Dozens missing after severe flooding causes chaos in Germany
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Tens of thousands rally against Covid curbs in Europe and Australia
Tens of thousands took to the streets in cities across Europe and Australia Saturday as anger mounted over fresh Covid restrictions imposed against a resurgent pandemic. And Dutch police faced a second night of rioting — this time in The Hague — after the previous night’s violence in the port city of Rotterdam. Clashes erupted…
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By withdrawing from Afghanistan, Biden could spark the world’s next refugee crisis
Between the end of 2019 and 2020, 416,630 asylum-seekers arrived in the European Union. A large number, to be sure, but hardly sensational compared to 2015, when 1.2 million asylum-seekers arrived. AFTER TROOPS WITHDRAWAL, ASYLUM-SEEKER BOATS ARE LIKELY TO SET SAIL… FOR EUROPEAN SHORES -© Provided by Crikey That period, of course, was the so-called refugee crisis. Now, Europe…
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Dutch government resigns over child welfare fraud scandal
Rutte has been in power since 2010. (CNN) The Dutch government has resigned amid a scandal that saw thousands of families wrongly accused of child welfare fraud. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced the Cabinet’s resignation in an address Friday, saying that responsibility for the scandal “ultimately rests with the incumbent Cabinet and nowhere else.”…
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US Enraged After 6 More EU Nations Join INSTEX To Bypass Iran Sanctions
On Friday six European countries issued a bombshell joint statement declaring their intent to join INSTEX, or the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, a European special-purpose vehicle serving as a ‘SWIFT alternative’ to bypass US sanctions on Iran. Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden released a joint statement asserting it’s of “the utmost importance to the preservation…
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Germany and the Netherlands to build the first ever joint military internet
Germany and the Netherlands come together to build TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). German minister of defense Ursula von der Leyen and Dutch minister of defense Ank Bijleveld sign the TEN collaboration agreement. Image: Dutch MOD Government officials from Germany and the Netherlands have signed an agreement this week to build the first-ever joint military internet….
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Thousands of rejected migrants unable to return to their home countries
Photo: Justice ministry Thousands of rejected migrants are stuck in the Netherlands because their home countries have refused to take them back, according to figures from the repatriation service Dienst Terugkeer en Vertrek (DTV). The statistics, published by the Telegraaf newspaper, showed that 2,310 requests to take back a foreign national who had been refused…
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Over 1,000 refugee children vanish from Dutch centres in five years
Photo: Depositphotos.com MPs have called for a full investigation after it emerged over 1,000 refugee children, mostly teenagers disappeared from protected refugee centres in the Netherlands between 2013 and 2017. The figures come from research by radio programme Argos which has been looking into the trafficking of young refugees, particularly those of Vietnamese origin, the…
