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A 38-year-old Bulgarian was arrested by the Royal Marechaussee in Hoek van Holland on Tuesday evening for human smuggling.

In fact, in August he would have started a business management course in The Hague: the 17-year-old Charly T. from North Holland. But now he has been in a...

A gigantic iceberg, larger than North Holland and South Holland together, has become detached from the South Pole. The record was torn loose last year, but still hit against the remaining ice on the South Pole. The wind and sea currents have now driven the mass away. That happened at the beginning of this month.

A Dutch man of 75 years in Nepal sentenced to a prison sentence of eight years for sexual abuse of two underage boys. This is what the Public Prosecution Service (OM) reports on Thursday.

Again, travelers will suffer from strikes in regional transport. Bus drivers across the country have already finished the work in recent times. On Thursday they will do that in a large part of North Holland.

He worked at PostNL for almost 50 years. But just before he would be in service for half a century, Bertus Nossent had to retire against his will. Without a handshake or bunch of flowers or a festive last day. He received a sheet of stamps.

Shortly before the official opening of the Olympic Winter Games, the Holland Heineken House in South Korean Gangneung was opened this morning.

More than a hundred Dutch tourists are very shocked by the accident with their river cruise ship 'Swiss Crystal', which sailed against a bridge pier at Duisburg last night. 'The blow was enormous. Crash everywhere. Many ambulances pulled out. '

Flevoland has the least to offer from all provinces in the field of culture; North Holland has the richest offer. Furthermore, Brabant is the sports province and Utrecht has the most sporty sports offer. This is evidenced by the Free Trade Marking Research, developed by a brand consulting firm with the University of Amsterdam.

The Netherlands is getting on Wednesday morning with the first autumn storm of this year. The ranks for cyclists: hands on the steering wheel.

It's stormy weather, but Wednesday it's even harder. It rains in many places and in the west there is a strong strong wind with 75 km per hour winds.

Hurricane Irma sits in full speed on the island of Sint Maarten. On two webcams, the 'arrival' of Irma is live live.

The Royal Marechaussee will train ten additional migration dogs. These dogs are checking lorries and are used in the ports of Rotterdam, Hoek van Holland and IJmuiden and at the border crossings in the south and east.

Five times a week a half-hour 'moderately intensive' move: 63 percent of the Dutch get this move directive. Figures show that one region is more sporty than the other. For example, the percentage in Flevoland is 55.5 percent below average.

Asbestos has been found around the burned premises of Holland Casino in Groningen. The municipality announced that Tuesday. Several neighborhood residents who have stayed at a hotel since Sunday's fire have decided not to return home, because of this finding, a spokeswoman said.

In Groningen there was a major fire at Holland Casino on Sunday morning. The fire brigade has gone away with many units to the house of Gedempte Kattendiep. There is a lot of smoke.

Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh wanted to come to the Eritrea Holland Festival in Rijswijk the middle of last month, but quit his visit after the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs had asked for it.

The death threats at his address caused the wretched mayor Victor Molkenboer little fear. He does not say he is afraid to return to Holland after his holiday, but he will immediately report. 'These are unacceptable texts.'

Pete Hoekstra has been nominated to become the new ambassador of the United States in the Netherlands. The vacancy had been open for some time, as former Ambassador, Timothy M. Broas, began his own initiative at the beginning of last year.

The man shot this afternoon at the Van der Valk hotel in Akersloot is 47-year-old Hennie Schipper from Zandvoort. That reports sources of The Telegraph.

At excavations in the North Holland Heiloo a 3500 year old human femur was found. The bone comes from the bronze time and was taken intact from the peat.

It promises to be a sunny Ascension Day this Thursday. After the clouds disappear in the north and east of the country, all of the Netherlands can enjoy the beautiful weather. And in the coming days it will only get hotter.

Tom Holland has taken the lead in Uncharted, a film based on the same-name game series.

While more and more hands are needed on intensive care and district nursing, the number of nurses shrinks, reflecting new CBS figures. However, that scarcity also has a sunny side for some nurses.

A board member of the Delfland water board was arrested last Sunday in The Hague Forest because he had been abusing a woman in the forest soon.

The police were invaded at eleven locations in North Holland and Flevoland on Tuesday afternoon in an investigation into the sale of so-called crypto mobile phones. These are smartphones that encrypt the communication, which makes it more difficult for tracking services to watch or listen. Because of that, they are popular among criminals.

Just across the border in Germany the body of a murdered man from the Netherlands was found. He was stabbed. The Public Prosecutor's Office in Aachen was unable to say who he was on Monday and when he was murdered, he was about twenty years old.

At the French Consulate on the Vijzelgracht in Amsterdam Sunday is a long line of people who want to vote for the French presidential election. According to a consular officer, there are hundreds of voters.

Rijswijk (South Holland) on Thursday caught a lookalike for the theory test for taxi drivers. That the CBR (CBR) reported Friday. An employee of the CBR smelled danger in viewing the identification that the man showed up and called the police.

March ends when the ever measured second warmest March. The average monthly temperature in De Bilt is from 8.6 degrees to 6.2 normal, Weather Online reports. Record is 1991 by 8.8 degrees.