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6 days, 22 hours ago

Cities built on Poles: success stories of Poland in NL

When the city of Breda celebrated the 80th anniversary of its liberation from the Nazis this year, it had a debt of gratitude that might surprise some people – to Poland. “It’s really amazing for us that the Dutch people remember the Polish soldiers, that every year they pay tribute to them in the cities and villages which were liberated …

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2 weeks ago

Stylist convicted of sexually abusing model during café shoot in Breda

NL Times

A stylist was sentenced to two days in prison for sexually assaulting a model during a photoshoot in a café in Breda. The incident, which occurred nearly eight years ago, was described in court as the stylist acting on his "sexual urges," according to the Breda District Court’s ruling. The model, who was excited for her first paid assignment, said …

Court Model Stylist Shoot Breda

2 weeks ago

Police again preparing for possibility of violent incidents during New Year's Eve

NL Times

The police are again making preparations in the last week of the year for a number of serious incidents expected to happen at the turn of the New Year. Officers have not developed any tips or intelligence to indicate something will definitely happen in a specific location, emphasized Corry van Breda, who runs national violence approaches at the police. Nearly …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

NS expands train schedule with major changes for 2024

NL Times

Dutch rail operator NS has implemented its new timetable on Sunday, introducing significant increases in train frequency and expanded operating hours. From Monday through Thursday, six intercity trains per hour will run all day between Rotterdam and Schiphol and Schiphol and Arnhem. Additionally, intercity trains will run every 15 minutes on Friday and Saturday evenings between Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, and …

Amsterdam Trains Train Rotterdam Schiphol Breda Intercity Trains

1 month ago

Teen girl stabbed multiple times in Breda, police arrest one suspect

NL Times

A 16-year-old girl was injured Monday morning in a stabbing incident on Heksenwiellaan in Breda. According to police, the girl was stabbed multiple times by a man passing by on the street. In a statement posted on X, Police Breda wrote: "The minor was stabbed multiple times near Heksenwiellaan. "We are not sharing any details about the weapon at this …

Girl Breda Heksenwiellaan

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Belgian girl arrested for Breda school shooting threats

Dutch News

A girl from Belgium has been arrested in connection with threats about school shootings in Breda, Dutch police have confirmed. The arrest follows social media messages at the weekend which said there would be shootings at several schools in Breda, some 25 kilometres from the Belgian border. The messages, according to local broadcaster Omroep Brabant included a photograph of a …

School Breda Belgian Girl

Belgian teen arrested for threatening school shootings in Breda

NL Times

A Belgian minor was arrested early Monday morning for allegedly threatening school shootings in Breda, Netherlands. The threats, which emerged Sunday afternoon, specifically mentioned three Breda schools: Onze Lieve Vrouwelyceum, Newman College, and Mencia de Mendoza Lyceum. A source close to the investigation described the situation to De Telegraaf as “the tip of the iceberg.” In addition to Breda, similar …

Threats School Shootings Breda

4 months ago

ITI shares surge over 8% on ₹300-crore solar street light systems order in Bihar

Live Mint

Shares of ITI Limited jumped over 8 percent in intra-day trading on Tuesday, September 10, following the company's announcement that it had secured a significant order worth ₹300 crore for the supply and installation of solar streetlight systems in Bihar. ITI Limited, a leading telecom manufacturing company and the country’s first PSU post-independence, confirmed that BREDA had awarded it the …

Bihar Light Order Solar Street Systems Breda

6 months ago

Man pretends to be a patient and steals dentist's Rolex, suspect on the run

NL Times

A curious robbery occurred in a dentist's practice in Breda on Tuesday morning, July 2, costing a dentist his expensive Rolex watch. The perpetrator, who pretended to be a patient, threatened the dentist with a hammer and demanded his Rolex watch. Met een waardevolle zilveren Rolex type Dytona als buit ging de dader er vandoor. https://t.co/hO48JCWEzl — Politie Breda eo …

