Is winter in Iran starting today? From today onwards, strict American sanctions against the country, announced by Donald Trump with a combative 'movie poster' and a reference to the fear of the harsh, long winter in the popular TV series Game of Thrones. But there are plenty of doubts whether the sanctions will be effective enough to force the Tehran regime to its knees and agree with twelve strict American demands.
Underworld boss James 'Whitey' Bulger (89) was murdered Tuesday night shortly after he was taken to another prison.
Most EU countries, including the Netherlands, want to postpone the Brussels plan to put an end to the biannual resistance of the clock next year. A majority of Member States also believe that as many countries as possible should choose the same standard time as the current scheme disappears.
Energy company Engie Electrabel is looking for floating power stations that can support the Belgian main electricity grid in the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ostend. Such 'electricity ships' are normally anchored at developing countries, but the Belgians now need them to survive the winter.
The greatest exercise of NATO since the end of the Cold War starts in Norway at the end of this month. Because an extra American aircraft carrier with 6,000 people participates, the total number of participants comes to 50,000, said the American admiral James Foggo at a press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Part of the American accusations against seven Russian hackers is that they stole confidential information from sportsmen and spread it to put them in a bad light. Prosecutors in the US state that they penetrated systems of dozens of anti-doping organizations and sports federations.
Wang Fuman is known in China as the Ice Boy. With ice flowers in his hair and his cheeks red from the freezing cold he walked to school last winter. Wang is only one of the 60 million children who stay behind in poverty in the Chinese countryside when their parents start working in the city.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg should also keep the same time zone in the future. The prime ministers Mark Rutte, Charles Michel and Xavier Bettel agree in principle on this, after a short consultation of the three in the margins of an EU summit in Salzburg. They want to gauge the residents' preferences for the introduction of summer or winter time as standard time.
The government must report to Brussels no later than March next year whether the Netherlands will switch to permanent summer or winter time in 2019. The European Commission is putting an end to the half-yearly clocking in the EU, said President Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual policy speech.
The European Commission wants to get rid of the system of summer and winter time. This Friday the committee is going to make a proposal to abolish the six-monthly resistance of the clock, chairman Jean-Claude Juncker announced in an interview with the German channel ZDF.
Most Europeans want to get rid of the system with summer and winter time. This is shown by a survey among 4.6 million Europeans, whose results were leaked via German media. More than 80 percent of the respondents want a line to be achieved by the system in which the clock is moved an hour twice a year.
'Made in North Korea' does not seem to be a direct cause to run to the store, but the Committee for the Promotion of International Trade of the Socialist Resistance naturally thinks otherwise. The communist country seems to export everything.
The Zaryadye Park, a 35-hectare attraction just a stone's throw from the Kremlin that was opened last winter, has been lying on the lips of many Russians for days. The reason? The carnal love. 'We have an unprecedented number of people who have had sex in the park,' reports Sergei Kuznetsov, Moscow's chief architect. 'We have recordings of it.'
Availability of Wi-Fi is decisive for holiday bookings for Dutch shows recent research among 8,000 consumers in Europe.
In Australia it may be winter at present, there too people are struggling with drought. One of the consequences of this is that the most famous inhabitants of the country move into the cities en masse.
Two days after the forest fires that killed dozens of people in Greece, the criticism of the government is on the increase. He is now doing everything possible to manage the aftermath of the disaster, but according to many Greeks shortage in the run-up to the fire.
Red Square is the scene of international fraternization these days. Where in the winter President Putin shows ice hockey caprioles on the traditional ice rink in front of the Lenin mausoleum, now the most spectacular fanzone of the World Cup country is set up. The souvenir shops stand out from T-shirts with 'Putin de macho' and with Messi matryoshka's.
A well-known impersonator of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a cold reception on arrival in Singapore. The man, whose artist name is Howard X, told the Bloomberg news agency that he was detained for about two hours at Changi Airport.
The La Bergereine campsite in Eastern France Mélisey is considered the cheapest in the country, but the authorities had to close the doors last year. According to the inspectors everything was wrong with the campsite of 5 euros a night; including the sanitary facilities, the dangerous playground and the dirty, fire-hazardous café-restaurant. The tax authorities were also displeased about the payment of camping owners Gérard and Isa Sourdin.
Last winter 3226 animals died in the Oostvaardersplassen. That is considerably more than last year when 813 animals died between 1 December and 30 April. Most grazers (89 percent) were shot down because they were too weak to survive the winter, reports Staatsbosbeheer Monday. It concerns 2684 red deer, 75 Heck cattle and 467 konik horses.
A record number of wolves were killed in Norway last winter. Hunters shot thirty wolves, the Ministry of Environment reported. The high number does not mean that the country counts more wolves. The Norwegian government allowed a higher number of wolves to be shot during the past hunting season: 42.
The armed forces of the United States and South Korea started Sunday's joint spring exercise. The starting time was postponed due to the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang in February. This was done in order not to thwart the cautious rapprochement between North and South Korea.
In the winter weather, northern Germany, including Berlin, delivered a white Easter. On the Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to Deutscher Wetterdienst (the German KNMI), 35 centimeters of snow fell locally. Such a thick suit in April was last measured in 1970.
Three winter sports enthusiasts were killed by a snow avalanche in the Swiss canton of Wallis. Two others were slightly injured and taken to hospital.
For the first time in thirteen years, South Korean pop stars are performing again in North Korea. A 120-member delegation from South Korea arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Saturday. Among the delegation members are pop star Cho Yong pill and the girl group Red Velvet.
Due to an accident with a bus with tourists in Austria, at least 30 people were injured on Wednesday, two of whom were serious. According to Austrian media, the driver of the bus lost control of his vehicle due to winter conditions at Gosau and drove a wall.
We all know 'yellow' snow, but the population of a large part of Eastern Europe had not yet experienced this color of the atmospheric phenomenon: several places are covered with orange snow.
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 US and South Korea start their annual military exercises in South Korea on April 1st. This has been announced by the US Department of Defense. The timing is remarkable, because at the end of that month a summit is planned between the South Korean president Moon Jae-in and his North Korean colleague Kim Jong-un. North Korea traditionally sees military exercises as a provocation.
In 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the shooting of a hijacked Turkish passenger plane that might be used to carry out an attack on the opening of the Winter Games in Sochi.
