Dutch royals The first protests on their Caribbean trip The Protestant attracted the attention of Willem-Alexander, Máxima and Amalia (r.). © imago images/PPE On their trip to the Caribbean, King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Crown Princess Amalia recently faced a demonstrator. The Dutch royal family is currently on a two-week trip to the Caribbean. King Willem-Alexander, 55, and Queen Máxima, 51, will introduce their daughter, Crown Princess Amalia, 19, to the Caribbean parts of the Dutch Kingdom. However, the tour...
Al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious institutions of Sunni Islam based in Egypt, called on Wednesday for "a boycott of Swedish and Dutch products" after the desecrations of Korans by far-right activists this weekend in Sweden and in the Netherlands.As part of a protest authorized by Swedish police near the Turkish Embassy, Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Koran on Saturday. On Sunday, a Dutch leader of the Islamophobic movement Pegida was filmed, alone, tearing up...
National Socialism Study: Holocaust is a myth for many Dutch people In the summer of 1942, Jews from the Warsaw ghetto were loaded onto freight cars and transported to the Treblinka extermination camp. photo © CAF/dpa Long queues are normal in front of the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. But the knowledge of many younger Dutch people in particular about the Nazi persecution of the Jews is patchy. The extent of the Holocaust is unknown to many Dutch people, especially...
Published map The hunt for Nazi treasure in the Dutch province of Gelderland Only since January 3, 2023 have people been able to view an old Nazi treasure map in the Dutch National Archives without conditions. © Sem van der Wal/ / Picture Alliance The Dutch National Archives have released a map that is said to lead to the location of a Nazi treasure. But treasure seekers should not get their hopes up too high. In Ommeren it should normally...
Who actually had the idea of filling a schnitzel with ham and cheese? And what do cornflakes have to do with masturbation? The bizarre origin stories behind dishes that have become global success.At the end of the 19th century, humanity was going downhill. They overexploited the body: they drank, played quartz, whored. That was a thorn in the side of doctor John Harvey Kellogg. In the Battle Creek Sanatorium, which was already controversial at the time, he wanted to detoxify...
STORY: (NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS WITHOUT VOICE TEXT) Scheveningen, Netherlands New Year's tradition on the North Sea Thousands of daredevils plunge into the water Air temperature: 11 degrees, water: 7 degrees Not everyone was ready for it "It's cold! I'm with my daughter, the son-in-law and the grandchildren. They were in there. But I thought to myself: Oh no, grandma is going back now!" Similar events took place in many other places More source site-1
It seems that we must be wary of the purchases of revelations of a World Cup. The transfer that Liverpool is about to formalize, with the arrival of Cody Gakpo, falls completely within this framework. Admittedly, the 23-year-old Dutch striker has been very successful for a year and a half with PSV Eindhoven, but his international rating has especially exploded in Qatar.PSV and @LFC have reached an agreement on the proposed transfer of Cody Gakpo.The 23-year-old attacker will leave for...
Author of three goals during the World Cup with the Netherlands, Cody Gakpo (14 selections, 6 goals) will discover the Premier League. The 23-year-old PSV Eindhoven crack will join Liverpool in the January transfer window, as PSV announced in a statement on Monday. The two clubs have agreed on a transfer, oscillating between 40 and 50 million euros. "It's a record transfer for PSV", said the general manager of the Dutch club Marcel Brands, who did not want to confirm...
The King of the Netherlands in his Christmas speech welcomed the government's apology this week for the role of the Dutch state in 250 years of slavery, saying it was the "beginning of a long path".“No one today bears responsibility for the inhuman acts that have been inflicted on the lives of men, women and children,” King Willem-Alexander said from the Huis ten Bosch residential palace in The Hague. “But by honestly confronting our shared past and acknowledging the crime...
crime Dutch customs officers find 1.3 tons of cocaine Containers are unloaded from a container ship in the port of Antwerp. photo © Virginia Mayo/AP/dpa A remarkable find between ordinary banana containers: Tons of cocaine were smuggled from Ecuador via the port of Antwerp. A special unit is now investigating the case. Dutch customs investigators discovered almost 1.3 tons of cocaine in Vlissingen, which was hidden in two containers loaded with bananas. The containers were destined for a company in...
