A DUTCH court yesterday slapped a €1 million fine on a Swiss-based company whose chartered ship dumped hazardous waste, which the Ivory Coast says killed 17 people.

Oil trading company Trafigura was fined fined €1m today for exporting hazardous waste that allegedly left 15 people dead and thousands ill in Ivory Coast.

Oil trading company Trafigura was today fined €1m for exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast and hiding the cargo’s dangerous nature when it was unloaded from a ship in Amsterdam.

THE confessed assassin of populist Pim Fortuyn was jailed for 18 years yesterday for the first Dutch political killing in more than three centuries.

The man who confessed to killing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was jailed for 18 years today for the first political assassination in the Netherlands since the Second World War.