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Natural gas extraction causing frequent quakes, property damage in northern Netherlands
Farmers living atop Europe’s largest gas field in the isolated northern Netherlands are angry at increasingly frequent earthquakes caused by extraction. Freezing winds and a glimmer of cold light pass through the three-foot by two-inch (one metre by five centimetre) crack in Martha and Jan Bos’s stable in Middelstum, a…
Dutch priest to display photos of Church quitters
A Roman Catholic priest in the Netherlands is to put on display the names and photographs of parish members trying to leave the Church in a bid to get them to stay. “This is a large parish, and I don’t known everyone: by putting up the photos I thought someone…
Netherlands considers heated bike paths
Researchers in bicycle-mad Netherlands have come up with a novel way to get more cyclists out during the harsh winter months while also lowering the number of injuries: heated bike paths. “The idea is to install a system under bike paths to prevent ice forming in winter,” engineer Marcel Boerefijn…
Netherlands party wants to shut down on Sundays ‘to go to church’
Shutting the Netherlands down on Sundays, protecting an African language and living a work-free life are some of the more offbeat policies being put forward by Dutch parties ahead of Wednesday’s vote. A whopping 21 parties are contesting parliament’s 150 seats in the election, the second in just over two…
Top Nazi war criminal dies at 90
A Nazi war criminal who escaped from a Dutch jail after the war and evaded all attempts by the Netherlands to get him back has died at the age of 90 in Germany, a hospital source said Saturday. Klaas Carel Faber, who was second on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s list…
Netherlands 1-0 Japan
Wesley Sneijder doll on sale now! In the closing minutes of the game, the Dutch subs started to try hard, and they very nearly scored a 2nd goal on a couple different breakaways. Other than the start of the second half, when Wesley Sneijder sent a rocket off the hands…
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