New Delhi: A 35-year-old Dutch woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a house in the famous seashore temple town of Mamallapuram, about 60 km from Chennai, police said on Saturday. The death of Jose Vandy Villite Johanna came to light after her boyfriend Martin Joseph Knocker (32), also of the Netherlands, informed the police on Friday, IG of Police (North Zone) C Sylendra Babu said. Police were questioning...
12:13 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Amsterdam: The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year. The ban would make the Netherlands, where 1 million out of 17 million people are Muslim, the second European Union country to ban the burqa after France, and would apply to face-covering veils if they were worn in public. "People should be able to...
09:52 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Maastricht: The fantasy of seeing banknotes fluttering down from the sky came true for Dutch motorists after a package containing cash apparently fell from a bank transport truck and broke open. The incident triggered a dangerous scramble for the euro bills Monday on the busy A2 highway near Maastricht, as people parked cars on the road's shoulder and ran to scoop up loose notes. Police in the southern Dutch province...
03:25 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Amsterdam: Dutch authorities recalled red beet sprouts from three countries on Thursday after samples were found to be contaminated with a strain of E coli bacteria that was apparently less dangerous than the one causing Europe's deadly E coli crisis. German health officials, meanwhile, reported that three more people died of the ailment on Thursday, raising the toll to 29 in less than six weeks. The Dutch Food Safety Authority...
02:00 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Amsterdam: Rachel de Boer finally told some friends a secret she'd kept for years: She slept with stuffed socks sewn between the cups of an old bra to prevent cleavage wrinkles and smooth out her neckline. Three years later, a professionally designed and manufactured version of that same contraption is sold in 150 lingerie shops across the Netherlands and Belgium, approved by a research institute and getting interest from retail...
02:05 PM, Apr 15, 2011
Brussels: Many would see it as a humiliation, but for Belgium it's an excuse for a party - the country's citizens are marking 249 days without a government on Thursday, a figure that they are treating as a world record. Day to day the crisis pits the leaders of 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings against those of 4.5 million French speakers, but people from across the country are putting aside their...
04:57 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Washington: Police in Amsterdam arrested two men who came in on a flight from Chicago. The two men have been charged with preparing a terror attack. Reports said the men were arrested "at the request of American authorities," and the investigation is still going on. The men have been identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and Hezam al-Murisi. Soofi is reportedly from Yemen. The men were apparently allowed to board...
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