The atomic bombs were dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are nothing compared to the damage that can cause a hydrogen bomb. That says nuclear expert Sico van der Meer of the Clingendael Institute. North Korea claimed Wednesday to have tested the bomb. If that's true, it's in the eyes of the regime is a huge step forward.
Attention. There it is North Korea to do, says Sico van der Meer of the Clingendael Institute.,, They want world attention, because it falls lately gone through the economic crisis, Ukraine and Russia and refugees. They're a little bit in the corner and do they want to get back into the limelight, '' said the nuclear weapon and Korea expert.
KNMI issued for the province of Drenthe code red, or the highest weather alert in connection with the ice. For the other areas in the north and northeast of the Netherlands continues to code orange effect.
The opinion of the Cologne mayor Henriette Reker women to keep an arm's length in order to defend themselves against attackers, is a completely wrong signal. ' Writes Minister Asscher (Social Affairs) on his Facebook page.
It's total chaos on the roads in the northern Netherlands. The heavy sleet causes for accidents, skidding, congestion and eye damage. It rains accidents on the slippery roads. Rijkswaterstaat advises people with terminal to no more the way to go in the north and northeast.
A Wednesday morning from North Korea conducted nuclear test led to strong international protest. The United Nations Security Council meets in emergency session. North Korea is claiming for the first time successfully have done an underground test of a hydrogen bomb, which is more powerful than an atomic bomb.
Many schools in the north of the country today still keep their doors closed because of the sleet and smoothness. Among other primary and secondary schools in and around the city of Groningen give their pupils and teachers free of ice.
Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom have strongly protested against the nuclear test by North Korea Wednesday morning.,, This is something we can not accept, '' said the Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at a press conference.
The United Nations Security Council comes Wednesday in an emergency session to discuss the nuclear test carried out by North Korea. That three diplomats of the board told Reuters.
The smoothness in the north and northeast of the country probably continues until Thursday morning, because in the night between Wednesday and Thursday can get icy again. Elsewhere in the country the smoothness disappears earlier. That lets you know KNMI Wednesday morning.
The rule of law must give a harsh response to the horrific raids on women in and around the Cologne station around New Year. This German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday stressed. Meanwhile declared in Cologne ninety victims. And in Hamburg and also reportedly in Stuttgart there are reports of groups seemingly foreign men which women were sexually assaulted and best materials.
National and regional administrators and politicians in Germany require that the assailants of dozens of women are identified and punished in Cologne. About a thousand drunken men from Arab and North African descent joined the women in the age of new night at the station, they were sexually abused and robbed them. The police have been around ninety declarations inside.
A white officer indicted for the murder of a black man in North Carleston is Monday released on bail. Michael Butcher was released from prison after a bail of 500,000 dollars (about 460 000 euro) was paid. The local police made Butchers release via Twitter announced. He is allowed to await his trial in freedom.
Representatives of the city of Cologne of Justice and the Federal Police consider Tuesday the massive assault that took place on the night of New Years Eve in the German cathedral city. The authorities now have over sixty statements within women.
In the shadow of the world famous Cologne Cathedral are at least sixty women by different groups of hundreds of North Africans assaulted and robbed. During the turn came, according to the police to many incidents of sexual violence. Media go out of eighty victims.
Dozens of women are assaulted during New Year's Eve in Cologne and robbed by a group of men. According to police, one of the victims were raped.
Ford's cars are fit for Android Car and CarPlay Apple. That the US automaker announced Monday leading up to CES technology fair in Las Vegas.
Ice in northwestern Germany on Sunday has ensured that a hundred train passengers had to spend the night in a sports hall in Norddeich. The Red Cross in the town on the North Sea a few dozen kilometers from the Dutch border provided the stranded passengers of tea, food and blankets. The travelers were on their way to Cologne, but arrived shortly after departure between Norddeich and Emden to stand still. A diesel locomotive is towed back to the train after a few hours.
A two-year-old boy drowned off the coast of the Greek island Agathonisi. The toddler is the first refugee victims of the new year.
Police, firefighters and volunteers search Sunday in the vicinity of the Hunsingo Canal at Leens in North Groningen the 28-year-old Jesse van Wieren, who went missing since New Year's Eve.
Images of the Scheveningen New Year's Dive go all over the world.
President Olafur Ragnar GrÃmsson of Iceland set itself after twenty years in the office no longer re-election. He announced Friday in his New Year speech.
Through a chain collision on the German motorway A33 in the New Year night one person died and 66 people were injured. In the accident at the height of Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia were 25 vehicles involved, said a police spokesman told the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The weather gets colder in the Arctic. After a 'heat wave', where near freezing temperatures were reached, Thursday was 15 degrees below zero. Normally, it freezes at this time of the year 30 to 40 degrees.
Just before the end of the year, reports the 'controversial' Uber taxi service that has already facilitated more than one billion rides. The billionth ride took place on Christmas Eve in London in a so-called UberX car.
A huge wave in the North Sea on Wednesday killed a person on a drilling rig for the Norwegian coastal life. Two others were injured. Their nationality was not disclosed. This was reported by the Norwegian state oil company Statoil, operator of the Troll gas field.
The storm Frank lashes Wednesday the British Isles. In particular, Scotland is badly affected, but also the north-west coast of England has to endure suffering.
Heavy rainfall and storms have resulted in coastal areas of Ireland Wednesday to much flooding. In approximately 13,000 households to the power failure, reported the Irish Times. The most severely affected the southwestern region of Cork. There is since Tuesday 60 millimeters of rain came down.
Tense wait for the residents of the historic city of York in the north east of England on what will happen in the coming hours. Yesterday the water subsided slightly in the River Ouse, which bisects the city. But tonight Storm Frank went ashore in Ireland. The storm was accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds. Thousands of homes were run out of power.
Severe weather, what storm? While large parts of northern England and south-west Scotland for the second time in a week time are white, the top official in charge of limiting flood damage has yet to return from vacation.
