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One person is killed and another is severely injured in a stabbing attack near the Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2024-09-19

Former Hurricane Eta, now a tropical depression, leaves more than 50 people dead in Guatemala after causing flooding and landslides. It is expected to regain strength and head to Cuba and the coast of Florida this weekend.
2020-11-6

Guatemala reports the country's first death from the coronavirus, an 85-year-old man who had recently returned from Spain.
2020-03-15

Malta refuses to accept 234 African immigrants from the Dutch ship "Lifeline".
2018-06-22

The Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala rules not to allow the implementation of a usage manual from the Procuratorate of Human Rights for talks and workshops about sexuality due to the document's views on abortion, which, except risk for mother's life, is illegal in the country.
2017-12-14

The presiding judge Šaban Maksumić of the Sarajevo, Bosnian war crimes court acquits former Bosnian military officer Naser Orić of the charge of killing three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war during the Bosnian War. In July 2008, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands acquitted Orić for failing to prevent the deaths of five Bosnian Serb detainees and the mistreatment of eleven other detainees from late 1992 to early 1993.
2017-10-9

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholds a Texan law providing that abortion clinics meet the same standards as hospital style surgical clinics meaning that many abortion clinics must upgrade or close.
2015-06-9

France, Spain, Netherlands and Italy recall their ambassadors for more consultations.
2012-02-7

In the Netherlands, the Council of Ministers vote in favor of a ban on the Burqa, an outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions.
2012-01-27

At least three people die, at least four others are missing, a 15-day state of calamity is declared and the international airport is shut down due to the eruption of the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala.
2010-05-28