Week in review: September 28-October4
The round-up of some of this week’s most noteworthy events and news stories features: the ongoing effort of Greenpeace to get their crew released, the developments around Oad, and NS still trying to best the Fyra nightmare
Greenpeace: Dutch also hear sentence piracy: The two Dutch Greenpeace activists, detained in Russia, are charged with piracy. Fourteen of the activists were charged today, all of them with piracy. Read the full story
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NS: Battery biggest problem Fyra: The biggest flaw in the Fyra V250 was the battery. It had major difficulties with charging, overheating, the isolation and grounding, to name a few things. Read the full story
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Business:
- KPN sells E-plus
- Bus activities Oad continue
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Wikimedia commons - Internet node NL to USA
Crime:
Entertainment:
- Theater for play Anne Frank
- 7th Televizier nomination De Mol
- Wim Helsen wins cabaret performer prize
Health:
- Pompe and Fabry remain reimbursed
- Number of smokers decreases
- Chemo-therapy not necessary in 20 percent cases
- Plea for general periodic inspection pets
- Early ultrasound, less late-term abortion
- 2/3 hospitals not senior proof
Netherlands:
- Bijlmer disaster 21 years ago
- One in six school classes overcrowded
- De Grittenborgh prison now empty
- The AIVD should be allowed more digitally
- Dutch universities in world top
- Solution pupils Ibn Ghaldoun
- Officials create electricity on toilet
- American cemetery Margraten also closed
- Netherlands 4th best country for elderly
- 100,000 new burgernetters
- Coronation mantle not original
- Maxima Queen regent
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Wikimedia commons - More commercials public broadcast
- NVWA: consumer at risk
- Protest against shooting stray cats
Politics:
- Henk Krol leaves house for evading pension premiums
- Van Aartsen one more time mayor in The Hague
- CDA quits negotiations
- D66 speaks alone with government
- Dijsselbloem in discussion with opposition
- Samsom responds on tweet Wilders
- CDA wins in poll
- Dutch farmers very angry
Check out NL Times for the rest of the news and stories this week.