In the past six months, six Dutch citizens have been arrested at Thai airports with large quantities of cannabis. This is striking because it hardly ever happened before, says ambassador Remco van Wijngaarden to NU.nl. The embassy says it can do little for the arrested Dutch citizens. The arrested Dutch citizens were found with between […]
At least ten people have died and about two hundred have been injured in the Iranian attacks on Israel on Saturday night into Sunday. So far, there have been no reports of casualties from the Israeli attacks on Iran overnight. Air raid sirens sounded in several Israeli cities overnight. Explosions were also reported. The cities
McLaren team boss Andrea Stella believes that Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris should primarily focus on minimizing damage in Sunday’s race in Canada. The British team experienced a disappointing qualifying session in Montreal on Saturday. Championship leader Piastri will start third on Sunday, behind polesitter George Russell and Max Verstappen. His teammate and competitor Norris
Mehdi Taremi seems set to miss the Club World Cup for a peculiar reason. The Internazionale striker is unable to leave his native Iran due to the conflict with Israel, according to news agency Reuters and various Italian media. The 32-year-old Taremi is visiting his family in Iran after playing two World Cup qualifying matches
Olivier van Beemen is the winner of the Brusseprijs 2025 with his book Ondernemers in het wild. That was announced by the Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten (BJP) on Saturday evening in the NPO Radio 1 program Met het Oog op Morgen. Ondernemers in het wild is about African Parks, an NGO that safeguards the protection
Hello and welcome to this live blog. Here we will keep you informed of the escalating tensions between Israel and Iran. Israel calls on Iranians to evacuate The Israeli army is calling on Iranians living near weapons factories to evacuate immediately. “All people currently present or expected to be in or around military weapons production
In the column The Greenhouse, climate reporter Jeroen Kraan writes weekly about what he notices. This week: a walk through the history of the Earth makes the astronomically large climate impact of humans clear. I am standing in the Diemerpark in Amsterdam, but I imagine myself somewhere deep in the Milky Way, 4.6 billion years
In the column The Greenhouse, climate reporter Jeroen Kraan writes weekly about what he notices. This week: a walk through the history of the earth makes the astronomically large climate impact of humans clear. I am standing in the Diemerpark in Amsterdam, but I imagine myself somewhere deep in the Milky Way, 4.6 billion years
Two teenagers from Urk have died in a car accident in Flevoland. Three other occupants were injured. All occupants were eighteen or nineteen years old, police wrote on X. They were all from Urk. The accident happened on the Noordermeerweg between Lemmer and Rutten. Three people were injured. Police cannot comment on the severity of
Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami did not win the opening match of the Club World Cup on Saturday night (Dutch time). Despite some highlights from Messi, the club did not get past a draw against Al Ahly. The Egyptian Al Ahly came closest to taking the lead, but Mahmoud Trezeguet missed a penalty in the Hard