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The owners of these bicycles were having a picnic nearby, enjoying the view of the famous 19 windmills at Kinderdijk. The place was still pretty quiet in 1964, some 33 years before it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the 1970s some elderly women in Volendam in northern Netherlands were still wearing traditional dresses and bonnets as part of their daily lives. Back in my native Franche-Comté, I was the conductor of a traditional folk choir in which the singers — including me — wore 19th century costumes.
Meet Zeldenrust, “the one that seldom rests.” This smock mill is one of the hundreds of its kind in the Netherlands’ northwestern Friesland region.
TEL AVIV — Vincent van Gogh’s famous oil painting “Starry Night Over the Rhone” displays a wonderful enchantment technique. Occupying two-thirds of the canvas, the night sky is dotted with moon and stars, creating an illusion of movement, as if they were trying to burst out of the canvas. It’s not just a masterpiece. It […]
Dutch aerospace student Boyan Slat, 20, has an idea that could conceivably remove millions of tons of toxic trash from the world’s waters. It even has a revenue model. But will it work?
MAASTRICHT — The worst thing about it, says Marina Smirnova, is that people won’t tell her directly to her face what they think of her. When the 27-year-old Russian, a linguist, joins a discussion with colleagues at work about the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, and points out that responsibility for the tragedy has […]
AMSTERDAM — Two-thirds of the 298 passengers on downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 were Dutch, and their countrymen are seeking ways to vent their anger. Some have found an outlet in the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Masha. The 29-year-old is married to Dutchman Jorit Faassen, 34, who works for Gazprombank and Stroytransgaz in […]
In a seaside town in the Netherlands, an 11-year-old boy creates a private war zone in his everyday environment. What should his parents do?
Cover Photo: Kainet Here are some of the songs topping the charts from music hot spots around the world. Worldcrunch Pick: Belgian singer-songriter Martijn Teerlinck, a.k.a. Cole Williams, a.k.a. The Child of Lov died on Tuesday at the age of 26, following complications after undergoing surgery. He had worked with Damon Albarn on his self-titled […]
With echos of the Truman Show, medical staff pose as neighbors and bartenders in this groundbreaking Dutch institution to treat dementia.
A port city just like Marseille, but less riddled with crime, Rotterdam is nonetheless equipping itself with an unlikely new unit to fight illegal activity. Forensic police plan to use five big brown rats to shed light on criminal plots. After two years of training that will soon end, Derrick, Magnum, Poirot, Dupond and Dupont […]
BBC, AFP Worldcrunch THE HAGUE – The Dutch state has been held responsible by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men killed in the infamous 1995 massacre in Srebrenica. The men had been ordered to leave a UN compound run by Dutch peacekeeping forces when Bosnian Serb forces […]
After a string of acquittals by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, some accuse Judge Theodor Meron, a Polish-born American citizen, of having a political agenda.
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AP, DUTCH DAILY NEWS, DUTCH NEWS (The Netherlands); THE GUARDIAN (UK) Worldcrunch AMSTERDAM– Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands formally abdicated Tuesday, making way for her son Willem-Alexander to become king — the first in the country for 123 years, reports The Guardian. After 33 years, the 75 year-old queen — whose title now reverts to […]
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG (Germany) TIMES OF ISRAEL Worldcrunch AMSTERDAM – Of the 110,000 Jews deported from the Netherlands during World War II, only 6,000 returned home from the concentration camps. The survivors mostly found that their homes had been destroyed, or had been taken possession of by non-Jews. It was then, if they were from Amsterdam, […]
Bono, Bowie, and the Rolling Stones, not to mention Apple, Google and Microsoft keep an address in the Netherlands, which doesn’t tax profits by foreigners. What do locals say?
