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Like every year, UNESCO, the UN's cultural subdivision, has again selected this year from the numerous applications for World Heritage status. Seventeen places last week received the coveted status, including the Palestinian city of Hebron, to the great horror of the Israelis who believe that the city is more in Jewish history than in Islamic. Election often means that the place can expect a lot of tourists, even though some places are unsuitable for this, for example, nature reserve.

US President Trump discussed the possibility at the G-20 summit in Hamburg with President Putin to jointly set up a cyber unit to prevent the hacking and influencing of elections.

The investigation into the shooting party Friday afternoon in Breukelen is still underway. A thirty-year-old Amsterdammer died in the hospital on Friday night after being taken to a parking lot by a still unknown perpetrator.

A witness for the parliamentary interrogation committee on tax structures may have lied to it.

The Amsterdam police are massively on the Amsterdam Dijkgraafplein on Friday night because of the control of various catering business. The Royal Marechausee is also present.

A couple of people walking on the railroad saw it on Friday at the end of the afternoon that the train traffic around Amsterdam Centraal walked in the hundred.

Because of a stalker, Neelie Kroes has left her house in Wassenaar for a secure apartment in Amsterdam. That's what the former euro-commissioner says in a women's specialist of HP / De Tijd on Friday.

Sixty red flamingos have been found by the customs in Schiphol in coffins. They were traveling from Cuba to China. One of the birds had died and three were in a bad state. The flamingos are seized and are taken care of, according to a spokeswoman from the Dutch Food and Welfare Authority.

Willem Holleeder is afraid he has already been convicted before the court heard his defense. That he said this morning at a brief, twelfth preparatory session in his case in the Amsterdam court.

The unions and their jobs must quickly decide on the reform of the pension system. If they do not, then the peasants are threatened to stand empty when a new cabinet comes to work with the future of the system.

'Unsurprised and inappropriate.' That is what attorney Sander Janssen finds of the statements made by the Amsterdam court in late June about his client, Willem Holleeder.

The Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam has developed an electronic 'nose' that can smell or what kind of lung disease someone has. The SpiroNose detects the substances in the exhaled air.

In 19 offices, Fit For Free has camera surveillance in changing rooms. The fitness chain explains that the cameras never focus on shower cubicles, but at one location it appears to have been the case. In the meantime, the cameras would have been taken away.

Amsterdammers may have found a way to bypass strict rules against Airbnb rentals. They call their house a room now. There are no restrictions for that.

A Chinese vlogster is ugly mistaken for the live eating of a plant. She wanted to show how healthy it is not to eat this as a meal when designing an Aloe Vera. Unfortunately for Mrs Zhang she had chosen a non-Aloe Vera, but a whole other poisonous plant, from which she became dying.

Do not be afraid, even though we know almost everything about you. That is the message of Todd Yellin, Vice President of Netflix Streaming. 'We know what you looked at, what time, what device, how long you watched when you were swaying, what you watched and what after, what you watched yesterday and what a year ago and how fast your internet connection is.' Yellin Brought a lightning visit to Amsterdam, where Netflix's headquarters are for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Dutch music platform 22tracks stops. 'We often stood for difficult decisions and left six months ago for a slim version of our platform. Now it seems that the time has come to go ahead with new projects, 'says 22tracks in a statement on Facebook.

Margaret (95) and Bernard (93) have known each other since they are teenagers. But recently, the two proud Britons discovered that their feelings went further than friendship and decided to go on their wedding day on their old day. 'It's never too late for love.'

An American couple who have recently engaged, can hardly enjoy the moment. Reason: A man appears pontifically in the picture immediately after the application. Because its appearance is hard to ignore, the couple that disappears from the unknown guest wants to disappear.

A painting by German expressionist Max Beckmann (1884-1950) converted 40 million euros to an auction in London. The proceeds were a record at an auction for a work by a German expressionist.

Realistic or not: research shows that 39% of Dutch high school students see a professional career as a vlogger for themselves. Over seventy percent already has YouTube videos and just over half places home-made videos on their own YouTube channel. Levy Jansen (15) from Bergen has the taste: he has collected 42,000 followers in less than two years. His subject? 'What boys do not get to girls and what girls need to know about boys.'

Angry teachers, parents and other sympathizers gathered at the Malieveld in The Hague on Tuesday afternoon. About two thousand people with purple and green hats from the trade union CNV and the General Education Union (AOB) protest against the excessive workload in primary education, too low salaries and rising teacher shortages.

The police arrested a 44-year-old Amsterdammer this morning for the disappearance of Sabrina Oosterbeek. In-house housing has been conducted extensively. Sabrina is still missing and the police suspect her happened to something serious.

Last weekend, the Amsterdam ArenA filled with thousands of game fans for the ESL Benelux Championship finals.

More and more elderly people use social media to see what their offspring are doing and to chat, post, liken and share. Of the 65-plus, 39 percent last year used social media like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, 26 percent in 2014. This is evidenced by CBS figures. The difference in use with young people is getting smaller.

Seven percent of adult Americans believe that chocolate cows are from brown cows. That has been converted to more than 17 million people.

People who offer for sale on Marketplace can receive their money from iDEAL today. The site works with a company that allows iDEAL payments between individuals.

Facebook and Twitter celebrate the twentieth anniversary of wizard Harry Potter on Monday. It's June 26th exactly two decades ago that the first book, The Philosopher's Stone, appeared.

The former Netherlands Antilles must continue to be under financial supervision in the future. That says Age Bakker, who says goodbye after six years as chairman of the temporary colleges financial supervision.

The Netherlands threatens to miss 17,000 jobs and one billion euros with additional tax revenue due to strict rules on bonuses in the financial sector. Employers' organization VNO-NCW is talking about what is termed 'symbol legislation', now that the House of Representatives will shortly decide on any adaptation.