When the floods in the north of England are looters active. British media reported Wednesday that committed a series of thefts in York in a flooded neighborhood. The local police have complained that it is incomprehensible that there are those who inflict the flood victims more suffering.
A high-ranking official and advisor to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is deceased in a car accident. That made the state news agency KCNA announced on Wednesday local time.
In the flood area in the north of England is a bridge collapsed after day-long rain. The bridge in the town of 7000 inhabitants Tadcaster in Yorkshire broke down Tuesday night and plunged into the River Wharfe.
The Belgian 'problem reactors' must must stop completely closed and Belgium with nuclear power. An accident in the Belgian nuclear sector represents a huge threat to the population of Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
While areas in northern England the floods of recent days are barely above is again bad weather ahead. Britain's national weather institute warns again for heavy rain and strong winds that draw from Tuesday night on the north of the country.
The German Länder are planning to file joint 17 billion euros in 2016 to deal with the refugee crisis. That notice the daily Die Welt Tuesday based on a survey among finance ministries of the Länder.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday in a televised speech that the Sunni extremists of Islamic State (IS) are defeated in 2016. He said,, 2015 was the year of liberation and 2016 will be the year of the final victory. ''
In northern Spain 120 raging forest fires fanned by strong winds. Over eighty fires have been counted in the region of Cantabria.
Refugees in the German city of Reichenberg given two days before the New Year to get used the occasion at the sound of firecrackers. The place in Bavaria wants to take away their fear possible and show the refugees and what they can expect in the New Year night.
The British defense against floods must be completely overhauled. That said, the British government environmental organization Monday. According to the agency must be made watertight and better homes, the country needs a better warning.
Iraqi forces have taken Sunday the government complex in downtown Ramadi. Thus, the terror group Islamic State of Iraq is defeated in this city, reported a spokesman for the Iraqi armed forces.
British Prime Minister David Cameron sends more help to the flood-stricken areas in the north of England. He said Sunday after chairing a meeting of a crisis.
The death toll from tornadoes, heavy rains and flooding in the southern United States continues on. According to US media are certainly 26 people have been killed by the storm.
Northwest England struggling for the second time in a month's time with major flooding. Elsewhere in the world it is not a standard in December again.
An estimated 130,000 people are due to heavy rainfall and high water levels in the South American Paraguay on the run from the water. The large flows of the rivers Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay Quarai entered by the extremely wet weather far beyond their banks and cause a nuisance in their catchment areas in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Iraq is preparing for the decisive attack on the IS-stronghold Ramadi. The state television reported Friday that government troops have now penetrated deep into the city.
With a mass assault on the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco is the 185 Africans succeeded in this piece of Spanish territory to arrive in North Africa. Two refugees came to the action on Christmas Eve killed. According to the Spanish news agency EFE were in the rush, one of the largest in recent months, involved more than 250 Africans.
Barely a week after the disaster rescuers have recovered forty bodies in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The death toll thus comes to 63. The ferry was last Saturday with 118 people on board capsized, according to official figures published Friday.
For the third time this year, China has arrested a Japanese resident in China. This said a government spokesman in Japan Friday.
The death toll from storms in the southeastern US has risen to fourteen. In the state of Tennessee on Thursday were further reported three deaths, making the death toll there now stands at six. In Mississippi, seven people, was shot dead in Arkansas. Dozens of people have been injured and to multiple still being sought.
The Belgian electricity company Electrabel in the night from Thursday to Friday, at 1:00 pm, unexpectedly shut down its nuclear reactor Doel 3 because of a water leak. That is confirmed by the power company.
An indoor shopping mall in the US city of Charlotte (North Carolina) Thursday scene would have been a shooting. Witnesses report it immediately to have heard seven shots. The police are massively plucked, while shoppers outward flight. There would be at least one person injured or even died, possibly the shooter.
In the German city of Dresden on Monday evening thousands of protesters on the leg. Both proponents and opponents of anti-Islam movement Pegida are divided evenly. The same applies to the police. Until now expired several peaceful demonstrations. When Pegida sounding Christmas carols, the opponents include the Ode an die Freude (Ode to Peace) of Schiller, with the famous phrase 'all people become brothers'.
They are the darlings of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, which they reportedly personally selected, but count outside the borders of the communist state, the girls from the band Moranbong be less understanding.
In disasters and major accidents this year worldwide, about 26,000 people were killed. Compared to 2014 is a doubling, the Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re reported Friday.
Hyeon Soo Lim, head pastor in one of Canada's largest churches, was arrested in February.
Until now it was boxing with kid gloves between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, fearing their constituents who are often in the same pond- save for the head. But tensions run ahead of a new Republican TV debate tonight in Las Vegas, and now it's still hard whack blown.
When discovered a new mass grave in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina have been recovered to date remains of thirty people now. That Sarajevo, the public prosecution said Tuesday. The grave was discovered north of the town of Kozluk. It was hidden in a landfill.
Granted, it does not look really nice, but if it is properly dissecting this minke whale delivers a wealth of new information. Employees of Naturalis get the nine meter long mammal Tuesday in Harlingen apart to learn more about the cause of death. The animal washed ashore Sunday to Razende Bol on Texel.
The charges of desertion against Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier for five years in Afghanistan was held captive by the Taliban and exchanged for captured Taliban is Monday for trial referred to a court-martial.
