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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
AMSTERDAM -- A Cuban pitcher considered by many baseball scouts to be the No. 1 left-handed prospect in the world left his hotel and vanished before the first ball was thrown at a tournament in the Netherlands, leaving his whereabouts a mystery, a spokesman for the Dutch team said Friday.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Amsterdam - Fortis Bank Netherlands has repaid 34 billion euros (47.93 billion dollars) of debt to the Dutch state, the bank and the Dutch finance ministry confirmed Thursday in separate statements. That figure represents all the short-term governmen...
crookedbrains (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Niimi Teacup Balconies : 'Staying in line with Asakusa's restaurant supply reputation, this building features teacup balconies.' Helsinki's Unusual Balcony: (Image credit: digikuva ). (Image credit: digikuva ). Bloomframe Folding Balcony: Bloomframe is an innovative window frame designed by Amsterdam based Hofman Dujardin Architects . The prototype of this balcony was presented at the International...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Serbian authorities had offered Drug Lord Sreten Josic aka Joca Amsterdam to enter a witness protection program in exchange of information. Josic will be expected to reveal the names of the perpetrators of high-profile murders for hire in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and the Netherlands. Josic was arrested at the end of March and is charged with organizing the murder of the Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Amsterdam - The Netherlands ranks among the top six of the world's most-open economies, according to a study released Tuesday by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics. The study analyzed the importance of international trade in the Dutch economy ove...
John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
I am just back this evening from attending a one day Pension workshop organised by the Committee for Workers Capital (CWC). This took place in the headquarters of the FNV in Amsterdam. The FNV is the Dutch equivalent of the British TUC. The CWC is an international pension activist organisation (and “think tank”) which brings together trade union pension trustees from all over the world....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Amsterdam - A body found in Britain is probably that of missing former ABN Amro banker Huibert Boumeester, his family in the Netherlands confirmed in a statement Monday. The father-of-three, who disappeared several days ago, has probably been found ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Amsterdam - Thirty-six per cent of Turkish and Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands are thinking about emigrating due to the increasing popularity of the controversial Freedom Party PVV, a study conducted by polling agency Moviction showed Monday. Du...
Gordon's Notes (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Imagine you are an active geek, and that you can live in any city on earth. Where do you go? For that matter, where might you want to visit? There are all kinds of metrics you might consider, but there’s a single metric that produces this particular list: Copenhagen, Denmark Portland, Oregon Munich, Germany Montreal, Quebec Perth, Australia Amsterdam, Netherlands Seattle, Washington Paris, France...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Amsterdam - The Dutch Wadden Sea Society welcomed Friday's decision by UNESCO to put the Wadden Sea on its World Heritage list. The Wadden Sea, Europe's largest intertidal wetland, is situated between the mainland of the Netherlands, Germany and Denm...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Amsterdam - Dutch scientists Thursday reported that one of 15 Frisian godwit birds they had fitted with tiny transmitters had flown from the Netherlands to the West African state of Senegal within 72 hours - a distance of more than 4,600 kilometres. ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Amsterdam police arrested and briefly detained a member of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's entourage on Saturday, Radio Netherlands quoted the police as saying on Tuesday. The man was in the president's entourage during his brief state visit to the Netherlands. The detainee was suspected of having assaulted a 19-year-old woman employed by the hotel he was staying in, said Radio Netherlands. The...
Tru Thoughts Blog (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Jun-24 Hare and Hounds, Birmingham Jun-25 Scala, London Jun-26 Glastonbury, Jazz World Stage Jun-27 Big Day Out Festival, Reading Jun-28 Jazz Re:Found Festival, Italy Jun-29 Jazz a Vienne, France Jun-30 Maroquinerie, Paris Jul-02 Roskilde Festival, Denmark Jul-04 Garden Festival, Croatia Jul-08 Paradiso, Amsterdam Jul-09 Rotown, Rotterdam Jul-10 North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands Jul-11 Whelans,...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
AMSTERDAM, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the Netherlands on Saturday to push ahead with talks on participation in projects in northwest Siberia's Yamal run by Russian...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
11:0518/06/2009 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) – On June 19-20, President Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit to the Netherlands. Our relations with a country, which we, along with Europe in general, have been erroneously and stubbornly calling Holland for a long time, have always been a bizarre mixture of love and sympathy with offense and criticism. These...
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davidship | 02/25/2009
A Turkish airplane breaks up after corridor short of the landing strip at Amsterdam airstrip, killing nine citizens and injuring eighty-four. The plane, carrying 127 passengers and seven crew, gone down short of the runway near the A9 highway. It bust into three pieces, but did not hold fire. Three of those killed are crewmembers.
axigen | 12/15/2008
Amsterdam, Netherlands and Bucharest, Romania, December 15, 2008 – AXIGEN ( http://www.axigen.com ), the professional messaging solution vendor, and AVG Technologies ( http://www.avg.com ), a global Internet security software provider, announce today their technological alliance aimed at providing businesses with a higher level of security over email communications and preventing ever-increasing messaging...
alupulx7 | 11/11/2008
New York City homicide detective John Amsterdam is cursed with immortality because he stopped the murder of a Native American girl in 1642 by stepping in front of a sword
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