Hajj, the largest pilgrimage in the world, is about to begin. From Sunday evening to Friday evening, the Saudi city of Mecca will visit around three million Muslims from all parts of the world, including several thousand pilgrims from the Netherlands.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague advises people to travel to the Indonesian island of Lombok and the nearby Gili Islands.
The Serbian lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic (57) was shot dead near his home in Belgrade. According to the police, it looks like a conscious assassination attempt. Ognjanovic was one of the lawyers who defended Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic during the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague.
When imposing sanctions on companies that trade with Iran, the United States is no exception for European companies. The US government has not responded to requests from Europe. 'No surprise', responded EU foreign-chef Federica Mogherini.
After almost twenty years, Ethiopia and Eritrea will restore relations. This was decided by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Eritrean President Isaia Afewerki at a joint summit. The countries are rivals that were almost at war.
The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague gets more powers to denounce attacks with banned toxic substances and to designate the perpetrators. Member States have adopted a British proposal to that effect at a special meeting.
Amal Clooney is coming to the Netherlands this fall. The international human rights lawyer and wife of George Clooney will be present at the international conference One Young World in The Hague on 18 October. There she talks with former secretary general of the United Nations Kofi Annan.
Carolijn Brouwer is the first Dutch woman to win the sailing race around the world. The 44-year-old pro from Scheveningen was the first to cross the finish line of the eleventh and final stage with her Chinese team Dongfeng in The Hague.
Italy has asked The Hague to recall ships that pick up migrants under the Dutch flag in the Mediterranean. This happened after one of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that coordinate and finance the rescue operations the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called a fascist.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former Congolese vice president, may leave the prison and join his family in Belgium. The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has determined this on Tuesday. The judges spoke to Bemba last week on appeal.
The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has reversed the war crimes judgment against the Congolese former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba. In June 2016, it was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for crimes against humanity because, under his command, militia members had murdered and raped in the Central African Republic.
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.
The Benelux, the partnership between the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, still has plenty of plans for the future. The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the three countries meet in Brussels Tuesday to look back and look ahead. Despite the somewhat old-fashioned image, the Netherlands sees the Benelux as 'more relevant than ever'.
At a number of places in Belgium, a minute's silence was observed Wednesday at 1:00 pm out of respect for the two police officers and the student who were shot dead in Liège on Tuesday. Political forces, politicians, administrators and citizens in cities such as Antwerp, Brussels and of course Liege also commemorated the victims.
The Ministry of Finance says to keep a close eye on developments at AirFrance / KLM.
Russia plans to bring Syrians to the Netherlands that were seen on images of the alleged poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma. Russian ambassador Alexander Sjoelgin said in an interview with ITV News that his country's 'unforgivable lies' \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; about the incident.
Roy B., who was arrested on Sunday for involvement in the death of Orlando Boldewijn, has been released.
Prosecutors have demanded a life imprisonment against Radovan Karadzic on appeal. Prosecutor Katrina Gustafson told the UN Tribunal MICT in The Hague that the former leader of the Serbs in Bosnia 'abused his enormous power to shed the blood of countless victims. Justice demands that he gets the highest possible sentence: lifelong. '
The trial against the former leader of the Serbs in Bosnia, Karadzic, has been unfair. He must be acquitted or the process must be over. This was his counsel Peter Robinson argued at the start of the appeal in The Hague on Monday. The prosecutors have also lodged an appeal because they want him to receive a life sentence.
The UN war tribunal MICT in The Hague will consider the appeal in the Karadzic case on Monday and Tuesday. In 2016, the Yugoslavia Tribunal condemned Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in prison for crimes against humanity and genocide, including the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. Both Karadzic and the prosecutor decided to challenge this ruling.
An international team of experts who want to investigate the possible poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma can start work on Wednesday. That expectation was expressed by the Russian ambassador at the organization against chemical weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.
The attack by the US, the United Kingdom and the French on targets in Syria was a huge logistical operation. The costs run into hundreds of millions, says defense specialist Peter Wijninga. There may even have been a bomber in America to fire rockets on Syria.
Spanish prosecutors have tried to convince their German counterparts at Eurojust in The Hague that the Catalan ex-prime minister Carles Puigdemont can be extradited for rebellion or mutiny. Images of violence in Catalonia have been shown for this. The defendant could then have thirty years in prison due to rebellion.
German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.
German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.
The OPCW has rejected a Russian proposal to 'cooperate' in the investigation into the poison gas used in the attack on Skripal double spy. The rejection by Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague is a support in the back of the British, but the Russians are furious.
Great Britain mentions a Russian proposal to jointly investigate the attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal 'perverse.' The British delegation that participated in the Wednesday consultation with the organization against chemical weapons (OPCW) in The Hague twittered that.
Disgusting food remains from the bulging trash cans and an allegedly illegal deal with the embassy of Albania. Opposite of the turret of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague, the nuisance of an Italian restaurant was spit.
The expulsion of two Russian diplomats through the Netherlands 'will not be without consequences,' says the Russian ambassador in The Hague, Alexander Shulgin, in an interview with EenVandaag. 'We will have to respond in one way or another,' he warns. 'It will be a form of retribution.'
France and the Netherlands should work together to involve East European countries more in the climate issue. 'We always end up in a fixed groove in debates about migration and climate,' said Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Brussels about the contradictions in the EU.
