations. The organizers have announced protests in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Essen, Bremen, Hannover, Stuttgart and Bielefeld for Saturday afternoon.
Ten thousand British pounds of reward praised animal activists. For three years, Scotland Yard inspectors inspected all blood traces. Now the likely 'killer' of hundreds of house cats is finally known: the fox.
The British authorities have denied the existence of the so-called 'Croydon cat killer', which is supposed to target cats at Croydon. Research shows that the 'killings' were probably committed by one or more foxes.
Europe and Asia can better connect, not only with better transport links, but also in the digital and energy fields. The European Commission presented Wednesday a strategy that should give the connections between both continents a boost.
More concrete problems were detected during inspections in the two Belgian nuclear power plants. It was already clear that the concrete is being 'degraded' in bunkers with emergency systems in two reactors of the Doel and Tihange power plants. Now it has been found that the concrete in the bunker ceilings of two more reactors does not meet the requirements.
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Two thousand euros per bottle! You can not do that to a customer! Daniele Di Guiliomaria has just tasted a bit of whiskey from 1988. It is not easy for him. 'Pretty flat. Should have been bottled ten years ago. '
Former No Surrender leader Henk Kuipers (53) is outraged by his short-term transfer to a heavier security prison at the beginning of this month. He called it Monday in the court in Groningen ironically an 'interim vacation.' 'I am placed there for nothing. It was completely unnecessary, what a stunt. '
Switzerland demands that Russia stop espionage on its territory. In the past few days two new possible espionage cases have come to light. In The Hague, two people would have been arrested who possibly wanted to hack a Swiss research laboratory. The same men would also have stolen data from the world anti-doping office. That office is located in Switzerland.
The Belgian amusement park Bobbejaanland stays closed Sunday, because of safety reasons \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;. That reports the park via Twitter. On camera footage from last night, one would see how a masked person with a backpack left things behind at the theme park, according to Belgian broadcaster VRT.
The Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis, who was missing in Norway, was seen on 30 August in company of two men in Vikesa, in the southwest of the Scandinavian country. That's what a witness told the Norwegian newspaper VG.
The Philippine authorities evacuate thousands of people from the coastal areas because of the approaching typhoon Mangkhut. The heavy storm probably reaches Luzon on Saturday, the largest island in the Philippines.
