The Belgian cancer specialist Martine Piccart will receive the Bob Pinedo Cancer Care Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) this year. Piccart (65) receives the biennial prize for her 'leading scientific contributions to the treatment of breast cancer and to clinical cancer research.'
One of the Russian hackers who, according to the US and the Netherlands, are behind the cyber attacks on, among others, the OPCW in The Hague, is registered at an address in Moscow that has been identified by the Americans as a building of the military intelligence service GROe.
The US Department of Justice has filed a complaint against seven Russian intelligence officers for hacking various anti-doping agencies. Four of the seven are the same men who tried to hack the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Netherlands.
A Dutch Kurd has surprisingly seized next to the presidency of Iraq. After a political drama in parliament, Fouad Hussein had to face Barham Salih, who is waiting a tough job to bring the divided and devastated country back on top.
CBS Television has broken the cooperation with producer Brad Kern. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this is the result of a number of investigations that run against the producer of series such as NCIS: New Orleans and Charmed for sexually undesirable and unprofessional behavior and racist statements against employees.
The Belgian municipality Haacht has also decided not to use the Stint anymore. That has been communicated by the local Alderman for Education, Nico Bogaerts.
The Netherlands has made € 1 million available to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This is what Minister Kaag (Development Cooperation) decided on Monday.
California was the first US state to pass a law requiring listed companies to have at least one woman on the board from the end of 2019.
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.
The Netherlands is in danger of losing out in the battle for the extension of a war crimes investigation in Yemen. The government of that country refuses, despite heavy pressure, to extend the mandate of UN experts.
The German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp is considering a break-up. On that news from the Bloomberg news agency, the share increased by more than 9% on the German stock market Thursday afternoon.
Arianespace has launched a European Ariane 5 rocket for the hundredth time. The rocket departed around midnight (Dutch time) from Kourou in French Guiana and brings two satellites for telecom in orbit around the earth.
Several stars, including Hollywood actor Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson started their career with it: show wrestling. In the United States, these theatrical sporting years are a gigantic phenomenon.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, Cardinal Marx, has apologized for all forms of sexual abuse within the church over the past decades. He did so during the presentation of a comprehensive study into the abuse of children and young people.
The European Parliament was entitled to refuse access to documents on the expenses of MEPs. The European Court of Justice ruled that in a case that a group of journalists from all 28 EU countries had filed.
In the fight against human trafficking, the Netherlands is establishing an international network. Through contact between diplomats and other parties involved, money from human traffickers must be detected more quickly. The network must also encourage countries to freeze funds.
Iran arrested 22 people in connection with the deadly attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, in the southwest of the country. The Ministry of Information has announced this. Tehran blamed the United States and their allies for the terrorist act that killed 25 people on Saturday, including twelve members of the revolutionary guard.
Belgium asks the neighboring countries whether they could come to the rescue in case there is a shortage of electricity this fall. Because in November only one of the seven Belgian nuclear reactors is active, it is possible that certain areas for short periods of the electricity grid must be achieved.
On Saturday night, Iran has accused the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom of harboring foreign opposition parties. The diplomatic representatives of the countries have been called on the carpet. The accusations come after gunmen opened the fire on Saturday during a military parade. In the attack, at least 25 people were killed and more than fifty people were injured.
The studio of the Italian TV program Di Martedì (On Tuesday) was turned upside down. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Labor and also party leader of the popular ruling Party Five Star Movement, entered the hall. The audience in the hall greeted him with overwhelming applause and cheers.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg should also keep the same time zone in the future. The prime ministers Mark Rutte, Charles Michel and Xavier Bettel agree in principle on this, after a short consultation of the three in the margins of an EU summit in Salzburg. They want to gauge the residents' preferences for the introduction of summer or winter time as standard time.
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.
Jan Fabre humiliated and sexually intimidated dancers in his company for years. 'In and around his rehearsal room is humiliation daily costs', twenty former employees write in an open letter. That is what Het Laatste Nieuws reports, which also published the letter.
Apple knows how to keep getting weaker secrets. The Watch is now called Series 4 and three new iPhones were introduced. Exactly as in the past few days appeared everywhere in the media. In addition to the new version of the watch, the iPhone Xs, Xs Max and Xr will soon be on sale in the store.
The government must report to Brussels no later than March next year whether the Netherlands will switch to permanent summer or winter time in 2019. The European Commission is putting an end to the half-yearly clocking in the EU, said President Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual policy speech.
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.
The European Commission must tighten air quality standards 'ambitiously' to get the air cleaner, according to the European Court of Auditors. The standards are now much less stringent than the World Health Organization and scientists consider necessary and even those that are exceeded in most EU countries, the inspectors write in a report.
The government of Curaçao denies refugee Venezuelans the international right to protection. That is what Amnesty International says in a report published on Monday.
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.