Dentist Rolex Valuable Silver

8 months ago

Number plate mix-up: Rotterdam man getting Breda driver’s parking fines since 2022

NL Times

A man from Rotterdam has been wrongly receiving parking tickets from Breda for two years. “I have a B, and he or she has a D.” Abdullah asked a friend in Breda to go to the street where all the parking fines come from and see if he could find the car. The issue turned out to be a screw …

Car Scan Rotterdam Breda Rijnmond

8 months ago

Jyoti to lead Indian junior women’s hockey team for Europe tour

The Hindu

Defender Jyoti Singh was on Monday named the captain of the Indian Junior Women’s team by Hockey India, with midfielder Sakshi Rana as her deputy in a 22-member squad which will tour Europe from May 21 to 29. India will play six matches across three nations against Belgium, Germany and two club teams in the Netherlands -- Bredase Hockey Vereniging …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Rohit to lead Indian junior men’s hockey team for Europe tour

The Hindu

Defender Rohit has been named captain of the Indian junior men’s hockey team, with Shardanand Tiwari as his deputy in a 20-member squad which will tour Europe from May 20-29. India will play five matches across three nations -- Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands -- during the tour, as part of Hockey India’s initiative to help the team gain exposure …

India Netherlands Germany Team Play Rohit Singh

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Guatemalan drug lord gets 808 years in prison for 2008 bloodbath; 1 Dutch person killed

NL Times

A court in Guatemala sentenced drug lord Rigoberto Danilo Morales to 808 years in prison on Monday for participating in the massacre of 15 Nicaraguans and one Dutchman in 2008, a judicial source said. The court sentenced Morales to 50 years for each murder and an additional eight years for criminal cooperation. According to prosecutors, drug traffickers intercepted a bus …

Dutch Prison Guatemala Morales Nicaragua Drug Traffickers

1 year ago

Shops in 2 Dutch cities start selling legally grown cannabis in an experiment to regulate pot trade

The Independent

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Dutch Netherlands Cannabis Weed Shops Experiment Bergman

1 year, 1 month ago

El Salvador's Miss Universe pageant drawing attention at crucial moment for president

The Independent

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Social Media Rights Pageant Country Miss Universe Universe Salvador

1 year, 2 months ago

Patna High Court Upholds Bihar Govt's Solar Light Scheme Implementation For Rural Electrification, Says State Checked Corruption

Live Law

In a recent legal ruling, Patna High Court while upholding the Bihar government's Solar Light Scheme aimed at rural electrification and ensuring well-lit village streets at night, emphasized the scheme's core objective of enhancing security and convenience for rural communities while promoting development across various sectors. Justice Harish Kumar observed, “The object of the Solar Light Scheme to ensure rural …

Social Justice Rural Light Power Rural Electrification Gram Panchayat State

1 year, 5 months ago

Honduras wants to build West’s only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside

Associated Press

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador’s unforgiving approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion. “A new prison is quite useless if you don’t first regain control of the others you already have,” said Tiziano Breda, a Latin …

Prison Latin America Gang Mexico Island Castro El Salvador

1 year, 5 months ago

Honduras to build island colony to imprison gang members

Al Jazeera

Officials hope the isolated facility will cut gang members off from criminal networks on the mainland. “A new prison is quite useless if you don’t first regain control of the others you already have,” said Tiziano Breda, a Latin America expert at Italy’s Istituto Affari Internazionali. “It’s the farthest away they can possibly be, so these gang leaders feel the …

Prison Latin America Island Gang Members Castro El Salvador Honduras

1 year, 8 months ago

Protest in Breda: Group campaigns for legalization of electric scooters

NL Times

According to the organization LegaalRijden, electric scooters, electric skateboards, Onewheels, and other light electric vehicles should be legalized. https://twitter.com/legaalrijden/status/1654042891927289859 "Let's say you have to take the train between Rotterdam and Amsterdam to work," a spokesperson explained. LegaalRijden finds it "unfair" that LEVs are largely banned on public roads in the Netherlands, while they are legal in other countries. France, for …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Amsterdam says avoid Jordaan on King’s Day, Breda warns of crowds; NS has payment problems

