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.
Where is Hongwei Meng, the CEO of Interpol? He has been missing since the end of September. That made the wife of the first and only Chinese chairman known in the history of the international police organization. Meng lives with her in Lyon, where the Interpol headquarters is located and, at the time of his missing, visited his homeland.
The alliance of center-right parties may try to form a government after the Swedish elections. The chairman of the parliament gave Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate two weeks. He is the head of the four-party partnership, which together have 143 of the 349 parliamentary seats.
The boss and chairman of the Australian public broadcaster, Justin Milne, resigned on Thursday after a scandal about an e-mail sent instruction to director and editor-in-chief Michelle Guthrie. Milne sent, according to publications from The Sydney Morning Herald in May, Guthrie the assignment to get rid of two journalistic employees, Emma Alberici and Andrew Probyn.
The studio of the Italian TV program Di Martedì (On Tuesday) was turned upside down. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Labor and also party leader of the popular ruling Party Five Star Movement, entered the hall. The audience in the hall greeted him with overwhelming applause and cheers.
Belgium must pay 1000 euro compensation to a woman after her access was refused to a lawsuit because she wore a headscarf (hijab). The Court of Human Rights ruled that this violates the freedom of religion.
The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast has risen to at least eleven. By the hurricane and by 'epic amounts of rain \u0026 quot; large parts of the southeastern coast of the US are flooded.
The Turkish president Erdogan has appointed himself chairman of the sovereign wealth fund of his country. The entire management had to clear the field and was replaced by a new board. According to the Turkish government Gazette, this includes the son-in-law of the president, Minister Berat Albayrak (Finance).
Ordinary, badly made and everything but traditional. That's what a German writer of many dresses that women wear nowadays during the immensely popular German festival Oktoberfest in Munich. 'This has nothing to do with our tradition anymore.'
Cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin, does not pose a major risk to financial stability in the EU because of its small size, but consumers and investors need to be better protected against the risks of the virtual money system.
For the time being, Denis Poesjilin is in charge of the Ukrainian separatist republic of Donetsk. The politician follows the pro-Russian separatist leader Aleksandr Zachartsjenko, who recently died in a bomb attack. Pushinil was the chairman of the parliament of the 'People's Republic'.
Three of the five judges who are dealing with the appeal of Ratko Mladić have been replaced. This decision has to do with possible bias towards the former Bosnian Serb army leader, according to court documents released on Wednesday.
The highest American soldier, General Joseph Dunford, has warned of the consequences of a large-scale invasion of the Syrian Idlib province. 'If major military operations take place, we can expect a humanitarian catastrophe', said the chairman of the chiefs of staffs.
During the demonstrations held in Chemnitz on Saturday, eighteen people were injured, including three policemen. Earlier, the police spoke of nine wounded.
The European Commission wants to get rid of the system of summer and winter time. This Friday the committee is going to make a proposal to abolish the six-monthly resistance of the clock, chairman Jean-Claude Juncker announced in an interview with the German channel ZDF.
The conservative American soldier and politician John McCain became war hero as a prisoner of war and a powerful politician, despite unsuccessful attempts to become president. He came from a family of navy people and both his father and grandfather were admiral. He was born in the Channel Zone of the US in Panama at the end of August 1936. McCain also seemed to spend his entire life with the Navy for a long time.
The European Central Bank (ECB) prefers a woman when looking for a new head for banking supervision. That is what insiders tell Bloomberg news agency. The deadline to apply for the post ends Friday.
South Korea closes about a dozen guard posts in the Korean demilitarized zone. According to minister Song Young-moo (Defense) at the end of last month agreements were made with neighboring North Korea, reports the newspaper Chosun Ilbo. It is a test.
During the International Fireworks Festival in Scheveningen, England won the title 'most beautiful fireworks show' during the country battle. Eight countries had entered into battle at the 39th edition of the event.
A Turkish judge ordered the release of the chairman of Amnesty International (AI) in Turkey, Taner Kilic. Kilic has been in detention in the West-Turkish city of Izmir for more than a year.
One of the most prominent Chinese monks has stepped down as chairman of the Buddhist Association of China. The Chinese authorities previously announced that they would investigate this master Xuecheng, the abbot of a temple near Beijing. He was accused of sexual misconduct.
The Venezuelan secret service has arrested a politician of the opposition after the alleged attack on President Maduro. This is reported by the opposition party Primero Justicia (Justice First), who states that parliamentarian Juan Requesens and his sister Rafaela were 'kidnapped' by a group of agents at night.
The United Nations agreed Friday on measures how countries can deal with mass migration. Migration of refugees must be 'safer and more structured' as a result of these measures, say UN staff. The agreement is formally adopted in December in Morocco.
Jean-Claude Juncker thanks Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the support he offered him Wednesday night when he had pain attacks as a result of a disorder on his back. The President of the European Commission also thanked the Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, who also helped keep Juncker going for dinner at the NATO summit in Brussels.
US President Donald Trump has shared a short letter via Twitter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The dictator thanks 'your excellency, Mr. President' for his 'energetic and exceptional efforts' to improve the relationship between the countries.
Facebook has to give the parents of a deceased girl access to her account on the social networking site. A court in Karlsruhe, Germany, ruled that they are entitled to it as survivors.
'My name is Angela Dorothea Kasner.' The German Chancellor Merkel presented herself some time ago, after the chairman of a committee of inquiry asked for her name under oath. Was it a slip that she gave her maiden name without hesitation?
Residents of the Belgian Ghent can have their contraceptives such as condoms and the morning-after pill reimbursed by the municipality. Belgians who are financially short of cash can claim this.
The day after the massive protests against the dismissal of the Polish supreme judges, public life in Warsaw calmly continues, as if the separation of powers in the former Eastern Bloc country had not been lifted.
An employee of the organization of Mother Teresa is suspected of having sold a newborn child. 'We have discovered that some other babies have also been sold illegally from the center,' said a police officer against the BBC.
