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It may finally look like winter in the Netherlands, yet you have to cross the border to encounter real winter scenes.

The famine in the besieged Syrian city of Madaya drives the prices of food enormously. Rapporteurs of the United Nations report that one minor biscuit converted 14 euros must be spent. For a kilo of baby milk powder must be paid already 287 euros.

The ICRC wants to terminate all sieges of towns and villages in Syria, so that people can be helped. The aid agency said Wednesday, after three places by laissez citizens could be helped with food, medicine and blankets.

About three hundred people in the Syrian place Madaya of starvation saved. A convoy of 44 trucks carrying relief supplies could break through the cordon of government troops around the place. Madaya is occupied by rebels, who did not attend the three hundred people. That the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday.

Auxiliaries of the Red Cross and the United Nations on Monday reached the Syrian city Madaya. Madaya is in the hands of the rebels and is surrounded by government forces, leaving 40,000 people in the outside world are closed. Images of starving villagers engaged in recent weeks over the world. In centers of MSF deceased since December 1, 23 people due to hunger.

Help is on the way to the besieged and starving place Madaya, nearly 40 kilometers northwest of Damascus.

The thousands of hunger-stricken people by the Syrian place Madaya must at least until Monday to wait for relief goods arrive. There are logistical problems which the provision of food and basic supplies can not yet begin, a spokesman for the Red Cross said Saturday.

The United Nations and the Red Cross hope to deliver Sunday supplies to the population in the places Madaya, al-Foua and Kefraya in western Syria. In Madaya are 40,000 residents trapped half a year by the Syrian army and the Lebanese ally Hezbollah. In the more northerly places al-Foua Kefraya and 20,000 people are held hostage by fighters of the opposition.

MSF wants residents of the Syrian place Madaya except food also receive medication. That aid agency reported Friday. The location near the Lebanese border has been the scene of months of fighting between the Syrian army and rebel groups.

The deception surrounding the refugees wishing to cross from Turkey to the Aegean Sea towards Greece, even extends to the life jackets they wear. Turkish police discovered Wednesday during a raid in the city of Izmir a workshop where charters were made which appear to have no buoyancy because they are filled with junk.

On holidays, parts of the city are made car-free to prevent a new day-long gridlock. That wish D66 and GroenLinks, who see a closing of the center as the final solution.

He had accidentally get some little money in his pocket, hit his hand a cross and won the second highest price in the history of the German lottery. A man from near Cologne Monday yielded his winning ticket in which he won Friday the Euro Jackpot of 50 million euros.

More than six hundred passengers spent the night of Sunday to Monday in Germany spent in a train. They stopped in the middle between the meadows, because the overhead was frozen. Eventually the train left until Monday morning, 22 hours late.

Ice in northwestern Germany on Sunday has ensured that a hundred train passengers had to spend the night in a sports hall in Norddeich. The Red Cross in the town on the North Sea a few dozen kilometers from the Dutch border provided the stranded passengers of tea, food and blankets. The travelers were on their way to Cologne, but arrived shortly after departure between Norddeich and Emden to stand still. A diesel locomotive is towed back to the train after a few hours.

Winter Athletes Saturday direction from Austria to Netherlands, get on to the A1 at the border with Salzburg after about an hour late. Reported that the ANWB. It takes longer to cross the border with Germany stabbing because the Austrians in relation to the flow of refugees from Eastern Europe again conducting border checks.

The Italian coastguard rescued Friday 99 boat refugees from the Mediterranean. The group was on an inflatable boat on the Sicilian coast. Has announced that the Coast Guard.

By an explosion at a gascomplex in southeast Nigeria on Thursday least four people have been killed. That has reported the Red Cross. The explosion originated in Nnewi according to residents of the place when a gas van his charge were it was unloading while people cylinders to filling.

A honeymoon of a newlywed French couple in Bruges turned into a drama. The 25-year-old bride was before the eyes of her husband killed by a motorcyclist.

Until now it was boxing with kid gloves between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, fearing their constituents who are often in the same pond- save for the head. But tensions run ahead of a new Republican TV debate tonight in Las Vegas, and now it's still hard whack blown.

In Belgium, a 17-year-old boy arrested and put because he publications of terrorist Islamic State (IS) would have spread. He is placed in a so-called closed center, a Belgian jail for foreigners.

New Zealand has chosen a new flag in a referendum, but it is far from certain that this will also actually flutter above government buildings.

The famous St. Peter's Basilica in Rome looks dangerously beautiful. Visitors marvel at huge projections on the basilica including a lion, tiger and wolf. It is a temporary art project to celebrate the beginning of the Holy Year in Italy.

A young American veteran who was severely wounded in the genitals, will soon have a new penis.

Pope Francis has called Tuesday opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. This is a special Holy Year of the Roman Catholic Church began that lasts until November 20, 2016.

The ICRC is trying to make contact with Islamic State to provide humanitarian assistance in ISIS areas.

The new Apple TV is in appearance not changed that much. He is somewhat higher than its predecessors, but is equally wide and long. The connection is very simple : plug in the power cord, HDMI cable into the TV and you're done.

The little brother of terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud would go to Europe on their way to take revenge for the death of the organizers of the attacks in Paris.

The makers of the Dutch design software Sketch met their app from the Mac App Store. In a blog post late the team behind Sketch know that there are multiple reasons for leaving the Mac App Store. The problems with expired certificates faced by App Store users last week did not constitute the main cause, but it plays a part. The development of the Mac App Store will remain as the team behind the App Store for iOS.

With a visit to a mosque in a Muslim enclave in the capital Bangui, Pope Francis Monday in the Central African Republic (CAR) ended its journey in Africa. The prelate called on Christians and Muslims to fraternization to put an end to the âÇïâÇïspiraal of hatred, vengeance and bloodshed which in recent years has killed thousands of people.

Pope Francis brings Monday in the Central African Republic (CAR) is expected to visit a Muslim enclave in the capital Bangui. The prelate must therefore be cross hundreds of meters of no man's land, where Christian militias operate.