The head of Frontex, the EU agency that coordinates controls at the external borders of the European Union, warns of a new main route for migrants to Europe. 'If you ask me what my biggest concern is, I will tell Spain', says Fabrice Leggeri in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
Three young adventurers were dumped in a waterfall in Canada and died. The trio reported on their travel adventures via social media, the BBC reports. They are part of the High On Life group, which has 1.1 million followers on Instagram and over half a million subscribers on YouTube.
In Japan, two people died as a result of extreme rain showers. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in the west and middle of the country have been evacuated because of the rainfall rivers flood and there is a danger of landslides
A bizarre forest with all curved trees goes viral on Facebook.
Three people were shot dead in the Indonesian province of Papua. Alleged separatists shot in the Torere district on two boats with voters and officials with ballots from the local elections, the police reported.
Malian soldiers who were involved in the fight against Islamist militants have executed twelve civilians at a livestock market in the southern city of Boulkessy without any form of trial. The UN mission Minusma reported that this has been shown by research.
Activists of the environmentalist Greenpeace who oppose the use of coal have painted the road surface of a prominent square in Berlin as a protest. The roundabout around the Siegesäule (Victory Column), to the west of the Bundestag, has been treated with 3500 liters of yellow paint which, according to Greenpeace, is washable and environmentally friendly.
A US federal judge refused on Friday to dismiss a charge for money laundering against former campaign leader Paul Manafort of President Donald Trump. The indictment was filed by special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the US presidential election.
In its own words, the Libyan Coast Guard picked up 680 migrants from the Mediterranean within one day. On Thursday evening two boats with a total of 237 people were taken off the coast in the west of the North African country, the coastguard reported Friday. There were Africans on board, most of them Sudanese.
European countries still do not cooperate enough to reduce the risks of biological, chemical or nuclear disasters outside of Europe. Measures are paying off, but they are not yet sufficiently focused on reducing the risks, according to the European Court of Auditors in a report.
In an earthquake in Osaka in the west of Japan, at least two people were killed. It concerns an eighty-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl, reports the television channel NHK.
The Israeli security service Shin Bet has rolled up an extensive terrorist network of Hamas in the West Bank in the Nablus region. The militant Palestinian group had more than twenty members who wanted to carry out bombings in major cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The cell also had targets on the West Bank. That was announced on Sunday in the media.
The outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a 'critical stage' according to the Red Cross. 'The spread of the disease has slowed down in recent weeks, but that does not mean that the outbreak has completely stopped,' the aid organization reports.
Queen Máxima will say goodbye to her youngest sister Inés on Friday. The funeral started in the neighborhood of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. King Willem-Alexander and the princesses Amalia, Alexia and Ariane are also present. The farewell is in private.
The plane that disappeared from the radar in Kenya on Tuesday crashed. None of the ten occupants, including two crew members, survived the disaster. That made airline Fly-SAX known after a rescue team found the plane.
In the London district of Knightsbridge, a big fire burns at a hotel on Wednesday evening.
A member of the Delhaize supermarket in Lochristi, Belgium, found eight bags of white powder on Sunday morning between the cardboard of a banana box. 'The police suspect that it is cocaine,' says manager Danny Van Assche. Research must show whether that is correct, and how the drugs have ended up there.
It is known that banana boxes are popular among coke smugglers. But the fact that the bags with the white substance would bring it all the way to the bananas is still remarkable. A Delhaize employee at Lochristi in Belgium did the discovery on Sunday morning during the course.
Israeli soldiers have shot a Palestinian on Saturday in the city of Hebron on the occupied West Bank. According to the Israeli army, he was ridden with a car on a group of soldiers.
Kim Kardashian visits the White House in Washington on Wednesday for a meeting with Donald Trump. Kim speaks to the US president about the reform of criminal law. Kardashian and her attorney Shawn Holley have prepared the meeting for months, according to Vanity Fair.
Several passengers of an Indonesian plane were injured after a man had made a false bomb alert, Indonesian media reports. At that moment the aircraft was still on the ground in Pontianak, capital of the province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
The price of crude oil dropped further on Monday after the loss by more than 3% Friday. Russia and Saudi Arabia are increasing their production, while American producers are also expanding their shale exports.
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.
In the Belgian city of Machelen a truck driver was hired into a police station on Saturday afternoon. The driver has passed away. That is what Nieuwsblad reports.
A 29-year-old teacher had a bloodbath on Friday morning at a school in the American Noblesville. A student suddenly opened the fire in the classroom.
Smugglers have opened fire to migrants and refugees who tried to escape from the complex where they were imprisoned in appalling conditions, to the west of the Libyan city of Bani Walid.
In North America, the hurricane season was officially opened on Friday with the warning for Alberto. That is still a tropical storm that has developed a little 100 kilometers south of the Mexican tourist island of Cozumel.
At least ninety students in the west and east of Flanders have contracted salmonella and have become ill. According to the Agency for Care and Health, at least thirty schools have already been affected by salmonella contamination.
After two days and nights of trying, in Dresden it was possible to defuse a large bomb from the Second World War. The police have announced that there is no longer any danger that the projectile will explode. The eviction of the Löbtau district concerned has been lifted.
More than 3 million Irish people can vote in a referendum on Friday about legalization of abortion. They have to speak out about a constitutional article that makes abortion almost impossible. If that is voted down, the initiator will legalize prime minister Leo Varadkar abortion until three months from the pregnancy.
