Another fourteen European countries have pledged to Germany to take back migrants faster. Among the countries are the Netherlands and critical countries in the area of migration such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, reports the German news agency DPA.
'It is far too early to speak of success.' That is what EU President Donald Tusk said after the summit in Brussels where government leaders negotiated after one night a political agreement on the approach to migration. This was the easiest part, compared with completing the agreements on the ground, according to the Pool.
Fourteen members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been expelled because of corruption. The procedure committee of the meeting announced their names on Wednesday.
Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker sent the Turkish president Recep Erdogan a congratulatory letter of three lines a day after his re-election.
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The 16-year-old student Louis Fice from Wales was sent home by his school last week because he came to school in shorts. Shorts are not part of the school uniform, that's how it sounded. No point Fice thought and returned in a skirt a little later.
Primary school students have lost sight of a cake that they have sent into space. The transmitter that should have kept the position of the baking is no longer traceable.
Ignoring overdue maintenance has caused the State Bank of India a loss of EUR 15,000.
An unknown shooter opened fire on passers-by in the center of Malmö on Monday evening. According to the first reports in the local media, several people have been injured. Witnesses said they had counted fifteen shots.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini wants to know exactly how many Roma people live in Italy. To get a picture of the situation 'we have to do what was once called counting', said leader of right-wing populist party Lega on TV channel TeleLombardia. As far as he is concerned, counting may also be called 'personal registration' or 'snapshot'.
The Belgian State Secretary for asylum seeks to ensure that asylum seekers who report in Europe are automatically referred back. Applications for accommodation in Europe must, according to Theo Francken, be handled in Africa, for example.
The German minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer has sent the head of the national migration service (Bamf) to the lane. Jutta Cordt has to leave as a result of a scandal surrounding unjustly assigned statuses to asylum seekers.
A 22-year-old comedian has been raped and murdered shortly after hatred.
You would expect it in Zimbabwe sooner, but also with our southern neighbors it happens. A Belgian minister has several times with roaring sirens in escort transport through the country causing enormous traffic jams.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed that in March last year the nerve gas sarin was most likely used in the Syrian city of Ltamenah. This is stated in a report by the special investigation committee that was presented on Wednesday. The team members also concluded that chlorine gas was used in an attack on a hospital. The bombing took place on 24 and 25 March 2017.
The Mars trolley Opportunity can not do any research for the time being because there is a huge dust storm on the red planet. In an area that is larger than North America, the sun is currently being darkened. Space Agency NASA decided to park the vehicle, which sent a signal to earth last Sunday, because the batteries are no longer being charged.
The talks between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump started at the Capella Hotel in Singapore. A serious handshake preceded the meeting, leaving Trump his jovial stance. Kim laughed cautiously while Trump kept his face tight for a long time. Then he led Kim with a big smile to the library where both men started their maintenance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin answered questions on numerous domestic and international issues during his annual question show Thursday. Russians sent about 2 million questions this year, reports Russian media.
The US Department of State has retrieved a number of diplomats from Guangzhou in China after complaints about a mysterious condition that resembles minor brain damage. The complaints resemble those of a previous incident with a possible noise attack at the US embassy in Cuba, a spokesperson said.
Prince Laurent has appeared on Tuesday at the funeral of the two police officers who died last week during the shooting in Liège. The brother of the Belgian King Filip was standing outside the audience watching the big screen.
Paul Manafort, former campaign leader of US President Donald Trump, has tried to influence possible witnesses against him. Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has therefore asked the judge to take Manafort back into custody.
The British press is taking a big hit with a study in which female school staff is sounding the alarm about sexual harassment in the workplace; by students, note. It is seized to breasts and tossed with genitals.
Fear of spiders. It happens to many people, but with the 22-year-old Demi Sweeney the fear was so great that they invented a very special way to get rid of the spider.
Pedro Sánchez Saturday took the oath on the constitution with the Spanish king Felipe, making him officially the new Prime Minister of Spain. The 46-year-old economist and leader of the Social Democratic PSOE is the first prime minister in the history of Spain who took the oath without the presence of the Bible or a crucifix.
The American news channel CNN is behind the news item in which several women accused actor Morgan Freeman of undesirable behavior and sexual harassment.
Justice in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant against the wife of top manager Cho Yang-ho of Korean Air. According to the judiciary, the 69-year-old Lee Myung-hee has misbehaved miserably several times over the past seven years against personnel and thus misused her position.
For the first time since NATO sent Russian diplomats away because of the attack with nerve gas on the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yoelia in Salisbury, both parties have again held political consultations. The so-called NATO-Russia Council met at Ambassador level at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
A jailer from the prison where the Liège shooter was stuck, on Saturday sent a report to the management about his radicalization, Belgian media reports. In spite of this, he was allowed to go on leave for 36 hours on Monday. Benjamin Herman then shot three people, including two female agents. He is the main suspect of a fourth murder.
Belgian justice appears to be sending traffic fines around the last few weeks that make you happy. Or actually not.
The Greek Coast Guard discovered a yacht off the coast of the island of Crete with seventy migrants on board. The 25-meter-long ship was probably on its way from the Turkish or Egyptian coast to Italy.
