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Contentious legislation passing the British Parliament late tonight that will give the government the ability to send asylum-seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda... In Ukraine late tonight explosions reported in Odessa...early Tuesday morning...explosions reported in Kiev... An investigation led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna finding no links between the United Nations World Relief Agency and terrorist groups... The Russian military in Syria noting 14 violations of Syrian airspace by US-led coalition warplanes... 35 rockets fired into northern Israel as Passover began this evening... The trial of President Donald Trump in New York heard its first testimony today......

..US Navy having problems...lack of dry dock space...repair...USS Boxer... University of Southern California cancelling outside speakers and honorees at its main graduation... A Ukrainian drone attack killing two... In the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific the vote count... North Korea claiming new weapons tests... Tonight an Israeli air strike on an Iraqi base... trial involving President Donald Trump four alternate jurors are now selected...outside the court a man set himself on fire... US is withdrawing troops in the African nation of Niger.. commander of the air force in the African nation of Chad demanding the shutdown of a US...

German police arrested several Hamas terrorists in the country following Israeli intelligence tip; the interrogations led investigators to a warehouse in southern Bulgaria housing stocks of weapons and ammo. The Bulgarian police uncovered a hidden weapons cache Thursday that, according to suspicions, is linked to four terrorists who were arrested in Germany and the Netherlands before Christmas. The four Hamas members, all Lebanese nationals, are suspected of planning to carry out attacks against Israeli individuals and institutions in Europe under instructions from a terror group in Lebanon. Police believe one of the terrorists came to Europe in order to locate...

A landmark study, lasting 15 years, has shown what many of us have been arguing all along regarding trans kids: it's a phase they outgrow in time. We are not surprised, at all, but the thought of the irreparable harm that's been done makes us sick to our stomach. Most gender-confused children grow out of it, landmark 15-year study concludes - as critics say it shows being trans is usually just a phase for kids https://t.co/pwmKE4RVTE pic.twitter.com/h18xinwm5G — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 3, 2024 More from the Daily Mail: The majority of gender-confused children grow out of that feeling...

EDE, Netherlands (AP) — Heavily armed police cordoned off part of a Dutch town on Saturday, saying that multiple people were being held hostage in a building there.

An air raid alert in most of regions of Ukraine early Friday... US-led coalition forces destroyed a drone boat and two missiles launched from Yemen... The posturing from the Biden Administration on the conflict in Gaza... In Canada a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government over the carbon tax defeated... In the Netherlands a six-month ban imposed on an anti-Islamist leader... The European Union opening talks with Bosnia on membership... The US Justice Department targeting Apple with a major lawsuit... British politics the Conservative Party candidate for Manchester Mayor...defecting to Reform UK...new You Gov poll...Reform UK at a...

YouTube video combines the original 1-minute comedy skit with the arrival of the police to confiscate the airgun/prop gun. Turn on captions with English translation. On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, Dutch absurdist comedian Hans Teeuwen uploaded a video mocking Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema. On the table to Teeuwen’s right was an object looking somewhat similar to a pistol. The item may have been included as a jab at the past trouble the Mayor found herself in. Her teenage son was arrested with a deactivated revolver owned by her husband and said to be used as a prop in movie sets.Three...

US Central Command says a missile fired from Yemen landed in the Gulf of Aden... "I's sure that you understand what a difficult period our country is living through..." That's Russian President Vladimir Putin as he urges Russians to vote... In Ukraine late tonight air raid alerts... The European Union agreeing...5 billion Euro...for Ukraine... US Central Command announcing the use of three aircraft to drop aid... Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce his running mate... US politics and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado staying out of the Special Election for a seat in Congress she is seeking...

A Belgian court has sentenced an activist to one year in prison for running an organization that allegedly spreads “racist, hateful, Nazi and negationist speech.” According to POLITICO, a judge said 30-year-old Dries Van Langenhove “revelled in Nazi ideas that cause much suffering.” “Dries Van Langenhove, a political activist and leader of a Flemish-nationalist youth movement called Schild & Vrienden, was convicted of inciting violence and denying the Holocaust, the Ghent criminal court ruled Tuesday morning,” the outlet reports. “Former Flemish parliamentarian Dries Van Langenhove has just been sentenced to 1 year IN PRISON because supposedly ‘racist memes’ were shared...

SNIP ASML declined to comment on Wednesday. However, Wennink spoke at an event in The Hague and said he was concerned the business climate in the Netherlands was worsening. "Some of these elements that made us a great company, those elements are under pressure," he said, citing increasing regulation and a plan to scrap a tax break given to highly skilled immigrants. POTENTIAL CURBS ON FOREIGN STUDENTS Around 40% of ASML's 23,000 employees in the Netherlands are not Dutch. Europe's largest tech company sources parts from around the globe but currently assembles its machines in Veldhoven, Netherlands before shipping them...

