The United States and Cuba have agreed on the resumption of scheduled flights between the two countries. Anonymous sources in both governments say that an announcement is forthcoming about it, the BBC reported Thursday.
Washington Post made from Monday in a new building, 43 years after the newspaper has left the building in the US capital where journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward played a decisive role in American politics. The newspaper and two journalists covered it exposed the Watergate scandal, which eventually then-President Richard Nixon was forced to resign.
After more than fifty years, it is again possible to directly send letters and packages between America and Cuba. Negotiators from Washington and Havana on Thursday agreed to resume direct postal traffic. That said a spokesman for the US State Department Friday.
The headquarters of one of the largest Muslim joined in the United States Thursday local time been just vacated. The office in Washington had received a letter that had white powder in it. Preliminary testing of the authorities, the substance harmless, then the employees could return to work.
A group of American Muslims has more than $ 170,000 (156 000 euro) collected for the families of the victims of the shooting in San Bernardino. The action was originally intended as a gesture of charity, such as the Koran requires. But when it became clear that the perpetrators of the massacre had jihadist motives, the collection turned into a letter of support from the Muslim victims.
The United States easing trade restrictions on Myanmar to let shipments through its ports and airports for a period of six months. This was announced by US officials on Monday.
The United States on Monday confirmed the death of Abu Nabil, the leader of Islamic state in Libya. He was slain in a US air strike on November 13 by F- 15 aircraft at a settlement in the city of Derna, said a spokesman for the Department of Defense in Washington.
Hundreds of British homes are under water because rivers are once again burst their banks after storms. In northern England and Scotland, about a thousand people have been evacuated. Trains do not run, to about 60,000 households in the county of Cumbria is the power cut and many roads are closed. For the time being it rain, so it is expected.
Belize might provide a solution to the more than 4,000 Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica. The country must therefore open the borders so that the Cuban people to continue their planned journey through Central America to the United States. Belize and Costa Rica are reflected in each negotiating.
North Korea is building a new tunnel to carry out nuclear tests. That finds an American research based on satellite photos.
In a shooting in the US San Bernardino is Wednesday at least 20 victims. That let the police know at the California location.
The Embassy of the United States in Kabul on Monday warned on Twitter for " heavy attack " in the Afghan capital. That attack would take place within 48 hours.
US President Barack Obama on Monday shortly after arriving visited in Paris Bataclan concert hall, where before a massacre was perpetrated during a concert. Obama would thus dwell on the terror attacks in the city.
The president of the International Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is since Wednesday on the US sanctions list of individuals and companies regarding Syria. Along with three other individuals and six companies from Russia, Syria and Cyprus are against him introduced restrictions because of " assisting material and act for or on behalf of the Government of Syria and the Central Bank of Syria." Reported that the US Treasury Department said in a statement, according to US media.
Almost 3200 refugees from socialist Cuba stranded in Costa Rica. Now neighboring Nicaragua has closed its borders, the Cubans can their planned trip through Central America to not continue with the United States. The number of migrants is increasing by the day, said an official of the Immigration Department in Costa Rica Tuesday.
With the shooting down of a Russian fighter morning by Turkish F'16 over the territory of Turkey, the Russian Air Force and those of NATO member Turkey actually come into conflict.
America wants the Netherlands to do last for the bombing of IS in Syria. There is Monday made an official request.
The Irish utility Electric Ireland in County Kerry, in a letter to the occupant of the cemetery Killiney urged to register finally. Does the ' Dear Sir / Ma'am "is not that requirement, then the power of the conscious plot is closed.
British Prime Minister David Cameron unfolds this week its new strategy against the Sunni extremists of Islamic State (IS). He will then according to British media sufficient parliamentary support for air strikes on Syria. It is assumed that these will soon be carried out by British Tornado fighter planes.
An Iranian court has American journalist Jason Rezaian sentenced to imprisonment. The state news agency IRNA reported Sunday that a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice announced that Rezaian has received a prison sentence, but not how long the punishment.
Two planes of Air France that were en route from the US to Paris on Tuesday (local time) to make an emergency landing after a telephone bomb scares. On that American media reports.
French President Francois Hollande has his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Tuesday called and agreed to work more closely with the military action in Syria. Hollande and Putin meet November 26 in Moscow to discuss the fight against terrorism.
Turkey and the United States will work together to ensure that the border between Turkey and Syria is under strict control. The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said Tuesday on CNN.
Police in the US Texas investigating the murder of six people in a camp in that state. After an announcement, the police found two dead bodies of a man and a woman in a camper. A 35-year-old suspect was arrested in a nearby house on the property. In a pond near the house, police found later the bodies of four men who were missing, according to US media.
US President Barack Obama on Monday again ruled that the United States will deploy ground forces in the fight against Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. He said Monday during a press conference at the conclusion of the G20 summit in Turkey.
Islamic State has the US in a new video threat of attacks in the capital Washington and the bombings on maintaining Syria.
The Central American Nicaragua has closed the border for hundreds of Cuban asylum seekers who were en route to the United States. Security forces Sunday sent refugees back that would have entered the country illegally from Costa Rica.
The top of the Republican Party in the United States is deeply concerned about the unrelenting march of presidential candidate Donald Trump and Ben Carson. The party leadership fears that if one of the two will nominate for the presidential elections next year, the profit driven will go to the Democrats.
US Secretary of State John Kerry hopes that the participants in the consultations on the war in Syria will not put the heels in order to defend their own interests. He said Thursday in Washington that to start with the United States should overcome their disagreements with Russia and Iran on the tenure of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad.
The United States and Cuba achieve expected before the end of the year, an agreement on scheduled flights between the two countries. This has Josefina Vidal of the Cuban Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in Washington.
