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Moroccan authorities will suspend direct flights with Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands over COVID-19 concerns starting tomorrow, Reuters reported flag carrier RAM announcing today. Morocco recently announced that it would impose a...

On Thursday 7 October, I received a call from the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Middle East office seeking more assistance to alleviate the...

Saudi Arabia has lobbied heavily against a Western resolution that would extend the mandate of UN investigators who have documented possible war crimes in Yemen, including by the Riyadh-led...

In 2014, a large part of Ismail Ziada's family was wiped out. The lives of his mother, 70-year-old Muftia, his three brothers, Jamil, Yousif and Omar, his sister-in-law Bayan,...

Think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) has called on the European Union (EU) to spend its resources saving lives, instead of punishing people seeking safety on its shores. Europe had...

The Netherlands will increase its military presence in Afghanistan to help with efforts to evacuate people from the country, the Dutch defence ministry said on Sunday, reports Reuters. An...

China has secret prisons in the UAE, a former prisoner has claimed. Chinese national Wu Huan said she and two Uyghur Muslims were held by China in Dubai. She...

The great floods which recently decimated parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were much more than a warning on the perils of climate change. They also revealed some...

The EU border agency Frontex has failed to protect the human rights of asylum seekers, according to a European Parliament report, according to the Guardian. The report's author, Tineke...

The Ever Given container ship that had blocked the Suez Canal in March left Egyptian waters at 4 a.m. local time following inspections at Port Said, a canal source...

The ship that made global headlines when it blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March has made its way towards Ismailia in preparation for its departure to...

Dutch authorities announced they are trying a refugee on charges of war crimes following allegations that he oversaw murders during the Syrian war, local media reported. According to reports,...

The authorities in the Netherlands have launched an investigation into a Syrian refugee suspected of spying on behalf of the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Other Syrian refugees living in...

A former commander of a prominent Syrian militant group has been sentenced to six years in prison in the Netherlands on charges of committing war crimes and terrorism. The...

The Netherlands said today it had asked Israel to clarify the status of the Palestinian foreign minister after his travel credentials were revoked following a visit to the International...

The Dutch parliament yesterday declared the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China a genocide in a non-binding motion, Reuters reported. "A genocide on the Uighur minority is occurring...

Elbit Systems, Israel's largest private arms company, has secured a contract to supply new vehicular tactical computers for the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA), the company announced this week. The Israeli...

The man who killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri has today been handed five concurrent life sentences for the crime. Salim Jamil Ayyash, 57, was tried, convicted and sentenced in...

More than 600 children born to Daesh members who are European nationals are being detained with their mothers in camps run by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, a new...

Turkey foresees that trade and economic ties with the Netherlands will gain momentum in the coming days, the Turkish trade minister said on Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. Addressing the...

A group of migrants who had been blocked aboard a tanker in the Mediterranean for more than a month were allowed to land in Sicily on Saturday after Italy...

Dutch government inspectors said they would impose a fine on a store selling wine from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron that is labelled as 'Made in Israel'....

The Dutch parliament today passed a resolution calling for the government to consider sanctions against Israel if it goes ahead with the annexation of large parts of the occupied Palestinian West...

The Netherlands today called for a no-fly zone over Idlib, northwestern Syria, ahead of a meeting of top EU diplomats in Croatia. "I'm glad that ceasefire has been reached,...

Syrian political prisoner and torture survivor Mazen Alhummada was lured back from asylum in the Netherlands and was arrested at Damascus airport

The Israeli military hosted an international conference on "military doctrine" last week, with dozens of delegates from 30 armies attending, reported the Jerusalem Post. The event was organised by...

Government-backed Iranian hackers have targeted universities in Europe, the United States and Australia in recent months, consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has found, Dutch broadcaster NOS and Reuters reported on Friday. It is unclear whether the attempts to...

A Dutch court yesterday dismissed a war crimes lawsuit filed against former Israeli general and current opposition leader, Benny Gantz, and his co-defendant, Amir Eshel. The court ruled that...

In a step towards potential future recognition, the Houthi-aligned National Salvation Government (NSG) based in the capital Sanaa held meetings with three European ambassadors, representing the first high-level official...

The Dutch government has criticised the conduct of pro-Israel advocacy group NGO Monitor, singling out the unreliability of their accusations against human rights defenders. Responding to a parliamentary question,...

A supposed Israeli "civil rights" lawyer once wrote an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post under the headline "Israel needs to invade The Hague". The writer was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,...

Sudan's public prosecutor yesterday announced the launch of an investigation into crimes committed in the Darfur region by members of the regime of ousted former president Omar Al-Bashir. "We...