netherlands incidents

So, we are at the height of summer in Europe, which of course, also means summer storms. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have seen some particularly severe flooding as a result. GUARDIAN Of course, the third world has always suffered from natural disasters but now that it hits Europe...

After all the brouhaha in Washington, I was amused to see a little item in the news about how they do it in The Netherlands. It seems that in a massive bureaucratic messup, they wrongly assessed penalties on about ten thousand poor and immigrant families for welfare fraud which turned out to be...

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/teens/noa-pothoven-of-arnhem-in-the-netherlands-is-legally-euthanised/news-story/10b49ca69733eaa11b66e1b1b8e215a1 Noa Pothoven, 17, has been legally euthanised in the Netherlands, saying the pain she was dealing with after a childhood rape was...

There was a shooting in Utrecht train, multiple injuries, not 20 minutes ago. https://www.dailysabah.com/europe/2019/03/18/injuries-reported-in-tram-shooting-in-utrecht-dutch-police-say https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/several-injured-after-shooting-on-tram-in-utrecht-a4094321.html More...

This could be interesting. He must be innocent if we start a thread here. :D http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11612145 The coach of a top tennis player has been arrested on suspicion of murder in a story that is sending shockwaves through the sport. Mark de...

Is the potential destination for all of us? A version of The_Truman_Show? Do people with dementia need to know the "Truth"? I have had the experience of telling one relative in a nursing home that another close relative had died and the nursing home staff were horrified that I considered...

An investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and published this weekend claims that up to eleven boys were castrated while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic church in the 1950s, supposedly to rid them of homosexuality Also reported is that one young man was castrated in 1956 after...

There have been quite a lot of exploding backwindows in cars on the Dutch roads recently. The media started to report that a "highway shooter" is active, who targets cars. it became an almost daily news item for a while. So we have: -exploding back windows on certain roads. -no people hit. -no...

Link 10 cops? That's one dangerous cartoonist!