A painting in the Wadsworth Atheneum museum in the American city of Hartford appears to have been painted by Vincent van Gogh. It is about 'Vase with poppies' from 1886. It was already...
Half a million deaths in Syria, the world's largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen, total anarchy in Libya and a more repressive regime than ever in Egypt. The revolts in the Arab world have...
The United States decided, for cost reasons, to cease their large-scale annual spring exercises with South Korea's ally. That says the American President Donald Trump, who...
The Michelin Guide has given a star restaurant in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The culinary inspectors visited the 'ol' in Köngen in 2017 and the spring of...
The Netherlands is fully benefiting from the Brexit. The number of companies moved from the EU to the Netherlands because of the departure of the United Kingdom has more than doubled last year. Which…
Canadian diplomats and members of their families who suffer from the mysterious 'Havana syndrome' are denouncing their own government. They blame the state for having acted lax when staff on...
The American former president George H. W. Bush died at the age of 94. That has been announced by a spokesman for the family.
Paul Manafort had secret talks with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The former campaign manager of Donald Trump sought the founder of WikiLeaks according to the British newspaper The Guardian in 2013, 2015 and in the spring of 2016.
A cigarette box of silver that liberated a Jewish man from the Lodz ghetto has turned up in Poland.
A British student who held interviews in Dubai for his thesis was sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage. British media report that.
Turkeys that get symbolic pardon from the president on the American holiday Thanksgiving usually do not live happily ever after. The birds usually only have a few months to live, news news site Politico.
At least eighteen pupils and teachers died on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea on Thursday due to a sudden flooding as a result of severe storms. The bus they were in was flushing off the road. According to local authorities, at least 22 others were injured. A state of emergency has been declared in the affected area.
The Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pasjinjan announced on Tuesday that he will step down to make early parliamentary elections possible. The former opposition leader came to power in May with the consent of the deputies after weeks of protests against corruption and nepotism.
Spacemen Aleksej Ovtsjinin and Nick Hague, who had to make an emergency landing on Thursday after their launch, will be able to go into space again next spring. Their flight to the international space station ISS is scheduled for next spring. The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Dmitri Rogozin, said that Friday to the Interfax news agency.
An eighteen-year-old miner was killed in a grizzly bear in Alaska. It is the second time this year that someone has been killed by a bear attack in the American state.
US Secretary of State Rod Rosenstein, according to The New York Times, has proposed to employees of his department and the FBI to make secret recordings of the chaos that would prevail under President Donald Trump at the White House. Rosenstein would like to come up with material to enable the deposition of Trump.
In the coming period, the Dutch will notice that things are going better. Prime Minister Mark Rutte is convinced of this, on the day that his third cabinet presents a budget for the first time. He mainly cares about international instability.
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 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 episodes of Anthony's Bourdain show Parts Unknown in which his girlfriend Asia Argento was shown, have been taken offline by CNN. The actress, who turned out to be one of the voices of the MeToo movement, is accused of sexual abuse of a minor.
A swarm of thousands of bees has chosen a special location on Tuesday around lunchtime to settle: on top of a hot dog stand at Times Square in New York.
The son of a captured opposition leader from Bahrain has asked Queen Elizabeth in an open letter to use her influence with King Hamad of Bahrain to ensure that his father is treated humanely. This is what the British newspaper The Independent reports on Thursday.
The military parade that President Donald Trump requested and was on the agenda for Washington this November was postponed to 2019. 'We had planned 10 November 2018 for this event, but we decided to explore the possibilities for 2019 ', A Pentagon spokesman said in a statement. The Ministry has not given an official reason for the postponement.
European companies that trade with Iran or are economically active in the country will be legally protected against US sanctions from Tuesday morning onwards for six hours. At that time, the EU is introducing the so-called blockade status that does not recognize the reintroduction of US sanctions at the same time.
Hot, hotter, hottest. Spain puffs itself, after a relatively fresh spring, now through a heat wave, with extremely high temperatures at various places. In 37 provinces today 'alerta naranja / rojo', code orange / red for temperatures that can vary between 38 and 45 degrees. There have even been deaths. Do Dutch tourists have to worry?
Facebook wants to remind users how much time they spend on social media. The company therefore introduces new functions that keep track of how long people are on Facebook and Instagram. This should ensure that people deal more consciously with their time on social media, so the company motivates the measure. Instagram is the property of Facebook.
The British royal family prepares for the baptism of Prince Louis, the third child of Prince William and his wife Catherine. The chapel of St. James's Palace is Monday the scene of the ceremony, where traditions are honored.
Indonesian emergency services have located the sunken ferry on Lake Toba in North Sumatra. An official confirms that the ferry has been identified at the bottom with the help of equipment for soil investigation.
Today, exactly two years ago, the United Kingdom voted for a departure from the European Union. A lot has happened since then, but one thing is not yet: the economic boom promised by proponents of a brexit.
Justice in Germany persecutes two German treasure hunters who kept an important find of medieval coins against the rules secret. The two found a collection of more than 10,000 silver coins near the town of Ellwangen with the help of a metal detector.
