The Marines leave the corps in large numbers for dissatisfaction with the relocation of the barracks from Doorn to Vlissingen in 2022. In the first quarter, 73 marines left. That is three times as many as in previous years.
Hungary has defended its anti-immigration policy on Monday at the United Nations (UN). The country underlined that it is determined to maintain a homogeneous, Christian society.
The Austin police arrested a man on Saturday late at night, possibly related to a bomb threat. Because of the threat of the bomb, The Roots could have their show Saturday at the South by Southwest festival in Texas.
The British physicist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76. That has been announced by a spokesman for the family. Hawking died Wednesday in his home in Cambridge.
The large Binance exchange, a platform for digital coins, gives $ 250,000 to the person who has information with which hackers are taken from the site.
Belgium has a new emergency plan for nuclear incidents. All Belgians can now take iodine pills at a pharmacy to protect themselves against the radioactive iodine that can be released in a nuclear power plant in the event of an accident.
A group of no less than 1.5 million penguins has been discovered at the South Pole. They had always been overlooked so far. The Arctic birds live on a remote and inaccessible group of islands, the Danger Islands.
An American was shot dead while sending images of himself directly via Facebook Live. Prentis Robinson filmed himself using a selfie stick when the fatal shots were fired, reports The Washington Post.
For 155,000 people in South Sudan, a famine threatens to occur within a few months. A disastrous situation arises for them between May and July, according to a study by South Sudan and the United Nations on Monday.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations called on the warring parties in Syria to observe a cease-fire. 'East Ghouta can not wait. It is high time that this hell on earth comes to an end ', said António Guterres against the Human Rights Council of the UN.
The Syrian government army has killed at least five hundred civilians in a week's bombing of East Ghouta, a rebel stronghold near the capital Damascus.
At the end of this week, European leaders started the first discussions on the new multi-annual budget of the EU. At the same time, there is already informal consultation about the future of Europe, with Germany and France taking the lead. These countries want more European cooperation, at the expense of the current powers that EU countries still have. This mainly concerns more Brussels in the financial-economic field and more money for the EU.
The 33-year-old Mexican Juan Pedro Franco who is officially known as the thickest man in the world, is busy losing weight. In October 2016 he weighed 595 kilos, now he has already lost 250 kilos. He puts everything to make his big dream come true: to be able to walk normally again.
The British Jackie (62) was told in November 2016 that she suffered from a severe form of dementia and would not live much longer. She decided to spend all her savings on holidays and gifts. Now it appears that the doctors have made a mistake.
The Venezuelan lost 11 kilos on average in 2017 and 90 percent of the population of 30 million people now live in poverty. This has shown the latest study on the impact of the dramatic economic crisis and food shortages.
Heavy shelling has cost the lives of dozens of people in East Ghouta, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, said that at least 27 people were killed on Wednesday. Another 200 people would have been injured.
Who is not yet forty, may never die. The English futurologist Ian Pearson makes that special prediction.
Due to the ongoing bombing and artillery bombardments on insurgents in East Ghouta, 71 people lost their lives in 24 hours. There were also 325 wounded. That is what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced on Monday.
The 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, who shot 17 people at a high school in Florida this week, posted a video on Snapchat in 2016 in which he mutilated himself. According to American media, Cruz cut his arm.
Poland has its own cow gate. A cow escaped spectacularly from a Polish slaughterhouse last month and has been living on an island for three weeks now.
One in six children grow up in a crisis area. Especially in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia there are particularly great dangers here, warns Save the Children in a report. Children should be much better protected, says the international aid organization.
Stress in Las Vegas now that a serial killer seems to have anticipated the many tramps who live on the streets in the gambling town in Nevada. At least four victims he would have made in ten days time. The police fears that this number may increase considerably if they do not catch it quickly.
The transition period requested by London after the Brexit in 2019 is not an achievement. The chief negotiator for the EU, Michel Barnier, warns the British government that it is imposing a number of 'non-negotiable' conditions for the transition period of almost two years.
All Kenyan television channels that went black after an action by the opposition are now back in the air. Television channel Citizen TV itself announced that the broadcasts were resumed.
The death toll of the earthquake in Taiwan has further increased to ten. So far, 265 wounded have been counted and 58 are still missing.
The democratic leader of the American House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi held a more than eight-hour long speech on Wednesday about the 'dreamers'. The marathon speech is the longest speech that has been proposed in the House since 1909.
Two American senators, the Republican John McCain and the Democrat Chris Coons, have presented a compromise proposal on Monday to protect the so-called 'dreamers' against expulsion.
The Kenyan police used tear gas on Monday to disperse a crowd of demonstrators who demanded that three closed TV channels go up again. The government put the TV channels black last week because of their coverage of the opposition.
Germany wants to compensate for the first time a large group of Holocaust survivors from Algeria. It is estimated that 25,000 Algerian Jews, most of whom live in France. Approximately 3900 of those affected live in Israel. The Algerian Jews would receive a one-time payment of 2556 euros.
The Israeli government legalized a forbidden settlement on the West Bank after a resident was shot there last week.
