Azerbaijan has threatened the newly-elected prime minister of neighboring Armenia, former journalist and former opposition leader Nikol Pasjinian, with large-scale military operations in protest against Yerevan's policy on the controversial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Israeli army carried out an air strike on Saturday night in the north of the Gaza Strip. According to the newspaper Haaretz, seven missiles were fired to an agricultural area east of the city of Beit Hanoun. There are no reports about victims. According to the Palestinians, the target was a generator. Israel maintains that a tunnel has been bombarded with terrorists.
An armed gang attacked a village in Burundi and killed at least 26 inhabitants. At least eight other people were injured by this attack on the Ruhagarika resort, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. That is what the Burundian Minister of Public Safety Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni announced on Saturday.
At the village of Osmington in the Margaret River wine region in rural Australia, the lifeless bodies of seven people were found. All bodies, according to the local police, had gunshot wounds.
The UN Human Rights Chief urged Turkey on Wednesday to immediately lift the state of emergency to pave the way for credible elections.
The parents of the 13-year-old Trenton McKinkley were about to donate the organs of their 'brain dead' son when he woke up from his coma.
Rescue workers search in a mine in the south of Poland for four missing miners. Due to an earthquake, on Saturday afternoon, seven companions were stuck at almost a kilometer deep in a coal mine in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, on the border with the Czech Republic.
Terrorist organization Islamic State has sued the suicide attack at an office of the national Libyan electoral commission. In the attack, at least fourteen were killed and seven wounded.
At least seven people died in the Libyan capital Tripoli after an attack on the office of the National Electoral Commission. This confirmed a spokesman for the committee.
At least seven people were killed by two attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul, twenty others were injured. In the eastern province of Nangarhar an attack was committed on police officers.
The crisis within the committee that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature every year is growing. Again a member of the so-called Swedish Academy has resigned because of a scandal around the spouse of one of the members. In Swedish media it is now being speculated that the prize may not be awarded this year.
At least seven pupils were killed in China by a stabbing. Twelve others were injured, the Chinese news site SHINE reported.
A Turkish court sentenced fourteen employees of the Cumhuriyet newspaper to prison sentences. These include editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu, research journalist Ahmet Sik and publisher Akin Atalay.
Russia plans to bring Syrians to the Netherlands that were seen on images of the alleged poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma. Russian ambassador Alexander Sjoelgin said in an interview with ITV News that his country's 'unforgivable lies' \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; about the incident.
Of course Margaret Tyler should not be missing at the birth of a new royal prince. The 74-year-old inhabitant of North London is called the 'most loyalist royalist' of the United Kingdom. And so she is 'so excited' with the birth of a new prince.
At least seven seated and former parliamentarians of the Council of Europe have admitted 'inadmissibly' with lobbying and other activities of the government of Azerbaijan. This is evident from an external investigation into corruption in the parliamentary assembly of the organization that oversees democracy and human rights.
At least seven people were killed Sunday by a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Kabul. Approximately 35 people were injured. The Ministry of Health said that the perpetrator struck a center where proof of identity was issued.
Nabi Tajima, the oldest man on earth, has died. The Japanese woman was 117 and died in a hospital in Kikai on Saturday. Tajima was born on August 4, 1900, she had more than 160 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The woman was only allowed to call herself the oldest living man for only seven months. In September the then oldest person on earth died: the Jamaican Violet Brown.
Rape of children under the age of twelve is subject to the death penalty in India. The cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on Saturday with an adjustment of the criminal law, so that rapists can be punished more severely.
European and US aviation authorities have issued emergency inspections to the jet engines of the type that failed on a Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of the United States dismissed the appeals against the execution of an 83-year-old man in the state of Alabama. A few hours earlier the court had temporarily suspended the execution of Walter Moody to study matters. Why the judges rejected the appeal cases, they made no further known.
All political parties in Venezuela must have a fair chance to take part in the May 20 elections. The Venezuelan government must guarantee free and credible elections and stop undermining democracy, otherwise 'appropriate measures' can follow, warns the European Union.
The British media regulator Ofcom has started seven investigations into the Russian news channel RT. It should show whether the sender has violated the rules on impartial reporting since the poisoning of the former Russian double-spy Sergej Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.
Looking back at the crash of the American Boeing 737, various things remain. America mourns a fatal victim, shouts at the same time for the fabulous action of pilots, and is secretly ashamed of the awkward handling of oxygen masks: almost everyone was wrong.
At least seven people died on the Indonesian island of Java on Monday after an old building collapsed and the rubble fell on a music room where students were taught gamelan music.
The Chinese telecom company ZTE has been hit by a trade embargo by the United States. At the same time, the UK telecom regulator warns against ZTE's network products.
At least seven prisoners were killed by riots in a prison in the American state of South Carolina. Seventeen others were injured, reports the American newspaper The New York Times.
During an hour-long brawl in a heavily guarded prison in the American state of South Carolina, seven people were killed and 17 wounded. According to local media, from seven in the evening to three hours in the night was fought.
Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin has died from his injuries after a fall from his apartment. The authorities treat his death as suspected suicide. His chief editor does not believe that.
On the French island of Martinique, the 35-year-old Belgian politician Emilie Eloy was found dead. She was active at the Francophone socialist party PS in Brussels. She would probably stand for election at the next municipal elections. RTL reports that.
