Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 01:40
Week in review: October 12-18
The round-up of some of this week’s most noteworthy events and news stories features: the string of incidents at the end of the Netherlands-Russia year-of-friendship, a missing Amersfoort Labour councilor, the impact of heavy rainfall with millions in damages in its wake and Greenpeace' tireless effort to free their crew from a Murmansk prison.
Netherlands-Russia: US weighs in on Dutch/Russia dispute: The United States urged the Russian authorities to thoroughly investigate the recent attack on the Netherlands diplomat in Moscow. On Oct. 16, Read the full story
Also read:
Emma White
Geograph.org.uk
- Burglary Russian property The Hague
- Moscow not done with Borodin incident
- Surveillance cameras diplomat off
- Dutch diplomat abused
- Damage wife Borodin covered
![[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"26203","attributes":{"class":"media-image size-medium wp-image-7511","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"300","height":"225","alt":"flooded road"}}]]](http://www.nltimes.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/flooded-road.jpg){kind=link}
Emma White
Geograph.org.uk
- Part embankment Utrecht collapsed
- Scale water damage still uncertain
- Heavy rains causes problems
- Another week of high water levels Goeree
- Flooding: it looks like 1998
- New wind farm to generate electricity for 150,000 households
- Arriva wants to ride Fyra route
- América Móvil retracts KPN bid
- Another 23 name 'exam fraudsters' known
- Commotion over beheading on Facebook
- Arrests after mega fuel theft
- 12-year-old girl threatened school
- Suspects Instagram death threats
- Delayed trial Badr Hari
- Zeeland Police still looking for suspect Instagram death threat
- Dutch universities hold 3rd in Times rankings
- Sint arrival Utrecht moved
- Support for opposition Sint entrance
- Pension funds improve considerably
- The Hague police racist
- Village campaigning for Greenpeace activist
- Terror threat: flights canceled
- Judge: child to return to Surinam
- Search PvdA councilor expanded
- Explanation IGZ care end-of-life
- Netherlands to better address racism
- Call Mayor to councilor
- Traffic-jams drive Voorne-Putten crazy
- Labour councilor Amersfoort missing
- NS skips stations when delayed
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"26204","attributes":{"class":"media-image size-medium wp-image-7438","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"215","height":"300","alt":"election_poster_PvdA"}}]] election_poster_PvdA
Partij van de Arbeid
Wikimedia commons
![[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"26204","attributes":{"class":"media-image size-medium wp-image-7438","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"215","height":"300","alt":"election_poster_PvdA"}}]]](http://www.nltimes.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/election_poster_PvdA.jpg){kind=link}
- Easy first day financial discussions House
- Timmermans: King can visit Russia
- Brussels congratulates Netherlands on agreement
- Unions accept changes social agreement
- Agreement opposition and government
- Dutch leads disarmament Syria
- Ziggo rejects takeover offer
- Users internet more choosy
- Dutch companies violate EU Data retention law
- Eindhoven wins solar challenge