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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Dutch Government has given $23.5 million to UNICEF in Sudan which will be used to provide safe water and improved sanitation for hundreds of thousands of people across the country. "This very generous contribution by the Dutch Government will have a real impact on saving lives," said Hilde Johnson UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director.
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Education Futures (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
I’m back from a busy week in the Netherlands. First on the agenda was Education Futures NL, an Education 3.0-focused workshop collaboration between Education Futures and Helikon (Fons van den Berg). In addition to our collaboration, the workshop was supplemented with contributions from Cristóbal Cobo and the Knowmads. Meeting space for the event was [...]
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
CHENNAI: Officials of the Cyber Crime Cell apprehended a Netherlands national here on Saturday on charges of uploading pornographic pictures of children on the Internet. Acting on information passed on by the Interpol, investigators ...
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Can it really be that high??? The Social Security Bank (SVB), the organisation that implements national insurance schemes in the Netherlands, will send an inspection team to Egypt next month to check whether the child support received by parents of Egyptian-Dutch kids is legitimate. The quasi non-governmental organisation reported 124 Egyptian-Dutch kids receive double benefits because they are studying...
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
But, what happens when they want to go back to the Netherlands... Adel, his wife and five young children live above his car repair shop on a busy thoroughfare between Cairo and the Nile delta. On a recent Friday, with no school, the children were bored. They hung around the shop because playing outside was not an option, with the traffic out front and a railway out the back. Until a year ago Adel and...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
• Ronaldo ruled out by club for at least two weeks • Queiroz wants winger to face Bosnia-Herzegovina The Real Madrid coach, Manuel Pellegrini, understands why his Portugal counterpart Carlos Queiroz is keen to have Cristiano Ronaldo on board for their World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina, but has serious doubts the injured forward will be fit enough to play. Queiroz yesterday named...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
GUERNSEY, Channel Islands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KKR & Co. (Guernsey) L.P. (Euronext Amsterdam: KKR) announced today that it plans to release financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009 after the close of business on Thursday, November 19, 2009. A conference call to discuss the financial results will be hosted on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM CET (Amsterdam) / 6:00 PM GMT...
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Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jo Seldeslachts University of Amsterdam, Joseph A. Clougherty Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, and Pedro Pita Barros Universidade Nova de Lisboa have an interesting new article, Settle for Now but Block for Tomorrow: The Deterrence Effects of Merger...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced that Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM), the Portuguese Mint and National Printing Office, has started issuing its Sealys Resident cards, compliant with the electronic European Residence Permit (eERP) specifications and the latest ICAO Extended Access Control standards. Gemalto...
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Brand New (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Starting with the 2009/2010 school year, the Northern Hogeschool Leeuwarden in The Netherlands — a 10,000-student, medium-sized university specializing in applied sciences — will be known as NHL University, and will soon be occupying a new, fancy and diagonally-inclined building designed by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger. For the university's new era, Amsterdam based koeweiden postma...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
In a ceremony on November 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Dutch flower bulb sector named a tulip after Ayaan Hirsi Ali ‘Ayaan’ in recognition of Ms. Hirsi Ali’s defense of freedom and human rights for Muslim women. Ms. Hirsi Ali, a feminist, author, activist and former member of the Dutch parliament completed the traditional naming ceremony by drizzling champagne over the...
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Keep Tony Blair For PM (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Is Europe REALLY thinking of opting for NOT becoming a power-house? Unbelievable. Irresponsible. Folly.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Berlin - German President Horst Koehler called on European leaders to engage in creating a better world, during Monday's celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. Koehler welcomed the leaders of all 27 European Union states, as well...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Berlin - The European Union's Swedish presidency will set the date within days for an EU summit to decide who should be the bloc's first president, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said Monday. I will call a summit within a matter of days, Reinfeld...
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pentnews.com | 21/09/2009
bwin, the leading provider of online gaming entertainment, has acquired a majority share of UnitedGames, the leading European massive multiplayer online game publisher and developer. The acquisition allows bwin to open new lines of business and strengthens the leadership of UnitedGames in online game publishing and development. This unique partnership enables bwin and UnitedGames to deliver the next