No car could be seen in dozens of Belgian city centers. Among others, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Kortrijk and Mechelen participated in Autoloze Zondag. 'By car-free streets, cities and municipalities are not only more livable, but sustainable transport is also good for the environment and health', according to the organizers. In Brussels, the entire public transport was free on Sundays.
Pope Francis has called on the Mafiosi in Sicily to give up their lives full of crime and violence and to opt for love. The prince of the Church said that members of organized crime, who are mostly practicing Catholics, 'can not believe in God and can be Mafiosi at the same time.'
The Saudi airline Flynas will hire female co-pilots. The decision follows reforms that give women more opportunities to participate in the labor market.
From a bridge of a motorway in the Italian L \u0026 # x27; Aquila, pieces of concrete have come loose. The chunks ended up on a road under the highway on Monday evening, but nobody was hurt, reported ANSA news agency.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has promised his compatriots to gradually raise the minimum wage and pensions in the coming months and years and to reduce the tax burden. However, the country can only be stabilized for the long term if the reforms continue and investments are made.
The African migrants who had to stay on board a ship in the port of Catania for over a week were detained in Libya for two years by smugglers. They were beaten, tortured and raped there before they made the crossing to Europe, reports the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations.
The British rescue services have found the bodies of two missing passengers on a Belgian fishing boat on Sunday. This has been announced by the Belgian Maritime Rescue and Coordination Center. The ship was capsized on Saturday at the end of the afternoon off the coast of the English county of Norfolk.
The UN refugee organization wants EU countries to make reception places available for around 150 rescued people on board an Italian coastguard ship. The UNHCR also calls on the Italian government to immediately dispose of the migrants concerned.
The carlists, the Spanish movement that Prince Carlos, born and living in the Netherlands, regards as the rightful occupier of the Spanish throne, will remember Friday during a mass in the San Fermin de los Navarros church in Madrid on the death in August 2010 of 'king Carlos Hugo '.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen continues his hunt for CNRP's largest opposition party last year. The Voice of America reports from Phnom Penh that former party leader Sam Rainsy has been charged with lese majesty.
A record load of almost two tons of cocaine has been discovered in the port of Ghent. According to the federal judicial police of East Flanders, the drugs have a street value of 100 million euros.
Dozens of young migrants have after a few days left the Italian coast guard ship in the port of Catania. The nearly thirty minors left the ship from Wednesday to Thursday, reports Italian media. The adults must stay on board.
An Italian coast guard ship with 177 rescued migrants on board has arrived in the port of Catania. However, migrants are only allowed to disembark if other EU member states are prepared to receive them, say sources within the Ministry of the Interior against ANSA news agency.
Saturday was a day of national mourning in Italy to commemorate the 43 people who did not survive the bridegroom in Genoa. In the morning a state funeral was held for a number of victims. About 10,000 people attended the memorial service that was held at the port of Genoa.
The operator of the bridge that collapsed in Genoa on Tuesday, killing 42 people, pledged half a billion euros to settle the disaster.
In Genoa Saturday a commemoration service was held for the first 18 of the total of 42 people who died after the collapse of the bridge last Tuesday. There was applause for the deceased, but also for the employees of the emergency services and for the 560 people who lived in houses near or under the bridge and who had become homeless.
The Italian emergency services have found three more deaths under the rubble of the collapsed bridge in the port city of Genoa. This has increased the number of fatalities to 41. The Italian news agency ANSA reports this.
The death toll after the collapse of a traffic bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa has increased to 31. The civil protection service has confirmed this, reports the newspaper La Repubblica. There are two children among the dead. Five bodies still have to be identified.
A significant part of a motorway bridge at Genoa has collapsed. Italian media report that it is still unknown whether there are victims. The Morandi bridge over the Polcevera River is to the west of the Italian port city.
In Brussels, a solution is being worked behind the scenes for the refugees aboard the rescue ship Aquarius. According to a spokeswoman for the European Commission, the EU administration is 'in contact with a number of member states' that the committee 'approached' about the matter. She did not want to say which countries are involved.
The disaster phase applies due to a major fire in the port of Antwerp. The fire in the shed has been raging since Saturday morning, but the fire department does not get the fire under control. It involves 5000 tons of smoldering nickel sulphide.
A game of 'doing, daring or the truth' can lead to crazy things, but drinking a beer from a dead fish we had not heard before. The 28-year-old Aimee Lynn was challenged by her friends to perform the bizarre stunt, while the whole event was captured by one of the bystanders. The video appeared online and social media users find it disgusting.
After halting for weeks, the ship Aquarius has rescued 141 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean. About 25 nautical miles from the coast of Libya, 25 migrants were first taken from a small wooden boat. In the same area the crew of the Aquarius later took another 116 people on board.
The Italian police found more than 20 tons of hashish in a ship's two fuel tanks with a street value of 150 to 200 million euros. The eleven passengers, all from Montenegro, have been arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
A rescue ship with 87 migrants on board has arrived in Spain. The vessel Open Arms arrived Thursday morning in the southern port city of Algeciras (Andalucia), reported aid organization Proactiva. The migrants, including 12 minors from Sudan and Gambia, were rescued from Libya more than a week ago.
Belgian customs have again done a large drug seizure in the port of Antwerp. In a control action, 1561 kilos of cocaine was intercepted, reports the Ministry of Finance. On Friday, 1727 kilos of cocaine had already been seized.
A rescue ship of aid organization Proactiva with 87 migrants on board sets sail for Spain. The Spanish rescue organization reported that on the night from Monday to Sunday on Twitter.
Italy has again refused a ship with refugees. It is a ship with 450 migrants on board. Because the vessel was already in the waters of Malta before, Rome finds that the refugees have to go ashore there.
A British IS-trailer calling for an attack on Prince George has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The 32-year-old Husnain Rashid must spend at least 25 years behind the bars before he qualifies for release, Sky News.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella personally interfered with the fact that 67 migrants were allowed to come to a Sicilian port after they had been picked up from the sea off the Libyan coast. Italian media report that Friday.
