The Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont may leave the prison in Neumünster, Germany. The politician has paid his deposit, the authorities report. Puigdemont wants to speak to the press later in the day, reports news program Tagesschau.
Food watchdog food watch calls on supermarkets to come up with a solution for pesticides on vegetables and fruits from outside the EU. These are pesticides that are banned in Europe because they are bad for consumers.
The Russian navy started rocket testing on the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, which led to measures in Latvia. Riga says it has temporarily had to close the airspace for commercial flights.
Two buses with fighters from the extremist group Jaish al-Islam and relatives left the besieged enclave Duma on Monday after negotiations. According to Syrian state media, they go to Jarablus, a place on the Turkish border on the right bank of the river Euphrates that is not in the hands of the government.
An American and a British soldier were killed Thursday night in an attack with an improvised bomb at the place Manbij in the north of Syria. British and American military authorities reported this on Friday.
A Belgian aid house has fired a 29-year-old cleaner because she misbehaved badly: she stripped at least two female elderly people, after which she photographed them naked with her smartphone.
Ecuador has concluded WikiLeaks founder Julian Assanges contact with the outside world from the embassy in London. A spokesperson reports this to the AFP news agency.
French policemen have observed a minute's silence for their killed colleague Arnaud Beltrame. He got a hero status because he took the place of a hostage during the hostage in Trèbes. The officer of the gendarmerie died of the injuries sustained by the terrorist action, which killed four people.
A teacher who wanted to prepare children to carry out attacks was sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain. According to the authorities, the 25-year-old IS trailer showed terrorist propaganda to sixteen children in a mosque in London, where they were taught outside school hours.
Indian village councils that impose severe penalties for marriages between people from different castes are punished. The Supreme Court of India has ruled that the councils should no longer function as a court.
The United States and China were also the main trading partners of the European Union in 2017. Approximately one third of the EU's total trade is with those two economic superpowers, according to figures from the European statistical office Eurostat.
Nine Iranians have been charged with cyber espionage in the United States. The hackers would have invaded at one or more Dutch universities. They have not been arrested, but the US Department of Justice has brought out their names on Friday to counter them.
Stock exchanges in New York are expected to start losses on Friday. With that, the price fall of Thursday will be followed up further. The reason for the decline is the impending trade war between China and the United States. US President Trump announced Thursday additional import duties against the Asian superpower, which makes investors nervous.
Michel Lelièvre, the former henchman of child rapist and murderer Marc Dutroux, has recently become accustomed to freedom. He recently spent 36 hours outside the prison walls. This will happen more often in the coming period, with a number of limitations. His lawyer Benjamine Bovy has said that Thursday against the Belgian TV channel VTM.
Federal prosecutors in the US have decided to dismiss the charges against eleven of the fifteen security guards of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The members of the security team were charged with a street fight in May 2017 near the Turkish embassy in Washington.
At least four people were killed by an explosion at a busy hotel in the capital of Somalia. The blast was followed by gunfire, police and emergency services said Thursday.
A Palestinian teenage girl filmed when she kicked and hit an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank gets eight months in prison. That follows from the deal she closed Wednesday with the military prosecutor, reported the news site of Haaretz in Israel. According to the deal, she would plead guilty against a reduced sentence.
The United Nations has requested full access Tuesday to citizens who need help in and outside the Syrian region of East Ghouta. In recent days, 50,000 people have fled the besieged area. Another 104,000 people have been expelled from home by the fighting in the northern Afrin. 'These people have left with nothing and they need everything, from clothing to shelter,' said a spokesperson for the UNHCR refugee organization.
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom wants to hear the American former president Barack Obama in the damage case around his company Megaupload. That should happen if Obama visits New Zealand this week anyway. Dotcom demands about $ 10 billion from the New Zealand and US authorities because his company is destroyed. His freedom has also been restricted for seven years.
The governor of Mississippi has put his signature on Monday under the strictest abortion law in the US. In the state, termination of pregnancy after fifteen weeks is now prohibited with a few exceptions. The Republican Phil Bryant said he was proud of these regulations. Pro-abortion activists will challenge them in court as unconstitutional.
Trumps ex-campaign leader Paul Manafort has filed a petition with a federal court that the charges against him will be rejected. According to Manafort, special prosecutor Robert Mueller has exceeded his jurisdiction because he wants to prosecute Manafort for crimes that are not related to his investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 American elections.
France is throwing tech giants Apple and Google to court for unfair trade practices. The French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced that Wednesday. The conditions that the American companies set to app makers are a thorn in the eye.
The man who put on a military in Vienna had radical-Islamic sympathies. The authorities have searched the man's home and take a close look at his activities on the internet, the Interior Ministry announced.
Activists in the American city of San Diego are preparing for protests against President Trump. He begins his two-day visit to California on Tuesday, his first visit as president to the state.
The Russian competition authorities started an investigation into telecom provider Vimpelcom, part of the Amsterdam-based company Veon. The case is about prices for roaming.
The Slovak Minister Robert Kaliňák (Home Affairs) has announced his departure. One of the coalition parties had insisted on this after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée.
The British police have more than two hundred people in the picture who may be able to testify about the poisoning of the former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The police also scrutinizes about 240 possible evidence.
The British police assume that the former Russian double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Joelia have been poisoned in the home of Skripal in Salisbury. This reported SkyNews. The researchers of the enigmatic assassination attempt with a kind of nerve gas extend their research area.
The Danish inventor Peter Madsen (47) maintains that he did not kill the Swedish journalist Kim Wall. However, he admits cutting her body into pieces. 'She was killed in an accident', Madsen said in Copenhagen on Thursday during the first day of the trial against him.
Aditya Mittal, the son of ArcelorMittal-chairman and CEO Lakshmi Mittal, has risen a step on the steel conglomerate ladder. Aditya (42) has been appointed president at a time when a lot of steering skills from the steel company are being asked.
