Thousands of climate activists from different countries have shut down in the German Lausitz region, south of Berlin, a lignite mine of energy company Vattenfall. Among them are 150 activists from the Netherlands, spokeswoman Ike Teuling Milieudefensie reported Saturday.
The queues at airports thighs further and further. A frustrated passenger on the Chicago Midway Airport walked with his camera along such a row. He started in at the counter and finished outside. The film was immediately a huge hit on the Internet, viewed 600,000 people in one day eagerly the misery of others.
International bus traffic is increasingly being used to smuggle drugs across the European borders, the German customs finds in Ulm.
Part of the metro and tram traffic in Brussels Wednesday between a quarter past eight and half past ten halted after the discovery of a suspicious package at the Rogier station. The demining service of the army came to pass in order to make the package harmless.
Terror movement Islamic State Tuesday at various locations in northern Iraq, the attack on Kurdish fighters. They managed to break through the lines of the peshmerga and take in a town a short time, said the Kurdish authorities in the area.
Also Tuesday Brussels Airport is the scene of long queues of passengers. The waiting times are up to a half hour because of the security controls in the tents arranged outside the hall.
Automaker Toyota is experiencing problems in the production of its cars in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Japan last week. By damage to plants include suppliers of the world's largest automaker has disrupted the production of Toyota's.
The disagreement within the German government about the persecution of television comedian John Böhmermann for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked along party lines.
We know now that there are planets outside our solar system, but it now appears that the first 'exoplanet' is already measured in 1917. It was not only seen and identified. Astronomers have discovered it. They write about it in the journal New Astronomy Reviews.
The number of fixed telephone connections in the Netherlands grew by 1.2 percent in 2015 to 6.3 million at the end of the year. This is evident from figures published Friday by market research firm Telecompaper.
A gruesome accident a bouncy castle has cost the British Essex life of a seven year old girl. The child was innocently playing when a fierce gust of wind took hold on the game pad. She was 150 meters from a hill dragged and suffered severe injuries. Shortly after arriving at the hospital she died.
The transport company STIB in Brussels show Saturday that no one has requested Tuesday the federal government to close subway lines. The Interior Minister, Jan Jambon, said Friday yet against MPs that it was decided to evacuate the subway and the five major stations preventively after the first attacks on the Brussels airport around 08.00.
The Brussels metro lines 1 and 5, which call at the station Maalbeek hit by an attack, driving again. There is not stopped in Maalbeek, but the lines are not interrupted. That made transport company STIB Friday.
With strict access controls has started again on the major stations on Wednesday rail and part of the underground movement in Brussels. Travelers should open their purse or briefcase for inspection of heavily armed soldiers or policemen and in some places leads to delays. Most leave their luggage inspected without grumbling or open their purse without asking. Further inconvenience is there because of the large stations opened only one entrance.
Many inhabitants of Brussels went Wednesday morning walking to work. Several metro and bus lines do not run or not according to the timetable. The streets are more cyclists than usual to see.
The government of the Brussels region, the population Tuesday called for Wednesday at 12 am to hold a minute's silence. That Prime Minister Rudi Vervoort announced after a meeting of his cabinet.
Belgian government last year were hundreds of times the target of hackers and cyber criminals. The Dutch government ICT companies already have therefore advised to play on,, the limited expertise '' in Belgium, reported The Age Monday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has the blessing of his Shiite supporters to take his government at the shovel to fight corruption. The Shiite National Alliance supports al-Abadi in his intention to put an end to the division of posts according to ethnic lines, message the Iraqi state.
At a tennis tournament in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, the ball boys trained replaced by four stray dogs. Adorned with sweatbands around their feet they took neat every ball that came off the lines.
Supporters of the government and the opposition in South Sudan continue to kill civilians, and abduct chase despite conciliatory language of both parties. That put the United Nations.
It had to be a flight of only four hours. The trip from the Dominican Republic to New York with Delta Air Lines, however, ran into a very unpleasant trip that lasted nearly three hours. A frustrated traveler reported never having used so often seen spuugzak.
Iraq turns out for months in search of a stolen suitcase with radioactive material. The authorities reported the theft of the party iridium-192 in November by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Searches have so far yielded nothing.
The Hague carrier HTM is angry grid Stedin. Due to a power outage Tuesday were five tram lines flat. According Stedin was the breakdown resolved after a few minutes, but HTM said Wednesday that it is not true.,, It has lasted a half hour and gave enormous disruption. We find blame. It is trivialized, but this is a serious matter. We want to know stone unturned ', HTM late.
Four Bulgarian truckers on Tuesday forcibly broken through a blockade of Greek farmers at the Greek-Bulgarian border checkpoint Kulata-Promachon to get into their country.,, Suddenly They gave gas and rumbled 80 mph along, '' said a terrified farmer against the Greek television channel Skai.
The Dutch towage company Smit Salvage has managed the drifting ship Modern Express dragging in the harbor of the Spanish city of Bilbao. Salvage workers are trying to moor the ship, said a spokesman for Smit Wednesday.
Belgian trains are punctual last year some riding. More than nine out of ten trains were on time in 2015 or had a delay of less than six minutes. This appears Tuesday to figures from railway manager Infrabel.
Pregnant women because of the explosively spreading zika virus no longer want to Central and South America, with many airlines rely on leniency.
To put an attack on a major electricity junction Taliban have Kabul Tuesday largely in the dark. About half of the city is without electricity and that probably is not easy to fix. The area around the destroyed node, in the province Bachlan, is under the control of the Islamist movement.
It may finally look like winter in the Netherlands, yet you have to cross the border to encounter real winter scenes.
