The US Senate intelligence commission has asked Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to testify. This is reported by the whistleblower's website, which says via Twitter that the lawyers of Assange are considering the request. A possible meeting would have to 'meet a high ethical standard.'
US President Donald Trump says he expects 'little' \u0026 # x27; of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki. Trump made the statement in an interview with the American CBS News that was published on Sunday.
The United States is suing twelve Russian intelligence officers for hacking the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign. That was what the US Department of Justice announced.
The British government has published the blueprint for the intended future relationship with the European Union. The 98-page document shows that London wants to maintain close ties with the EU in some areas, including by continuing to cooperate with various EU agencies.
The US government has published a list of Chinese products for which it wants to increase import duties by 10 percent. In total, it is about 200 billion dollars worth of goods. With the list, President Donald Trump's government is heading for a further escalation of the trade war between the United States and China.
Turkey dismisses more than 18,000 civil servants, including police officers, soldiers and academics. That is in a Sunday published decree. The redundancies come on the eve of the expected lifting of the two-year state of emergency. The dismissed civil servants are accused of having links with terrorist organizations or with groups that act against national security \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
Turkey discharges thousands of civil servants per decree on Friday evening by several government departments, including the police and the army. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told CNN Turk. Yildirim did not say exactly how many people were told the guard.
King Harald of Norway congratulated the Turkish president Erdogan with his re-election. A copy of the letter was published by the Norwegian court on Friday.
By eating two hands of nuts a day, men can significantly improve the quality of their semen. This is shown by research by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain.
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At least 456 elderly patients died unnecessarily from the effects of ill-prescribed strong painkillers in the years 1989-2000 in a hospital near Portsmouth, in the south of England. This is stated in a research report published on Wednesday, the BBC reported.
US President Donald Trump has given his approval for levies on Chinese goods, worth $ 50 billion.
Former FBI director James Comey made a 'serious error of judgment' in the Clinton affair, but he had no political intentions. This is stated in the report that the internal watchdog of the US Department of Justice published Thursday.
The loss of ice on Antarctica has tripled since 2012. As a result, the sea level only increased by another 3 millimeters in that period. This is reported by space agencies NASA and ESA, which supported international research that highlighted the alarming sea level rise.
Many coral reefs can not keep up with the expected rise in sea level. In particular, tropical coasts and low-lying islands have a greater chance of flooding and erosion. This appears Wednesday from international research, where the Dutch researcher Aimée Slangen of NIOZ Zeeonderzoek cooperated. The research is published in the science magazine Nature.
Eyebrows are an important point in the face and say more about people than you might think. People with large, eye-catching eyebrows have more narcissistic characteristics of people with thinner ones.
Chinese hackers have broken into the computers of a company that works for the US Navy. As a result, sensitive information has been captured, including plans for a supersonic torpedo that can be fired from submarines on enemy ships. The system should be operational by 2020. The Washington Post writes this Friday.
California voters have deposited a sitting judge. Judge Aaron Persky received a lot of criticism when he condemned a man in 2016 to a six-month prison sentence for the sexual abuse of an unconscious victim. Critics found that punishment far too low.
The British historian Sir Ian Kershaw, internationally renowned for his research on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, is one of the participants of the festival Crossing Border next autumn in The Hague.
A remarkable mourning advertisement in the United States. The relatives of Kathleen Dehmlow who died on March 31 in the American Springfield, is clearly not missed by her two children Gina and Jay. That can literally be read in the obituary advert published in the local newspaper The Redwood Falls Gazette.
Scientists from Australia have drawn a remarkable conclusion after their research: according to the team, the human body has a second brain at the buttocks.
Pope Francis, a great sports enthusiast, has given his first blessing on the first women's football game of the Vatican. The duel is part of a sports and family celebration at the Pio XI complex on 10 June. Two teams of staff members have the scoop. The episcopal press service SIR published that news.
The hurricane Maria probably killed a lot more people in Puerto Rico than previously thought. The official death toll stands at 64, but Harvard research shows that probably around 5000 people died.
The Danish Minister of Immigration and Integration Inger Stojberg called on Muslims to take holidays during Ramadan 'in order to prevent negative consequences for the rest of Danish society'.
The political block led by the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr comes with 54 seats in the Iraqi parliament and is clearly the largest group. The National Electoral Council announced this on Saturday. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's party with 42 delegates did not go beyond third place, behind the al-Fatih coalition (47). The turnout was historically low, which put Sadr on the map.
The American writer and journalist Tom Wolfe died on Monday at the age of 87 in a hospital in New York. That's what his agent announced on Tuesday.
The Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of foreigners who would have ties with the terrorist organization IS. Anti-terrorist units in Istanbul met at the same time buildings in thirteen districts, say sources within the police against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.
Khamzat Azimov, who counts as the perpetrator of the Saturday night attack in Paris, according to Islamic State (IS), appears in a video published by the Amaq news agency.
A communications officer in the White House has insulted US Senator John McCain. The USA Today newspaper writes that the employee said about McCain that 'his opinion no longer matters because he is going to die soon.' The statement was confirmed by two other White House employees.
The UN Human Rights Chief urged Turkey on Wednesday to immediately lift the state of emergency to pave the way for credible elections.
