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North Korea is about to release an American who was arrested last month. That was reported by American and South Korean media on Saturday.

At least 42 occupants of a bus were killed in the south of Zimbabwe after the vehicle caught fire. At least 27 passengers were seriously injured in the accident near the city of Gwanda, according to the local police spokesman. According to the Red Cross, the bus was on its way to South Africa.

Palestinians have carried out about 80 attacks on the south of Israel from Gaza on Monday. An Israeli bus was badly damaged by a mortar attack. A 19-year-old Israeli man in the bus was badly injured.

The fire brigade in California has the greatest difficulty in getting the fires in the American state under control. The death toll due to the fire seas has now risen to 31. Of 228 people, the authorities do not know where they are.

At least six people were injured when a passenger plane from Fly Jamaica had to make an emergency landing in Guyana. The pilot was reversed shortly after departure because of a technical problem.

In a fire in a budget hotel in the South Korean capital of Seoul, at least six people were killed and twelve injured on Friday. According to local media, the authorities take into account that the number of victims continues to increase.

The Christian Pakistani woman Asia Bibi, who was on death row for years on suspicion of blasphemy, is still in Pakistan. This is what a spokesperson for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry told Reuters news agency.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has consulted Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. They would have spoken in Pyongyang about strengthening the cooperation between the countries, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported Tuesday.

The Christian Democratic CSU and conservative Freie-Wähler (Free Electors) have signed the first black and orange coalition in Germany in the South German state of Bavaria. He will be led by Markus Söder from the CSU who will be sworn in as prime minister of the state government on Tuesday.

Although Italy is still so plagued by natural disasters, there are also many human errors that caused so many deaths: 32 in the last week alone. Many victims could have been avoided if everyone had complied with the law. For example, there is massive illegal housing construction, especially in the south of the country. The consequences of this are sometimes dramatic.

The French archipelago of New Caledonia in the south of the Pacific Ocean wants to stay with France. About 57 percent of the people voted against independence from France in a referendum on Sunday. 95 percent of the votes have now been counted. The turnout is almost 80 percent.

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.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has caught a bone in Ecuador. The Australian objected in vain to the tightening of his house rules in the embassy of the South American country in London.

The severe weather that plagues Italy has killed five people on Monday. That happened at various places in the country. Two young people died south of Rome because a tree fell on their car. The same happened to someone in nearby Terracina and a walker in Naples. A woman was mortally wounded by flying debris.

The former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk is hospitalized. The 82-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has a lung disease, reports his FW de Klerk Foundation.

He is already called 'legend' by his followers. The Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is the towering favorite in the elections tomorrow. The extreme right-wing populist wants to tackle the wave of violence in the South American country very hard. And that gives him a lot of votes.

From the Gaza Strip, at least ten and possibly twelve missiles were fired to the south of Israel on Friday night. An army spokesman told the newspaper Haaretz that most projectiles were intercepted by the Israeli defense system Iron Dome.

A plane with five people on board disappeared from the radar one hour after departure from an airport in South Carolina and probably landed in the Atlantic Ocean. According to BNO News, a search is ongoing but so far without success.

North and South Korea have made new agreements to further reduce the tension between the two countries. For example, both countries will dismantle eleven border posts before the end of next month and form a military team that will investigate further measures.

Half of the population of Yemen, some fourteen million people, is on the brink of a famine and is in danger of becoming fully dependent on food aid for survival. Mark Lowcock gave that warning to the Security Council of the United Nations on Tuesday. Lowcock is responsible for humanitarian aid within the UN.

During a party in a room in an apartment complex in Clemson (South Carolina), about 30 people were injured when the floor under their feet broke and they plunged down a floor. None of them would have been mortally wounded.

In the event of flooding after severe storms in the Malaga region in the south of Spain, a firefighter died on Sunday.

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.'

36 pupils are pregnant at a secondary school in the northeast of South Africa. The girls are between fourteen and eighteen years old, says spokesman Neil Shikhwambana of the Ministry of Health of Limpopo province.

The South Korean authorities have rejected the asylum application from hundreds of Yemeni asylum seekers. They had traveled to the popular Jeju island because they could go there without a visa. That measure was actually intended to attract more vacationers.

On Mallorca is still looking for the disappeared boy, Artur, of six years that went missing last Tuesday after the heavy weather. According to the Spanish newspaper El País he has a Dutch father.

Nine mountaineers died in the Himalayas as a result of a landslide that buried their encampments. The climbers' camp stood south of the almost 7200 meters high mountain Gurja in Nepal.

The elections in Bavaria, the most prosperous region of Germany, provide headaches for the conservative CSU. The polls indicate a solid loss tomorrow for the South German party, which is also in Merkel's cabinet. Internal wrangling and the refugee issue dominate the ballot box.

As the longest serving minister of foreign affairs ever, Pik Botha was for decades the face of the racist apartheid regime in South Africa. However, many people remember the politician who died this week as a 'good man', a polished diplomat and as a former member of Nelson Mandela's first democratically determined cabinet.

At an air base in Belgium, an F-16 burned out after the aircraft had caught fire during a maintenance visit. Two technicians suffered minor injuries, reports the Ministry of Defense.