Oscar Pistorius will be held Tuesday in conditional freedom. The 28 -year-old disabled South African athlete was last year found guilty of manslaughter of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp .
The United Nations Refugee Agency , UNHCR, has rescued dozens of children in filthy police cells on the Greek island of Kos. There they were detained in appalling conditions .
What in other countries as a learning method is quite unusual, as they overtake Denmark shoulders not even on. Two biologists dissected Thursday at Odense Zoo in front of hundreds of visitors, including many children, lion. Parents and children watched with interest how the duo with the scalpel the predator slit open and removed organs.
Germany has stopped the Patriot anti-aircraft type to help defend Turkish airspace. The missile defense is to have stood after almost three years at the Syrian border, turned off, the German army reported Thursday. The 250 German soldiers are involved in the effort, come to the end of January back home.
A prolonged drought resulting in a very short time in southern Africa to major food problems . At least 13.5 million people are threatened with starvation . The natural phenomenon El Niño is responsible for the drought.
Police in Costa Rica have arrested seven suspected members of a drug gang. The suspects are from Costa Rica and Cuba. The gang is intertwined with the Mafia from Italy's Calabria. The investigation group was initiated after it was found in the Netherlands last year 3.5 tons of cocaine in a container from Costa Rica, the newspaper Diario Extra reported Thursdays.
The USA keep their troops in Afghanistan longer. The major part of 2016, the strength is maintained at 9800 people. Then the number of troops will be reduced gradually. President Obama makes the decision Thursday to the world.
Heavy showers with severe thunderstorms on Thursday in much of central and southern Italy caused any trouble . Three people were killed .
While the European Union the number of a million refugees going around in 2015, Turkey currently employs 2.2 million people who have left their country. That the Turks have allowed most foreigners fled in the world within their borders.
Modern man gay sapiens left Africa 80,000 to 120,000 years ago and then moved to China. At the Chinese place Daoxian in a cave 47 human teeth found the first great trek of the human being thus less than 70,000 years forward . This was reported by the renowned British magazine Nature .
Russia wants to make a larger contribution to the monitoring of the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The extremist Taliban diving increasingly in the area.
A Syrian woman gave birth on the beach of Lesvos , just after they had arrived at a rickety dinghy on the Greek island. Mother and son are doing well.
The German parliament on Thursday bends tighter asylum law which aims to stem the flow of refugees . The new rules should make it possible for asylum seekers who stayed in safe countries to be returned to those countries. It also stipulates that Balkan countries such as Albania , Kosovo and Montenegro are safe and the residents therefore need no shelter.
It sounds like a science fiction story but scientists are convinced that rockets off even on the moon to Mars in the future will stop to refuel. It is a relatively small detour , but in a rocket traveling through the moon is less than 68 percent of the weight saved.
Poachers have two spots in the large nature Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, a total of 26 elephants slain with the poison cyanide . The foresters are trying to track down poachers in the vast area with dogs and drones.
The Government of Myanmar has eight of the twenty rebel groups in the country signed an armistice . The first step towards lasting peace in our country, President Thein Sein called the agreement Thursday .
A large brown bear is Wednesday night in the eastern Russian city Gabarovsk to the dismay of the public and staff entered a shopping center in the city. The animal was trapped and gradually began to run in panic to and fro, bystanders ignoring.
A refugee from Syria has been killed in the night between Wednesday and Thursday on a highway near the Channel Tunnel. The victim is a woman in her thirties.
The Norwegian government wants to send asylum seekers arriving in Russia from the far north of the country. Not far from the North fires a growing number of Syrians across the border post Storskog . In 2014 there were a dozen, this year about 1200. That the Norwegian Justice Minister Anders Anundsen Wednesday said.
Australia is not pregnant immigrant women on the island of Nauru . Even if they refuse medical treatment on the Micronesian island. That Minister Peter Dutton of Immigration said Thursday , reports the BBC.
The political leaders of the 28 countries of the European Union Thursday come back to Brussels for consultations. Migration is the main subject of their summit. Europe must become less attractive to migrants reception in the region should be better and asylum seekers who have no right to asylum must return to their country of origin.
The Indonesian government has deployed the army to put an end to the religious unrest in Aceh. Since this week churches were destroyed and certainly was a person killed.
In the cell of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín " El Chapo " Guzmán were heard for his escape construction noise. The guards did not see a reason to intervene , according to images broadcast Wednesday by television network Televisa.
The Australian police accidentally discovered footage of the gang rape of a teenage girl in Sydney. Therefore could still be arrested five suspects, reported The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday .
US presidential candidate Donald Trump does not think there is enough evidence to show pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine blamed for the downing of flight MH17 . Republican responded , according to US media, when asked what he would do as president to call on Russia to account for the disaster.
Ecuador has asked the British government to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be allowed to visit a hospital. The Australian According to The Guardian problems with his shoulder and would have to undergo a MRI scan.
Former President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin on Wednesday deceased at the age of 82 . Kerekou was decades in power in the African country.
The German intelligence service BND shows fanatical fellow EU countries to have spied on than was known until now. According to German media used the service , who worked with the US NSA , not as it was assumed only the search terms entered by the Americans in order to gather information.
America and Russia are putting the final touches to agreements to increase safety in the airspace of Syria. A US official made known after a new round of talks.
The anger in Turkey over the double attack in Ankara has increased now definitively confirmed that the two Turkish Islamists were known at justice and against whom nothing is done . One suicide bomber was IS- trailer Yunus Emre Alagöz , which is linked to a fundamentalist group from the Turkish place Adiyaman . His brother blew up himself earlier in July in the Turkish border town Suruc also against Kurdish and Turkish young leftists .
