For the first time since Turkey last year brought down a fighter jet in Russia, meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin together. The relationship between the two countries were severely disrupted by the incident, which Russia responded with economic sanctions. The coup attempt against the Turkish president, however, brings the two heads of state together again during a summit Tuesday in St. Petersburg.
The chief executive of the Russian Customs Service Andrei Beljaninov has resigned after a raid on his villa. The police decided to do so in connection with an investigation of liquor smuggling.
In a church in the northern French village of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, according to the police a hostage situation going on. Two men with knives would hold six people against their will.
The 21-year-old man last week on the French part of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin was arrested for the murder of a Belgian tourist is, itself found dead in his cell. Guards said Friday his body. He would have been killed by fellow inmates, Belgian media report Saturday.
A 21-year-old man has confessed to the French part of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin of murdering an equally old Belgian tourist.
The police on the French part of Saint Martin on Tuesday arrested a suspect for the murder of the Belgian tourists to Wendy Montulet (21). That the attorney of St. Martin confirmed Wednesday (local time) during a press conference. According to local news website Soualiga Post has known the man.
Police in the US city of Baton Rouge on Sunday (local time) again arrested dozens of demonstrators. That happened after the authorities announced non-violent protests against police brutality more tolerable.
Riot police in Saint Paul, Minneapolis sister city, Saturday has breached a blockade of a highway. In addition, many people have according to the Star Tribune newspaper and arrested five officers injured. Demonstrators had gathered with burning barricades on Interstate 94 and threw include fire bombs, bottles and stones at the officers.
Again shot a policeman in the US. A few hours after the massacre in Dallas was wounded in Saint Louis, in the US state of Missouri, an agent. How's the victim, is not clear. The shooter was arrested.
Dallas wakes up after a night of violence against the police. A search of the police explosives to yield early Friday morning local time on nothing.
Again in the US turned up a video of a black man who was shot dead by police. Reported that British and American media. The video is distributed by the girlfriend of the man. That would be Wednesday in a suburb of Saint Paul in Minnesota have been shot dead in his car when he wanted to get his license.
By sudden storms on Sunday in a more numerous people killed or went missing in the western Russian Karelia. Russian media speak of at least eleven dead, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were rescued, but the rest of the group is still looking for.
A spokesman for the federal investigation told the newspaper Rheinische Post that investigation into whether Mateen had a relationship with Germany.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans this month to go to St. Petersburg to attend the International Economic Forum. That showed Wednesday of the forum officials know the Russian news agency Interfax. The conference will be chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, attends a conference next month in Russia. He met there Russian President Vladimir Putin, but whether that will be a dialogue, will be announced later. That said Juncker's spokesman Monday.
The Harmony of the Seas is the largest cruise ship in the world with a length of 362 meters, sixteen decks and 2,400 male staff who are required to make to sense the 6360 passengers. Who the huge vessel crosses the width is 66 meters road. The cost for this floating holiday home is estimated at nearly one billion dollars.
L'Eternel Printemps, a rare sculpture of Auguste Rodin, has raised Monday during an auction at Sotheby's $ 20.4 million (almost 18 million). That is much higher than the amount for which the auction house in New York was initially assumed. Sotheby's estimated that the image, which dates from 1901/1902 and from a single block of marble carved, would yield between 8 and 12 million dollars (7 to 10.5 million).
Incheon International Airport in the South Korean capital Seoul has escaped a huge plane crash when starting a unit of Singapore Airlines on the runway was faced with crossing a unit of Korean Airlines.
In the Roman amphitheater in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra Thursday sounded music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Sergei Prokofiev. The famous conductor Valery Gergiev is leading the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg during an outdoor concert, six weeks after Syrian troops recaptured the city in Islamic State.
At Sotheby's in New York auctioned a rare sculpture of Auguste Rodin on 9 May. It is a marble version of L'Eternel Printemps, representing two lovers in an embrace.
The Dutch DJ Howard Kaii was killed in a motorcycle accident in Thailand.
The Russian authorities have arrested in Yekaterinburg seven suspected members of the terror group Islamic State, Interfax news agency reported Monday. They would have been planning to carry out attacks in Moscow and St Petersburg.
The Catholic Church wants to move with the times. The Dutch bishops have decided on YouTube under the name Catholic Life to launch a video channel. Sunday put the first movies online. There is also a page on Facebook.
Police in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg has two elderly women caught trying to sell heroin. That the Ministry of Interior announced, according to the Russian newspaper The Moscow Times.
For the first time this winter cold and snow have paralyzed public life in the western Russian cities. Moscow put thousands of municipal workers in order to rid the roads in and around the capital of a thick layer of snow.
A British priest was Monday sentenced to fifteen years in jail, because he abused about ten boys between 1970 and 1991. The man, now 69, worked at a boarding school for children with behavioral problems. A 75-year-old former teacher at the institution had nine years in prison. Both suspects were previously convicted of abuse.
The authorities in Rome have strict security measures announced for the opening of the so-called Holy Year, which begins Tuesday. The airspace above the Italian capital is closed and there is a ban promulgated on making films that contain weapons, even if they are false.
Justice in Belgium is looking for two new suspects involved in the attacks in Paris, whose identity has not been established yet. Justice announced on Friday that the two along with the fugitive terror suspect Salah Abdeslam traveled twice in a rental car to the Hungarian capital Budapest. The vehicle was checked at the border between Austria and Hungary.
In the southern French village of Saint- Lizier is a priest embezzled more than a quarter century money from the parish. He appropriated between 1987 and his retirement in 2013 an estimated 700,000 euros. French media reported Tuesday that the now retired octogenarian cleric must answer in January in Foix court. He has the facts are known.
The landlord of the Paris apartment where three people were slain in a police raid, must have known that he helped terrorism suspects. That said, a French prosecutor Tuesday.
