Although the weather was poor in many parts of the Netherlands during Remembrance Day on Saturday, the weather on Liberation Day was expected to be much nicer on Sunday. Liberation Day will formally get underway in Roermond, Limburg. The Liberation Day fire will be lit at the beginning of the afternoon by outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Ambassador of Freedom Wende Snijders in the host province, at which point the celebrations to honor the end of the World War II occupation will begin.
MONTREAL - Cruise ship Staff Capt. Rakesh Prasad can't forget the traumatized expressions on the faces of hundreds of Ukrainians who boarded Holland America's Volendam in April 2022.
The Volendam, now back to ferrying vacationing travellers, was the first cruise ship of the 2024 season to arrive in Montreal. The port authority held a ceremony aboard the vessel to celebrate the occasion, with invited guests including diplomats from Ukraine and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja for Dallas, United States, for the 2024 US-Africa Business Summit. The summit, hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa, will take place at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. According to a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President…