NL Times

The Amsterdam city center neighborhood of the Jordaan became so busy on Thursday that the municipality issued an appeal to tourists to celebrate King's Day elsewhere. Later, the municipality also asked people to also stop traveling to the larger city center area due to the crowds. "Celebrate King's Day somewhere else," the city said. The municipality of Breda also asked …

Jordaan Breda

1 year, 9 months ago

Suspects in hate speech laser projections face community service for Breda attack

NL Times

The Public Prosecution Service demanded community service against three men suspected of racism in Breda in 2021. According to the OM, on 17 October 2021, one of the three suspects punched a black man in the face after all three called him and his wife “kankernegers” - which translates to “cancer” and a racial slur. Other stickers the men had …

Community Service Court Man Stickers

1 year, 10 months ago

Tilburg, Breda to start selling regulated cannabis this fall as "start-up" to experiment

NL Times

Coffeeshops in Tilburg and Breda could start selling regulated cannabis this autumn, Minister Ernst Kuipers announced in parliament. The Cabinet decided to go with a “start-up phase” to get the regulated cannabis experiment going, NOS reports. The start-up phase in Tilburg and Breda should last six months, after which the government hopes to expand it to the other eight municipalities …

Cannabis Start Experiment Breda Kuipers Tilburg Regulated Cannabis

2 years, 4 months ago

2 injured in Breda city center stabbings; Victim had unfinished prison sentence

NL Times

Breda's city center saw two stabbing incidents on early Sunday morning. Authorities have arrested two suspects and discovered that one of the victims has nearly a year left of a prison sentence to serve, according to a police statement. However, after investigating, the police also found that the victim had not finished serving a prison sentence. After he is discharged …

Victim Breda Prison Sentence

2 years, 6 months ago

South American coati spotted in Breda tree evades capture

NL Times

Residents of Wolfslaardreef made a remarkable discovery on Tuesday evening. The Animal Ambulance identified it as a red coati, native to South America and not at all to the Netherlands. The Animal Ambulance couldn't mean much for the animal on Tuesday evening, so they returned on Wednesday morning. Therefore, the Animal Ambulance decided to leave a cage with bananas near …

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Cities built on Poles: success stories of Poland in NL

Stylist convicted of sexually abusing model during café shoot in Breda

Police again preparing for possibility of violent incidents during New Year's Eve

NS expands train schedule with major changes for 2024

Teen girl stabbed multiple times in Breda, police arrest one suspect

Belgian girl arrested for Breda school shooting threats

Belgian teen arrested for threatening school shootings in Breda

ITI shares surge over 8% on ₹300-crore solar street light systems order in Bihar

Man pretends to be a patient and steals dentist's Rolex, suspect on the run

Number plate mix-up: Rotterdam man getting Breda driver’s parking fines since 2022

Jyoti to lead Indian junior women’s hockey team for Europe tour

Rohit to lead Indian junior men’s hockey team for Europe tour

Guatemalan drug lord gets 808 years in prison for 2008 bloodbath; 1 Dutch person killed

Shops in 2 Dutch cities start selling legally grown cannabis in an experiment to regulate pot trade

El Salvador's Miss Universe pageant drawing attention at crucial moment for president

Patna High Court Upholds Bihar Govt's Solar Light Scheme Implementation For Rural Electrification, Says State Checked Corruption

Honduras wants to build West’s only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside

Honduras to build island colony to imprison gang members

Protest in Breda: Group campaigns for legalization of electric scooters

Amsterdam says avoid Jordaan on King’s Day, Breda warns of crowds; NS has payment problems

Suspects in hate speech laser projections face community service for Breda attack

Tilburg, Breda to start selling regulated cannabis this fall as "start-up" to experiment

2 injured in Breda city center stabbings; Victim had unfinished prison sentence

South American coati spotted in Breda tree evades capture