Julien AlthuisiusApril 30, 20235:35 p.m. The last time I saw Thijs was about two weeks before Queen’s Day. He was sitting on a park bench with four friends and had his arm around the boy next to him. I took a picture. He is smiling broadly in this photo. It’s a big smirk that goes perfectly with the slightly mischievous …

More attention should be paid to what foreign private investors could do for Ukraine. “We have to recognize that there is capital there, that high-level people are there,” said Minister Sigrid Kaag (Finance). “Ukraine is looking for foreign private investors who can help the country’s rapid recovery in unoccupied areas.” The D66 minister said this after a meeting of EU …

ONS News•today, 19:46 Tunisia has become the main point of departure for migrants seeking to enter the European Union. Of all the migrants who arrived in Italy in the first few months, more than 13,000 boarded a boat in Tunisia: more than ten times more than last year. This is the golden age of smugglers helping migrants cross the Mediterranean. …

29 apr 2023 om 13:04Update: een uur geleden Poland seized a building in Warsaw that housed a Russian secondary school. “This building belongs to the city of Warsaw,” said a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry. The building is located near the Russian Embassy in the Polish capital. The children of diplomats were educated there. Footage shows how Polish authorities …

Most of the 109 bodies found in mass graves linked to cults in Kenya belong to children. This is reported by the Kenyan Minister of Interior, Kithure Kindiki. He adds that perhaps not all of the deaths were due to starvation, as previously believed. “Other methods were also used, including torture,” Kindiki said, based on “preliminary observations.” The dead are …

Russia has rejected a request from the US embassy to visit imprisoned journalist Evan Gershkovich on May 11. The correspondent of The Wall Street Journal is being held on suspicion of espionage, according to the unjustified United States. A representative of the Russian Embassy in the United States was authorized to visit two Russian prisoners in New York last Wednesday. …

Door onze economieredactie 28 apr 2023 om 09:57Update: 3 uur geleden Four days before the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, a Russian vessel was photographed near the pipelines. The Russian ship carries a mini-submarine and is specially designed for underwater operations. A Danish patrol boat took 26 photos of the Russian ship, SS-750, east of the island of Bornholm on September …

International•April 27, 23 6:10 PMAuthor: PA Hungary and the European Commission are set to agree to release billions of euros in frozen EU subsidies for the country. With new agreements that allow judges to do their job independently, doubts in Brussels have been dispelled, said responsible EU commissioner Johannes Hahn. The EU is blocking the payment of around 21.5 billion …

Friends Judith (81) and Bill (85) are hoping for younger presidential candidates than Joe Biden and Donald Trump.Image Hilary Swift for de Volkskrant She won’t say exactly how old Patricia Millman is. In front of the Carnegie East House retirement home on New York’s posh Upper East Side, she waits for the bus. “But I’m older than Joe Biden,” she …

A killer whale that lay more dead than alive in a Danish fjord for a month last year has been found alive and kicking near Sweden. The animal was recognized by its distinctive collapsed fin. The animal washed up on a sandbar in a fjord in the Danish region of North Jutland last year. The dolphin-like animal was showing all …