Tag: Netherlands

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  The Netherlands: scores wounded, arrested amid rioting against anticovid harsh measures

  

  Scores of protesters were wounded or arrested by police Friday in Rotterdam as people took to the streets in response to the Government's intentions to impose harsh, restrictive measures to curb the number of COVID-19 cases.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Rotterdam seizes four tons of cocaine shipped from Paraguay via Uruguay

  

  Netherlands Customs officers have seized what is considered the largest haul this year, over four tons of cocaine at the port of Rotterdam with an estimated value of US$ 362 million. The drug was found in soy bags that were destined for Portugal and are of Paraguayan origin using Uruguay as the port of transit.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 11:07 UTC

  Dutch submariners receive an unexpected visitor on board Walrus class unit

  

  It was a conundrum faced by Dutch submariners when a flippered mammal they named 'Freya' climbed on top of one of their – aptly named – Walrus-class submarines.

• Thursday, October 21st 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  Morocco halts flights to / from UK, Netherlands over increasing number of COVID-19 cases

  

  The Government of Morocco has banned flights to the United Kingdom or returning from their effective Thursday over concerns about an increasing number of COVID-19 infections.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 07:18 UTC

  Netherlands company produces cultivated seaweed from seawater

  

  Zeewar is the first company in the Netherlands that produces and exclusively works with sustainably cultivated seaweed from clean seawater in the EU. The result is a premium seaweed product, in terms of taste, nutritional values, color, and a tender bite.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  Highly contagious strain of bird flu forces Netherlands to cull tens of thousands of chickens

  

  Dutch authorities have culled some 190,000 chickens after a highly contagious strain of bird flu broke out in at least two poultry farms, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Whale Tail saves a Dutch metro train from disaster

  

  A Dutch metro train was saved from disaster on Monday when it smashed through a safety barrier but was prevented from plummeting into the water by a sculpture of a whale tail.

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Holland reports first infection with West Nile virus originated in the Netherlands

  

  Dutch health authorities said on Thursday they had found the first infection with the West Nile virus to have originated from the Netherlands last week. The patient is a man who had not been abroad recently, the National Institute for Public Health said.

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Covid-19: Overloaded hospitals in Netherlands to transfer patients to Germany

  

  Hospitals in the Netherlands on Thursday said they would ask their German counterparts to take patients after the number of those hospitalized with the coronavirus doubled in the past week, to 1,526.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Dutch PM Rutte did not visit his mother until hours before his mother's death, because of lockdown in the Netherlands

  

  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte did not visit his 96-year-old mother for more than eight weeks until hours before her death this month due to lockdown measures in the Netherlands, his office said on Tuesday.