A French fisherman in Jersey harbor. Fishermen are angry about new, strict conditions that the Channel Islands are imposing on them.Image Getty Images The sun makes the bay of Saint-Brelade shine. In the distance a ferry passes by, and on the beach of the village on the south side of Jersey a young man dressed…
President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission emphasized in Porto that Europe is the largest vaccine exporter in the world.EPA image The European government leaders were fairly unanimous in their opinion on Friday evening: patents are not the cause of the current scarcity of vaccines in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In order…
Damage to the Feyenoord café The Hide Away by an explosive device. On Thursday night, explosions took place not only at this cafe but also at two other places in Rotterdam.Image ANP The police in Rotterdam arrested a 21-year-old man from Amsterdam on Friday on suspicion of involvement in the explosions in Rotterdam. Nothing is…
An ‘invasion’ of French fishing vessels off the coast of Jersey. Fishermen are angry about new, strict conditions that the Channel Islands are imposing on them.Image Oliver Pinel / AP The sun makes the bay of Saint-Brelade shine. A ferry passes in the distance, and on the beach of the village on the south side…
Image Javier Muñoz Hardly anywhere do people combine such a strong sense of the rottenness of their regime with so much suspicion of alternatives as in Russia. One hundred million inhabitants watched YouTube videos of the now banned anti-corruption organization of Alexei Navalny. The fact that not one hundred million took to the streets for…
A member of the feminist protest movement Femen is arrested outside the Madrid office of the far-right party Vox.Image Juan Medina / Reuters On the day that the Netherlands commemorated the dead of World War II, the Spanish far-right party Vox achieved a resounding victory in regional elections in Madrid. 9 percent obtained Vox, which…
American bison in the Rocky Mountains.Image REUTERS Although it may not officially be called a hunt: hunting is prohibited in the American national parks. But the numbers of bison on the north side of the canyon have soared in recent years that they threaten to damage water, vegetation and archaeological valuable sites. There are now…
Beer Arthur in a photo from 2019Image AP The Romanian environmental organization Agent Green has accused the Austrian-resident prince of killing Arthur, according to the organization ‘the largest in Romania, perhaps the EU’. The ultimate trophy, says Agent Green. The prince was not just on the road with a shotgun in the Romanian forests. He…
Dominic OngwenImage Peter de Jong / AP The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) decided this on Thursday in the first case against a member of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a gang that for decades caused death and destruction in Uganda and the region. Other LRA leaders have already died or are on…
American Gabriel Natale-Hjorth (left) and Finnegan Lee Elder (right) awaiting the verdict.Image REUTERS It was a statement that has long been looked forward to in Italy. After all, the case of the two teenagers caused a lot of commotion in Italy in the weeks after the murder. In the days following the murder, huge lines…