Amsterdam - Former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic was due to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague Monday afternoon in a new preliminary hearing.
The extra preliminary hearing was necessary to approve a revised indictment against Karadzic.
Last Thursday, the prosecution of the UN court finally transferred the translation of all documents to the former Bosnian-Serb leader.
The prosecution had completed the new indictment already in September, but the translation of all underlying evidence was not finished until last week.
Amsterdam - Despite an economic slowdown and a credit crisis, Dutch sex shops and businesses offering erotic services appear to be doing just fine.
A phone inquiry by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa among several leading sex shops and erotic business owners in Amsterdam indicates the erotic sector is relatively stable.
"Sales are going well," says Madeleine Vreekamp of Mail&Female, located in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam - Prices of Dutch residential real estate dropped by 1.8 per cent in 2008, the association of Dutch real estate brokers NVM said in its annual report published on Thursday.
An average Dutch home now costs 233,000 euros (306,930 dollars) compared with 246,000 euros (324,055 dollars) in the third quarter of 2008.
It is the first year since 1990 that the price of Dutch homes have dropped.
The NVM said prices fell by 2.5 per cent in the fourth quarter compared with the previous quarter.
The fall of Dutch home prices began in the third quarter (down 0.7 per cent compared with the second quarter).
Jakarta - Indonesia and the Netherlands on Wednesday called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where an Israeli military offensive has killed more than 900 Palestinians.
Visiting Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said after meeting his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda that Indonesia and the Netherlands had a common interest in an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
"We also shared ideas on how to realize a ceasefire in Gaza," he told a news conference.
Retno Marsudi, the foreign ministry's director general for the Americas and Europe, said each country should play a role in pushing for a Gaza ceasefire.
Amsterdam - A Dutch-Danish proposal to deploy European Union observers at the Egypt-Gaza Strip border has been received positively, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen told parliament Friday.
Verhagen said in a letter to the parliament that the EU, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the US welcomed the proposal aimed at preventing arms-smuggling from Egypt to Hamas factions. Iran and Hamas had not responded to the proposal, he said.
Amsterdam - As temperatures plunge across Europe, many are cursing the cold. But not in the Netherlands. There, many are hoping for further frigid conditions.
It's been more than 10 years since the last Elfstedentocht, an ice-skating race across 11 cities in Friesland in northwestern Netherlands.
According to Harry Geurts of the Dutch Meteorological Institute KNMI, temperatures need to be at least minus 10 degrees Celsius at night "for several weeks" before the entire 200-kilometre-track will be sufficiently frozen to hold the race's 16,000 skaters.
Early on Tuesday the temperature dropped to minus 18 degrees Celsius in some parts of the Netherlands, marking the second week of extreme frost in the country.
Amsterdam - Former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic was due to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague Monday afternoon in a new preliminary hearing.
Amsterdam - Despite an economic slowdown and a credit crisis, Dutch sex shops and businesses offering erotic services appear to be doing just fine.
Amsterdam - A Dutch-Danish proposal to deploy European Union observers at the Egypt-Gaza Strip border has been received positively, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen told parliament Friday.