AMSTERDAM – Land of tulips, windmills and canals, the Netherlands is always an enchanting country to visit. But 2013 holds some special surprises. Here in the capital, the eccentric and transgressive mix with more classic beauty and history: from the coffee shops and red light district to the many museums and over 7,000 monuments sprinkled […]
DIE WELT (Germany), HURRIYET DAILY NEWS (Turkey) Worldcrunch AMSTERDAM – Turkey has launched a campaign to retrieve Turkish children that have been adopted by gay and Catholic couples in European countries, reports Hurriyet Daily News. Currently at the center of the debate is nine-year-old Yunus, the child of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands, who is […]
ROTTERDAM – Governments are well aware of the danger, but consumers have no idea. One out of five freight containers arriving in European ports has been fumigated with extremely dangerous, carcinogenic or neurotoxic gases. It is a vast phenomenon: one million containers filled with imported goods arrive in Europe by ship every week. These toxic […]
AMSTERDAM – We all know that families today are no longer only made up of Mom and Dad and the kids. This has led the Netherlands to work on legislation that would make it possible to have more than two people as parents. Take Susanne Supheert, 25 – she has four parents. It was more […]
HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT (Germany), DUTCH NEWS (Netherlands) Since May 2012, selling marijuana to non-Dutch buyers has been illegal in the south of the Netherlands. This measure came into law in an effort to prevent large numbers of foreigners, especially Germans, from crossing the border specifically to buy drugs. Dutch buyers had to show a “weedpass” to […]
AMSTERDAM – A filthy hotel room and food poisoning are definitely up there on the list of things that can ruin a trip. But for the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel in Amsterdam, they are part of the sales pitch — proud to be dubbed the “worst hotel in the world.” The low-cost establishment has enjoyed […]
DE TELEGRAAF (The Netherlands), BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK) Worldcrunch AMSTERDAM – Two Dutch centrist parties have secured an absolute parliamentary majority between them in Wednesday’s elections, reports The Guardian. VVD, the party of liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, claimed victory with 41 seats, two more than center-left rivals Labor, which won 39. According to […]
DUTCH NEWS (Netherlands), BBC NEWS (UK), DER SPIEGEL (Germany) Worldcrunch Terminal C of Amsterdam’s Schipol airport in the Netherlands was closed on Wednesday after building work uncovered a suspected World War II unexploded bomb, barely a day after authorities in Germany had to detonate a war-era bomb in the heart of Munich. A bomb disposal […]
SCIENCE DAILY (USA), LE FIGARO, AFP (France) Worldcrunch Scientists in Norway and Italy have analyzed sewage samples from European cities to compare the drug habits of their inhabitants, the Science Daily reports. Tracing the urinary biomarkers of cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy, methamphetamine and cannabis in sewage from 19 cities in 11 European countries during seven consecutive […]
BBC NEWS (UK), JEUNE AFRIQUE (France) Worldcrunch THE HAGUE – Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga was sentenced to 14 years in jail on Tuesday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for recruting and using child soldiers, some younger than 15, from 2002 to 2003. The sentence is the first to be handed out […]
A North Korean “cultural center” has opened near Amsterdam. And though neighbors find the curtains a bit off-putting, the food — served in nine courses — is tasty, nicely presented and comes with a dash of live entertainment. A long way indeed
Amsterdam-based parcel delivery company TNT Express is struggling and looks ripe for a takeover. American giant UPS has already made a bid. TNT has refused the offer, but it may just be a matter of time before UPS – or its arch rival, FedEx – scoops it up
We’re used to seeing blatant racism in children’s classics such as TinTin. But are contemporary books just as guilty of propagating African clichés?
About 130 of Dutch Rail’s new trains don’t have toilets. So what are passengers to do when nature calls? Call the company’s proposed solution what you wish — Travel John, Pee-in-a-bag, Urinal-in-a-box — not all are convinced that this is a mark
The squatter movement has long had a foothold in the Netherlands’ canal-carved economic capital. As evidenced by a major early July raid, authorities are now looking to send its squatters packing.
Europe’s consumer electronics industry is already reeling from the recent disastrous showing of Nokia. Now Philips has announced it would stop making televisions, another sign that the historic brand is struggling to compete.
Despite recent criticism for its anti-immigration tendencies, France is less restrictive than other European countries Immigrants protest in Paris By itself, the French picture might fool you. But set against the rest of the European family album, it grows much clearer. Last summer’s expulsions of members of the Roma community, the rising popularity of the […]
Returning to profitability, the world’s largest airline group will reduce first-class seating as travel consumers look to trim costs By Bruno Trevidic SEATTLE – With Air France-KLM expecting a return to profitability in 2011-2012, the company has begun to revamp its long-haul fleet to reflect a new post-crisis, penny-pinching economic reality. Chief Commercial Officer Bruno […]
By Philippe Escande Paris – Frédéric Vincent is one unhappy CEO. The Chinese are invading us, they do not comply with our basic rules for doing business. This was the essence of the message Vincent, the chief of French cable maker Nexans, sent in a letter to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. In question […]