The rocket attack by Israel on an Iranian base in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, certainly killed fourteen people. According to the British-based organization, eight Iranians are among the dead.
Israel has again carried out rocket attacks in Syria. The target was an army base south of the capital Damascus. State press agency SANA has shown images of the havoc caused by the missiles. This shows how the fire service tries to extinguish multiple fireplaces.
In a cinema in the Australian city of Perth parents and children have been frightened by their lives. They had bought tickets for the children's movie 'Peter Rabbit', but one of the trailers was not entirely well matched to the target group.
The two deadly bombings in Kabul have now claimed 25 lives, including at least eight war journalists. That reports media watchdog Journalists Safety Committee from Afghanistan. Especially the death of top photographer Shah Marai leads to much fuss.
The Belgian nuclear power station Doel 1 has been shut down this week due to a leak in the nuclear part. The reactor was switched off unexpectedly on Monday. This was necessary for maintenance work at the height of the cooling water, which was then still the explanation. Now operator Engie Electrabel has confirmed to TV East that it was a leak.
The Indian police have arrested a software developer who gave a colleague a package containing a bomb before his marriage. Police said Punjilal Meher wanted to meet the groom's mother. She was a colleague of the software developer and had a function that Meher herself had in mind.
The route of the six Balkan countries that want to join the European Union will look more like a hurdle than on a motorway. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of Heads of Government, said that in Tirana he was visiting the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Tusk called it in the EU's interest for the region to be 'fully' integrated into the union and, in his view, this will ultimately happen.
Greece last year achieved its main objectives for capital support from the European Union. There is no reason to borrow more money from Athens.
One of the four reactors of the Doel nuclear power plant, just across the border at Antwerp, was shut down on Monday morning. This was done to carry out maintenance at the cooling water system. The work was not announced in advance by Engie Electrabel. The operator expects reactor 1 to be restarted on Tuesday.
International inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) went to Douma on Saturday to investigate whether that Syrian city has become the target of a poison gas attack. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made it known.
It is time to negotiate accession to the European Union with Albania and Macedonia. The European Commission makes this recommendation to the 28 EU countries. Both candidate countries have made sufficient progress, according to Brussels, but there is still a long way to go, including in the area of anti-corruption and crime prevention.
The American police have released body images from YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam. The images show that officers find her while she is sleeping in her car. The agents ask if she intends to do something to others or herself. After Aghdam denies this, the agents let her go. A few hours later she shoots three people at the head office of YouTube and robs herself of life.
The Syrian anti-theft aircraft intercepted 71 of the 103 missiles that fired western countries in the night from Friday to Saturday. This is what the Russian armed forces have admired for the thirty-year-old anti-Soviet anti-air defense from the Soviet Union that at a base in Dumayr, northeast of Damascus, all twelve onrushing missiles would have fired.
America, England and France have attacked three targets in Syria dealing with the Syrian chemical weapons program, the US General Dunford has announced.
NASA will soon shoot sperm into space. This to do scientific research. The American space agency is curious how human sperm cells respond to weightlessness.
A military airfield near the Syrian city of Homs was attacked on Monday morning. Next the state television was the airport target of several missiles and were killed and injured in the attack. The Syrian anti-aircraft drew eight missiles from the air.
The police may have prevented a terrorist attack on the Berlin half marathon today. Four men have been arrested. It would be friends of the Islamic terrorist Anis Amri, who with a truck on the metropolitan Christmas market in 2016 at the Gedächtniskirche killed twelve people and wounded about fifty.
The shooting at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno (California) was the result of a domestic quarrel. This is reported by US media based on sources from the police.
Four members of a Christian family were shot in the southwest of Pakistan. The victims were in a rickshaw when the perpetrators opened fire from an engine, police say.
For the first time since she was shot there by the Taliban, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai is back in her birthplace Mingora in the Swat Valley in Pakistan. That's what a friend from her family and a few security workers told us.
The US Air Force killed two alleged terrorists in an air strike in Libya. That has let the American Africa command know.
A summit meeting between Turkey and the EU on Monday in Bulgaria, intended to defrost the relationship, threatens to miss its target. Ankara is angry because the 28 EU leaders have sharply criticized the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the assassination of Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. But they were not the actual target. With the reckless attack with nerve gas, the Russian president has let every opponent in the West know that they are outlawed and that he will come after them.
South Korean artists will spend a four-day visit to Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 31, to improve the relationship between the two countries.
The former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy has been arrested. That's what sources have said in French justice. He is interrogated by the police in an investigation into the financing of an earlier election campaign.
Russia has shown one of its latest weapons. On TV you could see images of the firing of a hypersonic rocket, the kinzjal (dagger). A MiG-31 jet fighter shot off the projectile, which according to the Kremlin at 12,000 kilometers per hour, ten times the speed of the sound, flies towards its target.
After a week of offensive, Turkish soldiers have reached the outskirts of the city of Afrin in the north of Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Turks are advancing on the east side of the city.
The attack with an exceptional poison in Salisbury, England, does not pose any major dangers for the population. This is what the British Minister of the Interior, Amber Rudd, said in parliament.
The Dresden district court imposed long prison sentences on Wednesday in the trial against the members of the right-wing extremist Freital group.
The American embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara opens again on Wednesday after it closed on Monday because of a 'security threat.' The embassy declared this on Tuesday.
