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.
The Saudi authorities have confirmed the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to the Saudi prosecutor, there is a fight between him and people he met out there at the consulate in Istanbul that led to his death, reports Saudi state television.
One of the 15 men of the assassination who arrived in Istanbul on the same day of the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, would have been killed in a mysterious 'traffic accident', reports Turkish media.
The two leaders of the Italian coalition government are talking about plans in the controversial budget of the country. But Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stressed on Thursday in Brussels that there is no break in the government team. Conte has become a government leader as a neutral figure and not a member of a party.
US President Donald Trump was told by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last Tuesday that he has no idea what happened at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared there two weeks ago. The Turkish authorities think he was killed.
Working in the City of London demands the utmost of people- trainees at a law firm have again experienced last week. Their boss sent them an e-mail on Friday at a quarter to five with the question if they could work through the night. Those who refused, had to provide 'proof' to legitimize the failure.
The Italian cabinet has approved its own budget for 2019 on Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said. The document is now being sent to Brussels where the European Commission will look into it. Conte told reporters that the budget 'keeps our promises while keeping the public accounts in order.'
Belgians cast their vote on Sunday in municipal and provincial elections. They are the first polls since 2014 and are seen as an important indicator for the parliamentary elections in May next year. Approximately 8.2 million Belgians can vote for municipal councils and in Flanders and Wallonia also for provincial councils.
The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi secretly recorded his own interrogation and torture in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and forwarded it to his fiancé.
The president of Cuba can now be followed on Twitter. Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a tweet on Wednesday, the first president of the communist country, followed by another two hours later.
The driver who crashed Saturday with a limousine in New York, where twenty people were killed, did not have a valid driver's license. The car was also rejected a month ago.
Two cargo ships collided with each other on the Mediterranean near Corsica.
The death toll as a result of the earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi has risen from 1558 to 1763. According to the emergency response service there is fear that there are still more than 5000 missing persons.
In a letter sent to the Wall Street Journal, US candidate chief Justice Brett Kavanaugh stressed that he is innocent and writes that he feels unfairly treated. For that reason, he was so emotional when he had to make statements for a Senate committee last week.
The official death toll due to the earthquake and tsunami last Friday on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen from more than 1400 to 1558. This has been reported by the emergency response service.
The packages with suspicious content intended for the Pentagon, the White House and Senator Ted Cruz's office were probably sent by an ex-navy man. That's what people who were involved in the investigation said Wednesday to Fox News. The deadly poison ricine was found in at least two intercepted mail items. The FBI has taken the stuff for further research.
Donald Trump got involved with suspicious tax constructions when he took advantage of his father's wealth. That writes the New York Times Tuesday. The US president has long presented himself as a self-made billionaire, but research from the paper has shown that he has received at least 413 million contemporary dollars (357 million euros) from the real estate empire of Fred C. Trump.
How hard Cristiano Ronaldo screams about fake news and however much his girlfriend can support him, according to a journalist from Der Spiegel, they have enough documentation that would prove the wrong of the professional footballer, and specifically 'a dangerous document'.
The Indonesian authorities supply relief goods and materiel after the earthquake and flood on Sulawesi. The emergency response service says it needs more heavy equipment and manpower to store bodies on the island.
The boss and chairman of the Australian public broadcaster, Justin Milne, resigned on Thursday after a scandal about an e-mail sent instruction to director and editor-in-chief Michelle Guthrie. Milne sent, according to publications from The Sydney Morning Herald in May, Guthrie the assignment to get rid of two journalistic employees, Emma Alberici and Andrew Probyn.
Ships from several countries are in a race against time to save a wounded solo sailor. Indian Navy officer Abhilash Tomy participated in the Golden Globe Race, according to CNN, when his boat ran into trouble at some 3300 kilometers southwest of the Australian city of Perth.
Two alert Texan prison employees have accidentally done a big drug discovery. They were sent out to pick up a load of overripe bananas that had been donated to the State's Custodial Institutions. However, there appeared to be more than fruit in the boxes.
Airbnb plans to reward some landlords who use its platform with shares in the company.
The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has sent a large amount of edible mushrooms to South Korea. It is a gift for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, news agency Yonhap.
A 45-year-old American from Long Island has completely broken through a defeat in the popular video game Fortnite. He sent an eleven-year-old boy a series of messages in which he threatened to open the fire at the house and at the young gamer's school.
The department of the right-wing populist AfD in the German state of Lower Saxony says three members are on guard because they had attended a meeting of neo-Nazis. A spokesman for the AfD said Tuesday that the party is starting a procedure to get rid of the three.
