The former British soldier who was arrested Tuesday for his involvement in a massacre in Northern Ireland in 1972, has been released on bail. He was, according to the BBC questioned in connection with the deaths of three people in the Northern Ireland Londonderry during the massacre which went down in history as Bloody Sunday.
The World Food Programme of the United Nations Wednesday released an app that it should be easier to donate money for food aid for refugees from Syria. The app Share the Meal donations can be made from 40 cents to 146 euros.
The United States, Britain and France are in talks with the United Nations on the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force in Burundi. Following the violence in the African country which threatens to result in an ethnic conflict. That diplomats on the basis of anonymity Wednesday told Reuters.
The authorities in Austria have identified almost all bodies of 71 refugees who were found dead in August in a refrigerated truck. A spokesman for the police in the Austrian region of Burgenland said Wednesday that 56 death certificates were drawn up.
Travelers on the Eurostar between London and Paris have had to spend the night on the train, in northern France after a train on a wild boar was crashed. This is evident from Twitter posts from Eurostar.
Police in Turkey have eleven suspected supporters of terrorist group Islamic State (IS) was arrested in Istanbul. The anti-terrorist unit of the police has done simultaneous raids on more than twenty addresses in the city, Anadolu news agency reported Thursday. Among the seven suspects are foreigners.
In the United States, 113 women dragged the pharmaceutical company Qualitest to court, because it has sold incorrectly packaged birth control pills. The women claim millions because it have lead to unwanted pregnancies.
The Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi was Wednesday appointed head of the refugee agency UNHCR, the United Nations (UN). The General Assembly of the UN has yet to vote on the appointment by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. According to diplomats, it is likely that Member States agree.
The first day of the summit between European and African leaders on migration issues in the Maltese Valletta is over. Thursday 's consultations with more than sixty political leaders further. The EU hopes to Africa to make arrangements to stop the flow of migrants from the continent, in order to offer Africans own perspective in the country and to get the country so far no right to protection of refugees and asylum have returned to record.
A spectacular blue diamond was auctioned off Wednesday in Geneva for the record amount of 48.6 million Swiss francs (45 million euros). The 12.03 carat 'Blue Moon' from a South African mine was the showpiece of the jewelry auction this year at Sotheby's. The new owner is a private collector from Hong Kong, said the auction house.
A cousin of Venezuela's first lady was arrested and transferred to the United States on charges of drug trafficking. That said an unnamed source told Reuters Wednesday.
Sweden leads from Thursday temporary border controls. The country adopted the measure now increasingly struggling with an increasing flow of refugees. Interior Minister Anders Ygeman made the decision Wednesday.
The British government tightened its tone towards its major trading partner of Saudi Arabia. If the Arabs refuse to cooperate in an investigation on human rights violations in Yemen, then threatened the British with an arms embargo, said British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond.
With promises of money and other help Europe hopes to avoid with African migrants frequently make the dangerous crossing to Europe. More than sixty leaders from Europe and Africa, Wednesday and Thursday in the Maltese capital Valletta to discuss migration issues.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has called for a rapid uptake of Albania, Serbia and Montenegro in the European Union. He made his appeal Wednesday in the online edition of the German newspaper Die Welt.
There will be a new system to track aircraft across the world so that no device more can disappear. Agreed at a conference Wednesday at the UN.
The Israeli air force has carried out a bombing at Damascus airport. This was reported by the Israeli Channel 2.
Astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that resembles Earth. He has provisionally received the catalog number GJ 1132b. The planet is supposedly in the next solar system and is similar in size and mass to our own, writes thus a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the British journal Nature.
A twenty man from the Belgian Malle, which at high speed on Tuesday the army barracks in Grobbendonk rode, caused quite a consternation. The man was arrested and the bomb squad arrived at the scene, the police reported Wednesday. The man said afterwards that he did not know it was a barracks and urgent " a great message " to do.
Serbia spends more than 5 million euros in the Bosnian Srebrenica. That the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic Serb said Wednesday during a visit to the place.
The likely attack on the Russian aircraft in Egypt led to new concerns about the security risks at airports where many tourists. The British Foreign Office has a number of airports designated as high risk area for attacks.
The German decision to send Syrian refugees back to countries where they entered the EU, was taken without that Chancellor Angela Merkel knew. The refugee coordinator Peter Altmeier was unaware. A spokeswoman Merkel declared Wednesday in Berlin.
The Spanish government on Wednesday stepped to the Constitutional Court to prevent the parliament from the northeastern region of Catalonia brings about the separation of Spain. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Wednesday accused the separatists in the Catalan parliament it " more than five centuries of wanting to destroy Spanish unity with their attack on democracy and the sovereignty of Spain."
Egypt loses every month nearly 265 million euro of revenue due to the discontinuation of flights to the country by Russia and the United Kingdom. This has the Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou, Wednesday in Cairo said.
The choice of a theater company in the United States to a white actor to have the role of Reverend Martin Luther King play has led to excited reactions. Especially writer Katori Hall of the piece, itself a dark woman is very angry.
A Russian truck driver probably caused a 150 kilometer long rail diesel on the road. He rode in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday with a leaking tank of the German Munich to the Austrian town of Bergheim near Salzburg. The Austrian police found out he only notices that he leaked diesel fuel.
A court in the South African city of Pretoria on Wednesday eight officers each sentenced to fifteen years in prison for the murder of a taxi driver in 2013. The officers tied the 27-year-old Mozambican his car and dragged him through the streets of Johannesburg. Reason : he had his car parked wrong.
At least sixteen people have been killed Wednesday by a shooting in the Libyan city of Benghazi. According to a statement of the army the deaths occurred during a heavy battle between the official armed forces and extremists of Islamic State.
The European Commission Wednesday formally decided that products manufactured in the territories occupied by Israel in Jewish colonies should be recognizable. The labels must now state that they come from a country which is occupied by Israel since 1967.
Automakers such as Toyota, Volkswagen, BMW and Nissan, calling for a variety of reasons for years cars returned to the factory. The luxury car maker Rolls Royce is now in line with this 'trend'. Rolls Royce calls the car the type Ghost from 2014 back. There 's something about the air bags, reported Wednesday the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
