Peter Hayden

The approximately 33,000 passengers affected by the cancellation or delay of 172 Belgian Ryanair flights in the summer of 2018 will each receive a voucher worth 250 or 400 euros. They can have it paid out after a year. There was a…

The police chief in charge of the US parliament in Washington may directly call on troops from the National Guard in emergency situations. Congress has passed legislation that makes that possible, reports The Washington Post. This…

The United States is working on "alternatives" to the Iran nuclear deal if negotiations to restore the accord fail. The talks were restarted last week, but there seems to be no prospect of a breakthrough for the time being. "We…

The United States no longer sees Europe as a priority region. Washington's focus is now on rivalry with China and the Middle East, while Europe is rather used as a sort of tool to serve other interests. This is the conclusion of VUB…

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel is working on an autobiography together with her close associate and confidant Beate Baumann, Baumann announced in an interview with Der Spiegel. The book will take two to three years to complete,…

A father and son have been arrested on suspicion of causing a large forest fire in northern California. The so-called Caldor fire started last summer and burnt more than 800 square kilometres to ashes. According to the fire…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not recognize the European Court of Human Rights ruling on businessman Osman Kavala and politician Selahattin Demirtas. Turkey follows the rulings of the Turkish judges, leaving both men…

“You cannot shut down and restart parts of the economy with every new variant.” With these punitive words, British former Prime Minister Theresa May opened the attack on Boris Johnson. In the House of Commons, she expressed her…

A persistent rumour has it that Apple is currently putting the finishing touches on its first mixed reality headset. According to the American news agency Bloomberg, the device will primarily be intended for games, media consumption and…

In November, the number of jobs added in the United States was lower than a month earlier. The 210,000 new jobs that the US Department of Labor counted even meant the lowest growth this year. Unemployment fell again and now stands at 4.2…