The long arm of the extremist regime in Tehran reaches far. From the Hague Bezuidenhout to Denmark, Albania and Paris: the ayatollahs do not shy away from being opponents of the...
Britons who stay lawfully in the Netherlands for the Brexit on March 29 do not have to leave immediately when Britain leaves the European Union without a deal. In that case they may still be fifteen...
Snowfall in combination with the end of the Christmas holiday led early Saturday morning to traffic jams in the winter sports areas. In Austria it is fixed on the A12 at Kufstein and in the...
Attorney Saif-ul-Mulook of Asia Bibi, the woman who has been acquitted of blasphemy by the Supreme Court in Pakistan, may stay in the Netherlands longer and has a...
Friends and colleagues of Arjen Kamphuis keep in mind that the cyber expert still lives and has left in anonymity. 'We take into account that Arjen in a mental...
A petition from the Dutch Red Cross to help the people of Yemen has been signed by almost 48,000 people. The situation in the country in the Middle East is becoming increasingly acute and...
Defense and Foreign Affairs are in their stomach with the arrival of an Afghan sports team to the Invictus Games. The Olympic Games for soldiers injured during a broadcast...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague has no indication that there are Dutch among the victims in Strasbourg. The ministry announces that it is the situation in the French...
Chief of Police of the National Police Erik Akerboom after a visit to Paris Friday night attracted a yellow jacket.
More than two hundred people from all over the country gathered in yellow vests for the Mauritshuis in The Hague this afternoon. 'The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer,' they say. 'For a small group it is no longer easy to handle.'
The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) warns about failing batteries in drones. In the United Kingdom, a few drones have fallen from the sky during the flight. The warning applies to all drone pilots in the Netherlands. Interest groups have also been informed.
From Tuesday, the United Nations will consider the possibility that electric shock weapons will become available to all Dutch police officers. This is the privacy watchdog Privacy First. He had asked the subject to be put at the meeting of the UN Committee against Torture.
The plea for a European army is going 'far too far.' The Netherlands will 'sharpen' its position in this area, said Minister Ank Bijleveld (Defense) in the House of Representatives. This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued for an EU army following the example of French President Emmanuel Macron.
The lawyer of Asia Bibi demands protection from the Netherlands. As counsel for the Christian Asia Bibi he successfully fought her acquittal for blasphemy in Pakistan. Furious Muslim fanatics in Pakistan, however, demand that Bibi be put to death.
No criminal offenses were found during the suicide of Slobodan Praljak. The Croatian former general (72) died last November after having taken a drink in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He did this after the judges sentenced him to twenty years in prison. He then became unwell and died more than two hours later in a hospital in The Hague.
The horrendous lynching in which journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul proves that even the most modern intelligence services still use 'stupid and amateurish intelligence actions'.
Cyber attacks can be taken quickly against people or organizations involved in cyber attacks. At their summit in Brussels, the EU heads of government commissioned a sanction system to be developed. The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and a few other countries had insisted on this.
It is unlikely that Minister Wopke Hoekstra (Finance) will go to Saudi Arabia next week for an international investment conference. If that country does not comply with international requests for clarification about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, or if it appears that it is involved in his death, the visit is off track.
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.
Russian hackers from the military intelligence service GROe are also associated with a cyber attack in Belgium. In 2014 they attacked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there, writes De Standaard.
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 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.
Chile does not have to negotiate with neighboring Bolivia on a corridor to the Pacific Ocean. The International Court of Appeal in The Hague ruled this on Monday. The verdict is a setback for the government of President Evo Morales of Bolivia.
The Red Cross opens giro 6868 for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Hundreds of residents have died as a result, but the exact extent of the disaster is still unclear.
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.
Municipalities have to make a list of the most risky buildings of Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Interior) in connection with the fire in the Grenfell Tower in London. It must also be investigated whether the façades of these buildings comply with the building regulations.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ICC is conducting a preliminary investigation into the violence against the Rohingya. Hundreds of thousands of members of that Muslim minority have fled to neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar.
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.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced the former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to a fine of 300,000 euros and 12 months in jail in a professional case. The court declared Bemba rather guilty of bribery of witnesses.
Justice in Switzerland wants to prosecute two Russians to carry out 'a cyber attack' on the world anti-doping agency WADA in Lausanne. In 2016, WADA itself reported that a large batch of medical data from athletes had been captured in a cyber-burglary.