The President of the Republic spoke at the end of an international conference in support of Ukraine, two years after the start of the war against Russia. "We will do whatever it takes to ensure that Russia cannot win this war" The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron estimated that the sending of Western troops in the future to Ukraine cannot "be excluded". "There is no consensus today to send ground troops in an official assumed and endorsed manner. But dynamically, nothing should be excluded," declared the head of state. The president did not wish to say more about France's...

Outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte is imploring Europeans to "stop whining" about Donald Trump and focus on supporting Ukraine. "We should stop moaning and whining and nagging about Trump," Rutte said during the Munich Security Conference, according to Reuters. He didn't say who he would prefer as president in 2024, but said, "It's up to the Americans. I'm not an American, I cannot vote in the U.S. We have to work with whoever is on the dance floor." While Rutte will be exiting his role as prime minister soon, he is the leading candidate to be the next secretary-general...

Dutch motorist Tim Hansenn was fined 380 euros for using his phone while driving. But there was one problem: He wasn't using his phone at all. In an interview with Belgian news outlet HLN last week, as well as in a blog post on his company's website, Hansenn explained how he was the inadvertent victim of faulty artificial intelligence-powered smart cameras that work to spot drivers using their phones. Hansenn, who works with AI as part of his job with the firm Nippur, found the photo taken by the smart cameras. In it, he was clearly scratching his head with...

Way back in 2005, when I was an MP in the Netherlands, my party was strategising about the upcoming local elections. I belonged to the centre-right VVD, and we were particularly concerned about appealing to the nation’s growing migrant community. After much discussion, the leaders settled on Laetitia Griffith to represent us in Amsterdam. She was black and had roots in Suriname, a former Dutch colony in the Caribbean. She could pull in the city’s Creole vote. More importantly, the VVD’s strategists thought she could win over some of the city’s Muslim population. In the hope of making this task...

At least four police officers were hurt during a violent riot that erupted on the streets outside The Hague last night, after two rival groups of Eritreans clashed following a a political disagreement. Rioters torches police cars and a bus, and Dutch police officers were forced to use tear gas to try and dispel them. Dozens of rioters were filmed surrounding the Opera conference hall along Fruitweg in the Netherlands, as multiple police vans drove to the scene. Another clip also showed the aftermath. The building had several smashed windows and parked vehicles were on fire, with the street left...

A violent riot erupted on the streets of the Hague last night, as 'migrants' attacked cops with bricks and torched police cars. Dozens of rioters were filmed surrounding the Opera conference hall along Fruitweg in the Netherlands, as multiple police vans drove to the scene. Another clip also showed the aftermath. The building had several smashed windows and parked vehicles were on fire, with the street left looking like a warzone. A fight broke out between two groups of Eritreans. 'It got seriously out of hand,' The Hague Municipality spokesman Robin Middel said last night. Middel said a group loyal...

A former Dutch prime minister and his wife have died hand in hand in a rare double euthanasia. Dries van Agt and his wife, Eugenie, were both 93 and were buried together on Thursday. “He died hand in hand with his beloved wife Eugenie van Agt-Krekelberg, the support and anchor with whom he was together for more than 70 years and whom he always continued to refer to as ‘my girl’,” The Rights Forum, a human rights charity he founded, said on Friday. The couple met as students at Nijmegen. The Rights Forum described him as “idiosyncratic” and said that...

On February 1, 2024, a contentious decision shook the Netherlands to its core: law enforcement officers (Boa’s) in Utrecht were granted permission to wear sharia-compliant headscarves. The motion initiator is Turkish-tied Muslim Mahmut Sungur from the Islamic Denk (or “Think”) party, lauding Utrecht’s “pioneering stance.”This move, endorsed by the left-wing city council and led by a controversial Muslim politician and political party operating on behalf of Turkey, represents a profound victory for Islamic supremacists trying to conquer The Netherlands. It is more than just a nod to religious diversity; it’s a capitulation to the demands of a growing sharia-adherent Muslim...

The 1884 painting by a young Vincent van Gogh that was stolen during a dramatic late-night smash-and-grab from a Netherlands museum will go on public display in March for the first time since it was taken three years ago, The Guardian reported Wednesday. Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, bearing a deep white scratch from the theft on the bottom of the canvas, was shown at a press conference at the Groninger Museum this week. The picture was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands on March 30, 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic prompted stores, galleries, and...

"Israelis were dehumanized in the most horrific way on October 7...But that cannot be a license to dehumanize others." US Secretary of State Antony Blinken offering criticism... the Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin... In Ukraine late tonight a powerful explosion in the port city of Odessa and explosions... The commander of a US warship based in Japan relieved of command... The US base at the Al Omar oil field in eastern Syria attacked with four missiles... An emergency order in the city of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands tonight,,, New US-UK air strikes reported in Yemen... "The voters want a...