According to US President Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka 'would do incredibly well at the UN \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;. Yet he will not choose her because he is accused of nepotism in his own words. On Tuesday it was announced that the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is leaving.
The Italian economy remains 'in an unacceptable way' and at least seventeen million Italians have therefore come into great difficulties. This is what the Treasury Secretary Giovanni Tria said on Tuesday in the margins of a session with the Parliament's Finance Committee.
The Macedonian government has adopted a bill to rename the small Balkan country to Northern Macedonia. The pro-prime minister Zoran Zaev, however, needs a two-thirds majority in parliament to make the agreement with Greece on the change of name. A referendum failed a week ago because the turnout was too low.
In the Latvian parliamentary elections, the center-right coalition lost its majority. The Union of Farmers and Greens of Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis was punished despite the growing economy. He received less than 10 percent of the votes, halving, and only held 11 seats out of 100 in the parliament. The electoral council in Riga announced this on Sunday.
A large natural fire broke out in a national park on the coast of Portugal. The newspaper Jornal de Notícias reports that more than five hundred firefighters fight the conflagration spreading over the natural park of Sintra-Cascais, west of the capital Lisbon. The inhabitants of neighboring villages are evacuated as a precaution.
At least 23 protected Persian lions have died in India in the last three weeks, including a rare disease. The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has called on the government to take immediate action to protect the species.
Former president Lee Myung-bak of South Korea was sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption on Friday. He must also pay a fine of approximately 8.5 million euros. The court in Seoul ruled that Lee was guilty of, among other things, abuse of power and taking bribes from companies.
Morocco opposes the plan for reception centers in North Africa, where it is necessary to determine whether migrants are entitled to European asylum. According to the Moroccan minister of Foreign Affairs, such reception locations are counterproductive.
The police in Spain met with Catalan demonstrators in Barcelona Monday evening. The demonstrators, who want independent Catalonia, tried to take the regional parliament in Barcelona but were eventually swept away by the Marechaussee.
An 18-year-old woman from the United Kingdom who suffered brain damage as a baby due to a medical mistake received a compensation of 20 million pounds (22 million euros). As a five-month-old infant, she was given too little oxygen during an operation on her esophagus.
The German right-wing extremist group Revolution Chemnitz planned to commit more terrorist acts than their kindred spirits of the National Socialist Underground NSU at the time.
The number of deaths as a result of an earthquake and a tidal wave in the northwest of Sulawesi rose to 1203. This is reported by the Indonesian news site Kumparan, which refers to the national police. The Indonesian authorities have not yet confirmed the number.
Thousands of Britons think that Princess Eugenie has to pay for her wedding out of her own pocket. They signed a petition calling on the House of Commons not to spend public money on the wedding, which takes place on Friday 12 October in Windsor.
Two days before the anniversary of the illegal Catalan independence referendum, riots broke out in Barcelona. Separatist demonstrators got into trouble with the Catalan police when they were on their way to a protest march of the national police and Guardia Civil, elsewhere in the city center.
The storm Zorba has reached the Greek west coast, but the consequences are- given the ominous expectations-, Greek media reports, although there is damage to the coast.
Candidate-Chief Judge Brett Kavanaugh started his hearing for the Senate committee on Thursday but could hardly control his emotions at times. Sometimes he snorted, declaring that all accusations at his address were false and that there was a political delusion of the Democrats against him to stop his appointment.
A congress of people from the financial sector in the building of National Bank in Brussels was disrupted by alarm clocks on Thursday. Six alarm clocks went off simultaneously in the hall that mimicked the sound of a ticking time bomb, reports the Public Prosecution Service.
The British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will meet with EU negotiator Michel Barnier on the planned departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union on Thursday, British media reported.
Where can you park your car safely? Mercedes will answer that question in the future. The German car manufacturer is working on an application that checks the available parking spaces at the final destination on the basis of public crime statistics.
The grizzly bear is the center of a media hype in the United States. American nature lovers and environmental organizations celebrate the court ruling that at the last minute banned the hunting of grizzlies around the Yellowstone Park. But not everyone gets happy about it at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
Iran has deployed a fleet of illegal ghost ships that try to export oil outside of its flag. Transport with ships without nationality continues despite the trade sanctions imposed by the United States.
The American actor and singer Al Matthews was found dead last Saturday at the La Zenia resort on the Costa Blanca in Spain.
The authorities in Hong Kong have forbidden a political party for the first time. Minister John Lee (Security) did so on safety grounds. He argued that the separatist National Party (HKNP) clearly had the intention of transforming Hong Kong into a republic \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; outside China and was prepared ' all methods \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; to achieve that goal.
Thousands of people have come to the funeral of the victims of the bloody attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz. There, 25 were killed when gunmen opened fire on Saturday during a military parade in the capital of the province of Khuzestan. Among the dead are twelve members of the mighty Revolutionary Guard.
Orca Morgan gave birth to a calf on Tenerife. According to Loro Parque, the sea park where mother and young are staying, they are doing well. The animals swim together through the basin.
On Saturday night, Iran has accused the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom of harboring foreign opposition parties. The diplomatic representatives of the countries have been called on the carpet. The accusations come after gunmen opened the fire on Saturday during a military parade. In the attack, at least 25 people were killed and more than fifty people were injured.
The Colombian municipality of Medellín has closed the museum dedicated to its most notorious resident, Pablo Escobar (1949-1993). Escobar was a ruthless drug lord who at the height of his power held more than three quarters of the world's cocaine trafficking and smuggling. He was the founder and the boss of the gang called the Medellín Cartel.
The party leader of the French populist party Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen, refuses to be psychologically investigated as ordered by a judge.
Russian authorities have declared the outcome of a controversial regional election invalid. Voters must therefore once again go to the ballot box in the southeastern region of Primorski, where sitting governor Andrej Tarasenko of pro-Kremlin party United Russia previously surprisingly won the election.
Two thousand euros per bottle! You can not do that to a customer! Daniele Di Guiliomaria has just tasted a bit of whiskey from 1988. It is not easy for him. 'Pretty flat. Should have been bottled ten years ago. '
