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This week's violent confrontations in Rotterdam, in which encircled local police had to fire warning shots during Liberation Day riots in Europe's largest harbour city, 'were probably planned', its mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said at a press conference.
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A gunman described as 'Hindustani' emptied his pistol at hundreds of patrons at a crowded Dutch cafe early Saturday during a talent contest. One man was killed at once, three were injured: one man in a wheelchair was hit in a leg. Why is still a mystery.
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MRI scans for candidates in top jobs such as bank directors could soon become part of the job-application package, says Erasmus University researcher Prof Willem Verbeke of Rotterdam, He's confident brain scans will replace job interviews within 5 years.
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Rampaging Moroccan youths fighting a turf war with police in the Dutch town of Gorinchem near Rotterdam attacked a policeman. torched rubbish bins, stoned passersby, and interfered with police trying to arrest troublemakers.
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The Dutch health ministry has confiscated enriched uranium pieces found in two locked sea-containers from St Petersburg in Russia by a scrap-metal dealer in Dordrecht, near Rotterdam. The International Atomic Energy Commission is probing the origins.
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Police in Holland's main harbour city Rotterdam are providing local businesses with DNA tagging equipment to combat the growing number of armed robberies.
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Two weeks ago, famous televangelist Benny Hinn performed in the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. This week, Friday August 31st and Saturday September 1st, he is performing for thousands of people in the Ahoy centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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World number three Roger Federer sweeps aside Juan Martin del Potro in an hour and a half to win the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.
 The International Baseball Federation says it hopes to finalize a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Softball Federation at a meeting in Rotterdam on March 17 and then submit it to the International Olympic Committee.
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This event list was compiled by Michel F. Paré, entertainment editor of Outexpressions Newspaper, for culture queers...
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A Rotterdam-based group has introduced the Hybrid Tuk Tuk Battle. The challenge? Create a system to make one million...
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New York - Say what you will about Geert Wilders – and his critics, not least the Islamic clerics who issue...
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