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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
'Ambassadors' to fight against female genital mutilation were appointed by the deputy health minister Jet Bussemaker on Wednesday. The ambassadors, who were appointed at an international conference to fight female genital mutilation in The Hague, are from African communities in the Netherlands. They will pass on information on the dangers of female genital mutilation to parents who originally come...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The saga of the Somali-Amercans recruited by al-Shabaab continues. From CAN: The Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St.Paul, M.N., reports that a Somali-American from Minneapolis has been arrested by the Dutch authorities for financing efforts to recruit and ship up to 20 other Somali-Americans from the area to their native land to join the al-Shabaab terrorist group. The group has pledged allegiance Osama...
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The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
© Greenpeace / Beentjes Hereâs a story you wonât have heard before about how Europe nearly saw a nuclear meltdown in 2001. Why wonât you have heard it before? Because it was covered up by the Dutch authorities⦠On a...
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Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Barnstaple-based J+S Ltd has been awarded a £1m contract for the sonar upgrade of ships operated by the Dutch and Belgian navies. The company will design and supply four ship sets of sonar transducers for the Defence Materiel Organisation of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The transducers will be installed on the M-Class frigates operated by the Dutch and Belgian navies. It is hoped that options...
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Denverstrope (Free subscription) | yesterday
As if any more evidence were needed of the seriousness of the ongoing power drain from Westminster to Brussels, we now hear that the latter has now brought forward legislation to regulate Britain's all-important financial sector, its main target being the City. Dan Hannan reveals all : When I warned against the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive five months ago, some of you felt...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - ING priced a rights issue intended to raise 7.5 billion euros (6.8 billion pounds) at 4.24 euros per share, luring shareholders with a hefty discount of close to 40 percent as it looks to pay back state aid.
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Friendship Cybet Net (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Google has taken much of the wind out of the turn-by-turn navigation industry's sails this Fall thanks to the introduction of fee-free Google Maps Navigation , but it's got a fatal flaw for the moment: it's only available in the States. Navigon must be banking on the fact that Mountain View is going to take its sweet time spreading the love around the world, because it has announced at iCE Amsterdam...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 46 minutes ago
Amsterdam - Workers in the Netherlands are being urged to give up email for 24 hours on Friday, in a bid to improve efficiency and foster greater personal contact with co-workers. The unofficial boycott - which marks 38th anniversary of the day when ...
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Yehuda (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shed It's Alive x 4 Carpe Astra Hacienda Kingdoms Path Merchants of Amsterdam Beyond Balderdash Greedy Greedy Chaupati Bridge Troll Verrater / Meuterer El Grande expansions Winner's Circle Industria Griddly Headz Baseball Die Macher Acquired Steam Dominion Intrigue Dominion Seaside Pillars of the Earth expansion Endeavor Amyitis Aton Hare and Tortoise In the Shadow of the Emperor Le Havre Mu and More...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- ING , the Amsterdam financial-services giant, set the terms for the rights issue it announced Oct. 26. The company said in a statement on Friday that it will issue 1.77 billion shares at 4.24 euros each. Holders will receive rights to buy six new BDRs for every seven they hold. The BDRs closed on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels at 8.92 euros ($13.32) on Nov. 26....
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
I'm still not sold that the art market is recovering (it could be, but it's too soon to tell). But, if it is, the upside is going to the galleries and collectors -- the artists aren't getting squat . November was generally kind to Christie's , Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury , leading to hundreds of millions of dollars in art sales. So, to get their own piece of the art market pie that may or not be...
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the style files (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have been posting some gorgeous houses in various countries lately and we will be visiting more countries in the next few weeks! I have posts lined up with houses in Italy, Brazil, Sweden, Australia and France. But I realised today that I totally forgot to include my home country The Netherlands in this list. [...]
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues? Around two dozen applications like Layar, Junaio and Wikitude have burst onto iPhone and Android devices as smartphones with GPS, a compass and Internet access have finally made it possible for the technology...
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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