A Danish container ship with rescued migrants on board is allowed to moor in Italy. The mayor of Pozzallo said that Alexander Maersk has permission from Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to enter the port of his city.
Spain wants a responsible policy with regard to migration, but does not always include boats with refugees who are refused elsewhere. 'Spain is not a rescue brigade' said the Spanish Minister of Public Works, José Luis Abalos, on Monday in an interview on TV.
Spain is prepared to provide Malta with humanitarian aid for a boat sailing with more than 200 migrants on board in the vicinity of the island state. That is what a government spokeswoman in Madrid announced after the Cabinet meeting.
Belgian Customs has one of the largest drug seizures ever done in the port of Antwerp. In a container with calcium carbonate that was intended for a company in Kontich, more than 954 kilos of heroin was hidden. The party, which has a street value of 55 million euros, came from the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran.
The third ship with migrants was also moored at 13.15 in the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday. There are about 250 migrants on board the Italian navy ship.
The rescue ship Aquarius has also arrived in the Spanish port city of Valencia. There are 106 migrants on board.
A ship of the Italian coast guard arrived on Sunday morning just before 7 am in the Spanish port city of Valencia. On board are 274 migrants who were rescued from the Mediterranean a week ago by the crew of the rescue ship Aquarius.
Libyan soldiers have taken prison in the port city of Derna Abu Sufian bin Qumu. This reports the Saudi state television channel Al Arabiya on the authority of a military source. The 59-year-old Bin Qumu is the former driver of Osama bin Laden and one of the leaders of the Libyan terror organization Ansar al-Sharia.
Soldiers supported by a coalition of Arab countries have acquired the airport of Hodeidah, the most important port city of Yemen. That reports the media agency of the Jeminite forces.
Drug gangs in the south of Spain are becoming increasingly powerful and violent. Residents of the port city of Algeciras are fed up and have demonstrated on several occasions in the village square against the increasing drug violence.
The Italian and French governments have come into full collision about the floundering immigrants. Rome demands apologies from Paris. As long as this does not happen, the diplomatic crisis continues. The Italian Minister of Economic Affairs Giovanni Tria has canceled his trip to Paris to meet his colleague. Prime Minister Conte also plans to cancel his trip to Paris where he would meet French President Macron.
Three ships with migrants, including the rescue ship Aquarius, are expected Saturday night in the port of Valencia. This was reported by aid organization SOS Méditérranée. The time of arrival depends on the conditions at sea.
A bunch of tourists fell to pieces after a selfie on a cliff in Portugal.
Soldiers supported by a coalition of Arab countries have invaded the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. That reports television station Al-Arabiya.
The Public Prosecution Service suspects a wholesaler of chemicals in Rotterdam from illegally exporting acetone to Syria. That confirms the OM. Acetone can be used as raw material in the production of chemical weapons.
Belgian customs found 56 kilos of cocaine in counterfeit pineapples in the port of Antwerp. The party has been confiscated. The drugs, with a market value of several millions, were hidden between real pineapples in fake copies, reports the Antwerp prosecutor.
The former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has returned to court on Friday. The court in port city Durban decided to adjourn the case until July 27, to give the defense and prosecutors more preparation time.
At the appeal court in Antwerp, the appeal starts on Thursday in the large drug store in which former TV presenter Frank Masmeijer plays an alleged role. Masmeijer received eight years in prison and a fine of 48,000 euros for involvement in the import of 467 kilos of cocaine via the port of Antwerp. Against him seven years in prison had been demanded. The former NCRV television star has always denied his share and therefore appealed.
The US has warned the United Arab Emirates not to attack the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. The army of Yemen, supported by the Emirates, has approached Hodeidah to less than 10 kilometers. Hodeidah is in the hands of Houthi rebels and the port is an important release point for relief supplies for the ailing population of Yemen.
During an international economic conference in September in Vladivostok, Russian president Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un can meet. The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, discussed this during his visit to Pyongyang last week, the Kremlin reported Monday.
The Russian investigative journalist and writer Arkady Babchenko, who was rather critical of, among other things, the annexation of the Crimea and the interference of Russia in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, was liquidated on Tuesday evening in his apartment in Kiev.
The Israeli Navy has stopped a ship with seventeen Palestinian activists on board. The 'al-Hurija' (The Freedom) had sailed out of the port of Gaza on Tuesday, accompanied by a few small boats, with the intention of breaking through the sea blockade by Israel.
The Greek Coast Guard discovered a yacht off the coast of the island of Crete with seventy migrants on board. The 25-meter-long ship was probably on its way from the Turkish or Egyptian coast to Italy.
Palestinians want to break the Israeli sea blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday by way of protest. On board are, among others, people who have been wounded at the border during the confrontations with the Israeli army in recent weeks.
Due to a fire in a cargo ship about 1500 cars went up in flames in the South Korean port city of Incheon. The fire brigade needed three days to extinguish the fire, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
The Israeli Air Force has sunk a ship on Wednesday morning in the port of Gaza City. According to the Israeli army it was a ship of the 'navy' of the Hamas movement.
The vaccination program to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo starts Monday. That's what the Ministry of Health said on Sunday. There are 4000 doses of vaccine on the way to Mbandaka, where the first cases of infection in urban areas were detected last week. The dangerous virus infection struck earlier this month in a village about 70 kilometers to the south.
Nationalist extremists have verbally and physically attacked the mayor of the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Giannis Boutaris. He was slightly injured. 'What I've experienced is a nightmare', said Boutaris against Greek media Sunday.
In the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo three new cases of the infectious Ebola disease have been detected. The Ministry of Health confirms that the Ebola virus was found in the Wangata district, near the Congo River.
With the discovery of a new case of the infectious Ebola disease in the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola outbreak has entered a new phase. That is stated by the health minister of Congo, Oly Ilunga Kalenga.
