At least seven people were killed in the Mexican town of Tultepec due to an explosion in a home where fireworks were probably stored. The detonation caused more than twenty houses and multiple car damage to occur, the provincial authorities say. At least eight people were also injured.
The Czech multi-billionaire Andrej Babis gets a second chance to form a government more than seven months after the election in his country. President Milos Zeman sworn in to Babis for the second time as prime minister.
There will be a whistleblowing scheme for slaughterhouses in Belgium. The scheme protects slaughterhouse workers against sanctions if they report a violation of animal welfare to the government. This was announced by Minister Ben Weyts (Animal Welfare) in the Flemish Parliament when discussing a study into violations in the sector.
Heavy prison sentences for a gang of people smugglers in Greece. Two Afghans and a Syrian are sentenced to no less than 360 years in prison on Crete. An Iraqi henchman was given 357 years in prison. They must each also pay a million euro fine. The level of the penalty is especially symbolic, because they have to be released after 25 years.
For the first time in seven months, the Spanish enclave of Ceuta has been stormed by migrants in North Africa. Approximately four hundred asylum seekers attempted to climb and enter the 6-meter high double fence around the enclave.
Film producer Harvey Weinstein declared himself innocent on rape and criminal sex in New York on Tuesday. He was sued by the public prosecutor in Manhattan last week.
At least seven people were killed by a bomb attack at a meeting of Afghan clergy. They had just announced a fatwa against suicide attacks. The attack also injured at least nine people, reports the police.
Almost four million children between the ages of seven and seventeen do not go to school in Afghanistan. About 2.2 million of them are girls, reports the UN children's organization UNICEF in a report that was presented in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.
The United States still have a few days to prevent a trade war with their allies. That said the French minister Bruno Le Maire (Finance) after a meeting of ministers from the seven largest industrialized countries, the G7, in Canada.
Almost a quarter of the Dutch feel a stranger in their own country because of the number of Muslims present. And 41% think that Muslims want to impose their religious laws on the rest of the country deep inside.
Justice in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant against the wife of top manager Cho Yang-ho of Korean Air. According to the judiciary, the 69-year-old Lee Myung-hee has misbehaved miserably several times over the past seven years against personnel and thus misused her position.
For the first time since NATO sent Russian diplomats away because of the attack with nerve gas on the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yoelia in Salisbury, both parties have again held political consultations. The so-called NATO-Russia Council met at Ambassador level at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
The homework assignment of an American teacher went viral after receiving a sad response from several children. The question 'what should never have been invented?' Was answered with 'the mobile phone'.
Tens of thousands of French people went to the streets of Paris on Saturday to argue against the policies of President Emmanuel Macron. The initiators of the campaign said that between 30,000 and 40,000 people took to the streets in the capital.
The president of a university in California steps up after a scandal around a former gynecologist at the university. He was fired last year after women accused him of sexual abuse.
Smugglers have opened fire to migrants and refugees who tried to escape from the complex where they were imprisoned in appalling conditions, to the west of the Libyan city of Bani Walid.
The North Koreans have blown up tunnels that have been used for nuclear tests. Several buildings at the nuclear test site Punggye-ri have also been destroyed, reports South Korean media.
The eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece almost two years ago may, more than ever, hope that they will have political asylum. The Greek state radio ERT reported on Wednesday that the highest administrative court has ruled that one of the persons involved must obtain a permanent residence permit.
The people of Burundi have massively adopted a new constitution that allows the current president to remain in power until 2034. The election committee announced the results on Monday.
Paraguay moved its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday. It is after the United States and Guatemala the third country to take the controversial step.
In addition to repeated volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, Hawaiians are faced with another danger: 'laze'.
They have a spot in the front of the route that they can no longer take away. Jolanda, Corinne, Mariëlle and Ria all come from the Bollenstreek and have chosen the wedding of Harry and Meghan to celebrate their twenty-year friendship. Mariëlle and Ria were already there when William and Kate married, but with the extended company it is 'even more fun'.
Various human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, condemn the arrests of seven prominent Saudi women's rights activists. The seven campaigned in the kingdom to make driving a car for women possible. Saudi Arabia has previously announced that it will lift the ban on women in June.
An American woman who found a newborn along the side of a walking path in 1998, is reunited after 20 years the man to whom the child has degenerated.
The navigation systems in our cars will be controlled via Noordwijk in a while. Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Public Works, put a part of the new European navigation network into use on Wednesday.
A US Senate committee voted Wednesday for Gina Haspel as the new director of the CIA. Haspel is President Donald Trump's candidate as the new intelligence officer. The full Senate is expected to confirm her candidacy next week.
Rescue workers have found the body of the last missing miner in the Polish Zofiowka mine. There, in total, five people died after an earthquake, coal producer JSW announced.
The man who disrupted the performance of the British singer SuRie on Saturday night during the Eurovision Song Contest final is bail-free. That is what the EBU, the organization behind the song festival, has announced.
A scientific study at a German university has yielded remarkable results. This shows that there is a big connection between sense of smell and sexual pleasure. According to experts, women would even be more likely to get an orgasm if they would blow their noses before they went to bed with someone.
All perpetrators of the attacks on three churches in Indonesia yesterday came from the same family. At least thirteen people died and dozens were injured in the bloodbath in Surabaya, the second largest city in the country.
