Trudeau should add killer Duterte to sanctions list
Justin Trudeau's Liberal government has used its so-called Magnitsky Act to impose sanctions on Russian and Venezuelan leaders accused of human rights violations. Politically, that's easy.
Category Archives: Netherlands
Ethiopian-born suspect goes on trial for 1970s war crimes
Presiding Judge Renckens, center, opens the court session in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in the case against a Dutch national of Ethiopian descent for alleged war crimes committed during the 1970's regime in ... . Presiding Judge Renckens, center, opens the court session in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in the case against a Dutch national of Ethiopian descent for alleged war crimes committed during the 1970's regime in ... Defense attorneys for Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend have accused the judge in their bribery trial of not letting them present evidence and witnesses to prove their case.
Military video shows scale of devastation in St Martin after Hurricane Irma
The Dutch defence ministry has taken shocking pictures and footage that show the devastation that Hurricane Irma has caused to St Martin. It is hard to find a single building that hasn't suffered some kind of damage as a result of the 185mph winds that are crashing their way across the Caribbean at the moment.
New Pentagon Report Finally Drags China’s Secret Sea Weapon Out Of The Shadows
The Pentagon's new report on China's developing military capabilities exposes the fighting force on the front line of China's quest to control the seas. The Chinese Maritime Militia , a paramilitary force masquerading as a civilian fishing fleet, is a weapon for gray zone aggression that has operated in the shadow of plausible deniability for years.
In first under Donald Trump, US warship challenges Beijing’s claims in South China Sea
China's claims to the South China Sea, which sees about trillion in ship-borne trade pass every year, are challenged by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, as well as Taiwan. A U.S. Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in the South China Sea, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, the first such challenge to Beijing in the strategic waterway since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
US Navy Patrols China Islands for First Time Under Trump
The U.S. Navy sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea, the first such challenge to Beijing in the strategic waterway since U.S. President Donald Trump took office. Speaking on condition of anonymity, officials said on Wednesday that the USS Dewey traveled close to the Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors, reported Reuters.
This day in history, May 6, 2017
On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground. In 1910, Britain's Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V. In 1941, Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov.
Test bowler Tsotsobe charged with match fixing
Former test bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe was charged on Monday with conspiring to fix matches in a 2015 Twenty20 tournament, the fourth ex-South Africa worldwide implicated in corruption in the long-running investigation. "Failing to disclose to the designated anti-corruption official full details of any approaches or invitations to engage in corrupt conduct under the code".
The story of Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager forced into hiding in Amsterdam during the Holocaust and killed in a concentration camp. The story of Anne Frank Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager forced into hiding in Amsterdam during the Holocaust and killed in a concentration camp.
Energy diplomacy takes wing?
News selected on topics and regions - oil and gas, business, politics, IT, the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia Ranking of the Azerbaijani banking sector Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines & Agriculture Education & Research Institute and the Research Institute for Energy Management & Planning - University of Tehran, the Founders of the Caspian Energy Grid , have welcomed, the Airbus A320 jet delivery to Iran on 12th Jan. 2017, which marks the first new plane delivered directly to Iran by a western manufacturer since 1979, and supported the EU based entity initiative, the International Research Network for holding Iran Business Symposium during 21-23 Feb. 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Vosta LMG Moves to Delft
VOSTA LMG will be moving its headquarters from Amsterdam to Delft in a few days. The move will bring the company closer to its customers, while ensuring continuity of operations and the excellence its customers have come to expect in terms of its product and service offerings.
As Trump Era Dawns, China Moves to Fill Global Leadership Vacuum
China is moving after Donald Trump's election win to claim the mantle of the world's champion of free trade and the fight against climate change, prompting a melancholy warning from President Barack Obama that the U.S. risks getting left behind in Asia. Obama met in Peru on Sunday with leaders of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that Trump vowed to kill on the campaign trail along with the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change.
With far right already on rise, Trump win ripples across Dutch Kristallnacht event
His name was never mentioned during the Netherlands' main commemoration event for Kristallnacht, but Donald Trump was likely on everyone's mind at the ceremony at the Dutch capital's majestic Portuguese Synagogue. It wasn't for any imagined parallels between Trump's election as US president and the campaign of violence that the Nazis unleashed 78 years ago against German and Austrian Jews, which many historians see as the opening shot of the Holocaust.
ICC prosecutor ‘deeply concerned’ by Philippines killings
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said on Thursday she was "deeply concerned" about thousands of alleged killings in the Philippines, warning that those responsible could face prosecution. "I am deeply concerned about these alleged killings and the fact that public statements from high officials of the... Philippines seem to condone such killings," Fatou Bensouda said in a statement issued in The Hague.
Tesla fatal crash in Baarn, The Netherlands
A Tesla model-S car crashed into a tree at high speed on 7 September in Baarn, The Netherlands, killing the driver. The impact caused parts of the battery to be scattered around, causing small fires that were difficult to extinguish.
China, Russia naval drill in South China Sea to begin Monday
Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy May 21,... China and Russia will hold eight days of naval drills in the South China Sea off southern China's Guangdong province starting from Monday, China's navy said. The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the contested waters after an arbitration court in The Hague ruled in July that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea and criticized its environmental destruction there.
House Republicans press administration on Iran payment
In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Obama presses Xi on South China Sea
US President Barack Obama has pressed his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, urging Beijing to uphold its legal obligations and stressing the United States' commitments to its regional allies. Tensions over the disputed waters between China and its neighbours were expected to hang over the G20 summit, which opens in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou on Sunday.
I vote for restructuringa
I t is a season of votes once again. It is a season of making decisions to reject poverty in all its ramifications.
Ap Fact Check: Trump off base on Clinton and Iran payment
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, was responsible for negotiations that led to a $400 million U.S. payment to Iran when she was secretary of state. Reacting to a Wall Street Journal story published Wednesday that described the delivery of the $400 million in cash to Tehran in January, Trump accused Clinton on Twitter of having opened talks to give Iran the money.