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New cabinet to spend millions on new roads
"The paper says the draft coalition agreement includes a commitment to increase the current road budget from €3bn a year to €3.5bn in an effort to cut traffic congestion." -
Healthcare workers will have to work longer for the same pension
"Healthcare workers will have to work an extra four months to be able to retire on the same pension." -
Lung cancer by far biggest killer
"Lung cancer was by far the the biggest killer, accounting for 10,000 deaths - around two-thirds of which were men." -
Gay couples driven out of their homes go to court
Gay couples have been targeted by the public. They took the issue to court hoping for support. -
Dutchman robbed of millions
A man carrying millions in a breifcase was attacked, stabbed and robbed. He was sent to the hospital and is now in recovery. -
Holland has 400,000 'ghosts'
"The Netherlands has around 400,000 people who live below the radar and cannot be traced by the authorities or companies, according to research by RTL Nieuws." -
Mladic arrives in the Netherlands to face war crimes charges
"Former Bosnian general Ratko Mladic arrived at Scheveningen prison on Tuesday night, after being deported from Bosnia to face war crimes charges at the Yugoslavia tribunal in The Hague.
Mladic, wanted in connection with the massacre of some 7,000 men and boys from the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, arrived in Rotterdam by plane at around 20.00." -
Cabinet agrees to slash spending on personal healthcare budgets
"Health insurers are now able to decide what extra care a client needs instead of the government. From 2014, only people classified as needing residential care will be eligible for a personal care budget, which is used to help them live independently."
