Attack 'almost just'
strasbourg December 12, 2018 16:32The morning after a terrible night and night, life in Strasbourg seems to have resumed. But appearances are deceptive: it is much quieter than normal in the French city in Alsace. And…
The morning after a terrible night and night, life in Strasbourg seems to have resumed. But appearances are deceptive: it is much quieter than normal in the French city in Alsace. And…
The Brussels police deploy extra agents at the Christmas market in the city center. The mayor and police decided on this after the shooting in Strasbourg in France...
Among the three deaths caused by the shooting in the French city of Strasbourg is a Thai tourist. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Southeast Asian country it is a 45...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague has no indication that there are Dutch among the victims in Strasbourg. The ministry announces that it is the situation in the French...
After the shooting in the center of Strasbourg, the European Parliament was closed in the city. Nobody is allowed to leave the building. Employees were alerted via a message to their mobile...
A waste installation that flew into Rome last night caused a gigantic cloud of smoke above the city. The waste facility is located on Via Salaria, not far from the center of Rome.
In the search for the 22-year-old Grace Millane, a British millionaire daughter who has been missing for more than a week, a body of a young woman has been found. The police assume that it is the missing backpacker.
A 19-year-old visitor to a music festival in the Australian city of Sydney has passed away. Two women and a man were transferred to the hospital in a critical condition. All four victims have most likely taken an overdose of drugs.
Like Madison, there are not many. The half-breed Anatolian shepherd guarded the ruins of his master's house in the weeks after the terrible wildfires in Northern California.
The Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel is present in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on Monday to vote on the so-called Migration Pact, despite rapidly increasing tensions in his own government. The Prime Minister reiterated his proposal to support the pact.
The French riot police have used tear gas against the thousands of Yellow Hesjes that have gathered in the center of Paris since this morning.
Paris is preparing for a weekend of violent demonstrations. The French government sends tens of thousands of agents into the streets to suppress protests of the 'Yellow Hesjes'. Not exactly a perfect opportunity for a weekend trip to the otherwise romantic city of light.
The UN mission in South Sudan started an investigation into widespread rapes around the city of Bentiu. Some 125 women and girls have been raped or assaulted there, confirms the UN mission. Médecins Sans Frontières had previously denounced the massive rapes committed in a ten-day period.
The largest city in Alaska, Anchorage, has been hit by an earthquake. It had a power of 6.7. The epicenter was 12 kilometers north of Anchorage, at a great depth.
On a Dutch sailing yacht that sailed near Sicily, 11 tons of hash was found. The two people on board have been arrested. According to the Italian customs they come from Bulgaria and they are about 40 years old. The yacht, the Leucothea, has been confiscated.
A woman from the Belgian city of Essen, on the border with the Netherlands, has lost sight of a parasite in the tap water.
In Brussels, about a hundred activists protest against the excise and taxes of the government. Because of the spontaneous demonstration, three tunnels are closed towards the center of the city.
A wild elephant has kicked two women to death in Nepal. This happened near the city of Madi, along the border with India. According to the local police, the victims were 35 and 60 years old.
A little boy who escaped his mother on Wednesday on the stage where the Pope held a public audience, went on to play there.
In the Australian city of Sydney persistent storms caused flooding. In the morning there was as much rainfall as normal in the entire month. Dozens of flights have been canceled. The police have called on motorists not to take the road. Because of the rain and floods, the morning peak degenerated into chaos.
An army helicopter crashed in a residential area in the Turkish city of Istanbul. In addition, at least four passengers were killed and one was injured, reports the governor of the city.
The Pakistani police arrested the radical muslim-minded Khadim Hussain Rizvi. His son said that the clergyman was arrested in his madrassa (religious school) in the eastern city of Lahore. In the summer, Rizvi was the driving force behind protest marches against Geert Wilders' plan to hold a cartoon contest about the Prophet Muhammad.
Due to the influx of migrants who want to travel to the United States, a humanitarian crisis has arisen in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. That says Juan Manuel Gastélum, the mayor of Tijuana. He asks the United Nations for assistance in supplying food and other relief goods to migrants.
A French tourist was killed in Jordan by a fall in the historic city of Petra. The 28-year-old woman made a fall of 50 meters, according to a statement by the Jordanian civil defense.
Human remains recently found in a Vatican building in Rome are probably not two teenage girls who disappeared in Rome in 1983. That would be apparent from the first research results.
The man who entered Thursday on a group of young students in China, according to the authorities, consciously did. The 29-year-old man would be 'depressed' because of marital problems, reports the newspaper South China Morning Post. There would have been no drink or drugs in the game.
China has stopped building a bridge over the Yangtze River in Hubei province, after the work would have resulted in the deaths of about six thousand endangered sturgeons.
Armed men have attacked the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Explosions and gun changes have occurred, local media report. According to a local hospital doctor, armed men killed two Pakistani agents and a security guard was injured.
A 9-year-old boy was beaten to death in Mulhouse in France when he did not want to do his homework. The Public Prosecution Service has announced this in the Eastern French city, reported French media Thursday. Because of the bizarre crime, four people were taken into pre-trial detention: his older sister, his older brother and his girlfriend and his mother.
The German city of Schwäbisch Gmünd has apologized to about four thousand truck drivers. They were fired unintentionally at a tunnel in the city because they would have driven too fast.