Barack Obama was in Amsterdam on Friday to talk about leadership, not about Donald Trump or current political issues. Yet the former American president could not resist to refer to his successor in the White House in a devious way.
Update- The authorities of Indonesia confirm that a tsunami has hit the country. Several cities have been hit, including Palu and Donggala. Videos of the event circulate on social media. According to travel organizations, the affected area is hardly popular among Dutch people, although it is not clear whether there are compatriots in the disaster area.
With the tsunami of today, the thoughts automatically return to Boxing Day in 2004, when the Netherlands was startled by the news of the severe seaquake near Indonesia. The resulting tsunami caused one of the biggest natural disasters of the past decades.
A Mexican governor who had two billion euros disappeared from the treasury of the province of Veracruz receives punishment. A fine of, converted, 2,645 euros and nine years in prison.
Emmanuel Macron was right after all. The unemployed gardener, to whom the French president recently publicly said that the young man could best work, has found a job.
The grizzly bear is the center of a media hype in the United States. American nature lovers and environmental organizations celebrate the court ruling that at the last minute banned the hunting of grizzlies around the Yellowstone Park. But not everyone gets happy about it at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
The European Court reaps criticism with its decision that the European Parliament does not have to publish the expense allowance for its parliamentarians. According to the SP and D66, the European completely misses the mark.
While Belgium has been startled by an outbreak of African swine fever among wild boar, Denmark has plans to deny German wild boar once and for all access to Danish territory.
Albert Heijn equips the first AH to go stores with technology for cashless shopping. Customers of the two branches in the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC) no longer have to wait in line for the cash register from Monday. Next week the AH to go will follow at the metro station on Amsterdam CS.
A French research ship will probably reach the boat of the injured solo sailor Abhilash Tomy on Monday. He was in trouble on thousands of kilometers south-west of Australian Perth on Friday when his mast broke off during a storm. Since then the sailor has been reporting via text messages about his deteriorating state of health.
Panama has withdrawn the registration of the Aquarius, the ship with which MSF and SOS Méditerranée rescue refugees on the Mediterranean. This means that the ship can no longer sail under the Panamanian flag, according to a MSF spokeswoman.
Ten thousand British pounds of reward praised animal activists. For three years, Scotland Yard inspectors inspected all blood traces. Now the likely 'killer' of hundreds of house cats is finally known: the fox.
The Australian police have arrested a 12-year-old for the strawberry terror that keeps the country in its grip. Presumably several miscreants stop needles in the fruit. There are already more than a hundred cases known, spread over several places.
Now that the Japanese billionaire Yusaka Maezawa has become known as the first space tourist in 2023, the question arises as to what he can expect from his journey and what he has to do for it.
The Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan, in spite of the current economic malaise, sees no reason to accept a Boeing 747 from the emir of Qatar as a personal present.
Despite all the stress and the smartphones that control our lives, we sleep better than in the 70s for example.
Turkish authorities released about 160 construction workers yesterday that protested last Friday against the bad working conditions of building a new airport near Istanbul that is to become the largest in the world.
Thousands of lovers of comic books, science fiction and fantasy have come to the first African edition of Comic Con. The three-day event in Johannesburg is completely sold out, the organization reports. Visitors come from countries such as Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
The police in Norway found the kayak of the missing Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis. The canoe was in the area where other things of his have been discovered before. What these are, the police do not want to say yet. According to good friend Ancilla van de Leest, there would be identity papers from Kamphuis.
The Dalai Lama meets Friday in the Netherlands with victims of sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers. In doing so, he responds to the urgent appeal that twelve victims did to him. As far as is known, it is the first time that the Dalai Lama is going to the table with abusive victims. That reports the NOS.
A new abuse scandal casts a deep shadow over the Catholic Church in Germany. More than sixteen hundred priests have been guilty of sexual abuse in the past sixty years.
Are you ready with those sticky peanut butter? Then there is something new for you! You can now invest your sandwich with spreadable whiskey.
For Americans living on the east coast, the countdown has started. Another day and a half and then Florence comes ashore. A very heavy hurricane, meteorologists warn. ' He could even become the heaviest category '', says Johnny Willemse of Weeronline.
Sint Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius must take extreme weather conditions into account this week. Weeronline reports that hurricane Isaac, according to most computer calculations, draws on the Windward Islands on Thursday or Friday.
The government of Curaçao denies refugee Venezuelans the international right to protection. That is what Amnesty International says in a report published on Monday.
Again, a murder has been committed by two asylum seekers in Germany. The city police of Köthen arrested two Afghans who killed a 22-year-old German.
This week Kim Jong-un resurfaced for the first time in 14 days. Just in time to prepare his people for the military parade and the mass spectacle Arirang. The biggest show in the world where about a hundred thousand North Koreans give a whirling acrobatic performance in which a message will be formed with colorful placards.
Also so afraid of spiders? Then this is your biggest nightmare. A man came with an ear complaint to the ENT doctor, where a shocking discovery was made. A spider had nestled in his ear.
The Russian dissident Nikolaj Gloesjkov, who was found dead in his home in London in March, may have survived a previous attack on his life. In November 2013, two Russians, whom he had previously met at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, would have bought a bottle of champagne for him. Gloesjkov drank it and woke up the next morning with cardiac arrhythmias. He then said that the two had stopped something in his drink.
The authorities in Genoa want the remains of the collapsed bridge to be demolished, and that a completely new bridge will be built on the spot. They have asked operator Autostrade to help with this.
