Some of the people who had to leave their homes because of the large forest fire in southwest Brandenburg can return home. The evacuation of the village of Frohnsdorf was lifted on Friday afternoon, said Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke of the German state during a visit to the area.
The fire brigade succeeded on Friday to protect the three villages threatened by forest fires in the German state of Brandenburg against the flames. About five hundred residents of the villages of Frohnsdorf, Klausdorf and Tiefenbrunnen had to leave their homes on Thursday evening because of the fire about 50 kilometers south of Berlin.
A man killed his mother and sister in Trappes, a suburb of Paris. A third person was seriously injured. The police later killed the alleged perpetrator. According to Minister Gérard Collomb (Home Affairs), it is a 36-year-old man with serious mental health problems.
28-year-old ex-military Esteban Santiago who shot five people at Fort Lauderdale airport in 2017 and wounded six others, has to spend the rest of his life in prison. A judge in Miami sentenced him Friday to five times for life and six times twenty years.
In the Italian Alps a man was killed after a landslide. A woman who was in the car with him is still missing.
Richard Summerfruit was clean. Ready for a while with heroin. Until, after a concert visit with his girlfriend in San Diego, he was left alone on the toilet. He was dead not much later. The blue pill that the twenties swallowed is the Percocet known in America or the opioid Oxycodone. But the fatal tablet bought on the street turned out to contain something completely different: fentanyl.
It was a bizarre spectacle, earlier this month in a luxury hotel in Saudi Jedda. During a fashion show no models walked on the catwalk, but drones were used to fly the expensive dresses through the hall.
Government buildings in the German state of Bavaria must have a cross with Jesus in the hall from Friday. At the initiative of the minister of the federal state, the parliament adopted in April the controversial 'cross-law' that prescribes it.
At a number of places in Belgium, a minute's silence was observed Wednesday at 1:00 pm out of respect for the two police officers and the student who were shot dead in Liège on Tuesday. Political forces, politicians, administrators and citizens in cities such as Antwerp, Brussels and of course Liege also commemorated the victims.
London City Airport was evacuated on Wednesday evening after a fire started in one of the buildings at the airport. Outside, amidst the planes, about six hundred passengers are waiting.
More than 1500 Dutch protesters demonstrated on Thursday during a visit by the French president Emmanuel Macron to Aachen.
In France an angry response to the speech of the American President Donald Trump at the NRA weapon lobby. He worked out how terrorists killed their hostages in the Bataclan concert hall. 'Shameful and obscene', Francois Hollande, who was president of France during the attacks in 2015.
NATO said goodbye to the place where the policy of the Western Alliance was formed for over fifty years and many historical decisions were taken during and after the Cold War. For the very last time, the NATO Council of Foreign Ministers- the highest body of the alliance- met in Hall 1 of the headquarters on the outskirts of Brussels.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan also wants to campaign abroad for himself and his party in the run-up to the early Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections this summer.
The Turkish parliament on Friday agreed to a proposal to hold early elections. Turkish voters are now going to the polls on 24 June to elect a president and parliament, more than a year earlier than originally planned.
The German auction house Weidler brings an oil painting next week under the hammer that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler. The signed 1916 canvas of 63 by 48 centimeters, according to Werner Maser, who wrote several books about the Nazi leader, the young French Charlotte Lobjoie. Hitler would have had a relationship with her during the First World War when he served as a soldier in France.
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, paid an unofficial visit to China from Sunday to Wednesday. There the North Korean leader met with the Chinese president Xi Jinping. This is confirmed by the Chinese state press agency Xinhua and the North Korean news agency KCNA.
The Kosovo Parliament ratified a border agreement with neighboring Montenegro on Wednesday and thereby fulfilled the condition for visa-free travel in the European Union. Of the 120 MEPs, 80 agreed to the agreement.
Bizarre situation in the Kosovo Parliament. In order to prevent a vote on border agreements with Montenegro, members of the opposition threw a few tees of tear gas into the hall on Wednesday.
The Chinese National People's Congress has once again elected Xi Jinping as President of China. The parliament also chose former vice premier Wang Qishan as his first replacement.
Mike D.B., the Belgian suspect who was arrested yesterday in the Ghent case around the voyeuristic films, would have known. VTM and Het Laatste Nieuws report this.
The police in Ghent, Belgium, arrested two suspects in the investigation into the secretly filmed images in the sports hall of the University College Ghent. That is what Het Laatste Nieuws reports.
The Chinese National People's Congress has approved a constitutional amendment that allows a president to stay more than two five-year terms. This measure paves the way for President Xi Jinping to remain in power indefinitely.
The images that surfaced hundreds of women in saunas, swimming pools, dressing rooms and other public places earlier this week may also include Belgian victims. On the images that the NOS investigated, a twitterer believes that the dressing room of the sports hall of Hogeschool Gent is recognizable. HoGent has now filed a complaint
Again no Dutch glory in Hollywood. The Dutch make-up artist Arjen Tuiten has seized an Oscar
\u0026 # x27; Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri \u0026 # x27; was voted best film in London on Sunday evening at the annual awards ceremony by the British Film and Television Academy (Bafta). It was presented this time by actress Joanna Lumley at the Royal Albert Hall.
During a shooting in Birmingham Palace party hall in the Anderlecht district in Brussels, several wounded people were killed during the night from Friday to Saturday. A spokesman for the public prosecutor of Brussels reported this on Saturday.
Packed Bavarian beer halls, heavy stuff and of course trees with bretzels on wooden tables. In addition, a crowd of cheerfully drunken Germans, fat men in Lederhose, blond women in Dirndl, plus a political leader who publicly ridicules the competition. For example, an average Ash Wednesday runs with our eastern neighbors.
A 137-strong North Korean orchestra began with great interest in a first performance in South Korea. Dozens of demonstrators made noise in the vicinity of the concert hall in Gangneung.
The Belgian lawsuit against terror suspect Salah Abdeslam started in Brussels with great interest. The 28-year-old Frenchman immediately made clear no questions to answer.
