That Donald Trump for the whole world declares to believe Vladimir Putin on his blue eyes is bad news for the relatives of the MH17 disaster. If there is one man who could force Putin to cooperate more in finding and prosecuting the guilty of the murder of 298 people on board the aircraft, then it is the American president.
Turkey gets a new tap. The Turkish economy was further downgraded by credit rating agency Fitch, from the status BB + to BB, with a negative outlook. The subsequent decline of the Turkish lira was, however, curbed by support from the central bank.
The US government has published a list of Chinese products for which it wants to increase import duties by 10 percent. In total, it is about 200 billion dollars worth of goods. With the list, President Donald Trump's government is heading for a further escalation of the trade war between the United States and China.
Broadly grinning, Lei Jun hit the gong of the Hong Kong stock exchange on Monday. The founder of telephone manufacturer Xiaomi was perhaps the first visible victim of the trade war between China and the US.
In a heat wave in Canada, at least 33 people were killed this week. The authorities fear that this number will still run out.
During the rescue work of the twelve Thai football players and their trainer in a cave complex in the north of Thailand, a diver was killed. The rescue worker had become unconscious when he was placing oxygen masks along the potential escape route.
The Ghent court has released a Spanish rapper conditionally. The singer 'Valtònyc' was arrested in Belgium after fleeing from Spain because of a conviction of 3.5 years in prison. The council chamber still has to decide whether it will be extradited to Spain.
Several versions of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia are unreachable on Thursday. For example, anyone who goes to the Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque and Estonian reference works gets a message and can not read articles. This was done in protest against new European rules for copyright.
Closed camps for migrants both inside and outside the EU. After a nightly marathon meeting, this must be the solution before the migration crisis. But there are so many loose ends that no one knows whether a result has actually been booked, or whether only some time has been bought.
A Chinese medicine man has found a huge ten kilo Lingzi mushroom. The mushroom, the size of an umbrella, was proudly displayed on a market in South China Yunan.
A bizarre forest with all curved trees goes viral on Facebook.
Born without a penis, thanks to science get a replacement copy, but then ten days with an erection have to walk around before you finally have sex. And then wait another six weeks. The 44-year-old Briton Andrew Mardle is in the final phase of his penis operation and is now ready to finally have sex with his friend Fedra.
The American Supreme Court has given Donald Trump one of his biggest victories as president by approving his controversial entry law. The law prohibits people from a number of predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US.
If Macedonia has solved the name issue with Greece and continues as Northern Macedonia, the European Commission sees no objections to start negotiations with the Balkan country on accession to the EU. Before the European foreign ministers decide on further enlargement Tuesday in Luxembourg, the Macedonian minister Nikola Dimitrov makes one final appeal to the Netherlands not to block the accession talks.
A Belgian couple was driven off a cliff during their vacation on the Spanish island of Mallorca with their rental car. The Nissan Micra came ten meters lower to a halt against a rock in the sea. The occupants were injured.
Have you planned barbecues, parties or an evening of World Cup matches in the near future? Then it could just be an alcohol-free version. The beer stock is seriously threatened by a shortage of CO2, writes CNN, and beer brewers sweat carrots for the coming weeks.
Italian government bonds and stock exchanges fall into key positions Thursday afternoon after the appointment of two eurosceptics.
Football and beer drinks go hand in hand. International football fans have drunk so much since the start of the World Cup in Moscow that there is a shortage of beer in the Russian capital.
Cryptomunt fair Bithumb has been hacked and criminals have converted over 25 million euros.
The book stalls on the Seine are just as close to the city of light as the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame. The 'bouquinistes' have a hard time because they are getting less and less read, but they see nothing in the proposal to get their green cabinets on the Unesco World Heritage List.
Steve Bannon, former Chief Advisor to President Trump, tried to blow up the power relations in Washington and the US through the White House. Now he puts his cards on crypto coins.
On Thursday morning the German police arrested a nineteen-year-old man who tore through the area of Stockach with a 20-meter-long tree trunk behind his all-terrain vehicle. The doll ride ended after many kilometers in the vicinity of Ludwigshafen. The young driver had drunk far too much according to local media and had to hand in his driving license immediately.
The oil sector represents the largest decrease in production capacity in thirty years. The buffer held by Opec countries is threatening to drop to 2% due to high demand, the bottom since 1984. In conflicts or production constraints, there is not much of a price increase.
They are becoming frugal times for many diamond dealers and miners. Companies that continue to ban the artificial laboratory diamond, will find it difficult in a market where prices due to these pebbles pressed out of carbon fall sharply.
The Czech multi-billionaire Andrej Babis gets a second chance to form a government more than seven months after the election in his country. President Milos Zeman sworn in to Babis for the second time as prime minister.
Women in Saudi Arabia experience a historic day. The first driving licenses were handed out to women on Monday. In fact, they will only be able to get behind the wheel in the conservative kingdom from June 24, the Saudi channel al-Arabiya reports.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) fears that up to 110 people may have lost their lives off the coast of Tunisia. There sank a boat with migrants on Sunday. The official death toll is at 48, but according to an IOM spokesman there are 'possibly about 64 missing.'
Lava flows have reached a main road on Hawaii. The authorities have partially closed highway 132. According to local media, it is an important access road to the lower Puna area. Local residents have been called to safety.
Shoppers have found a new way to avoid the high price of avocados: they hit the roots of supermarkets with self-service options. Experts spoke about 'a new form of shoplifting'.
Egypt has been banned for a month in a professional video website YouTube because it showed a film that would be insulting to Muslims. The Egyptian telecom authorities must ensure that YouTube is blocked.
