The United Nations and the Taliban discussed the latest restrictions on women’s rights in Afghanistan on Monday. Since Saturday, the government has banned non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from employing female employees. The UN wants the Taliban to reverse this policy change. Deputy Head of the UN Mission in Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov met with Afghan Finance Minister Mohammad Hanif. “Millions of Afghans …

About 20 police divers are today in a Berlin canal looking for some of the jewelery seized in 2019 during a burglary at a museum in Dresden. The immediate area has been cordoned off and the operation will take some time, police said in a statement. A week ago, German authorities announced that they had seized much of the original …

In Germany, we have been assiduously looking for two months for an employee of a cash transport company who took away a million euros in cash. According to German media, it is Mirnesa S., 42 years old. She had easy access to money through her work. Hans Renier 25 Dec 2022 Last update: 16:37 According to German RTL Wouldn’t look …

Reuters ONS News•today, 12:04•Amended today, 1:22 p.m. Foreign aid organizations have suspended their work in Afghanistan following yesterday’s ban on women working for aid organisations. The radical Islamic Taliban government said it imposed the ban because it had received complaints that women in aid organizations did not always follow the dress code. Aid organizations that employ women are losing their …

AFP ONS News•yesterday, 2:21 p.m. The number of polar bears in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has declined by 27% over the past five years. Canadian government research shows that 618 polar bears were still alive in 2021; in 2016, there were 842. Compared to the 1980s, the population has decreased by about 50%. The western Hudson Bay polar bears are …

24 dec 2022 om 17:38Update: 2 uur geleden Maxwell Fraser, known by his stage name Maxi Jazz as lead singer of British music group Faithless, has died aged 65. The group makes this known in a press release on social networks. The group says they are “devastated”. Fraser died in his sleep at home on the night of Friday to …

It is increasingly difficult for polar bears in Canada to survive. The population around Hudson Bay has fallen by more than a quarter in the past five years, according to a Canadian government report. Every five years, the government counts polar bears around Hudson Bay, a large inland sea in eastern Canada where the animals are common. The town of …

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (right) and his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki.AEP picture From Poland, Brussels is asking for better control over the use of funds. For Poland, this means almost €75 billion in EU aid is at stake, for Hungary it is more than €20 billion. The Commission may suspend the disbursement of these funds as EU subsidy legislation …

ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has admitted to improperly obtaining user data. This includes data from a journalist from FinancialTimes. This was done to investigate their location as part of an internal investigation into data leaks, writes the economic newspaper. FinancialTimes is based, among other things, on an email from the CEO of ByteDance. The newspaper reports that it …

AFP ONS News•yesterday, 22:49 The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) rejects the inflammatory rhetoric of some members of the new Israeli government. The Jewish Interests Organization writes that a day after Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he is a new government and that his conservative Likud party will govern with far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties. Leading politicians from these …