The Qatari soldier who was seriously injured in a parachute jump at Teuge Airport in Gelderland on Monday has died from his injuries. His body has been handed over to the Qatari embassy. The soldier was performing an exercise with other soldiers during the accident. “The investigation by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee has been completed. […]
The Iranian government has called on citizens to use less water. The water shortage is increasing, while temperatures in the country are rising above 50 degrees Celsius. It is the hottest week of the year in Iran. During heatwaves, the mercury rises above 50 degrees in some areas. For example, a temperature of 52.8 degrees
In 2020, the Luxembourg security services thwarted a terrorist attack on the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, confirms the judiciary in Luxembourg to Het Parool . Twelve years in prison were recently demanded against the suspect, 23-year-old Swede Alexander H.. On February 22, 2020, chemistry student H., who was less than eighteen years old at
The death toll after the plane crash in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka stands at 27. By far the majority of the victims were students of a school where the plane crashed. 171 injured people had to be taken to the hospital. 25 of the fatalities were children who were at school at the time of
Mathieu van der Poel will not be on his bike for the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday. The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider has pneumonia. “We regret to announce that Mathieu van der Poel is forced to leave the Tour de France,” Alpecin wrote on X on Tuesday. Van der Poel had been suffering
The staff quarters and warehouses of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Gaza have been hit by an Israeli attack, the UN organization reports. During the raid, male employees were stripped and handcuffed. The WHO’s largest warehouse was destroyed in the attack, the organization writes on X. It was then looted by “a desperate group
The Ibiza Rocks Hotel is cancelling all its scheduled events for the coming weeks after two young British men fell from a balcony and died in three weeks. The hotel says it is shocked by this. The programming is interrupted because of “the seriousness of the situation and out of respect for those involved,” the
Together with 25 other countries, the Netherlands has called to an end to the war in Gaza. The assistance must also be improved. It is certainly not the first call to Israel, but this time the use of language is strikingly much firmer. The joint statement criticizes the assistance in Gaza. According to the countries
The former police officer involved in the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison. Taylor became world news when she died in a police raid on her home. The 26-year-old Taylor was shot in 2020 during a failed police raid. She was asleep when officers
The Norwegian clothing manufacturer Helly Hansen has removed a number of types of life jackets because they do not meet the requirements due to a production error. There is a risk of drowning for its user, the manufacturer warns. It concerns the Navigare Comfort, Navigare Scan, Junior Safe+ and Kid Safe+, in different sizes. The