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Made Popular Oct 31 2009
Posted Under Politics & Society

A Dutch court has stopped a 14-year-old girl from sailing around the world on her own for at least eight months.

Laura Dekker seeks to be the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

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Anne, Amsterdam
Even the law of the land has never been able to stop Rebecca Gomperts. The Dutch doctor has been a fervent pro-choice campaigner for more than 10 years, and in order...
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Tim, Amsterdam
Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor has taken the stand for the first time at his war crimes trial in The Hague, dismissing the charges as “lies”. He...
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Sunit, kolkata
With almost a year left to the showpiece football event in South Africa, the Dutch national side has achieved a unique distinction of being the first side from the UEFA...
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John, Liverpool
A Dutch far-right party was the big winner as Britain and the Netherlands became the first countries to vote in EU-wide parliament elections, with first results...
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Sunit, kolkata
“If Ryan Giggs is worth 20 millions, Bergkamp is worth a hundred.” –Marco Van Basten “He’s(Dennis Bergkamp)the messiah. We told him to get us into...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Dutch Labor party, the second largest party in the coalition government led by the centrist CDA party, has called for an economic boycott against Israel if the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
That Iraqi man has really started a trend. After the Israeli ambassador to Sweden was attacked with shoes, now it was time for another Israeli representative. [A new...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders often likes to portray himself as some sort of free speech champion against Muslims who would like to use violence to silence him. I...
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Anil, Delhi
Wahid Saleh, an Assamese origin has made interesting comments on Indian democracy from Netherlands in the Assam Times. Assam is a north eastern state in India. It reels...
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Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Clandestine cannabis growers in the Netherlands net two billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) a year — worth almost half the country’s horticultural sector...
made popular Oct 20 2008
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Lance Armstrong didn’t disappoint the fans who traveled to this sleepy mining town from as far as the Netherlands to see him take on a speedy _ and potentially dangerous _ race around 1-mile downtown course in the Tour of the Gila.

 
 
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Dutch police say armed robbers have stolen two paintings from a museum, including a work by surrealist Salvador Dali.

 
 
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Dutch authorities say a military policeman has died of injuries he received when a driver smashed his car through police barricades in an attempted attack on the royal family.

 
 
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The man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed five people died of his injuries Friday, leaving unresolved the mystery of why he tried to attack the Dutch royal family.

 
 
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Prosecutors say the man who killed five people with his car during an attack on the Dutch royal house has died of his injuries.

 
 
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A speeding car raced toward an open bus carrying the Dutch royal family during a holiday parade Thursday and plowed into spectators, killing four people and injuring 13 others in an apparently deliberate act, authorities said.

 
 
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A speeding car raced toward an open bus carrying Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family during a holiday parade Thursday and plowed into spectators, killing four people and injuring 13 others, authorities said.

 
 
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Dutch authorities say four people were killed and 13 injured when a car careened, apparently deliberately, into a crowd watching Queen Beatrix and her family at a holiday parade.

 
 
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Dutch television says two people were killed when a speeding car drove into a crowd of onlookers watching Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family in a motorcade.

 
 
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Authorities in Lebanon have begun releasing four generals held for four years on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri after an international judge ordered them released.

 
 
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