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The Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa refuses to accept his election defeat. He claims to have a 'legitimate claim' on the leadership of his country.

The European aid of € 18 million to Iran gives 'the wrong message, at the wrong time.' That is what the American special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, who calls on Brussels to help the United States end to the Iranian threat.

A bizarre sexually transmitted disease (STI) is circulating in the United Kingdom: a disease that causes the genitals to erupt and rot. An anonymous British girl between the ages of 15 and 25 has been diagnosed in the past year, just like two British men.

The Ecuadorian government creates a humanitarian corridor for refugees from Venezuela. Through this corridor, the refugees are taken to the border with Peru by buses. Many Venezuelans try to travel on foot through the Andes country to Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will return to Pyongyang next week. He is accompanied by Steve Biegun, who has been appointed as Special Envoy for North Korea. That was announced in Washington.

The former Nazi camp guard who was deported to Germany by the United States on Tuesday stayed in a relief center for Holocaust survivors shortly after the Second World War. He even received a benefit then.

The United Nations is alarming the fate of half a million minor Rohingy refugees in Bangladesh. They live in crowded camps, have no access to good education and do not know when to return safely to their homeland Myanmar.

The death toll due to the flood in the South Indian state of Kerala has risen to 375. Over the past few days, 32,000 people have been rescued who were trapped by the high water, the authorities reported. More than a million people are housed in emergency reception centers.

Russian hackers have focused their arrows on conservatives in the United States. Microsoft warns against this. The company claims to have taken over six domain names from the hackers. There were counterfeit sites of the think tanks The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute.

The European Commission intends to significantly increase the official climate targets of the European Union. The EU wants a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Now it is still 40 percent compared to the 1990 figures.

In different countries, the victims of terrorist attacks are commemorated on a global scale for the first time on Tuesday. This takes place on the 'international day of commemoration of and tribute to the victims of terrorism' that falls on August 21st every year. The global day of remembrance was created with a UN resolution in December last year.

Greece has not yet been saved after the third aid package, says Yannis Varoufakis, the former Greek Minister of Finance, Monday in the German newspaper Bild. ' Greece is at the same point, is in the same black hole, and it sinks deeper every day. Also because the savings guidelines of the creditors prevent investments and consumption.

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.

Kofi Atta Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN, died in Switzerland at the age of 80. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced this on Saturday.

A cleaner has found a living baby in a plastic bag on Friday at Hong Kong airport. The cleaner found the child in the women's toilet. The child was rushed to the hospital, but died there.

The Turkish lira is bought again, for the third day in a row the coin is minted and rises sharply against the American dollar.

The death toll due to the flood in the Indian state of Kerala has risen to at least 73. Some 85,000 people have also forced to leave their homes, the BBC reports.

Germany is going to provide Niger with more development aid and support in the fight against terrorism, as thanks for the cooperation in reducing illegal migration from Africa. Chancellor Angela Merkel said that President Mahamadou Issoufou, on a visit to Brandenburg, was due for Wednesday.

Iranian President Hassan Rohani says he is open to talks with the United States, but they have to 'first build bridges' to restore contact.

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.

The Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro thinks that fuel prices in his country should rise to 'international' levels. That should put traffickers on foot.

Fortunately, the heat also has positive consequences. For the first time in fifteen years, a rare group of andean flamingos have laid eggs in a reserve in Great Britain. Because of the warm weather the animals have gotten meaning to reproduce.

The United Nations Security Council calls for a credible investigation into the bloody air raid that has killed dozens of children in Yemen. That's what Karen Pierce, the British ambassador at the UN, said on Friday.

There is an investigation into the bloody air raid that has cost the lives of dozens of children in Yemen. The international coalition that carried out the bombardment says, according to Saudi state media, to review the incident.

The Red Cross fears a new famine in North Korea due to the heat wave on the Korean peninsula. The harvest of rice, maize and other crops threatens to fail and has 'possibly catastrophic consequences', warns the international aid organization.

The United States is imposing new sanctions on Russia because of the poisoning of the former double-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The US had never formally acknowledged that Russia had violated international rules on the use of chemical weapons with that poisoning in Britain. Russia reacts angrily to the measures.

NATO member Bulgaria is going to modernize its army. It still works largely with Russian technology. Head of government Boiko Borisov announced on Thursday that it is an investment of 1.5 to 2 billion euros, while in his country there are many needy sectors besides defense. Bulgaria has been a member of NATO since 2004.

Co-founder Maria Alyokhina of the activist Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot hopes to perform in De Oosterpoort in Groningen in January. She has a program in which she tells others about the original group, which in 2012 made the world press with a protest in a church in Moscow against the conditions under which Russian elections were held. The action against church and Kremlin gave her a prison sentence.

An air attack on a school bus has killed at least 39 people in Yemen. Dozens of people were also injured, reports the rebel-controlled Ministry of Health. Many of the victims would be children.

The United States holds the Russian government responsible for the assassination attempt on a former double spy and its daughter in England with the nerve gas Novitsjok. That's what spokeswoman Heather Nauert of Foreign Affairs said. She promised Moscow new sanctions. They will take effect in two weeks.