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Netherlands seeks continued F-16 training
The Netherlands is seeking to continue training its F-16 pilots in the United States through a $191 million Foreign Military Sales arrangement. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in a required notification to Congress, said the package deal sought covers the Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 Formal Training Unit in Arizona, associated equipment, parts, training and logistical ...
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Dutch Film The Marathon a Hit in Cuba
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The combination of comedy and tragedy makes the Dutch film "El Maraton" (The Marathon) a hit with moviegoers in Cuba, a country where people often laugh at their problems. "Maybe that was the key, in the perfect combination of tears and laughter, because the joke on its own doesn't work," the film's actor and screenwriter, Martin van ...
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Letter from the Netherlands bright bulbs
gardens for the past 35 years, had never visited them.It seemed that every time I mentioned this beautifully landscaped garden to the Dutch, they would smile uncomfortably as if to say, "Oh, that place full of tourist buses where you have to pay to see tulips. No thanks." No matter how hard I tried to convince them of the wonder and unique beauty of viewing seven million bulbs in ...
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Claus Gramlich-Eicher Named Chief Financial Officer of Atradius and Dominique Charpentier Named Chief Insurance ...
AMSTERDAM, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Claus Gramlich-Eicher of Allianz Investment Management SE has been named CFO and Dominique Charpentier CIOO of Atradius N.V. David Capdevila has left the Atradius Management Board to take a Management Board position with Grupo Catalana Occidente (GCO), the parent company of Atradius. Atradius provides its B2B customers with various products and services ...
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uniQure and Consortium to Receive EUR 2.5 Million Eurostars Grant to Develop RNAi Gene Therapy for Huntingtons Disease
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- uniQure B.V., a leader in the field of human gene therapy, today announced that with its consortium partners it is to receive a EUR 2.5 million Eurostars grant to develop an RNA interference (RNAi) gene therapy for Huntington's disease. The consortium is a pan-European collaboration consisting of uniQure as the coordinator, Lausanne ...
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Dutch author Bakker wins Booktrust foreign fiction prize
LONDON (Reuters) - Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker has won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize awarded by Britain's Booktrust charity for "The Detour", a tale of infidelity, exile and ...
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Mkts will make new highs this year Andrew Holland
Bullion traders say the refining of these impure gold bars will be a new line of business in India and jewellers may also look at setting up refineries to ensure a steady supply of the ...
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Swimming sites in Cyprus ranked cleanest in Europe
European Union 's best in the latest EU bathing report published on Tuesday. In contrast, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands had the highest percentages of bathing sites that failed to meet EU standards in 2012, in part because torrential rains washed sewage into them. The trend overall was positive as 94 percent of beaches, lakes and rivers ...
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Update-MoodysDutch RMBS 60+ day delinquencies continued to increase in March 2013
Tue May 21, 2013 5:18am EDT Dutch RMBS For the full text of this story please click the following ...
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Quintiq to Host Executive Meeting for Metals Industry
L'Albereta Relais & Chateaux in Franciacorta, Erbusco (Brescia) on May 30, 2013. The Quintiq Metals Executives Meeting will explore metal SCP&O best practices and present attendees with the opportunity to hear from representatives of two leading European metals ...
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Laura Dekker victim of ageism in Netherlands?
Laura Dekker’s future plans to sail around the world solo hang in the balance as her emotional and mental stability is argued over by two national child care agencies that are in disagreement about her state of mind.
Laura Dekker, 14, has been trying since August last year to sail around the world on her own and in so doing become the youngest person to accomplish the feat. When she first announced her plans, the courts quickly intervened and according to Netherlands news reports, she was placed under the custody of the Child Protection Board in order to be assessed. Read more
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