The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded on Friday, is one of the most important political rewards that is being forgiven in the world. This year, the choice seems more difficult than in other years because it is not clear how sustainable current peace initiatives will be.
On Wednesday, British Queen Elizabeth joined the long queue of Heads of State who expressed their sympathy to the Indonesian President Joko Widodo with the victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on the island of Sulawesi.
Morocco opposes the plan for reception centers in North Africa, where it is necessary to determine whether migrants are entitled to European asylum. According to the Moroccan minister of Foreign Affairs, such reception locations are counterproductive.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will fly to Asia on Saturday to talk with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, among others. The department announced this on Tuesday.
The British Defense Minister Gavin Williamson confirmed his belief in NATO and underlined the special relationship with Germany. He said in an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the United Kingdom will keep military personnel stationed in Germany after the Brexit.
Flanders is going to have an unmanned boat cross the Atlantic. In May 2019 the vessel, Mahi, departs from the west coast of France for a trip to Guadeloupe.
The storm Zorba has reached the Greek west coast, but the consequences are- given the ominous expectations-, Greek media reports, although there is damage to the coast.
A 19-year-old boy survived 49 days on a loose raft at sea that drove thousands of kilometers.
The emergency services in the American state of North Carolina have found hundreds of dead fish on a motorway. The road flooded when Hurricane Florence drew across the state, reports American media.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has left for the United States. He will personally discuss President Donald Trump about his recent summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, news agency Yonhap. The South Korean will also address the UN General Assembly.
In the Libyan capital Tripoli, in spite of a ceasefire agreement agreed last month, 106 people were killed. Another 500 people were injured in fighting with rival militias according to the internationally recognized unitary government.
Whether it was seven minutes that changed the world remains to be seen, but it was interesting and emotional. South Korean president Moon Jae-in, son of North Korean refugees, who was this week as a hero was received in a packed North Korean stadium and could speak about the dream of a reunification of the two countries. As a cherry on the cake, his fist was brought in afterwards by dictator Kim Jong-un. Best friends forever?
Justice in Germany goes a 94-year-old former SS \u0026 # x27; continue for complicity in the killing of hundreds of people in a concentration camp during the Second World War. The court in Münster said that the case against the former SS \u0026 # x27; serves for a juvenile court because the suspect was not older than 21 at the end of the war.
It is scaring in New Bern. Residents of the little town in North Carolina who return from their hiding places see the damage of Florence with displeasure. The hurricane has kept a good hold- and the danger has not yet passed.
Judy Cochran was heartbroken. Three years ago the dwarf pony of this Texan disappeared mysteriously. The woman, who is the mayor of Livingston just north of Houston, had an idea who was responsible for the disappearance.
The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has sent a large amount of edible mushrooms to South Korea. It is a gift for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, news agency Yonhap.
Kim Jong-un visits South Korea before the end of the year. He promised the South Korean president Moon Jae-in. It will be the first time that a North Korean leader is visiting the south.
US President Donald Trump has pledged full support to the states of North and South Carolina inflicted by Hurricane Florence. 'We will be 100 percent,' said Trump on Wednesday in a short speech after his arrival in North Carolina with a view to post-storm reconstruction.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is speaking to his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday. Moon is in North Korea for a three-day summit with the dictator of that country, Kim Jong-un. The summit ends Friday. Moon then goes Sunday to New York reported news agency Yonhap.
The leaders of North and South Korea visit a volcano on the Chinese border on Thursday. The active volcano is called the Paektu Mountain and is revered by many Koreans as a spiritual source of the country.
North and South Korea have taken a new step in the peace process between the two countries. The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, have agreed during the three-day summit in Pyongyang to work for a nuclear-free and peaceful peninsula.
South Korean president Moon Jae-in was welcomed at the airport at Pyongyang by Kim Jong-un. The North Korean dictator was waiting for Moon when he stepped off the plane. The women of the two leaders were present.
Moon is about the diplomatic ties, not just the umpteenth explanation. That is what the South Korean president says, prior to his visit to Pyongyang where he will meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. It is the third time that they shake hands, since they first spoke in April.
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast rose to at least 23. Most of the victims fell in the state of North Carolina, where the coastal town of Wilmington was cut off from the outside world by the high water. The flooding can last for weeks.
After a music festival in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, seven people probably died from an overdose of drugs. Five people are in a coma.
Because of the hurricane Mangkhut, at least 65 people died in the Philippines. Especially in the north of the main island of Luzon many people have become victims of landslides. In a series of landslides, some 45 people are still missing in the province of Benguet, according to Filipino media.
Thousands of people who had been evacuated because of a major gas leak in the US state of Massachusetts are allowed to go home. In the course of Sunday they have electricity again. All gas connections are closed.
Hurricane Florence has been watered down to a tropical depression, but the danger has not yet receded for the inhabitants of the American states of North and South Carolina. The wind is still blowing and there is a lot of rain. The death toll of the storm is now at thirteen, including a mother with her child.
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast has risen to at least eleven. By the hurricane and by 'epic amounts of rain \u0026 quot; large parts of the southeastern coast of the US are flooded.
Because of the hurricane of Florence, large parts of the southeastern coast of the US have come under water. Chuck Watson, a disaster expert from a research institute in Georgia, said the damage could amount to about $ 20 billion (more than EUR 17 billion).
