Grieving Palestinians carry the body of 22-year-old Osama Sobh, killed Sunday in an Israeli nighttime military raid.Image EPA The five Palestinian victims were members of Hamas, according to the Israeli authorities. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said the Hamas fighters were on the verge of carrying out attacks. They had been under surveillance by the…
Members of the Special Interventions Service, which can act, among other things, in the arrest of terrorist suspects.Image Dutch Height / ANP According to the Public Prosecution Service, the suspects, aged between 18 and 31, are said to sympathize with the jihadist ideas of Islamic State. That group was behind a series of attacks in…
De groeiende kloof tussen stad en platteland had een van de grote thema’s moeten zijn bij de Duitse verkiezingen van dit weekend, vindt schrijver en rechter Juli Zeh. In haar nieuwe roman Onder buren verkent zij de breukvlakken in de samenleving. Sterre Lindhout24 september 2021, 18:00 Twee hoogopgeleide Berlijnse dertigers, opgesloten in hun appartement tijdens…
Out at club Bitterzoet in Amsterdam, on the first night that it’s allowed again.Statue Joris van Gennip It is still light when the first birds of paradise pass by in Amsterdam’s Reguliersdwarsstraat. In front of Club Nyx, boys with black lipstick, girls in Lolita outfit and divas in platinum blonde wigs show their QR code….
A portrait of Puigdemont with the text ‘Puigdemont, our president’ during a demonstration against his arrest at the Italian consulate in Barcelona.Image EPA Puigdemont (58) was on his way to an art exhibition in Alghero, Sardinia. Catalonia has a connection with the city: for six centuries the inhabitants (also) have spoken Catalan, a remnant of…
The Groningen Ulsder Polder. The plowed ground in the background was to be used for the construction of a sunbathing lawn.Statue Harry Cock “If it seems too good to be true, what is it usually?” Tim van Bostelen, CDA councilor in the municipality of Oldambt, put the rhetorical question to the city council last week….
De bankencrisis, eurocrisis, Griekse crisis, migratiecrisis, coronapandemie. Angela Merkel zat ze allemaal uit op het toneel van de Europese politiek waarvan ze binnenkort afscheid neemt. Onze correspondent sprak Mark Rutte, Christine Lagarde, Jean-Claude Juncker en Herman Van Rompuy over de werkwijze van de Duitse staatsvrouw. Marc Peeperkorn24 september 2021, 19:27 Hoe Angela Merkel al die…
Polish soldiers build a fence on the border with Belarus, sending migrants to the border in revenge for European sanctions.Image REUTERS The European Commission has expressed its concern about the fate of the migrants trapped in the border area. In an attempt to destabilize the EU, Belarus is sending migrants to the borders with Latvia,…
Employees remove stickers for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. on Sept 24. Because the one and a half meter rule expires, visitors no longer have to adhere to this.Image ANP This is evident from new figures released on Friday from the RIVM Behavior Unit, which regularly questions a group of 44 thousand Dutch people about their…
Piazza NavonaStatue Rosa van Gool Moving to Rome in the midst of a pandemic, as I did almost a year ago, sometimes presents some practical complications, but also has one overriding advantage: plenty of time to wander around the most beautiful historic center in the world, which is also so well as if abandoned. At…