A Japanese publisher has apologized because a local delicacy from Okinawa in a schoolbook was compared with radioactive waste. The textbook had already been approved by experts, but because of the controversy about the comparison is still being adjusted.
All eyes were this week in the British Cheshire focused on the bride and groom, Jeni Arrowsmith and Mark Wood. Until the hired owl with the rings flew majestically towards the altar. What happened next only caused chaos.
Turkey has put many thousands of Syrians trying to cross the border over the past few months to the Syrian Idlib province, where fighting is fierce. It also shoots Syrian who illegally tries to enter Turkey, according to a critical report from Human Rights Watch.
Germany is considering stopping EU billions of flows to Poland. If the Warsaw in the cross breaks the independent rule of law in its own country, then Berlin thinks about cutting back the very generous support. That is what minister Heiko Maas of Foreign Affairs said yesterday to this newspaper.
The United Nations has requested full access Tuesday to citizens who need help in and outside the Syrian region of East Ghouta. In recent days, 50,000 people have fled the besieged area. Another 104,000 people have been expelled from home by the fighting in the northern Afrin. 'These people have left with nothing and they need everything, from clothing to shelter,' said a spokesperson for the UNHCR refugee organization.
Against the 24-year-old Martijn N., who tried to travel to Syria twice, a three-year prison sentence was demanded on appeal. The Hague man intended to join a jihadist group as a fighter.
A convoy of relief goods entered the northern part of the jihadist stronghold Oost-Ghouta on Thursday. The International Red Cross reports that the convoy consists of 25 trucks. Together they deliver 340 tons of food.
For the extension of the refugee deal concluded by the European Union and Turkey, EUR 3 billion is also needed in the next two years. One billion euros is available from the EU budget. The European Commission calls on the Member States to supplement the amount quickly. They have previously agreed in principle to extend the agreements.
The Syrian state television reported Friday that fighters and their families have started with the departure from East Ghouta. In this heavily besieged and bombed enclave east of the capital Damascus insurgents still serve the service.
A convoy of relief goods was in the besieged region of East Ghouta near the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday and all goods were unloaded. This has been announced by the Red Cross. The thirteen trucks have since returned from Douma, the largest place in the area that has been surrounded for years.
On the Syrian rebel enclave East Ghouta bombing was carried out on Friday morning while an auxiliary convoy was just driving in. It is not known whether there have been casualties.
A convoy of relief goods has left the city of Douma in Oost-Ghouta for safety reasons. 'They have unloaded as much as possible under the conditions on the spot \u0026 # x27 ;, #,' said a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The Syrian army and its allies have owned more than a third of the rebellious enclave in East Ghouta near Damascus since the beginning of the ground offensive a week ago. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
An elderly Pakistani couple were evacuated Wednesday from the besieged East-Ghouta region, east of the Syrian capital. The Syrian Red Cross (or Red Crescent) has announced this, according to the BBC.
Nine pupils were killed in India when they were hit by a SUV that drove far too fast when crossing a busy road. The children were on their way home from school when the accident happened at Muzaffarpur, according to Indian media.
Over the last few years, 23 people have been fired or left at the International Red Cross (ICRC) because of (the suspicion of) prostitution visits. The Red Cross allows all employees to sign a code of conduct. This states, among other things, that paying for sex is forbidden. Also in places where prostitution is legal, because paying for sex is not in keeping with the values and mission of the aid organization.
Winter sports enthusiasts who go to the Alps have to keep accounts of extreme cold on their skiing holiday. For example, in some places it can go 20 degrees freezing, where the wind chill temperature rises to minus 30, due to a cold air flow from Siberia.
The International Red Cross (ICRC) investigates reports that aid workers are guilty of sexual misconduct. Discussions about this behavior are extensively discussed in a closed Facebook group with 4331 members, the NOS reports.
Heavy shelling has cost the lives of dozens of people in East Ghouta, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, said that at least 27 people were killed on Wednesday. Another 200 people would have been injured.
The Islamic terror organization Boko Haram has released thirteen people in northeastern Nigeria. A spokesman for the Nigerian government made that known. With the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the government had negotiated the release.
The Californian parliamentarian Cristina Garcia, a fierce supporter of the # metoo movement, is under attack because in 2014 she herself would have let her hands flutter too boldly.
A young refugee was killed around 11 p.m. on Monday night when he tried to cross the motorway in Jabbeke, Belgium. He was scooped by a car and died on the spot from his injuries. The young man tried to avoid a police force.
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The police in London closed Charing Cross station because of a gas leak. Certainly 1450 people have been evacuated from a nearby hotel and nightclub, according to the London fire brigade.
French agents have found the partially burned body of a man on top of a train. The train was on its way from the north of Italy to the south of France. The victim presumably tried to cross the border unnoticed.
The United Nations is prepared to mobilize international aid for Colombia to meet the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees. This is what UN chief António Guterres said on a weekend visit to the Colombian capital Bogota.
A whole pack of hunting dogs in England has been cut through a cat shelter, in the pursuit of a fox and a deer. More than sixty cats fled in all directions and twenty are still missing.
The American police are faced with a mystery: a visitor snatched a urinal from the wall in a restaurant on Monday night, after which he ran naked into the woods.
The Libyan Coast Guard has attracted at least 250 migrants from boats to the east of Tripoli. Surviving said that dozens of passengers are missing. They may have drowned.
In Berlin, several women were victims of sexual abuse at festivities around the Brandenburg Gate. According to the police, these were isolated incidents. Seven people have been arrested for ten cases of sexual abuse. In Cologne, nine women reported because of sexual assault.
