Certainly 631 African migrants died this year when they tried to reach Spain via the sea. That number is nearly three times as large as last year and the International Organization for Immigration (IOM) calls the situation alarming.
A 16-year-old girl from South Sudan recently sold through an auction on social media. That gave her father 500 cows, three cars and 10,000 dollars.
South Korean Kim Jong-yang will be the new chairman of Interpol. According to the organization, he emerged as the winner in a vote at a conference in Dubai. Representatives of the 194 member states of the international police force meet there.
Many tens of thousands of young children have died in recent years in Yemen from the effects of severe malnutrition. This is the conclusion of the children's rights organization Save the Children, who has to make great efforts to get aid goods in the right place in the conflict-torn country.
(ANP)- The protest movement of American students for safe schools and the extermination of gun violence March For Our Lives, is the winner of the International Children's Peace Prize 2018.
The six Greenpeace activists who were stuck on a ship in Spain are free. The environmentalists have been released by the Spanish authorities in the port of Algeciras near Gibraltar. This happened after they were detained for 33 hours on board a ship carrying palm oil to the Netherlands.
The unmanned space freight ship Cygnus arrives at the International Space Station (ISS) at 11.20 am on Monday. The German ISS commander Alexander Gerst and the American astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor will take the unmanned capsule with the help of a robotic arm.
Amnesty International has taken Aung San Suu Kyi, the government leader of Myanmar, her highest award. The reason is that, in a shameless way, she has betrayed the values for which she once stood \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
At least six people were injured when a passenger plane from Fly Jamaica had to make an emergency landing in Guyana. The pilot was reversed shortly after departure because of a technical problem.
Moscow resumed direct passenger flights to and from the Syrian capital Damascus after six years. This is reported by the international Russian airport Sheremetyevo on its website.
Ten men were arrested in Pongwe, on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, because they would be homosexual. This is what the human rights organization Amnesty International reports on Tuesday.
In Canada, two planes were flown in the air against each other. One of the two aircraft, a Cessna 150, then crashed. The pilot did not survive the accident, reports the police to CBC.
Two elderly men in orange vests are chatting around the neighborhood. They greet two ladies with the same orange caps on their gray curls. Throughout the whole of Shanghai, thousands of volunteers are walking around guarding order. The five-day China International Import Expo (CIIE) starting on Monday is approached at least as big as the G20 in 2016.
The coalition led by Saudi Arabia has carried out a bombing of air force targets at the international airport of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. The rocket attack was mainly focused on a launch site of drones and ballistic missiles, said a coalition spokesperson on al-Ekhbaria TV.
No criminal offenses were found during the suicide of Slobodan Praljak. The Croatian former general (72) died last November after having taken a drink in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He did this after the judges sentenced him to twenty years in prison. He then became unwell and died more than two hours later in a hospital in The Hague.
Austria does not participate in an international UN agreement on migration. Earlier, Hungary and the United States had already made it clear that they would not sign the agreement.
The damage caused by natural disasters has doubled in the past ten years compared to the previous years. That is what the International Red Cross figures in a report. As far as natural disasters are concerned, 2017 was one of the most precious years ever. Major disasters, such as the hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, caused more than 330 billion dollars (more than 290 billion euros) of damage, according to the Red Cross.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Saudi King Salman by telephone to condemn the murder of critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi 'sharply.' According to a spokesperson, she demanded 'fast, clear and credible explanation' on Thursday evening. Riyadh must hold the perpetrators to account.
Actress Angelina Jolie visited a camp with Venezuelan refugees in the Peruvian capital Lima on Tuesday. She did this as a UN ambassador to draw attention to the dire situation in which more than 2.6 million Venezuelans are now displaced.
In the dispute with the United States about the termination of the INF disarmament treaty, Russia is prepared to work on resolving mutual grievances. This was announced by the Russian Security Council after a meeting of security advisor Nicolai Patroesjev with his American counterpart John Bolton.
The Turkish authorities are interviewing employees of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Prosecutors in the metropolis take the statement of five employees of the diplomatic post, says a source against the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
The fiancée of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has reacted on Twitter to the death of her lover. 'They have taken your physical presence from this world. But your beautiful smile will forever be in my soul, 'wrote Hatice Cengiz.
The Norwegian authorities released a Russian man on Friday suspected of espionage. He was stuck for almost a month. The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) wanted to extend the pre-trial detention order, but the Oslo court rejected that request. The appeal of the PST was also unsuccessful.
The Guardian wants US President Donald Trump to apologize for the comments he made about the physical attack of a Republican Congressman against a British newspaper reporter. Greg Gianforte beat journalist Ben Jacobs of The Guardian last year.
It is unlikely that Minister Wopke Hoekstra (Finance) will go to Saudi Arabia next week for an international investment conference. If that country does not comply with international requests for clarification about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, or if it appears that it is involved in his death, the visit is off track.
In the past week, 33 new cases of Ebola have been detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty-four people have died from the effects of the virus, reports the Congolese Ministry of Health. According to the ministry, the latest infection cases were observed between 8 and 14 October.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died when he was questioned at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That statement Saudi Arabia will give for the death of Khashoggi, CNN reports on the basis of anonymous sources.
An employee of the United Nations has contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is evident from an internal UN announcement that has been viewed by the Reuters news agency. It is known to be the first employee of the international organization who became infected with the deadly virus during the current outbreak.
'Do not worry about international criticism', Mohammed bin Salman told his military commanders this summer, referring to the fuss about the massacres that Saudi Arabia is provoking in Yemen. 'We want to leave an indelible impression on generations of Yemenis. We want their children, women and even the men to tremble with fear when the name Saudi Arabia falls. '
Spacemen Aleksej Ovtsjinin and Nick Hague, who had to make an emergency landing on Thursday after their launch, will be able to go into space again next spring. Their flight to the international space station ISS is scheduled for next spring. The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Dmitri Rogozin, said that Friday to the Interfax news agency.
