Spontaneous strikes in Antwerp and Brussels: “Minister Van Tigchelt has blown up the bridges”

Spontaneous strikes in Antwerp and Brussels: “Minister Van Tigchelt has blown up the bridges”

prisons Spontaneous strikes have arisen in various prisons due to dissatisfaction with the staff shortage. The consultation with Minister of Justice Paul Van Tigchelt could not calm emotions. Spontaneous strikes are ongoing in the Antwerp prison and a dozen other penitentiary institutions in Flanders and Brussels until Friday morning at 6 am. Certainly in Antwerp, … Read more

Minister Van Tigchelt promises in a letter to prison guards to improve “exceptionally difficult” working conditions after torture

Minister Van Tigchelt promises in a letter to prison guards to improve “exceptionally difficult” working conditions after torture

Prisons After the severe violence in the Antwerp prison, Minister of Justice Paul Van Tigchelt sent a letter to the prison staff. In it he says he will take measures to improve the “exceptionally difficult” working conditions. “But it is true that this is still insufficient to keep it workable.” Minister Van Tigchelt (Open VLD) … Read more

Minister Van Tigchelt responds to torture of detainee in Antwerp prison: “Grueful facts”

Minister Van Tigchelt responds to torture of detainee in Antwerp prison: “Grueful facts”

Images that, according to the Gazet van Antwerpen, started circulating in the crime scene on Tuesday evening, show how detainees in the overcrowded prison in the Begijnenstraat in Antwerp torture and rape a cellmate with a broomstick. The victim is badly injured and naked. The torturers also force the man to eat a sandwich with … Read more

The first batch of Starlink equipment arrived in Kazakhstan

The first batch of Starlink equipment arrived in Kazakhstan

Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Bagdat Musin said that the first 500 sets of Starlink equipment have arrived in Kazakhstan, Zakon.kz reports. The minister announced this in his Telegram channel. “I came to Almaty to personally check the process of accepting the equipment. Over the next week, delivery will begin to specific … Read more

King Salman Chairs Council of Ministers Session in Riyadh – February 20, 2024

King Salman Chairs Council of Ministers Session in Riyadh – February 20, 2024

Al-Marsad newspaper – SPA: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – may God protect him – chaired the session held by the Council of Ministers, today, in Riyadh. The beginning of the session At the beginning of the session, the Council of Ministers expressed, on the occasion of … Read more

New ministers took oath of office

New ministers took oath of office

Today, at a government meeting, the new ministers took the oath, Tengrinews.kz correspondent reports. The oath was taken by Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of National Economy Nurlan Baybazarov, Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Chingis Arinov, Minister of Health Akmaral Alnazarova, Minister of Finance Madi Takiev. “Before the people and the President of … Read more

Dutch former prime minister left his life hand in hand with his wife: is duo euthanasia also possible in Belgium?

Dutch former prime minister left his life hand in hand with his wife: is duo euthanasia also possible in Belgium?

It is a poignantly romantic image: after a lifetime together, an older couple knocks together at the gate of heaven. It is what the Catholic Dutch former Prime Minister Dries van Agt and his wife Eugenie Krekelberg did last Monday. The couple, both 93 years old, held hands and exchanged the temporary for the eternal. … Read more

Landmark Judgment: 15th Civil Senate of Cologne Higher Regional Court Partially Amends Contested Decision

06.02.2024 The 15th Civil Senate of the Cologne Higher Regional Court decided today in the aforementioned proceedings and partially amended the contested regional court decision. In the proceedings (cf. the press release dated October 7th, 2022 – PM 10/22), the plaintiff takes action following an earlier injunction procedure (OLG Cologne, judgment of May 29th, 2018, … Read more

British Minister George Freeman Quits Over Mortgage Costs – “Exhausted, Bankrupt, and Depressed”

British Minister George Freeman Quits Over Mortgage Costs – “Exhausted, Bankrupt, and Depressed”

“Why did I quit? Because my mortgage goes up this month from 800 to 2,000 pounds sterling (or about 930 to 2,340 euros).” George Freeman decided to leave his post as a minister in the British government last November because his salary, estimated at 140,000 euros per year, no longer allows him to pay his … Read more

Legendary Italian Footballer Gigi Riva Honored in Emotional Funeral

Legendary Italian Footballer Gigi Riva Honored in Emotional Funeral

A long round of applause greeted the release of the coffin after the funeral of the red, blue and blue champion to the tune of Piero Marras’ song “When Gigi Riva will return”. Also holding the coffin was 2006 world champion goalkeeper Gigi Buffon. Cagliari teammates in tears, from Copparoni to Greatti. The chant “Gigi … Read more