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One of the few survivors of a skydive accident will soon participate in a walking competition.

According to the US, the Chinese and Russian government have started to artificially lower their currencies. That is how they manipulate their exports, according to President Trump. That accusation from Trump for the first time; previously the president reported that he had no signals of currency manipulation.

The Chinese telecom company ZTE has been hit by a trade embargo by the United States. At the same time, the UK telecom regulator warns against ZTE's network products.

Blowers to dry your hands on WC are sometimes extremely unhygienic.

Again in Amsterdam someone has been arrested in the case of the dead Ergin Başakçi (42) from Hellevoetsluis. The suspect is a man of 25. He was arrested Friday-evening in Amsterdam-East and is being led on Monday.

Jeanine Hennis does not want to become a mayor of Amsterdam. The VVD politician tells De Telegraaf that she has seriously thought about it, but that the 'commitment' for six years is too big. 'I need more flexibility at the moment. I therefore decided not to apply. '

More than a hundred missiles were fired on Saturday night at carefully selected targets in Syria. The US attack, backed by France and Britain, was a retaliation for what according to the West was an attack with poison gas by Syrian President Assad on his own people. Ten questions and ten answers.

Pesto must be made from basil, pine nuts, parmesan cheese, garlic and olive oil. But there are often other ingredients in a jar.

People who go to bed late and have difficulty getting out of bed in the morning are more likely to die early than those who crawl in time and get up before dawn.

A photo of a Venezuelan man who is on fire during violent protests against President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas has been voted the best photo of the year. Photographer Ronaldo Schemidt made the photo in his home country and is the winner of the World Press Photo 2018. Three Dutch photographers also received prizes at the prestigious photo competition.

The Tomahawk cruise missiles that President Trump probably deployed in Syria have been a trusted weapon for the United States for more than 25 years.

Air traffic over the eastern part of the Mediterranean must be extra careful in the next 72 hours.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is trying to find out whether chemical weapons were used in the Syrian rebel enclave Douma this weekend. The organization says it closely monitors the incident and collects additional information 'from all available sources.'

Food watchdog food watch calls on supermarkets to come up with a solution for pesticides on vegetables and fruits from outside the EU. These are pesticides that are banned in Europe because they are bad for consumers.

The four-year-old Yasmine from Belgium has been imprisoned for almost a year in Syria, and now that her radicalized father has been killed, she is alone in a camp of Al-Qaeda. The terrorist group does not intend to give it back and both her mother and the government are powerless.

A wall on the Mexican border is not available for the time being, but President Trump does not intend to resign himself to it. Now he wants to use the American army to guard the border.

The new generation of lampposts with LED light are bad for your eyes. The lamps can also disrupt your sleep.

The products that are for sale in the Netherlands via the German website Amazon.de appear to be cheaper in 50% of cases than comparable articles from established Dutch webshops.

It is time for the spring cleaning, but we forget many things according to the cleaning experts!

Philips waits for millions of claims in the United States due to pollution of the groundwater. The case involving waste products from components delivered between 1953 and 1989 is continued despite Philips' opposition to the courts.

David Matthews, the multimillionaire and father-in-law of Pippa Middleton, was taken into custody by the French police on Tuesday. The man is suspected of raping a minor.

The police arrested the 24-year-old Zakaria A. from Utrecht in prison on suspicion of the liquidation of Martin Kok. The crime blogger was liquidated on 8 December 2016 at the door of sex club Boccacio.

Three random passers-by turn out to have been the victim of probably the same perpetrator in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening. All three were stabbed with a knife on the Jan Evertsenstraat. The police have arrested a 32-year-old man and are looking for witnesses.

The mother of the poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal has no idea that her son and granddaughter Julia have been in a coma for three weeks in a hospital in Salisbury. Her family has shielded the 90-year-old woman from the bad news.

London shuddered, tens of thousands of jobs in the financial sector would disappear after the announcement of the brexit. The departure from the EU is much less bad for the City.

A dog that had disappeared without a car theft in Antwerp Deurne is right again. The four-legged friend was found Amsterdam, about 150 kilometers away.

The first future in yuan for crude oil, which put China on the market as an alternative to the image-determining Brent and WTI futures contracts on Monday, does not threaten it, but it mainly highlights the rapid opening up of the market for foreign companies. 'The timing is perfect,' says economist Hans van Cleef (ABN Amro), referring to the trade dispute between the US and China.

South Korean steelmakers are shooting up on the stock market Monday after claims of a deal with the US.

English football fans provide unrest on the Amsterdam Wallen on Friday afternoon. It is thrown with cans and glass and drunk on the street, says a police spokesman.

China wants to tax a series of American products in response to the import levy that President Trump announced on Thursday.