There are 1200 German soldiers needed to support the international coalition against Islamic State conducting air strikes on targets in Syria and Iraq of the terrorist movement. That is the supreme leader of the army, General Volker Wieker, told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
Turkey may get 3 billion euros in aid from the European Union for the refugees in the country. The EU would be visa-free travel from October next year and renewed calls for accession to the Union of Turkey hold out the prospect, as the Turkish Government actively to participate in a solution to the refugee problem.
The body of a Russian pilot who was killed after the Turkish military had shot down his plane, has been transferred to Turkey. That the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday, Turkish media reported. The plane came down in Syria.
Thousands of people Saturday in London and in Spanish cities demonstrated against air strikes against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.
Activist collective Anonymous hackers claim responsibility for the downing of five government websites in Iceland protest against whaling by this country. The sites, including the official website of the Prime Minister and the Ministries of Environment and Interior, were flat Friday and remained offline until Saturday afternoon.
On the eve of the climate summit in Paris is Maurice Strong, the founder of the Environment Program of the United Nations, deceased. He was 86 years old. UNEP reported that Saturday in a statement.
Japan will again begin whaling in the waters around Antarctica. The whalers will go on in March to catch three hundred minke whales. That the Japanese Fisheries Agency announced, the BBC reported Saturday.
The Paris police on Friday recommended Sunday and Monday to use only in urgent need of public transport. The roads to and from the airports Roissy and Orly airports will be very busy and it is deteriorating to drive the car, the police warned. The reason for the crowds is the international climate conference that begins Monday in Paris, reported the newspaper Le Figaro.
Turkey and the EU will join forces for the large numbers of refugees to Europe to a halt. That is the commitment of a summit Sunday between the leaders of the EU countries and Turkey.
Russia has the right to a military response to meet the shooting down of a Russian fighter earlier this week by NATO member Turkey. That said the chairman of the Russian Parliament Sergey Naryshkin Friday against the Romanian television station Digi24.
More than one million children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Nearly half of all children under five are malnourished, UN agency UNICEF sets Friday ahead of the visit of Pope Francis in the violence-plagued country.
Tunisians find that she is largely forgotten come down after the attack that took Tuesday thirteen lives. Booty Elden international community and social media after the attacks in Paris have over each other to express sympathy for the victims in Tunisia remains chillingly quiet.
The president of the International Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is since Wednesday on the US sanctions list of individuals and companies regarding Syria. Along with three other individuals and six companies from Russia, Syria and Cyprus are against him introduced restrictions because of " assisting material and act for or on behalf of the Government of Syria and the Central Bank of Syria." Reported that the US Treasury Department said in a statement, according to US media.
Parents who drop off their children at their school in Brussels are not allowed inside. That assignment got all schools in the Brussels Region. That in any case, the rest of the week so says the director of elementary Andrée Emile in the High Street in the center.
The number of refugees arriving in Greece, suddenly dropped sharply. Sunday 155 people came to the Greek islands and 478 migrants arrived in the ports of Athens and Kavala. That is much less than in recent months was the case, the International Organization for Migration reports (IOM) Tuesday.
Tranquility. That must be the international response after the downing of a Russian fighter by Turkey. There called EU- Minister Donald Tusk Tuesday supervise, via Twitter.
With the shooting down of a Russian fighter morning by Turkish F'16 over the territory of Turkey, the Russian Air Force and those of NATO member Turkey actually come into conflict.
Fox-IT, one of the largest computer security companies in the Netherlands, is taken over by his British listed company NCC Group. The British put there more than 133 million euros on the table, more than four times the turnover of the Dutch company.
To stem the flow of funds used by terrorists, more needs to be done to combat money laundering. In order to realize this, thinks the French Finance Minister on the efforts of the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The Dominican Republic has issued an arrest warrant against Aymeric Chauprade, Member of the European Parliament. The Frenchman recently in an interview with the magazine Paris Match said that he helped escape has two French pilots who were blamed on the Caribbean island of smuggling cocaine.
Islamic State is the capital of the self-proclaimed caliph, Raqqa, to strengthen, in anticipation of an expected counterattack from the international community after the terrorist attacks in Paris. The terrorist movement reportedly build bunkers and tunnels in the Syrian city of 350,000.
Passengers on international trains Thalys, TGV and ICE from Brussels-Midi or Antwerp Central are invited thirty minutes earlier to be present for security checks. This was reported by the international arm of the Belgian railway SNCB Monday on Twitter. The security checks are a result of the high threat level in the Brussels Region.
A Turkish Airlines plane landed early Sunday morning in Canada, because there was a bomb threat made . The unit with 256 people on board was en route from New York to Istanbul.
The hacker group Anonymous claims to have proof the Islamic State plans Sunday to commit attacks worldwide. The terrorist movement would be planning to commit attacks in France, Lebanon, Italy, Indonesia and the United States. International media reports said Saturday.
Europe must be assured that the attacks are not the last Friday in Paris. That said the director of the European police organization Europol, Rob Wainwright, Thursday in Brussels at a hearing in the European Parliament.
Worldwide there are 23 250 species of plants and animals threatened with extinction. That's 466 more than at the last valuation last summer, according to the new 'red list' of endangered species by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) presents Thursday.
The Avenue des Champs Elysées in Paris is that rent for the most expensive shopping streets in Europe, closely followed New Bond Street in London. According to a study presented Wednesday at the international property specialist Cushman & amp; Wakefield.
Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos on Tuesday for his new government won the confidence of the parliament. The 46-year-old Ciolos has formed a technocratic cabinet, where party politics a step back.
A passenger from a British Airways aircraft that was en route from London to Boston, in flight has tried to open a cabin door.
Mohamed Abdeslam, the brother of the fugitive suspect in the terrorist attacks in Paris, calling through the media his brother to surrender. This call he made in an interview with the French television BFM.
