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Footage has emerged of Thursday night’s violence in Amsterdam which shows a group of Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters close to the city’s main railway station pulling iron pipes from scaffolding to use as weapons. Amsterdam-based photographer Annet de Graaf was outside Centraal Station when a group of 150 to 200 Maccabi supporters arrived, and said she could sense the negative …

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Dart players Anca Zijlstra and Aileen de Graaf have pulled out of the Dutch women’s darts team, saying they no longer want to be a part of it with trans woman Noa-Lynn van Leuven. Van Leuven made history last week by winning her first big event during the Challenge Tour in Germany, and this weekend winning her first title in …

NOS withdraw correspondent Iris de Graaf from Russia over safety concerns

Public broadcaster NOS has withdrawn its Moscow correspondent Iris de Graaf from Russia because of concerns about her personal safety. De Graaf, 32, has worked in Russia since 2020, but in recent months interference by Russia’s security services had made her work increasingly difficult, NOS head of news Giselle van Cann said. The conviction of two Russian military officers and …

A climate activist invited to television talk show Jinek to talk about the new wave of protests, climbed on the table on Tuesday night and attempted to glue himself to the surface. During a discussion about the Van Gogh soup incident and others in which works of art were targeted by Stop Oil Now campaigners, Jelle de Graaf climbed on …

Some Almere residents say the failure of the city's Floriade Expo will be coming out of their own pockets, after the expo overshot its budget and failed to attract the estimated amount of visitors. The 34 million extra euros the expo will need to stay open until October does not surprise Almere resident Anouk de Graaf, she told Omroep Flevoland. …

Two young Dutch skiers were killed in an avalanche at the French ski village of Saint-Colomban-des-Villards on Monday. According to French media, the avalanche dragged the two Dutchmen almost 250 meters. People who ski off the guarded slopes with no experience or preparation are playing with their lives, Arjen de Graaf of the Dutch Ski Association said to AD. He …

Pediatrician Nico van der Lely, initiator of the first alcohol outpatient clinic in the Netherlands at the Reinier de Graaf hospital in Delft, warned against "partying extra hard with a lot of alcohol" in the coming period, especially for minors. During the first lockdown last year, the number of children admitted to hospital with alcohol poisoning fell "drastically", but that …

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Measures in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus should not hinder or impede voters in casting their vote during the upcoming parliamentary election, a majority in parliament said in response to a legislative proposal submitted by Minister Kajsa Ollongren of Home Affairs, AD reports. ChristenUnie parliamentarian Stieneke van der Graaf therefore proposed that the line banning voters entry …

The government is not being transparent enough about the costs of the coronavirus crisis, and what the billions of euros in support packages now will mean for the next generation, the Council of State said about the 2021 Budget. "Nobody is talking about what it all costs," Council of State president Thom de Graaf said to NOS. "At the moment, …