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In case of protests by nationalists against immigration in Chemnitz in the east of Germany, a Jewish restaurant was attacked nearly two weeks ago. The newspaper Die Welt reported on Saturday that on 27 August, ten neo-Nazis, stones, bottles and a well-worn steel pipe were tossed to the restaurant.
For the funeral of the East-Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist leader Aleksandr Zachartsjenko, tens of thousands of people came on their feet. The 42-year-old Zachartsjenko was killed last Friday in a bombing with his bodyguard.
The restart of two of the four reactors at the nuclear power plant in the Belgian Doel has been postponed. Instead of October, it will be December, operator Engie Electrabel reports.
Donald Trump has a new target: Google News. In a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, the American president threatened to tackle the news overview. According to Trump, conservative noises are blocked and positive news about him can not be read.
The Turkish authorities have arrested two men because of the bombardment of the American embassy in Ankara. A vehicle and a firearm were also seized. The arrested people in their thirties have a criminal record and made a confession after their arrest, the authorities in the Turkish capital report.
The death toll due to a suicide attack on a Pakistani election meeting, has risen to about 150. Terrorist group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the massacre in the southern province of Baluchistan, where, according to a high police officer, more than 180 people were injured on Friday.
An air strike has cost the lives of dozens of people in eastern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights talks about 54 deaths, including 28 civilians.
The Israeli forces have brought down a drone that approached from Syria. The army says it has shot the unmanned aircraft out of the sky with a Patriot anti-aircraft missile. The authorities warned residents by letting sirens roar at the occupied Golan Heights and at the Jordanian border.
At least twelve people were killed by a suicide attack at an election meeting in Pakistani Peshawar. Dozens of people were also injured, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported.
The British police assume that the couple who came into contact with the nerve gas Novichok was not the target of a conscious attack. According to Secretary of State for Security Ben Wallace, the police assume a form of contamination with the nerve gas. This was what Wallace said on Sky television Thursday morning.
The man on his way to Paris to commit an attack works in the port of Rotterdam.
The European Commission is making € 68 million available for humanitarian aid to civilian-affected communities in Sudan and South Sudan. The money is intended for food and health care.
Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah was killed by an air strike in Afghanistan. The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that the terrorist leader was eliminated during a joint operation with the US forces.
Prisons in the Russian capital Moscow have been refurbished due to the World Cup. That is what the Russian opposition leader Aleksej Navalny claims, who according to The Moscow Times has just been released. He was stuck for organizing unauthorized protests.
The Belgian nuclear reactor Doel 4 near Antwerp, which has been stolen by a fault in the non-nuclear part of the plant since Saturday night, has been restarted. After completing a test program, the reactor was connected to the electricity grid close to the Dutch border on Monday afternoon. According to a spokeswoman for Engie Electrabel, the power is gradually increased and the reactor is running at full power again tonight.
The Belgian nuclear reactor Doel 4 was automatically closed due to a defect on Saturday evening. This means that the entire Doel nuclear power station, which is almost at the Dutch border to the north-west of Antwerp, has now failed.
Germany pulls out extra billions for defense. The move was warmly welcomed by NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg on Thursday at a meeting of NATO Ministers of Defense.
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.
At least five people were injured by a shooting during a sports match in Dallas (Texas). The shooter rode onto the field on a scooter and started shooting, reports American media. Several spectators themselves were armed according to witnesses and shot back.
The Palace of Justice in Brussels was evacuated Friday morning because of a bomb threat. The entrances are closed and everyone is directed outside. Prisoners waiting for their trial were also taken away.
The import duties on steel and aluminum that US President Donald Trump now also imposes on the European Union, Canada and Mexico, has fallen badly within his own party.
A Canadian of Russian origin has been sentenced to five years in the United States. The 23-year-old Karim Baratov, aka Kay, has admitted that he has cracked thousands of e-mail accounts for the Russian secret service. Baratov has already made a confession in November.
The Israeli Air Force has again attacked positions of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip. The reports of the Palestinian authorities are confirmed by the Israeli army. For the time being, there are no reports of injuries and deaths, writes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The FBI warned Friday for Russian computer hackers who have infected hundreds of thousands of routers worldwide in homes and offices. This gives them access to information from the user or can lay down their internet traffic.
The political block led by the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr comes with 54 seats in the Iraqi parliament and is clearly the largest group. The National Electoral Council announced this on Saturday. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's party with 42 delegates did not go beyond third place, behind the al-Fatih coalition (47). The turnout was historically low, which put Sadr on the map.
French people are furious about an art project in which the Carcassonne Castle, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, is covered with yellow rings.
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.
The European Union has called on Montenegro to thoroughly investigate the attack on a journalist. Reporter Olivera Lakic was injured when she was attacked on Tuesday outside an apartment complex in Podgorica. The 49-year-old journalist writes for a daily newspaper about organized crime.
It can take weeks or even months before it becomes known what the exact cause was of the leak in the nuclear part of the nuclear power plant in the Flemish Target at the end of April. This was stated by the head of nuclear watchdog FANC Frank Hardeman in the Nuclear Safety Chamber Committee.
