The former 'running mate' of John McCain is not invited for the ceremonies around his funeral. The deceased senator's family has asked former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to stay away via an intermediary, reports US media based on anonymous sources.
Counterfeit webshops are a big problem in Germany. More than four million Germans have ever fallen victim to fake web shops. This is shown by a study by a number of consumer organizations. The study will be released on Monday evening via the broadcaster ARD.
In a fire in the American city of Chicago, eight people were killed, including six children.
Frans Timmermans, the Vice-President of the European Commission, warns Europe against new nationalism. He does so in a statement on the occasion of the annual EU memorial day for the victims of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
Russian hackers have focused their arrows on conservatives in the United States. Microsoft warns against this. The company claims to have taken over six domain names from the hackers. There were counterfeit sites of the think tanks The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute.
The judge in the trial against Paul Manafort, former campaign president of US President Donald Trump, has received threats. He says he is so worried about the safety of the judges and himself that he has used extra security from American Marshalls.
The forest fires that plagued Greece at the end of July killed at least 93 people. The authorities have announced this on Thursday. The population protection service had just published a list of victims with 92 names when a seriously injured person died in a hospital. At least eight people are still in danger of life.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has frozen assets from the US Ministers of Justice and Security in Turkey. With this measure Erdogan reacts to the sanctions that Washington imposed last week on the Turkish ministers Abdulhamit Gül (Justice) and Süleyman Soylu (Home Affairs).
Fourteen members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been expelled because of corruption. The procedure committee of the meeting announced their names on Wednesday.
The sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia due to the annexation of the Crimea in 2014 have been extended to 23 June 2019. European companies are not allowed to import or invest products from the Crimea. The export of certain goods and technologies is prohibited, as is the provision of tourist services. For example, European cruise ships may only berth in case of emergency.
The Swedish Public Prosecution Service persecutes the man who is the center of the riot around the committee that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature each year. Photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, the husband of a member of the Swedish Academy, is suspected of having raped a woman in Stockholm in 2011. He would have twice gone to the victim.
The United Nations is going to impose punitive measures against human traffickers in Libya. The bank balances of six gang members are frozen and they are also not allowed to travel to other countries, the Security Council has decided. From now on it is also forbidden to provide loans for this six, for example.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Greece to demonstrate against a possible compromise on the name of neighboring Macedonia. Campaigners held demonstrations in 23 cities. They wore banners with inscriptions like ' Macedonia is Greek \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; and ' respect our history \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
With a church service and a minute's silence in London, the terrorist attack of 3 June 2017 was discussed. Then eight people died and 48 people were injured. The relatives lit candles during a service in the Cathedral of Southwark, the BBC reports.
A Canadian of Russian origin has been sentenced to five years in the United States. The 23-year-old Karim Baratov, aka Kay, has admitted that he has cracked thousands of e-mail accounts for the Russian secret service. Baratov has already made a confession in November.
The American police are engaged in a manhunt on two perilous killers and a car thief.
The Italian actress Asia Argento, who accused the American film producer Harvey Weinstein for sexual violence, has said that more abusers will be unmasked. She alluded to the fact that there would be people sitting in the French city on Saturday evening at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, where she made her statement. She did not mention names.
The French film director Luc Besson (59) has been charged with rape by a 27-year-old woman. French media report that. The woman reported Friday, but that was only known Saturday night.
The Swedish Johanna Sandström wanted to have the names of her two children tattooed, but afterwards she was shocked to find that the name of her son Kevin was wrongly written in the tattoo. But instead of having the tattoo removed, Johanna and her husband decided to look for a cheaper solution: she had her son's name changed by law.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian company specialized in antivirus software and other computer security. It has about 3300 employees, especially IT security specialists. The head office is in Moscow. The unlisted company owes its name to two of the four founders: Eugene and his (ex-) wife Natalya Kaspersky.
Because of their involvement in organizing the Russian presidential elections on the Russian-annexed Crimea, the European Union has put five new names on the sanction list. The five had managerial duties in the election commissions of Crimea or the city of Sevastopol.
The Belgian public prosecutor opened a major investigation into 21 suspicious deaths in Namur in recent years. A nurse has since been arrested. He is suspected of manslaughter.
Ok, it's a boy. But that does not mean that the work is over for Alex Apati. On behalf of gambling company Ladbrokes, he keeps an eye on the bets around the various possible names. That is where clear favorites begin to emerge.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist George Soros allegedly leave Budapest. The foundation moves the Hungarian office to Berlin, reports the Austrian newspaper Die Presse.
The British prince Harry keeps the memory of his deceased mother alive by inviting her entire family for his upcoming wedding with Meghan Markle. The brother and sisters of Princess Diana and their children may all come to the party on May 19, Vanity Fair knows.
The Reddit forum has blocked 944 accounts because they would have been created by a Russian 'troll factory'. That organization, the Internet Research Agency, is suspected of having published fake messages in the run-up to the US presidential elections. Reddit, one of the most visited sites in the world, has also mentioned the names of all 944 accounts.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has not been invited to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is also not allowed to stop, the BBC reports.
Facebook has to explain in Russia why access to several Facebook accounts of media organizations has been restricted. This is demanded by the Russian communication watchdog Roskomnadzor, who speaks of unfriendly policy towards Russian users.
The US government is planning to subject the petitioners' activities to social media tightly when applying for visa. Approximately 14.7 million visa applications from immigrants and temporary visitors must be accompanied by all used social media accounts, according to proposals from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Data from some 150 million users of the food and fitness app MyFitnessPal have been stolen by hackers. Under Armor, the company behind the app, released Thursday that late February data from the accounts was captured by an unknown party.
