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Fireworks were ignited and eggs thrown as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in Amsterdam where a new National Holocaust Museum has been opened. The Israeli president’s visit to the newly-opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam has sparked protests in the city. Thousands of protesters were heard chanting “never again is now” and “ceasefire now” at Waterloo Square in central Amsterdam, near the museum, which held an opening ceremony on Sunday and invited guests including the Israeli president Isaac Herzog and Dutch King Willem-Alexander.They also held Palestinian flags and signs that said “Jews against genocide” and “the grandchild of a holocaust survivor says:…

Israeli President Isaac Herzog attended the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam on Sunday. The museum tells the stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi camps during the Holocaust in World War II. Among the exhibits are a prominent photo of a boy walking past bodies at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after it was liberated, dress buttons excavated from the grounds of the Sobibor extermination camp, and walls covered with the texts of hundreds of laws discriminating against Jews enacted by the German occupiers of the Netherlands. The museum is…

The death toll has continued to climb after days of torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, officials said on Sunday. The West Sumatra capital of Padang has been inundated by flooding since Thursday, while masses of mud, rocks and uprooted trees tumbled down the mountains and tore through villages in Pesisir Selatan district to the south. “As of Sunday, 21 people were found dead and six people remained missing,” Fajar Sukma, an official from the West Sumatra disaster mitigation agency, told the AFP news agency. The National Disaster Management Agency said more than 80,000…

Days of torrential rainfall have led to flash floods and a landslide on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 19 people with seven others missing.Mud, rocks and uprooted trees came down a mountain and reached a river that burst its banks, tearing through villages in the West Sumatran province. Seven bodies were pulled from the rubble in the village of Koto XI Tarusa by Saturday, said Doni Yusrizal, who leads the local disaster management agency. Image: Damaged houses in Langgai. Pic: AP Three others were recovered in two other neighbouring villages, while rescuers retrieved another six bodies in Pesisir Selatan…

India and the four members states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) on Sunday signed an economic pact worth over $100 billion (€91.4 billion). The EFTA’s members are Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, none of which are in the European Union. The agreement must be ratified by all five signatories before it can come into effect. Switzerland plans to do so by 2025. What do we know about the India-EFTA deal? Under the deal, India will lift most import tariffs on industrial products from the EFTA in exchange for investment of $100 billion over 15 years, Indian Trade Minister Piyush…

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to attend the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam on Sunday. The museum tells the stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi camps during the Holocaust in World War II. Among the exhibits are a prominent photo of a boy walking past bodies at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after it was liberated, dress buttons excavated from the grounds of the Sobibor extermination camp, and walls covered with the texts of hundreds of laws discriminating against Jews enacted by the German occupiers of the Netherlands.…

Pope Francis has called on Ukraine to have “the courage of the white flag” and negotiate an end to the war against Russia.The head of the Catholic Church said: “I think that the strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people, has the courage of the white flag, and negotiates.” And Kyiv, he said, shouldn’t be ashamed to talk to Vladimir Putin’s regime, “before things get worse”, as “the word negotiate is a courageous word”.”When you see that you are defeated, that things are not going well, you have to have the courage to…

Voters headed to the polls on Sunday in Portugal’s parliamentary election, which is expected to be a showdown between two moderate parties, even as the far-right look to grow their influence. Although opinion polls suggest a narrow victory for the center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition over the ruling Socialist Party (PS), neither key party is expected to secure a majority. Meanwhile, the far-right party Chega (Enough) is predicted to make sizeable gains, with surveys showing support increasing from just over 7% to around 15-20%. Polls opened at 8 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) on the mainland and an hour later on the Azores archipelago. Around 10.8 million…

Harry and Meghan have paid a surprise visit to the family of a teacher who was killed in a Texas mass school shooting.Irma Garcia sacrificed her life as she tried to protect her pupils in a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, where she had taught for 23 years. Mrs Garcia’s nephew, 22-year-old John Martinez, has a picture of his “tia” (aunt in Spanish) pinned at the top of his X feed, where he said she “died a hero” and “will truly be missed”.The teacher’s husband, Joe, died of a heart attack on 27 May 2022, three days after…

Some frog species are being threatened by Europe’s, and especially France’s, appetite for frogs’ legs, hundreds of experts have warned.In a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, more than 550 vets, researchers and conservationists have called for the EU to stop allowing the “overexploitation” of frogs in Asia and southeast Europe for the EU’s hunger for frogs’ legs. “We see France as having a particular responsibility to take the lead on this issue,” it added.The letter points out that frog populations native to France and the EU are protected against commercial exploitation.Nonetheless, the EU imports more than 4,000 tonnes of…