Almost fifty years after the extinction of the black rhinoceros in Chad, the reintroduction of the animals into the African country is started. Six rhinos are flown in on Thursday from South Africa to Chad to be released there in the Zakouma National Park.
Houthi rebels have fired missiles from Yemen to Saudi Arabia. According to their news agency Saba, this time it was about eight ballistic projectiles aimed at 'economic and essential goals' # \u0026 # x27; in the province of Jizan.
The Spanish police have intercepted a record amount of cocaine. In a shipping container in the Spanish port city of Algeciras, nearly 9 tons of coke were found among the bananas, customs reported Wednesday.
The leaders of South and North Korea will also have dinner on Friday and then find a menu with a wink to the past. Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un meet in the border town of Panmunjom.
Yemeni insurgents have fired two missiles at neighboring Saudi Arabia. Saudi state media reports that the projectiles have been intercepted above the port city of Jizan. The fragments would then have ended up in residential areas. The authorities do not yet have any indications that victims have fallen.
An island in the archipelago of Vanuatu must be completely evacuated because a volcano continues to spew ash. The state of emergency has been declared on Ambae, which threatens to become uninhabitable.
At least five people were killed by a bomb attack during a football match in the port city of Barawe in the southeast of Somalia. There were also dozens of injured.
Russian naval vessels have left their base in the Syrian port city of Tartous on the Mediterranean. The news agency Interfax was told by parliamentarian Vladimir Shamanov on Thursday.
The planned demolition of a large silo in Denmark has gone down dramatically. The approximately 53 meters high colossus fell in the wrong direction after an explosion. No one was injured, but an adjacent library suffered damage.
Three brothers bought a paradise island next to Ibiza for 18 million euros.
The Netherlands has an 'inheritance debt towards Europe', because the cocaine trade and the problems surrounding it have moved from Rotterdam to Antwerp. That says the Antwerp mayor Bart de Wever.
A huge oil spill on the east coast of the island of Borneo threatens serious environmental damage. The authorities have declared a state of emergency. Efforts are being made to prevent further dispersal in the sea.
A large fire destroyed several sheds in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida in which relief supplies were stored. According to eyewitnesses, the warehouses of the World Food Program, among other things, went up in flames.
Papua New Guinea was again startled by a powerful quake that took place off the south coast of the island of New Britain. According to the US seismological service USGS, the quake had a force of 6.9. A tsunami warning is not issued.
Top consultations between the EU and Turkey have not led to a breakthrough. EU President Donald Tusk acknowledged that no compromises had been achieved, but expressed the hope that the parties would still come closer together in the future.
A teenager who committed a bomb attack on a British subway train was sentenced to life imprisonment. As a result of the attack, 51 people were injured at Parsons Green station last year.
A huge chaos in the port of Pakistani Karachi. Because of a peculiar maneuver of a skipper dozens of sea containers tumbled into the water. Port workers filmed the accident.
The Mauritian president Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, the first female head of state of the island state in the Indian Ocean, has resigned. She will give up her office on 23 March after allegations of fraud.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Crimea on Wednesday, the Ukrainian peninsula that was annexed by Russia in March 2014. Putin visited, among other things, the bridge that is being built between the Crimea and the Russian mainland. The president said he hopes the bridge will be ready next summer, rather than planned.
The Surinamese police have intercepted a plane with drugs in the west of the country. Four people have been arrested. The National Information Institute announced this on Tuesday. No announcements were made about the quantity and type of drugs.
The proposed meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is historical in advance. It has not happened before that the leaders of both countries looked each other in the eye.
In a new earthquake in Papua New Guinea, at least 25 people were killed in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. According to the authorities, the quake had a strength of 6.7 and took place in a remote mountain area in the province of Hela. Since last week, more than a hundred people have died in earthquakes in the area and at least five hundred wounded have fallen.
A Russian plane crashed on the landing at an air base southeast of the Syrian port city of Latakia on Tuesday. As a result, all 32 occupants were killed, reports the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Belgian customs authorities found 575 kilos of cocaine in two containers with tiles last week. They had been unloaded at various times in the port of Antwerp a few weeks earlier.
A team from the Surinamese police encountered a special investigation on a large submarine that was probably used for drug transport. The submarine was found in a creek in the Saramacca district, west of the capital Paramaribo. The National Information Institute (NII) announced this on Friday.
The police in Albania intercepted a large batch of cocaine. In the port of Durrës the police discovered 613 kilos worth about 180 million euros in the double bottom of a container loaded with bananas on a ship.
Due to a major earthquake in Papua New Guinea, at least 30 people were killed according to local media. The local newspaper Post Courier reported more than three hundred wounded on Tuesday. However, the exact extent of the damage is still unclear more than 24 hours after the quake. Moreover, there are still aftershocks.
Japanese agents have arrested two men in Tokyo after the headquarters was fired from a pro-North Korean organization. The police report that several bullets were fired at the building from a vehicle, reports Japanese media.
Approximately 6,000 people in New Zealand are almost cut off from the outside world by natural violence by cyclone Gita. Due to various landslides, the access road to Port Tarakohe has become impassable for the popular Golden Bay.
Oxfamaas Roland Van Hauwermeiren paid Haitian prostitutes between 79 and 158 euros each time.
