Several thieves stole Vincent van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring from the Singer Laren museum, located 32 kilometres south-east of Amsterdam.
The group smashed the front glass door of the museum earlier this week. When the alarm sounded and police arrived, the burglars had already fled the scene.
The thieves will most likely use the work to negotiate the return of the painting in exchange for a big sum of money.
The ECJ ruled this week that the three countries failed to accept their share of 120,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece since 2015.
The court, which is based in Luxembourg, noted that even though Czech Republic and Poland initially agreed to accept 100 and 50 migrants respectively, Czech Republic only took in 12. Poland accepted none, and neither did Hungary.
The ECJ is expected to impose big fines on the three countries.
An Italian architect is working on establishing an intensive care unit from a shipping container. The design repurposes shipping containers to create plug-in biocontainment pods that can be quickly deployed in cities around the world. The first prototype, called “Cura” (or “cure”) is being built in Milan.
A Hague court ordered the Netherlands to pay compensation to eight widows and four children of men who were killed by the Dutch army in the 1940s war in Indonesia during its colonial era.
Several thousand Indonesian citizens died in the then Dutch colony. King Willem-Alexander recently apologised to Indonesian leaders for the tragic violence in the time. It was the first apology from a Dutch monarch since.
Wang was detained by Chinese authorities in 2015 as part of sweeping nationwide arrests on over 200 legal advocates and Communist Party critics, nicknamed the “709" crackdown.
Released from prison after almost five years of detention, Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang is still unable to be reunited with his family, his wife Li Wenzu confirmed.
Wang, 44, was escorted by police from prison in Linyi, Shandong province to a property in his hometown of Jinan on Sunday morning, Li said.
“I think [authorities] have been lying to us step by step,” Li told AFP from Beijing, where she lives with the couple’s young son.
“They used the pretext of the epidemic as an excuse to quarantine him in Jinan for 14 days when he should have been able to return to his home in Beijing according to the relevant legal guidelines.”
“Hungary belongs in political quarantine,” Jean Asselborn said in an interview with German newspaper die Welt. The Luxembourgish minister responded to Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s open-ended right to rule by decree.
The chief diplomat argued that governments that proceed uncontrolled by parliaments for an unlimited period of time should not decide on matters affecting all European citizens, and thus their ministers could not have a voice during ministerial councils.
Hungary has already raised the Commission’s hackles by expanding state control over the media, academics and rights groups, Aljazeera reported.
In a statement, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that “any emergency measures must be limited to what is necessary and strictly proportionate. They must not last indefinitely ... governments must make sure that such measures are subject to regular scrutiny.”
Brooklyn landlord Mario Salerno informed his 200 tenants he’s waiving rent fees for the month of April due to the pandemic, NBC reported.
The story went viral and was picked up by media outlets around the world. Salerno said he wanted people to be healthy and not have to worry about putting food on the table.
