Since the 1980s, two-thirds of all kiwis sold in Europe have been passing through the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. Soon, however, that whole story will come to an end. New Zealand producer Zespri is relocating its Belgian operations to the Dutch port of Vlissingen. After 2028, no more kiwis will be coming to Kiwiweg in Zeebrugge; instead, the Netherlands is snagging the contract.
On Thursday, no horse-drawn carriages were operating in Central Park, a staple of many tourists’ visits to New York. On Wednesday, the coachmen went on strike following the death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan, a tourist from India. Calls for a ban on horse-drawn carriages in New York City are gaining momentum once again.
A “heat dome” is currently making nearly all of Western Europe sweat. And it’s also exceptionally warm in the Netherlands.
A group of Italian women traveled to the Greek resort island of Mykonos last week for a bachelorette party, but their trip ended in utter tragedy.
At the end of this month, a 59-year-old man is set to appear in court after working as a pilot for years without the proper license.
From LinkedIn spam to the World Cup with Cape Verde.
Graspop Metal Meeting, the four-day metal festival in Dessel, Belgium, got off to a somber start on Thursday: a 47-year-old man who had fallen ill at the festival’s campground died in the hospital on Thursday morning.
In Schorndorf, a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, near Stuttgart, a 2-year-old child died after being left in the car by her mother.
In 2025, Russia granted more than a thousand special visas to foreigners who say they identify with what Moscow calls “traditional values,” according to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. The visa, often referred to in Western media as the “anti-woke visa,” is part of a broader Kremlin strategy to attract ideological allies.
A high-profile criminal wanted by Belgian authorities for large-scale cocaine smuggling through the port of Antwerp has been killed in downtown Barcelona, according to Spanish media reports. The killing took place in broad daylight. The killer wore no mask and paid no attention to security cameras or passersby on the street.