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North Kosovo under high tension after clash between Serbs and police | Abroad
Serb protesters block main roads in northern Kosovo for a second consecutive day after nightly gun battles with police. EULEX, the EU mission tasked with patrolling northern Kosovo, said a…
National four-day strike for regional transport temporarily off the track, but train strike in the north continues
A four-day nationwide strike in regional transport has been called off for the time being. FNV had given employers in regional transport an ultimatum until Sunday to respond to the…
Neise and Qiu are athletes of the year in North Rhine-Westphalia
Skeleton Olympic champion Hannah Neise and table tennis European champion Dang Qiu are North Rhine-Westphalia’s athlete of the year. Like Laura Nolte/Deborah Levi (two-man bobsleigh/team of the year), Jörg Roßkopf…
Typhoon and Wagner together on stage. A thousand young people from the North talk about identity and exclusion
A thousand young people from Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe went to De Oosterpoort in Groningen for a program about music, identity and exclusion. Photo: Peter Wassing The red chairs in…
Japan wants to spend tens of billions on missiles due to threat from North Korea and China | Abroad
Japan plans to invest some five trillion yen (35 billion euros) in the development of long-range missiles over the next five years, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reports, citing government…
Police dog Bart stops: how he stuck his nose in several North Holland cases
Police dog Bart, who helped solve several North Holland cases, has retired. He worked for a total of 3.5 years with one of the police officers from the province, with…
Possibly a majority in the House for extra money for rail in the North, but the cabinet refuses to make cuts
Mark Harbers, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, and Vivianne Heijnen, State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management, during a debate in the House of Representatives on the budget for…
‘Billions for road and rail divided unevenly between Randstad and North’
Tackling ‘the bottleneck’ on the track between Meppel and Zwolle and the construction of the Lower Saxony line should be higher on the government’s list of priorities, says Member of…
Cabinet holds hand on budget for North. For the time being, no money for rail Meppel and Lower Saxony line
The coalition parties VVD, CDA, D66 and ChristenUnie, but also most opposition parties, clashed on Monday in a committee meeting with Minister Mark Harbers of Infrastructure and State Secretary Vivianne…
‘North Netherlands strongly underserved in allocation of money for infrastructure’
More money should go to the infrastructure in the Northern Netherlands, believe several parties in the House of Representatives. Although the Cabinet recently announced that it will invest 7.5 billion…