This year there are 964 574 refugees arrived in Germany. This was reported by the newspaper Passauer Neue Presse Monday based on answers by the Ministry of Interior to parliamentary questions, which are seen by the newspaper. The sum is based on the registration of refugees which are distributed among the German states.
The opposition in Venezuela has achieved a major victory in parliamentary elections Sunday. The Electoral Commission announced on Monday that the opposition coalition MUD certainly holds 99 of the 167 seats. Not all seats have been allocated.
The parliamentary elections in Egypt are as expected, overwhelmingly won by supporters of the strong man of the country, the ex- soldier and president Abdel Fattah al- Sisi. Egyptian media reports said Friday, after the country about six weeks in stages and rounds had elected a new parliament with 596 seats. The final voting rounds were Tuesday and Wednesday.
The opposition would be Sunday in the parliamentary elections in Venezuela for the first time can get a majority. The oil-rich socialist country is there and has been disastrous for ' failed state ' baptized. The trouble with forged opposition coalition MUD (Democratic Unity Front Table) seems alternative.
The Constitutional Court of Spain rejected the resolution on independence for the Catalan regional parliament on November 9 because this would violate the constitution. The parliament in Barcelona then decided majority to begin with the separation from Spain.
The United States will deploy a special force to assist Iraq in the fight against terror group Islamic State. These soldiers will be deployed to carry out "unilateral operations " in Syria, said US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter Tuesday.
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.
At a hotel in the Egyptian city of al- Arish, two bombs been detonated. That the Egyptian state television reported Tuesday. Surely a person was killed. The hotel people have been placed in charge of supervising the elections.
The leader of the leftist Kurdish opposition party HDP in Turkey, Selahattin Demirtas, has survived an attack Sunday in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir populated by Kurds. It was shot at the armored car in which the charismatic politician SAT. There is a bullet in the bullet-proof window glass found at the height of his head. The politician was unharmed. " God decides on the death," he tweeted later.
British Prime Minister David Cameron unfolds this week its new strategy against the Sunni extremists of Islamic State (IS). He will then according to British media sufficient parliamentary support for air strikes on Syria. It is assumed that these will soon be carried out by British Tornado fighter planes.
Egypt holds Sunday and Monday the second round of parliamentary elections. Residents of thirteen of the 27 governorates cast their vote. It is from 08:00 am (Dutch time), more voted in the capital Cairo.
The party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar obtained an absolute majority in parliament. That is what the electoral commission announced Friday. Earlier on Friday said the National League for Democracy (NLD), Suu Kyi was on two seats of the majority. A quarter of the seats in parliament are reserved for the military rulers.
Two relatives of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have been arrested in Haiti and moved to the United States. The pair is Thursday charged with cocaine trafficking and the laundering of drug money.
Aung San Suu Kyi wants with Myanmar President Thein Sein von talk to " the will of the people" to make sure now that her party has achieved an overwhelming victory in the elections on 8 November. Although the official results still waiting for it, her party National League for Democracy Wednesday already claimed 163 of the 182 seats.
The center-right minority government of the Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho on Tuesday after a few weeks already fallen. A left-wing majority in parliament tripped the government by rejecting government plans Passos Coelho.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi has to start twelve parliamentary seats won in the first twelve constituencies where the results became known.
The ruling Party of Union Solidarity and Development (USD) in Myanmar sitting president and ' oud' General Thein Sein on Monday admitted to have lost the parliamentary elections. The party will own words accept the outcome of the vote.
EU leaders should together with their African colleagues to join hands for the migration flow to Europe to a halt. This call does the European Parliament in a letter to the leaders of the EU countries.
Sunday 's parliamentary elections in Croatia seem to be turning out to be a neck-and- neck race between the conservative opposition party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and the ruling Social Democratic Party (SDP). This is evident from an exit poll that showed the Croatian state television Sunday.
Certainly eighteen people have been slain Wednesday in southeast Turkey in clashes between soldiers and Kurdish militants. The fighting flared after the army a day earlier had conducted air strikes in the mainly Kurdish region.
The European Union trusts that the Turkish Government is doing everything possible to strengthen the rule of law and fundamental freedoms and again " constructive " talks to the (Kurdish) opposition. Writes EU Minister Donald Tusk Tuesday in a congratulatory letter to the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
The Turkish police have arrested Tuesday dozens of people that can be associated with Fethullah Gülen, the political enemy of President Erdogan. Among those arrested are senior police officers and officials.
The elections in Turkey were hampered by restrictions that were imposed by the authorities on the media through violence and the security situation in general. This is reported by the official observer missions of the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Monday.
The Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu of the ruling AK Party has to work the other political parties called together a new constitution. He proposed Sunday after the parliamentary elections to jointly work towards a Turkey that is free from conflicts and tensions.
The parliamentary elections in Turkey were held under unfair conditions. This has Selahattin Demirtas, one of the two leaders of the leftist pro-Kurdish party HDP, said Sunday in reaction to the outcome of the vote.
In the Turkish and ethnic predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir Sunday night riots broke out after the parliamentary elections. Security forces have fired tear gas fired at demonstrators who threw stones.
Preliminary results of Turkish parliamentary elections on Sunday give Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Justice and Development Party (AK) overlooking a big win.
During the Sunday parliamentary elections in Turkey have been some incidents. At a polling station in the province of Kocaeli, east of Istanbul, were supporters of the ruling AK clashed with supporters of the left-wing, pro-Kurdish party HDP.
The majority of Dutch voters finds that not only Labour Secretary of State Wilma Mansveld (Track), as well VVD minister Melanie Schutz (Infrastructure) should have resigned after a damning report by the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the Fyra. This is evident Sunday in the weekly poll by Maurice de Hond.
Turkey can go to the polls for parliamentary elections. The first polling stations were in the east of the country open. It is the second time in five months that Turkey chooses a new parliament. Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Justice and Development Party (AK) agreed to new elections because after the last elections on June 7 was not formed coalition government.
