Russia wants to use a military air base in Cyprus for actions in Syria and Iraq. The Russian ambassador Stanislav Osadtsji in Cyprus said Monday it has filed an application before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the island state, reported the Cyprus Mail newspaper Monday.
On the island Kouloukoua in Lake Chad are Saturday at least thirty people have been killed and more than eighty people were injured in a triple suicide attack on a market. This was reported by the French news station Radio France Internationale.
A group of scientists is a gap of more than five kilometers of drilling into the mantle, the layer that lies directly below the crust. The study should make it clear that our planet is made from inside, how it is formed and how the tectonic plates move.
In two car accidents off the Turkish coast in the Aegean Sea, six children were drowned.
A tough job for the emergency services on the North Island of New Zealand Friday. Who received a report of a serious accident near Kawerau, but could not immediately go to work as they always do. In the accident involved a truck carrying beehives. A swarm of bees escaped from the collision, ensured that aid workers are not around.
The Dominican Republic has issued an arrest warrant against Aymeric Chauprade, Member of the European Parliament. The Frenchman recently in an interview with the magazine Paris Match said that he helped escape has two French pilots who were blamed on the Caribbean island of smuggling cocaine.
The 10-year-old Aaron Anderson is perhaps the loneliest boy in Britain. He is the only child in the Skerries, an archipelago just east of the Shetland Islands. If boyfriends has his dog, some ducks and sheep.
China has converted 14 million pledged to continue the search for the missing flight MH370. That Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Saturday, reports the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
On the Greek island of Lesbos have been arrested in recent days twelve people. They are suspected of forging passports for refugees. According to Greek media, eight Pakistanis and three Greeks among those arrested.
The man who on behalf terror group Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the bloody attacks Friday in Paris, the 35-year-old Fabien Clain. The French intelligence services have recognized his voice reported the French newspaper Libération Tuesday. Fabien Clain is originally from Reunion Island and would now be in Syria.
Thousands of people Tuesday in western Greece in panic into the streets run after an earthquake. The quake had a magnitude of 6.1 and its epicenter was about five kilometers below sea level, a few kilometers northwest of the island of Lefkada. A woman came according to local media killed when a wall collapsed.
At least nine refugees drowned Tuesday for the art of the Greek island of Kos. According to the Greek coastguard hit the boat in which they were in the early morning in rough seas around. Among the victims were four children.
The Serbian newspaper Blic reported Sunday that one of the bombers in Paris the 25-year-old Ahmed is Almuhamed. This man was traveling on a Syrian refugee until October 7 from Macedonia to Serbia.
The passport which was found in one of the bombers in Paris is possible fake. A US intelligence official told CBS News that the document is not the same number of digits as an official Syrian passport.
In the wake of six bombings in Paris Friday, there is increasing clarity. Seven terrorists were slain. When the bloody attacks were 129 people killed and 352 others injured, 99 of them are in critical condition in the hospital, said prosecutor Francois Molins Saturday in Paris.
Who suffers from staff shortages must be inventive. Thus originated in Indonesia plan to have an island prison with death row prisoners 'guard' by predators : crocodiles, tigers and piranhas.
Fourteen refugees, including seven children, have drowned Wednesday in the Turkish part of the Aegean Sea after their boat sank. Turkish rescue workers managed to catch 27 others alive from the water.
Slovenia will build fences along the border with Croatia. The aim of the " temporary technical obstacles " to lead the refugees in the right direction, said Prime Minister Miro Cerar Tuesday. He stressed that border crossings remain open.
The state of emergency in the Maldives was lifted after a week. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the island nation in the Indian Ocean, "the security situation has improved." Initially the authorities had reported that the state of emergency would be in force thirty days after explosives were found near the residence of President Abdulla Yameen.
The chief of the Indonesian organization for Drug Control (BNN), General Budi Waseso, Monday is visiting northern Sumatra to raise crocodiles for his detention project. The reptiles have been found suitable to monitor the general help a prison island specifically for drug offenders. Crocodiles can unlike ordinary jailer not bribe argues the General. This prevents escapes.
In a detention center on Christmas Island where refugees are received his early Monday morning rioting broke out. Following the death of a man who was staying at the center, according to Australian media.
A convicted terrorist who is put off Italy last year, tried to return a refugee in Europe.
Under the watchful eye of hundreds shook China's President Xi Jinping Saturday, using his Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou. It is the first time since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 that leaders of the two countries meet.
A rare tropical cyclone pulled over Tuesday Yemen, has claimed the lives of eight people. The storm was the worst endured the country in decades.
The main airport in Indonesia's Bali remains closed Thursday because of a volcanic eruption. The ashes of the Rinjani volcano spits, makes flying impossible.
Through a stabbing at a refugee center in Germany on Wednesday morning a migrant killed. The incident was around eight o'clock in the village Westerland on the German island of Sylt.
More than a month after the kidnapping of some foreigners in the Philippines, Islamic extremists reportedly demanded millions of ransom. According to the American organization Site, following terrorist activities, wants the Islamic rebel group Abu Sayyaf 1 billion pesos (the equivalent of 19.5 million euro) ransom for her four hostages. The requirement would be brought out of an Internet video.
The airport of the Indonesian Bali deletes almost seven hundred flights because of the eruption of Mount Rinjani on the neighboring island of Lombok. The ash that the volcano spits out, makes flying impossible. Denpasar airport is one of the busiest in Indonesia.
President Ma Ying- jeou of Taiwan in Singapore Saturday will have a meeting with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The office of Taiwan's president has announced it Tuesday.
Travelers who flew Tuesday with KLM from Amsterdam to Bali, stranded in Singapore. The plane could not fly on to Bali because of an ash cloud from the volcano Rinjani on the neighboring Indonesian island of Lombok. That said a spokeswoman for KLM Tuesday in response to a message from RTL.
