Police services in several EU countries have seized tens of millions of euros in cultural heritage. This happened during a major international campaign against a gang that deals with the excavation and trading of historical objects, reports Europol.
The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague gets more powers to denounce attacks with banned toxic substances and to designate the perpetrators. Member States have adopted a British proposal to that effect at a special meeting.
Amal Clooney is coming to the Netherlands this fall. The international human rights lawyer and wife of George Clooney will be present at the international conference One Young World in The Hague on 18 October. There she talks with former secretary general of the United Nations Kofi Annan.
If Macedonia has solved the name issue with Greece and continues as Northern Macedonia, the European Commission sees no objections to start negotiations with the Balkan country on accession to the EU. Before the European foreign ministers decide on further enlargement Tuesday in Luxembourg, the Macedonian minister Nikola Dimitrov makes one final appeal to the Netherlands not to block the accession talks.
Carolijn Brouwer is the first Dutch woman to win the sailing race around the world. The 44-year-old pro from Scheveningen was the first to cross the finish line of the eleventh and final stage with her Chinese team Dongfeng in The Hague.
The Dutch, Australian and Filipino police have removed eighteen Filipino children from an online sex network in recent days. The children, of whom the youngest is five months old, were offered by their families for online abuse.
Five Tigers who have been rescued from a circus in Spain have been given a new place to live thanks to the AAP Foundation. The animals move to a zoo on the English Isle of Wight.
Italy has asked The Hague to recall ships that pick up migrants under the Dutch flag in the Mediterranean. This happened after one of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that coordinate and finance the rescue operations the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called a fascist.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed that in March last year the nerve gas sarin was most likely used in the Syrian city of Ltamenah. This is stated in a report by the special investigation committee that was presented on Wednesday. The team members also concluded that chlorine gas was used in an attack on a hospital. The bombing took place on 24 and 25 March 2017.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former Congolese vice president, may leave the prison and join his family in Belgium. The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has determined this on Tuesday. The judges spoke to Bemba last week on appeal.
The Dutch labor market will be open to Croats unhindered by July. According to Minister Koolmees (Social Affairs), there is no reason to allow them to apply for a separate work permit if they want to work here. He writes this Friday in a letter to the House of Representatives.
The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has reversed the war crimes judgment against the Congolese former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba. In June 2016, it was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for crimes against humanity because, under his command, militia members had murdered and raped in the Central African Republic.
The British historian Sir Ian Kershaw, internationally renowned for his research on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, is one of the participants of the festival Crossing Border next autumn in The Hague.
The Benelux, the partnership between the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, still has plenty of plans for the future. The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the three countries meet in Brussels Tuesday to look back and look ahead. Despite the somewhat old-fashioned image, the Netherlands sees the Benelux as 'more relevant than ever'.
At a number of places in Belgium, a minute's silence was observed Wednesday at 1:00 pm out of respect for the two police officers and the student who were shot dead in Liège on Tuesday. Political forces, politicians, administrators and citizens in cities such as Antwerp, Brussels and of course Liege also commemorated the victims.
Ninety Dutch and 37 Dutch organizations call on the government to put pressure on Israel to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Bill Browder has only one goal in his life: justice for his Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitski. He died in 2009 in a Russian cell. Killed by guards, according to Browder. He is now committed to the Magnitski law. This ensures that people who grossly violate human rights or commit corruption on a large scale can no longer enter a country and their assets are frozen.
The Netherlands does not recognize the elections in Venezuela, where the leftist president Nicolás Maduro was re-elected this weekend. 'They were not free and independent elections,' said minister Stef Blok of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in the House of Representatives.
In case of an attack in the Syrian province of Idlib, chlorine gas was probably used. This was concluded by researchers from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. They have not investigated who is responsible for the attack.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian company specialized in antivirus software and other computer security. It has about 3300 employees, especially IT security specialists. The head office is in Moscow. The unlisted company owes its name to two of the four founders: Eugene and his (ex-) wife Natalya Kaspersky.
Saudi Arabia has promised the Netherlands every effort to prevent Saudi money from benefiting extremist Muslims in the Netherlands. That did not go well in the past, the Saudi authorities admitted to a delegation of Dutch MPs.
The Ministry of Finance says to keep a close eye on developments at AirFrance / KLM.
In the case of a major international campaign against the online sale of counterfeit brand items, some 20,000 packages were confiscated. More than a thousand accounts have also been closed.
The assumed poison gas attack in Syria was staged by a PR machine disguised as an aid organization. Russia wants to convey that message to the world on Thursday afternoon. The country says it has brought several 'dead' and 'wounded' from the videos to the Netherlands to testify.
Russia plans to bring Syrians to the Netherlands that were seen on images of the alleged poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma. Russian ambassador Alexander Sjoelgin said in an interview with ITV News that his country's 'unforgivable lies' \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; about the incident.
Roy B., who was arrested on Sunday for involvement in the death of Orlando Boldewijn, has been released.
Prosecutors have demanded a life imprisonment against Radovan Karadzic on appeal. Prosecutor Katrina Gustafson told the UN Tribunal MICT in The Hague that the former leader of the Serbs in Bosnia 'abused his enormous power to shed the blood of countless victims. Justice demands that he gets the highest possible sentence: lifelong. '
The trial against the former leader of the Serbs in Bosnia, Karadzic, has been unfair. He must be acquitted or the process must be over. This was his counsel Peter Robinson argued at the start of the appeal in The Hague on Monday. The prosecutors have also lodged an appeal because they want him to receive a life sentence.
The UN war tribunal MICT in The Hague will consider the appeal in the Karadzic case on Monday and Tuesday. In 2016, the Yugoslavia Tribunal condemned Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in prison for crimes against humanity and genocide, including the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. Both Karadzic and the prosecutor decided to challenge this ruling.
Prison staff makes an alarm about a plan to allow prisoners to arrange themselves much more via tablets.
