At least six children were injured when an inflatable slide collapsed at a fair in the English town of Woking. This is reported by various English media. How that could have happened is not yet known.
Fourteen people were killed in a chain collision in the Chinese northwestern province of Gansu. At least 27 others were injured in the accident involving 31 vehicles, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua
The assignment for the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from someone from 'the highest circles of the Saudi government', but not from King Salman. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan writes this in an opinion piece for the American newspaper The Washington Post.
Russia has discreetly invited important Afghan politicians to talk to the Taliban in Moscow about peace. Moscow thus passes the Afghan government, which is not pleased with the plan, reports the Reuters news agency on the basis of discussions with those involved.
At least seven people were killed in Egypt by an attack on a bus. Fourteen others were injured. The bus was on its way to a Coptic monastery in Minya in Upper Egypt.
No criminal offenses were found during the suicide of Slobodan Praljak. The Croatian former general (72) died last November after having taken a drink in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He did this after the judges sentenced him to twenty years in prison. He then became unwell and died more than two hours later in a hospital in The Hague.
Desi Bouterse, chief suspect in the 8 December trial, will have the opportunity to speak on Monday during a court session. Thereafter, the handling of the criminal case is closed against him. Whether he will use this right to the last word is not known. In the past eighteen years in which the Surinam court of martial law dealt with this case, Bouterse has never been personally present. He was always represented by his lawyer.
At least eighteen pupils and teachers died on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea on Thursday due to a sudden flooding as a result of severe storms. The bus they were in was flushing off the road. According to local authorities, at least 22 others were injured. A state of emergency has been declared in the affected area.
On a military base in the province of Herat, in the west of Afghanistan, a Czech soldier was killed on Monday when an Afghan commando opened fire on NATO troops. Two Czechs were also injured. This has been announced by the Czech Ministry of Defense.
In the event of flooding after severe storms in the Malaga region in the south of Spain, a firefighter died on Sunday.
At least 11 civilians were killed Sunday in an explosion in East Afghanistan when a minivan hit a roadside bomb in Nangarh Province. Six children are among the dead.
The fiancée of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has reacted on Twitter to the death of her lover. 'They have taken your physical presence from this world. But your beautiful smile will forever be in my soul, 'wrote Hatice Cengiz.
In the center of London, tens of thousands of people took part in an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday. The demonstrators want a new referendum about the brexit. According to the British media, the organizers say that as many as 500,000 people took part in the demonstration. Beforehand, they had announced that they expected 100,000 people.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte encouraged other Member States at the EU summit in Brussels to export fewer arms to Saudi Arabia. The Lower House had urged him to insist on this after the disappearance of the critical Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The two leaders of the Italian coalition government are talking about plans in the controversial budget of the country. But Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stressed on Thursday in Brussels that there is no break in the government team. Conte has become a government leader as a neutral figure and not a member of a party.
An Afghan MP was killed Wednesday by a bomb that was placed under his office chair. Three other people were also killed in the attack, which has been claimed by the radical Taliban.
The South Korean authorities have rejected the asylum application from hundreds of Yemeni asylum seekers. They had traveled to the popular Jeju island because they could go there without a visa. That measure was actually intended to attract more vacationers.
Americans can not stop talking about a video of rapper T.I. with, among others, a naked doppelganger by Melania Trump.
At least sixteen people were killed by a double suicide attack on a popular restaurant and hotel in the Somali city of Baidoa. About fifty others were injured. That reports the Somali police.
Israeli forces have shot seven Palestinians during new riots in the border between Gaza and Israel. This is reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is in power. According to the ministry, at least 250 people were injured, including ten minors.
In addition to being able to count on public holidays every year, you can also count on a new Call of Duty being issued. This year the game only comes a few weeks earlier than you are used to, namely October 12.
In a shooting in a bar in the French city of Toulouse, a 35-year-old man was killed on Monday. Two others, including a 40-year-old man, were injured. That reports La Depeche. The perpetrator would have fled by engine.
One of the Russian hackers who, according to the US and the Netherlands, are behind the cyber attacks on, among others, the OPCW in The Hague, is registered at an address in Moscow that has been identified by the Americans as a building of the military intelligence service GROe.
A prominent critic of the government in Saudi Arabia has disappeared in Turkey. He is probably being held at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.
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.
Certainly 34 migrants have been drowned by a shipwreck in the west of the Mediterranean. 26 people survived the disaster. The International Organization for Migration has announced this on the basis of, among others, the Moroccan navy.
Hundreds of Catalan separatists have blocked traffic arteries in several places, including the track of the high-speed train AVE in Gerona. In Barcelona, among others, the central Via Laietana is blocked. A railway is also blocked at Tarragona.
It is the favorite party game among journalists, diplomats and many others who work in the Brussels bubble. Who will be the successor of President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker? Can the Social Democrats and liberals upset the Christian Democrats?
Brett Kavanaugh does not worry about withdrawing his candidacy for the American Supreme Court. The conservative candidate for the position, put forward by President Donald Trump, is under attack by the accusation of sexually transgressive behavior in his student days. Two women have accused him of this.
The Colombian municipality of Medellín has closed the museum dedicated to its most notorious resident, Pablo Escobar (1949-1993). Escobar was a ruthless drug lord who at the height of his power held more than three quarters of the world's cocaine trafficking and smuggling. He was the founder and the boss of the gang called the Medellín Cartel.
