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More and more places in Austria are cut off from the outside world by the large amount of snow that has fallen. Moreover, there is a strong wind, which in some places...

Justice in Germany has sued a 27-year-old woman for war crimes in Iraq. The German would, together with her husband as a supporter of Islamic State in Iraq, a girl of 5 years...

At the cathedral of Saint Dionysius in Athens a bomb exploded on Thursday morning. An agent and an employee of the church were injured.

A 33-year-old German snowboarder was killed by an avalanche in the Austrian ski resort of Obergurgl on Tuesday. She was buried outside the prepared piste by a 400 meter...

An American woman has to go to jail for 40 years because she had already forgotten her very own children in the car. They died in a blood-hot car.

For the first time since the beginning of the peace talks in Sweden there is direct contact between the warring factions in Yemen. Under pressure from Western mediators, a delegation of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi sat around the table with a delegation of the rebellious Houthis.

The French police arrested more than 30 people shortly before the protests that are being held on Saturday in the country.

In a nightclub in the Italian province of Ancona, six people were killed on Friday night after panic broke out.

The European population will not have the chance to speak out in a referendum about the Brexit. The European Commission has rejected a citizens' initiative that calls for an EU-wide plebiscite because it falls outside its competence.

The American automaker General Motors (GM) will cut significantly in its workforce next year. The company also wants to close five factories in North America, as announced on Monday. At the end of 2019, GM will also close two factories outside the continent.

A man opened fire at a hospital in the American city of Chicago and killed at least three people. The archer himself was also killed. It is not known whether he has robbed himself of life or was shot dead by the police.

NASA has turned off the Kepler space telescope because the fuel in the famous satellite has been exhausted. This brings an end to a mission that started in March 2009. Since then, the telescope has discovered approximately 2600 planets outside our solar system, according to NASA Tuesday.

A burglar from Limestone County, Alabama, was so comfortable in the house of a total stranger that he decided to bake an egg, wash his clothes, cut toenails and bathe. When the resident of the house discovered the 31-year-old man, she asked him to leave, but he declared that he was her grandson: 'Do not you know that?'

The Saudi authorities have confirmed the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to the Saudi prosecutor, there is a fight between him and people he met out there at the consulate in Istanbul that led to his death, reports Saudi state television.

The Spanish island of Mallorca has been hit again by severe weather and flooding. This time it was stormy weather in the north of the island, more than 45 kilometers away from the capital Palma de Mallorca. Due to heavy rains from Thursday evening until Friday morning, rivers quickly left their banks.

One of the 15 men of the assassination who arrived in Istanbul on the same day of the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, would have been killed in a mysterious 'traffic accident', reports Turkish media.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who hides in the London embassy of Ecuador, may have a little more contact with the outside world. Assange has not been able to call and use the internet in recent months, but according to WikiLeaks these restrictions are relaxed.

On Mallorca is still looking for the disappeared boy, Artur, of six years that went missing last Tuesday after the heavy weather. According to the Spanish newspaper El País he has a Dutch father.

Belgians cast their vote on Sunday in municipal and provincial elections. They are the first polls since 2014 and are seen as an important indicator for the parliamentary elections in May next year. Approximately 8.2 million Belgians can vote for municipal councils and in Flanders and Wallonia also for provincial councils.

The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi secretly recorded his own interrogation and torture in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and forwarded it to his fiancé.

For the 1,200 children who have been stranded in Greece without family or other adult assistance from outside the EU, the European Commission will make 24.1 million euros available. The money is intended for 'child-friendly' accommodation and for teaching unaccompanied minor migrants and refugees.

The American spacecraft Voyager 2 is about to leave our solar system. After more than forty years of continuous flying, he has come to the edge, almost 18 billion kilometers from the earth. In a while, the probe enters the endless space between the stars. When that happens exactly, it is unpredictable, because scientists do not know exactly what the universe looks like there.

Turkey may search in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul for the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. So says the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who emphasizes that his country 'has nothing to hide.'

The American police arrested a large group of demonstrators who had invaded two Senate offices. The protest action was against the possible appointment of Brett Kavanaugh as chief judge. According to CNN, 302 protesters were arrested, who had 'unlawfully' entered the buildings.

In the mail room of the Pentagon, outside the main building of the department, two packets have been intercepted that presumably contain the deadly poison ricin. According to the American media, the addressees were Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Admiral John Richardson. The FBI initiates an investigation and analyzes the content.

The Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson is the new editor-in-chief of the famous whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange who sought refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London, has had virtually no contact with the outside world for six months. WikiLeaks reported that Assange therefore appointed ex-spokesman Hrafnsson as new chief editor.

A third woman presented Wednesday with accusations to Brett Kavanaugh. Julie Swetnick, who lives in Washington, said that Trump's candidacy for the American Supreme Court displayed sexual cross-border behavior during his high school time. He participated in the attempts to get girls intoxicated to abuse them afterwards.

Municipalities have to make a list of the most risky buildings of Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Interior) in connection with the fire in the Grenfell Tower in London. It must also be investigated whether the façades of these buildings comply with the building regulations.

On Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, enormous dust storms have been seen. Until now they had only been observed on the earth and on Mars.

Iran has deployed a fleet of illegal ghost ships that try to export oil outside of its flag. Transport with ships without nationality continues despite the trade sanctions imposed by the United States.