The government of Malaysia wants to abolish the death penalty. The parliament will discuss the bill on Monday, reporting Malaysian media. The planned executions are provisionally suspended.
Interpol director Meng Hongwei was arrested after arrival in China and taken for interrogation. The Chinese watchdog against corruption said on Sunday evening that the authorities have initiated a judicial investigation of him because they suspect him of a violation of law.
The Chinese Meng Hongwei has resigned with immediate effect as director of Interpol. The international police organization has announced this on its website. The South Korean Kim Jong-yang will replace him for the time being. At the general meeting in Dubai in November, the countries that are members of Interpol will choose a new boss for the period until 2020.
After the enigmatic disappearance of Interpol boss Meng Hongwei, the international police organization has now asked China through the official channels to give a definite answer about his whereabouts and health. Jürgen Stock has announced this to the general secretary Jürgen Stock on Saturday at the Interpol site and via Twitter. 'We are waiting for the response from the Chinese authorities to our unease about the welfare of our director,' said Stock.
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 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded on Friday, is one of the most important political rewards that is being forgiven in the world. This year, the choice seems more difficult than in other years because it is not clear how sustainable current peace initiatives will be.
At the edge of our solar system, far beyond all planets, there is a mysterious object. It is a small boulder that takes 44,000 years to orbit around our sun.
Certainly 34 migrants have been drowned by a shipwreck in the west of the Mediterranean. 26 people survived the disaster. The International Organization for Migration has announced this on the basis of, among others, the Moroccan navy.
Chile does not have to negotiate with neighboring Bolivia on a corridor to the Pacific Ocean. The International Court of Appeal in The Hague ruled this on Monday. The verdict is a setback for the government of President Evo Morales of Bolivia.
Three schoolboys were killed in the east of Ukraine by an explosion of a landmine. It happened in an area where regular battles took place between separatists and Ukrainian troops. The separatist authorities that make up the service reported the deaths on Sunday.
Barack Obama was in Amsterdam on Friday to talk about leadership, not about Donald Trump or current political issues. Yet the former American president could not resist to refer to his successor in the White House in a devious way.
An Australian teenager who broke into Apple's internal systems does not have to go to jail for that. He will be supervised for eight months. He managed to enter twice and get all kinds of business data. He admired the company and found it addictive to browse around.
British Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump talked in New York about a possible 'far-reaching' trade deal after the British departure from the EU. 'They agreed that the Brexit offers a great opportunity to close a large and ambitious British-American free trade agreement,' said May's office.
In the fight against human trafficking, the Netherlands is establishing an international network. Through contact between diplomats and other parties involved, money from human traffickers must be detected more quickly. The network must also encourage countries to freeze funds.
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.
In the Libyan capital Tripoli, in spite of a ceasefire agreement agreed last month, 106 people were killed. Another 500 people were injured in fighting with rival militias according to the internationally recognized unitary government.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis is accused of possible conflicts of interest. The wealthy politician would still have close ties with the chemical company Agrofert, which he founded, which received EU subsidies.
Two young fans of a South Korean actor have circumvented security at an airport in Bangkok. They wanted to greet their idol Lee Jong-suk there. The adventure can give the duo a year of imprisonment.
Europe and Asia can better connect, not only with better transport links, but also in the digital and energy fields. The European Commission presented Wednesday a strategy that should give the connections between both continents a boost.
Both the Italian and international trade unions of journalists raise alarm about the curtailment of press freedom in Italy. The government in Rome even wants to stop indirect state support for media and calls on state-owned companies not to advertise in newspapers anymore. There should be as few 'impure' publishers of daily newspapers as possible.
North and South Korea have taken a new step in the peace process between the two countries. The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, have agreed during the three-day summit in Pyongyang to work for a nuclear-free and peaceful peninsula.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ICC is conducting a preliminary investigation into the violence against the Rohingya. Hundreds of thousands of members of that Muslim minority have fled to neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar.
In the coming period, the Dutch will notice that things are going better. Prime Minister Mark Rutte is convinced of this, on the day that his third cabinet presents a budget for the first time. He mainly cares about international instability.
The Syrian army has had to activate its anti-aircraft guns after air raids on Latakia, according to international news agencies. Several explosions have been heard in the city.
An employee of the International Red Cross was murdered in Nigeria, half a year after she and two other colleagues had been kidnapped by an armed group. The Red Cross announced on Monday that the murdered 25-year-old woman worked as an obstetrician at the aid organization.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced the former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to a fine of 300,000 euros and 12 months in jail in a professional case. The court declared Bemba rather guilty of bribery of witnesses.
The mystery surrounding the sudden death of two British tourists at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel in the Egyptian resort of Hurghada is increasing. The official autopsy report in Egypt attributes death to an acute food poisoning caused by a 'poop infection', but travel organization Thomas Cook is not so sure.
Princess Beatrix and Princess Mabel attended Thursday the funeral ceremony of former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Kofi Annan. Also the Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, the current UN boss Antonio Guterres and the Heads of State of Ivory Coast, Liberia, Namibia and Niger were present at the ceremony in the Ghanaian capital Accra.
Princess Beatrix and Princess Mabel are on their way to Accra, the capital of Ghana. Thursday there will be the funeral of Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations. Annan had close ties with the royal family and worked with the organization of 'wise old-statesmen' by Nelson Mandela \u0026 # x27; The Elsewhere closely with Princess Mabel.
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