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Monday 28 May RNW - NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE NETHERLANDS IN 10 LANGUAGES, WORLDWIDE 24/7 ON RADIO, TV AND ONLINE

RNW News

The latest headlines brought to you from Hilversum, the Netherlands

Vacansoleil cyclist comes third in Giro

The winner of the Giro, the Tour of Italy, is Canadian racing cyclist Ryder Hesjesdal of the Garmin team, who took the pink jersey from Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez in the final 28-kilometre time trial in Milan. Belgian...

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Dutch terrorist suspects to deny Belgian charges

The lawyers of three Dutch suspects will tell a court in the Belgian city of Mechelen their side of the story in a terrorism case on Wednesday. The three Dutch-Moroccans are part of a group of 14 people suspected of planning an attack in...

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Alarm raised against forest fires in Netherlands

The warm dry weather and strong winds have increased the chance of forest fires in the Netherlands. A Code Orange alert has been issued in the Veluwe nature reserve and the eastern province of Gelderland, central Utrecht...

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Freedom Party overtakes VVD in opinion poll

The Freedom Party (PVV) is ahead of the conservative VVD in the latest poll by Maurice de Hond. Apparently if there were an election now, Geert Wilders' Freedom Party would win 25 seats in parliament, with caretaker Prime Minister Mark...

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Rosenthal condemns Syrian bloodbath

Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal has strongly condemned the bloodbath in the Syrian city of Houla. “A large number of dead have been counted by a team of UN observers, many of the dead were children. We, as the international...

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Holland in 2-1 home defeat against Bulgaria

Bulgaria's Ilyan Mizanski headed a stoppage-time goal to inflict a shock 2-1 home defeat on the Netherlands in a Euro 2012 warm-up match on Saturday. Coach Bert van Marwijk, who named his 23-man squad for the tournament...

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Heroin stashes in Schiphol freight soaring

Police at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport have so far seized this year 100 kilos of heroin stashed in air freight, twice as much as the amount impounded in all of 2011.

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DJ Armin to rev Dutch fans in Kharkov

Star DJ Armin van Buuren is to perform on 13 June in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov ahead of the European Championship game between Holland and Germany. On 9, 13 and 17 June, Kharkov’s Freedom Square will be...

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Dutch hospitals to train “hospital doctors”

Four Dutch hospitals are launching a new study for medical students who want to become a so-called hospital doctor.

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Amsterdam country’s most dangerous city

Amsterdam is the most dangerous Dutch municipality, followed by Rotterdam and Maastricht, newspaper AD reports. Littenseradiel and Dantumadiel, in the northern province of Friesland, are country’s two safest...

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