The Iranian government has increased the number of missile tests this year. In addition, missiles have been tested that the European Union can achieve. This is stated in documents from Western intelligence services that the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag has recognized.
Ukraine has filed a complaint against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights. The reason is the appearance of the Russian Coast Guard against Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait near the coast of the Crimean peninsula. The incident last Sunday, in which Ukrainian passengers were arrested, has led to international tensions.
A court in Honduras Thursday found seven men guilty of the murder of the prominent environmental activist Berta Cáceres, in 2016. In January, the sentence is known. The seven are at risk of imprisonment up to thirty years.
It looks like a random industrial park in the Randstad, but it is really the first-ever sharp image from Mars.
A motorist drove into the sidewalk in New York on Monday night and hit seven pedestrians there. A pedestrian died in the accident.
With a dull thud, a long crossing will end on Monday. After flying 484 million kilometers, an American laboratory lands on Mars. The InSight must, as the first explorer ever, go digging meters deep into the ground of the planet. This allows scientists to learn what is under the surface.
A hungry otter has been busy since last weekend in a famous garden in Vancouver, Canada: the animal has already eaten seven of the fourteen koi carps. How the otter ended up in the garden is not yet known. The animal has not been caught yet.
Armed men killed seven people in Niger in an attack on a water source from the French company Foraco. According to local sources, the jihadist terror group Boko Haram is behind the attack.
Sotheby's auction house in London thinks that two of Rembrandt's fingerprints were found on an oil painting that made the master of a young man. It seems to be printing his thumb. They were found in the original coat of paint, in a lower corner of the painting, under overcoating and varnish layers.
A Moroccan in the United Arab Emirates is suspected of having murdered her ex-boyfriend and then having served as a meal with rice. After seven years, the man said he would break the relationship and marry someone else, but the suspect did not swallow it, according to media in the Emirates and Morocco.
The Turkish website Habertürk has published citations of the recordings of the murder of the Saudi journalist Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate. According to the site you can hear Khashoggi screaming. 'Release my arm, what do you think you're doing.'
At least seven blue helmets have been killed in fighting in eastern Congo. Ten other UN soldiers were wounded when they were fighting with Congolese troops against rebels, the United Nations announced.
An American probe has passed its first flight along the sun. The systems onboard the Parker Solar Probe have survived the extreme heat and radiation and work as it should, says the American space agency NASA.
A court in the Philippines ordered Friday for the arrest of Imelda Marcos (89), the widow of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos has to serve a prison term of six to eleven years for seven convictions for corruption. As governor of Manila she has transferred a total of two hundred million dollars to bank accounts in Switzerland.
The death toll due to the collapse of two buildings in Marseille has risen to seven. That says Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin. Two houses collapsed in the French city on Monday. Rescue workers have been looking for victims for days.
Off the coast of Hordaland in Norway, an oil tanker and a ship from the Norwegian navy collided on Thursday morning. According to local media, the frigate KNM Helge Ingstad makes a lot of water, but there is no danger of sinking. The ship has partly run aground and is kept upright.
The operation could thus serve as fabric for a new season of the TV series Homeland of Fauda. After the attacks on bars, restaurants and pop stage Bataclan in 2015, the French intelligence service set up a 'hit list' with seven terrorists who are seen as the brains behind these attacks, killing 130 people. Paris called in the help of American, British and even Russian and Chinese colleagues, who cooperated between 2015 and 2017 in the execution of these targets.
French President Macron has said that he finds lawful the honor of former Marshal Philippe Pétain. Pétain led the French in the First World War to victory in the Battle of Verdun, but worked in the Second World War with the Nazis. He was then dictator of Vichy-France.
In the collapsed buildings in Marseille, three deaths were found Tuesday. It concerns two men and a woman.
After the collapse of two buildings in Marseille on Monday, nine people are missing. That is what region president Renaud Muselier said on Twitter.
At least seven people were killed in Egypt by an attack on a bus. Fourteen others were injured. The bus was on its way to a Coptic monastery in Minya in Upper Egypt.
In the American state of South Dakota, Rodney Berget (56) was executed on Monday by a lethal injection. He received the death penalty after he killed a guard seven years ago in a failed outbreak from a prison. It is the first death sentence since 2012 that is being carried out in this state.
The leaders of Russia, Turkey, France and Germany have met in Istanbul about the future of Syria. They want to smooth the peace process again. A committee that has to work on a new constitution for the country must, according to a joint statement, start working in Geneva before the end of the year.
Members from the large family of well-organized burglars who could be arrested after one and a half years of investigation appear to have been convicted of similar crimes. Already in 2012 they came to the police and judicial authorities.
The accident with a passenger train last week in Morocco, which killed at least seven people, is probably caused by too high speed. The justice system in Morocco announced this on Tuesday.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The US authorities are investigating child abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. Seven of the eight dioceses in the state say they are summoned to hand over documents, reports American media.
The prevented junk in the Bavarian Gemering, where two Dutch criminals were arrested, is reminiscent of a feature film. A gang tried to ram a bank with a lightning stolen Audi, but was awaited by the police. This was followed by a shooting and a chase, with four injuries as a result. 'The agents were in mortal danger.'
The EU leaders hold their annual autumn summit in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday, which actually consists of three summits. With two of them, about the brexit and the euro, the British Prime Minister Theresa May is not welcome. As the bird in a cuckoo clock, she will appear and disappear at set times.
The votes in municipal elections in Belgium have not yet been counted everywhere, but in Antwerp mayor Bart de Wever and his N-VA can continue to rule the city with the Christian Democratic CD \u0026 amp; V and the liberal Open VLD. The coalition provided some, but retains the majority of board seats in the port city.
