Italian Christian Democrat Antonio Tajani (63) is the new President of the European Parliament. The former EU Commissioner and confidant of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi defeated Tuesday in Strasbourg at the fourth and decisive round of voting his rival Gianni Pittella, a Social Democrat, according to several sources, including from the fraction of Tajani, the European People's Party.
The European Parliament Tuesday vote a second time on a new president. In the first round of voting Tuesday in Strasbourg took none of the six candidates for the EU perch the necessary absolute majority.
Seven candidates have officially signed Monday for the presidency of the European Parliament. The 751 members in Strasbourg on Tuesday to choose a successor to the Social Democrat Martin Schulz entering the German national politics.
Guy Verhofstadt withdrew Tuesday as a candidate for the presidency of the EU Parliament. The liberal Belgian former president was doing that started a few minutes before the first ballot, the outgoing President Martin Schulz announced.
The 751 Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday to choose a new president. The Social Democrat Martin Schulz swapped after 22 years, the last five as parliament president, the European political stage for the German national politics. He is the secret ballot of up to four rounds itself.
Guy Verhofstadt has set Friday candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament. The Belgian liberal wants to follow the Social Democrat Martin Schulz, who has returned to politics in Germany.
The new Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres on Wednesday with Donald Trump 'had a very positive interview on the relations between the US and UN.' A That said spokesman Farhan Haq of the international organization for which the elected US president last week Twitter overhad not a good word.
A Brazilian man who escaped from a prison in the northern city of Manaus boasts about his act by placing selfies on Facebook. That report foreign media. The fugitive belongs to a group of dozens of prisoners who escaped from the prison.
The 67-year-old Portuguese Antonio Guterres begins Sunday formally as Secretary-General of the United Nations. He follows the South Korean Ban Ki-moon, who was in the last ten years at the helm of the country international organization.
The Chilean navy has fallen into disrepute because aboard a warship female staff were spied upon by male colleagues. At least that is the suspicion at least eight people on board the frigate Admiral Lynch, according to media in the South American country.
The battle for the succession of the German Social Democrat Martin Schulz could erupt as President of the European Parliament. The political groups in parliament have almost all moved forward a candidate.
Venezuelan women stabbing in droves across the border to sell their hair in Colombia. With the proceeds they buy food, diapers and other necessities, where the economic crisis in their country glaring lack is.
In the US, agents are re-armed and violence become the victims. In the states of Texas and Missouri were cops hit by bullets while they were sitting in their patrol car. In the Texas San Antonio ended the fatal shooting. St. Louis became the agent fatally wounded when he was shot in the face.
A judge in El Salvador ruled Saturday that the assets of former President Antonio Saca be confiscated. That informs the Public Prosecutor of the country.
The United Nations has the 75th anniversary of comic book character Wonder Woman as an opportunity to appoint her as an honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls. Both within the country and abroad organization is critically commented on the appointment, which many believe should have gone to a real and less sexualized woman.
The former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is the UN's successor Ban Ki-moon as Secretary-General. Wednesday he made himself known to the members of the Security Council elected him.
The fugitive Mafia boss Antonio Pelle has years in a bunker under his house wounded. The feared boss of the 'Ndrangheta' in the southern Italian San Luca is embedded in the collar by the police. Italian police on Wednesday released images of his arrest.
The 'Wall of Trump 'does not appear in the budget of Mexico for 2017.,, I can say with absolute certainty that that is not included in the planning,' 'verklapte finance the new Minister José Antonio Meade Thursday in a TV interview prior to the presentation of the national budget in parliament.
Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray Caso, Wednesday resigned. According to Mexican media was his plan to invite the US Republican Donald Trump, the grounds for dismissal.
The Bulgarian border police have taken a calculated suspected of smuggling business in the arm to transport asylum seekers in detention. Chef Antonio Angelov and his second Jotko Andreev therefrom have drawn their conclusions and Monday resigned.
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.
Illon Arnold looked surprised when he was handed the bill politely in a restaurant and in the place where his name was supposed to be, looked mentioned the word 'fatso'. He had been eating at the All Stars Restaurant in Warwick, in the US state of Rhode Island.
Three Spanish freelance journalists who allegedly were abducted in Syria are free. The trio waits in Turkey on a government plane that brings them back to Spain, writes El País.
The death toll from the explosion at the oil refinery in the Mexican state of Veracruz has risen to 24. Of the 136 wounded there be 13 in danger. Reported that the Mexican state oil company Pemex on Thursday.
The police of San Antonio in Texas Friday plucked after reports of an active shooter,, '' on the nearby Lackland base of the US Air Force. That's what US media report. The base is closed and everyone has been advised to stay indoors.
The American theme parks SeaWorld stop immediately with breeding killer whales. Last year ended already SeaWorld orca shows, where the theme parks mainly were known.
The best-selling newspaper in Spain, El País, may stop publishing a printed newspaper. That said, the editor of the newspaper Friday.
Enise B., the woman along with her boyfriend Antonio van der P. consuming attracted by the Netherlands in February 2014, heard Wednesday in the opinion of the court in Leeuwarden about her criminal case. B. has almost all the crimes imputed to it, known only to the alleged attempted murder of a woman in Meppel she speaks to.
The sister of the Spanish King Felipe VI, Princess Cristina, carried nothing from a Spanish government agency now known as fraudulent in a criminal case is central, the Noos Institute. She did not and was not actually involved in the affairs of the Institute and that of her husband, Inaki Urdangarin. This is the former auditor of the institute, Marco Antonio Tejeiro, stated in the lawsuit, Spanish media reported Tuesday.
Antonin Scalia, a member of the US Supreme Court, was found dead Saturday in Texas. That has reported the newspaper San Antonio Express-News, on the authority of a judge in a US District Court.
