Despite the winter season, the number of boat people in the sea area between Libya and Italy again increased sharply. Since last Thursday, according to the Italian coastguard rescued more than 4900 people from the sea, the majority of dinghies.
Despite the winter season, the number of boat people in the sea area between Libya and Italy again increased sharply. Since last Thursday, according to the Italian coastguard rescued more than 4900 people from the sea, the majority of dinghies.
In the Antwerp Zoo is an okapi born. The birth of the closest living relative of the giraffe is important because the okapi is threatened with extinction. Antwerp Zoo coordinates the European breeding program for this species and manages the studbook to safeguard the survival of the species.
UNICEF warns of the plight of three million children in Nepal now winter in the Asian country is imminent. Nepal was hit in April and May by severe earthquakes that hit more than 200,000 families. Parents and children live half a year later still in temporary shelters, even at heights above 1500 meters where the weather in the short term will be difficult.
While Paris prepares for the climate summit, Beijing still has to deal with heavy smog. Meanwhile issued in the Chinese capital code orange, the second highest level of alert.
Russian clubs may temporarily not attract Turks. Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has all the clubs in the country are prohibited from doing business with Turkish athletes. A striking sanction that fits into a series of measures which Russia is Turkey Tuesday after a Russian fighter had shot out of the sky. The resulting tensions between them are approaching the boiling point.
The air pollution in the Chinese capital Beijing Saturday has risen to an alarming level. The content of fine particles in the air is 391 micrograms per cubic meter, nearly twenty times more than the 25 micrograms by the World Health Organization (WHO) still designates as safe.
The Christmas Market in Brussels continues, but the hours are shortened and there are additional safety measures. That the mayor and aldermen of Brussels decided on Friday in response to the high threat level in Belgium.
After the first sign of frost nationwide allows us Monday night and Tuesday snow and rain to wait. This is done on the approach of a disturbance that will move very slowly across the Netherlands.
A group rheas, ostrich-like animal from South America, seems to feel at ease in a nature reserve in the north of Germany. In the Biosphere Reserve Schaalsee, on the border of the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein now walk almost 180 rheas around.
The mortality rate among seniors is Dutch in the winter 21 percent higher than in the summer, healthcare costs are winter 13 percent higher. According to research from Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing to seasonal effects on mortality, cost of care and nursing home admissions among more than 60,000 Dutch people aged 65 years.
A court in France has a staff member of a ski lift found guilty of the death of a 14- year-old British teenager. It came during a school killed when his backpack got stuck in the mechanism of the lift. The employee (50), in charge of security, was not at his post and then also not responded to calls of other winter sports to an emergency stop.
Russia claims to have foiled a terrorist attack on the eve of the Winter Games in Sochi last year. Several women would have to smuggle explosives aboard a plane, hidden in cans of hand cream. In Austria and France were then arrested several suspects.
The United Nations estimates that this winter daily 5000 refugees and migrants from Turkey in Europe will come. The UNHCR UN suspects that the deteriorating weather conditions, the people will not be distracted from their trek.
After two snowy winters and dry summer camps municipalities in the Bavarian Forest with a lack of drinking water.
The European Commission makes 62 million euros for humanitarian aid to Syrians who are displaced within their own country. The emergency aid is to save lives in Syria, where the winter life of the most vulnerable people is even more difficult, let Commissioner Christos Stylianides (Humanitarian Aid & amp; Crisis) Tuesday know.
Increasingly people are booking their holidays online. Last year, 81 percent of all holidays booked through the internet. Furthermore, we increasingly make composite holidays : transport and accommodation are booked separately from each other. The holiday is also increasingly luxurious, including through the advent of all-inclusive hotels. According to figures from research firm NBTC- NIPO.
The immigration office in Sweden is expected this year between 140,000 and 190,000 refugees, mainly from Syria and Iraq. Those numbers are so large that the government can provide sufficient houses and with the winter coming, asylum seekers, now has to place in heated tents.
Traffickers also in bad and want to keep cold weather in the winter their boats filled with refugees, give this discount as the winter storms.
Croatia Monday its border with Serbia unexpectedly opened for refugees. On the Serbian side of the border kept themselves according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR estimated 3,000 people in appalling conditions . On the spot it's cold and wet weather . This was reported by the BBC .
