Belgian soldiers who take part in the NATO operation Forward Presence in Estonia in January have to do with hats that date from the Korean War. The 67 year old hats are still...
A letter that an 8-year-old girl sent to Santa Claus in Beverly in 1912 has arrived at the destination.
An American teacher and former Miss Kentucky was arrested Friday because she had sent nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old student. When the parents found out that their son had a rather piquant conversation with his former teacher, they turned to the police.
The Iranian government has increased the number of missile tests this year. In addition, missiles have been tested that the European Union can achieve. This is stated in documents from Western intelligence services that the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag has recognized.
The UN mission in South Sudan started an investigation into widespread rapes around the city of Bentiu. Some 125 women and girls have been raped or assaulted there, confirms the UN mission. Médecins Sans Frontières had previously denounced the massive rapes committed in a ten-day period.
The son of a Dutch-Moroccan 'hate preacher' who lived in Belgium and two years ago in a film called to murder Christians was expelled to the Netherlands. That is what the Belgian Secretary of State Theo Francken (Asylum and Migration) announces in a 'service announcement' on Twitter. 'He is back to the Netherlands. I already sent his father back, so that's a good thing ', says Francken in his video tweets.
It looks like a random industrial park in the Randstad, but it is really the first-ever sharp image from Mars.
The 51-year-old Simone de A. was arrested in Sorocaba (Brazil) for the murder of a 73-year-old Dutchman. The death of Hans van Denderen was probably concealed because the woman sent messages of his name to, among others, the man's relatives. This is what Jose Antonio Proença Martins de Melo, spokesman for the police in the Brazillian Votorantim, says in a conversation with the news site Globo.com. Simone denies having murdered Hans.
A camera that traces Chinese who are running red has mistakenly punished a well-known businesswoman who was standing on a bus with her head.
London and Brussels have reached an agreement in principle on the political declaration setting out how the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom should look after the Brexit. That is what EU President Donald Tusk reports on Twitter.
The British authorities have arrested a 48-year-old man after finding two explosives in an apartment. As far as is known, the suspect has no ties with terrorist organizations, reports the police in the British capital.
A court in Guatemala has sentenced a former soldier to 5160 years in prison for the mass murder of 171 people. The massacre is seen as one of the most cruel crimes in the civil war that plagued the Central American country from 1960 to 1996.
An American who had been smuggled to a remote Indian island was probably killed there by the indigenous population. The hunter-gatherers on the isolated North Sentinel Island have already attacked visitors before.
Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of e-mails to the employees of the White House last year, government officials and employees through her personal e-mail account. The daughter and advisor of President Trump was in violation, writes The Washington Post.
If there is no agreement on the brexit, the European Union wants to set a customs border in the Irish Sea, between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. For example, Northern Ireland can remain part of the internal market and customs union and the land border with EU member Ireland can remain open. The Times reports this on the basis of a letter from the British Prime Minister Theresa May who has seen the newspaper.
The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada apologized for sending a ship with Jews in 1939. The then government sent a boat away with Jews who wanted to escape the Nazis.
The German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer has sent his intelligence chief Hans Georg Maassen out of the way. Maassen had accused coalition partner SPD of left extremism and refused to spy on the patriotic party AfD, which links up with right-wing radical groups, neo-Nazis and football hooligans.
The Turkish prosecutor who is investigating the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi asked his Saudi colleague Tuesday who ordered the sending of the murder command to Istanbul.
The president of Sri Lanka says he sent the government home because he was the target of a murder plot. Maithripala Sirisena made that claim during a speech broadcast on television.
The organizers of the Belgian dance festival Tomorrowland sent an e-mail on Saturday to 64,007 festival goers who bought a ticket in 2014 to inform them about a data breach. 'The file in question only contains the name, e-mail address, gender, age and postal code, so no payment details, passwords or addresses,' emphasizes spokeswoman Debby Wilmsen of the organization of the festival in Boom near Antwerp.
US President Donald Trump believes the media in the United States are taking advantage of the case with the bomb packs sent to prominent Democrats and Trump critics this week. According to the president, media use this incident to score politically over his back.
The suspicious packages that an arrested man would have sent to, among other prominent Democrats, contain explosive material. That's what FBI boss Chris Wray announced during a press conference. The federal police found the suspected sender on the trail of a difficult to find fingerprint on a mail item intended for Congressman Maxine Waters.
Update- The US authorities have arrested a man in connection with the possible bombs that have been sent to top Democrats, former senior US officials and prominent critics of President Donald Trump in recent days. It would be a 56-year-old man who was previously arrested for terrorism. The president has now responded himself. 'These deeds are despicable.'
Two new suspicious packages were discovered in the US on Friday. In the US state of Florida, one was found that was addressed to US Democratic Senator Cory Booker, according to US media.
An American explosives disposal service is investigating a mail distribution center near Miami in Florida. According to authorities, several mail packages with pipe bombs have been processed there.
The white powder that was attached in an envelope to packets of pipe bombs sent to New York is probably innocent. According to a first analysis, the stuff did not constitute a 'biological threat.' A federal police officer FBI announced this during a press conference on Thursday. It still has to be sorted out for which substance it is.
The United States is under the spell of a series of bombships that were sent to high leaders in the Democratic Party on Wednesday. The US Secret Service intercepted suspicious mail for former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, President Trump's opponent in the previous election.
The FBI has intercepted bomb letters that were sent to US ex-president Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and news channel CNN. President Donald Trump has been informed. The White House takes the situation 'very seriously', according to an official. The actions are 'contemptible' and the responsible people will pay for it, according to the White House.
The satellites for the BepiColombo mission are on their way to Mercury. The Ariane 5 rocket with a European and a Japanese satellite on board was successfully launched from 3.45 am Dutch time from French Guiana.
