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January 14, 2019

Chemical arms group agrees to ban Salisbury attack poison: diplomats

The world’s chemical weapons agency on Monday agreed to add Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, used in last year’s Salisbury attack against a former Russian agent, to its list of banned substances, diplomats said Monday. A joint proposal by Canada, the…

January 10, 2019

EU probes Nike tax deals in the Netherlands

The EU on Thursday launched an in-depth probe into Nike’s tax affairs in the Netherlands, following revelations in the “Paradise Papers” scandal that exposed low tax deals for multinationals. The investigation of one of the world’s most iconic brands, with…

January 10, 2019

Lying on unexploded shell ‘ill-advised’ Dutchman told

Lying down on top of an unexploded World War II shell is “strictly ill-advised”, officials on Thursday told a Dutchman who found one in his garden. The man, from Venlo, in the south of country, spent three and a half…

January 10, 2019

EU opens in-depth probe of Nike’s tax deals in the Netherlands

The EU on Thursday launched an in-depth probe into Nike’s tax affairs in the Netherlands, following revelations in the “Paradise Papers” scandal that exposed low tax deals for multinationals. The European Commission “will investigate carefully the tax treatment of Nike…

January 10, 2019

Japan, EU working to stop no-deal Brexit: Dutch PM

Japan and EU powers are working “very hard” to prevent Britain leaving the bloc without a deal, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Wednesday with his visiting Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe. Rutte said he was also working closely with European…

January 9, 2019

Clogs gift for EU medicines agency’s Brexit move

Dutch officials handed over a pair of clogs and the keys to the European Medicines Agency’s temporary base in Amsterdam on Wednesday as the watchdog prepares to leave London after Brexit. The regulator’s new 300-million-euro headquarters will not be ready…

January 9, 2019