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The Dutch government is not going to take children from Dutch Syria out of Syrian camps. The risks are too great.

Russia's claim that double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the British Salisbury have been poisoned with a poisonous gas made in the West is wrong. According to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), only novitsjok was found at the crime scene. That is a nerve gas of Russian manufacture.

Inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are not yet going to Douma, a suburb of Damascus. They were going to investigate Wednesday there, but that was postponed because according to UN security officers, Tuesday was shot. It is not clear about what kind of shooting the security people spoke to.

The National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC) of the Ministry of Justice and Security has pointed out to government organizations the warning of US and British security services for Russian state sharers.

An international team of experts who want to investigate the possible poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma can start work on Wednesday. That expectation was expressed by the Russian ambassador at the organization against chemical weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.

The United States wants the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to condemn in no uncertain terms the attacks with chemical weapons in Syria.

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. '

The attack by the US, the United Kingdom and the French on targets in Syria was a huge logistical operation. The costs run into hundreds of millions, says defense specialist Peter Wijninga. There may even have been a bomber in America to fire rockets on Syria.

Spanish prosecutors have tried to convince their German counterparts at Eurojust in The Hague that the Catalan ex-prime minister Carles Puigdemont can be extradited for rebellion or mutiny. Images of violence in Catalonia have been shown for this. The defendant could then have thirty years in prison due to rebellion.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed that at the beginning of March in the south of Salisbury the poison novitsjok was used in an assassination attempt on a devastated former Russian spy and his daughter. The OPCW thus confirmed what British researchers had already established.

German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.

German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.

A sixty-year-old Canadian, who previously had a high position at the United Nations, was arrested this weekend in Nepal on suspicion of sexual abuse of children. This is reported by the Dutch branch of children's rights organization Terre des Hommes, who played a role in the unmasking of the man.

The OPCW has rejected a Russian proposal to 'cooperate' in the investigation into the poison gas used in the attack on Skripal double spy. The rejection by Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague is a support in the back of the British, but the Russians are furious.

Great Britain mentions a Russian proposal to jointly investigate the attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal 'perverse.' The British delegation that participated in the Wednesday consultation with the organization against chemical weapons (OPCW) in The Hague twittered that.

Disgusting food remains from the bulging trash cans and an allegedly illegal deal with the embassy of Albania. Opposite of the turret of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague, the nuisance of an Italian restaurant was spit.

The expulsion of two Russian diplomats through the Netherlands 'will not be without consequences,' says the Russian ambassador in The Hague, Alexander Shulgin, in an interview with EenVandaag. 'We will have to respond in one way or another,' he warns. 'It will be a form of retribution.'

Shell sells its 20 percent interest in the West Qurna 1 Iraqi oil field at the Japanese Itochu. Messages about the sale did the round earlier and it was waiting for the usual approval. Shell receives for an amount of 406 million dollars (329 million euros). The debt of $ 144 million is also part of the agreement.

France and the Netherlands should work together to involve East European countries more in the climate issue. 'We always end up in a fixed groove in debates about migration and climate,' said Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Brussels about the contradictions in the EU.

The leaked sex video of Samantha de Jong was indeed made at the rehab clinic where she spent some time at the beginning of this year after she attempted suicide. In her own words she made the video because she had nothing to do.

The Netherlands is not going to announce sanctions against Turkey on its own as a punishment for the Turkish invasion of the Syrian Afrin region. Such a one-man action would be counterproductive, says Minister Stef Blok of Foreign Affairs.

Against the 24-year-old Martijn N., who tried to travel to Syria twice, a three-year prison sentence was demanded on appeal. The Hague man intended to join a jihadist group as a fighter.

The American, British, German and French leaders have expressed their horror at the assassination of the former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

The NATO countries are right behind London after the poisoning of a former double spy and his daughter in Salisbury. They are very concerned about the first nerve attack on NATO territory since the alliance began in 1949, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday in parliament. NATO member states call on Moscow to answer questions from the British government about the Russian chemical weapons program.

The Philippines step out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The country reacts to the investigation that the court announced to extrajudicial killings.

In Bulgaria, a shop was closed that bore the striking name Occasion Den Haag. In the shop telephones were brought to the man that had been stolen in the Dutch city of The Hague.

VVD and SP want to get rid of the controversial office of the European Commission that has the task of fighting fake news. The government must advocate the abolition of EUvsDisinfo in Brussels, according to government party VVD and opposition party SP. The two parties seem to have a view of a majority in the House.

Dutch metal companies such as Tata Steel lobby the cabinet and the American ambassador to limit the damage of the announced steel and aluminum tax by President Trump. 'At the same time, Americans can not do without our high-quality steel,' says Theo Henrar, CEO of Tata Steel Netherlands.

Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has called on police officers and soldiers not to cooperate in international investigations into extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.

The Greek police have rolled up a gang that has stolen passports and other travel documents on a large scale and resold them to migrants. They could travel through Europe. In an operation in the Athens region, the police arrested eleven gang members, Europol said on Thursday.