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After days of diplomatic consultations, the heads of government of the EU member states met in Brussels on October 26 to reach a joint EU position on the situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip. Crucial in this statement: the pursuit of “humanitarian corridors and pauses for humanitarian needs.” Urgently necessary, given the dire circumstances in Gaza,...

After days of diplomatic consultations, the heads of government of the EU member states met in Brussels on October 26 to reach a joint EU position on the situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip. Crucial in this statement: the pursuit of “humanitarian corridors and pauses for humanitarian needs.” Urgently necessary, given the dire circumstances in Gaza,...

Dear Sinterklaas, This year I don't need anything myself, but I would like to ask you something. Because you come when called, and right on time. As you probably know, there will be elections in the Netherlands next week. I beg you: when you leave on December 5, put all the freshly elected politicians in the...

For most visitors it will be five innocent photos of five elderly men. Dressed in dresses, with wigs and layers of makeup in the grooves of their faces, they live together in the house of The Golden Gays in the Philippines. But for 36-year-old politician Dora Duro, from the radical right-wing party Mi Hazank ('Our Fatherland'), these...

Niels Bastiaens • Friday, December 29, 2023 at 1:13 PM Interview Every Friday at 1:13 p.m. in our winter section 'Friday, the thirteenth' you can read an interview with a cross or cyclo-cross rider who finished thirteenth in one of the previous weeks. This ranges from junior girls to elite men, from C2-cross to World Championships. What's the...