Netherlands

An international passenger train carrying 146 people toward Germany collided with a freight train in the eastern Netherlands on Tuesday. Police and rail authorities said there were no initial reports of any injuries. Babet Verstappen, a spokeswoma…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutch public prosecutor says 12 Somalis have been detained in the port city of Rotterdam on suspicion of Terrorist-related activities. The men were seized Friday on a tip from the intelligence services that they were pla…

The US government plans to resume nuclear arms negotiations with Russia next year in hopes of securing legal limits on the smaller, battlefield Nuclear Weapons, The New York Times reported. The newspaper said these weapons are viewed as the most …

Back from the brink of annihilation, the Obama Administration’s treaty with Russia on reducing Nuclear Weapons is looking like it’ll pass the Senate after all, possibly as early as Wednesday. The only thing that everyone’s over…

Dismantling The safety Net, One Program At A Time by digby Peter Orszag really has it in for the Social Security program. We already know that he's selling the ridiculous idea that if the Democrats agree to cut Social Security they will be rewa…

Former Dutch Soccer player Ruud Gullit pushes a bike as he arrives with his delegation at the FIFA headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec.2, 2010. FIFA will announce the 2018 and 2022 Soccer World Cup hosts later the day. The leaders o…

Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) defended the TSA's new invasive screening and pat-down procedures Sunday, saying that only about one percent of air passengers over Thanksgiving objected to the screening. "When you get on an airplane with your…