The shooter of the deadly shootings at the airport in Fort Lauderdale had to hand his gun late last year when he underwent a mental examination. The ex-soldier had his weapon back, because he had done nothing wrong, the police said Saturday.
The shooter Friday in Fort Lauderdale in Florida shot and killed five people, was already on the radar of the FBI. Iraq veteran Esteban Santiago (26) had in November itself reported to the FBI in Alaska that he commands about Islamic state heard in his head.
The man who five people Friday (local time) shot dead at the Fort Lauderdale airport is very likely an Iraq veteran. It would be the 26-year-old Esteban Santiago. This was reported by the local sheriff.
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.
In southern Chile on Sunday occurred a powerful earthquake of 7.7 on the Richter scale. Has issued a tsunami alert.
Fidel Castro ash is buried Sunday at Santa Ifigenia cemetery, 2.7 kilometers from the barracks where he started his revolution in Cuba. The state radio station Radio Reloj said that this is done in private.
To counter the cult of the deceased Fidel Castro, there should be no statues come from him or streets and squares to 'El Comandante' be named. That his brother, current President Raul Castro Saturday in Santiago de Cuba said in front of tens of thousands of Cubans.
The last trip of Fidel Castro is over. A military convoy brought the urn containing the ashes of the deceased leader of the revolution Saturday the city of Santiago de Cuba inside, watched beaten by tens of thousands of people were lined up along the streets. Castro's final resting place is considered the birthplace of the communist revolution.
' Viva Fidel, '' shouted thousands of Cubans Tuesday from the Revolution Square in Havana. Together with head of state Raul Castro and leftist leaders of friendly countries, such as the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, they commemorated their deceased former leader Fidel Castro.
The urn with the ashes of Fidel Castro begins Wednesday in Havana on a journey along some Cuban cities to about 900 kilometers away Santiago de Cuba. There, buried the deceased former leader of Cuba Sunday.
Sunday Barack Obama will not attend the burial of the urn with the ashes of Fidel Castro. This was announced by the White House on Monday. Vice President Joe Biden also will not go to the ceremony in Santiago de Cuba, in the southeast of the country.
Tens of thousands of Cubans Fidel Castro Monday proven their last respects. The crowd gathered early in the Revolution Square with the monument of national hero José MartÃ. At the memorial ceremony were 21 gun salute in advance.
Cuba has begun nine days of mourning after the death of Fidel Castro. The unto death beloved and hated Cuban leader died Friday at the age of 90. Public life in Cuba is going through, but slightly more subdued than usual. On the street, no additional police presence.
Havana has come to an end the life of one of the most controversial leaders of the last century: Fidel Castro Ruz. Hated by Cubans who fled his revolution and dictatorship. Reviled in Washington because US politicians communist rate as flat saw under Florida as a personal insult. And, with millions of Latin Americans, still well liked because Castro finally dared to stand up to the big northern neighbor.
Now the elected US president Donald Trump wants as quickly as possible TPP, Chinese President Xi Jinping plays in handy, by the ties with Latin America significantly tighten. He just wants to get more out of the free trade agreement between twelve countries around the Pacific Ocean.
Argentina and Chile have finally launched a serious plan for the construction of a 14 kilometer long tunnel through the Andes. Which should significantly shorten the travel time between the two countries by road. The project, which has already produced a study in 2011, can be realized in ten years. That said, the Argentine Minister of Transport on Tuesday.
Chilean police in 'Operation Holland 'in their own words one of the largest ecstasy seizures made. Two Dutch are thereby arrested in the capital Santiago. They are suspicious of them to sit behind the smuggling of ecstasy to Chile and have to sell the drugs, local media reported this weekend.
The Chilean government comes up with a bill in the first half of 2017 to legalize gay marriage. That promised the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet during a panel discussion at the United Nations.
Scientists have in South America, the discovered bacterium that is responsible for scrub typhus. The infectious disease is caused by the bacterium Orientia Tsutsugamushi. Up to now, one was in the assumption that the bacterium occurred only in a limited area in Asia and Australia.
Seven retired Chilean soldiers are still convicted of the murder of political prisoners during the military dictatorship in the seventies. A colonel and a major were out of service for life, five others ten to fifteen years in prison.
Scientists have found back more than a hundred planets in other galaxies. This has now demonstrated the existence of nearly 3,400 planets. Moreover, there are thousands of potential planets.
The 65-year old Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov wants another round in twelve days with a balloon to create the world. Konyukhov Tuesday morning left the city Australusche Northam.
For the first planet discovered with three suns in the sky. The exoplanet, photographed with the Very Large Telescope in Chile, is in the constellation Centaurus and is about a massive star at a distance of 80 times that of the Earth to the sun.
War violence has cost the world over the past year 11.5 trillion. That's about 13 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire world. This enables the Australian based think tank Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in the annual Peace Index (Global Peace Index).
The world is less peaceful than a year ago. The Netherlands is of the 163 countries surveyed in 21st place in the ranking of the most peaceful countries. Iceland is still the most peaceful country in the world. It reports the British newspaper The Independent.
In Argentina condemned fifteen former soldiers to abduct and murder of leftist dissidents in the framework of Operation Condor. The ruling was enthusiastically welcomed by human rights activists.
Lions in the Zoo of Santiago in Chile on Saturday attacked a visitor and seriously injured. The 20-year-old Franco Luis Ferrada had asked for it: He had the eyes of countless visitors over the fence of the housing of the lions climbed. Initially, the animals ignored him, but after the man she challenged, they attacked.
In violent protests in Chile is a man killed. The 71-year-old security guard died according to South American media Saturday in the hospital to smoke. This happened after a fire broke out during the riots.
Margot Honecker, widow of the former communist leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Erich Honecker, is deceased. That media reported in Chile, the country where she lived. Honecker became 89 years old.
By storms across central Chile are an estimated four million people without drinking water. Heavy rain has caused landslides and rivers to burst their banks. Certainly a person died and the world's largest copper mine had to cease production.
