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2 days ago · Amsterdam trams & buses will not run in Nieuw-West tonight amid calls for more rioting. Wednesday rail strike will seriously impact many more Dutch cities than just Amsterdam. Three arrested after another night of unrest in Amsterdam. Amsterdam mayor couldn’t reach PM during riots; City wanted to ban Ajax-Maccabi match.
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1 day ago · Average Dutch 65-year-old can look forward to another 21 years of life. 10 November 2024 - 10:10. Crime.
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1 day ago · 26-year-old arrested for public violence after attack on Israeli football supporters. 9 November 2024 - 12:40. Crime.
Cargo ship collides with weir and sinks in the Meuse river near ...
Oct 12, 2024 · A cargo ship loaded with sand collided with a weir in the Meuse River near Maastricht at around 8:50 a.m. on Saturday and sank. No one on board was injured in the collision, according to L1 News. The 40-meter-long cargo ship collided with the weir due to a very strong side current in the Meuse, a spokesman for the fire department told NOS. The ship sank after the collision.
First Dutch housing estate to do laundry, flush toilets with rain water
Oct 13, 2024 · The houses in the estate vary in size. Some have a 6,000-liter tank under them, the larger houses have a 15,000-liter one. “A family of four can flush the toilet, do the laundry wash the car, and water the garden plants for an average of ten weeks with the small tank,” Vreeker said. The large tank has enough water to also use for showers.
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2 days ago · Netherlands cuts subsidies to NGO's by €1 billion. 11 November 2024 - 10:10. 1-1-2 Politics Culture Entertainment.
Photos: Northern Lights visible to naked eye in Netherlands last …
Oct 11, 2024 · Last night, the Northern Lights were again visible to the naked eye in the Netherlands. People throughout the country posted photos of the phenomenon on social media.The skies were clear in Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe, Overijssel, and Gelderland, so people there especially got a show. But even people in the cloudy west also spotted the colorful lights between the cloud fields.
Dutch tax office to send letters about asset tax refunds starting …
Oct 14, 2024 · The tax and customs office in the Netherlands, the Belastingdienst, will begin sending out some 2.6 million letters to people with larger assets and higher wealth who can likely count on receiving compensation. People will receive restitution if they had to pay tax on the Box 3 section of their income tax return for fictitious capital …
Dutch holiday bookings still below pre-pandemic levels; Sunny ...
Oct 14, 2024 · The popularity of using the weeklong autumn holiday grew by about 5 percent this year compared to 2023, as opposed to 4 percent growth when looking at the rest of the year, the ANVR said. This is a continuation of a recent trend, even if bookings have yet to return to before the pandemic. Greece, Turkey, Portugal and Spain are popular ...
Scientists concerned about biodiversity as Cabinet refuses to …
Oct 13, 2024 · Scientists from Wageningen University & Research are concerned that the government is not presenting a draft nature plan ahead of a summit on biodiversity, they wrote on Sunday on the nature platform Nature Today.According to the six scientists, the Dutch nature plan was drawn up by policymakers, knowledge institutions, companies, and …