The A59 is closed in the direction of Oss by an accident at junction Paalgraven. According to the Directorate-General for Public Works and Waterways, horses are running off the highway because of that accident.
Switzerland demands that Russia stop espionage on its territory. In the past few days two new possible espionage cases have come to light. In The Hague, two people would have been arrested who possibly wanted to hack a Swiss research laboratory. The same men would also have stolen data from the world anti-doping office. That office is located in Switzerland.
This spring two Russian spies were arrested in The Hague. They were on their way to the Spiez laboratory in Switzerland, which investigated the poison gas attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, as did the poison gas attacks in Syria.
The French government expressly expressed support to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is a reaction to the threatening language of the American national security adviser John Bolton. He has already declared the court dead.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague does not seem to intend to change course after threats from the American national security adviser John Bolton. The top advisor of President Donald Trump warned that his country 'will fight back \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; if the court starts an investigation into the actions of Americans in Afghanistan.
The US will impose sanctions on judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague if they try to bring American citizens to trial. In a harsh speech, National Security Adviser John Bolton called the criminal court 'an attack on our constitution'.
The United States is taking an aggressive stance from Monday to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. If matters are brought against US military personnel, the judges will be sanctioned. That would be the national safety advisor John Bolton going to say during a speech Monday afternoon, writes Reuters news agency.
The Netherlands no longer supports the Syrian opposition. Now that it is about to collapse, it is no longer possible and meaningful, the cabinet says.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) also deals with the issue of the Rohingya from Myanmar. This has determined magistrates of the international court. This allows research into the alleged persecution and deportation to Bangladesh of the Islamic Rohingya.
Three of the five judges who are dealing with the appeal of Ratko Mladić have been replaced. This decision has to do with possible bias towards the former Bosnian Serb army leader, according to court documents released on Wednesday.
The nerve poison that recently killed a woman in the English city of Amesbury is chemically identical to the novitsjok that was used for the assassination attempt on the former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. This is evident from the research that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague has done at the request of the British authorities. The report was presented Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has definitely excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba as candidate for the presidential elections in December. Reason is his condemnation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for bribery of witnesses and obstruction of justice. In June the ICC spoke to the former warlord surprisingly free of war crimes.
The American embassy asks everyone to respect the privacy of the two Americans who were wounded on Friday in the terrorist attack on Amsterdam CS. The tourists were stabbed at the station by Jawed S., a nineteen-year-old Afghan with a German residence permit. He declared to act out of terrorist motive.
A handshake could just be finished in the Peace Palace in The Hague. There, before the International Court of Justice, the legal teams of Iran and America have been fighting a new round since yesterday. Iran demands from the UN court that US sanctions be reversed.
Iran has stepped to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in order to get US sanctions out of the table. The Islamic Republic states that the US violates a 1955 friendship treaty with the punitive measures. The countries were allies at the time. That changed after the Iranian Revolution.
Pakistan has called the envoy of the Netherlands on the carpet. The country is angry about a cartoon contest of PVV leader Geert Wilders. 'Deep concern has been conveyed about this willful and malicious attempt to put Islam in a bad light,' said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
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 population size in Africa explodes in the coming decades. That creates enormous pressure on Europe. The European Union mainly tries to keep migrants at home, but the big question is how.
The number of kilograms, meat offers in supermarkets without an animal welfare mark, has dropped by 10 percent in the past six months. According to Wakker Dier, the decrease is greater than in the same period in previous years.
All Dutch people who want to leave the Lombok and Gili islands hit by an earthquake have left or have a prospect of departure.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague advises people to travel to the Indonesian island of Lombok and the nearby Gili Islands.
After the heavy earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok many people spend the night in the open air. This is reported by the Red Cross aid organization. With many, the fear is still in after the island was hit by a quake with a force of 7.0 on Sunday evening (local time), with at least three deaths.
In Tajikistan, a Dutch man (56) lost his life on Sunday and a Dutch woman (56) was injured. The two were part of a group of bicycle tourists who were hit by a car. The families of the man and the woman have now been informed.
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.
There must be a 'critical watchdog for safety'. That is what President Pieter van Vollenhoven advocates from the Society and Security Foundation. Such a watchdog should check what has come of the advice and intentions that result from the investigation that is done after a disaster or incident.
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.
A drug gang that operated from the Netherlands, among others, has shipped an estimated 1.5 tons of cocaine and amphetamine in the past two years. Europol has rolled up the gang in recent months.
Foreign truckers often still break the rules by spending their free time in their car. The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) fined 103 lorry drivers for this in the first six months of this year. That equates to almost a quarter of all drivers who received a check. There were no Dutch among the fined truckers.
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.
In an attack on the Syrian city of Douma, where dozens of civilians were killed in April, chlorine gas was used. The Reuters news agency reports this on the basis of the first analyzes from a report by the OPCW, the international watchdog that oversees the ban on the use of chemical weapons.
