Dutch media services
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On 20 April 2010 a disastrous oil spill starts off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. The oil spill that was named the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered the largest marine oil spill in… Read More
The Nigerian youngster that tried to blow up a Flight 253 with explosives in his underwear while landing in Detroit, took the plane from the Amsterdam airport Schiphol. The Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs gives a press conference to bring across what they know about… Read More
A drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure may help people erase bad memories and even treat phobias, a team of Dutch scientists say. Lead researcher Dr Merel Kindt, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, says the generic drug propranolol, a beta-blocker, significantly… Read More
The Smith and Jones clinic in Amsterdam treats gaming addicts from all over the world. The gaming addicts get the therapy partly together with drug addicts. The director of the clinic fears that gaming addiction will become the largest addiction in the world. The program… Read More
After the Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands the news program from the American ABC needs up to date information, reports, data and advice, and a life interview on the phone. The crash resulted in the deaths… Read More
ABC reporter Chris Cuomo and two colleagues on the island Aruba reconstruct the last hours of Natallee Holloway, the American girl that disappeared on Aruba in 2005, using the secretly taped admissions from the main Dutch suspect Joran van der S. in a Dutch crime… Read More
In 2003 Dutch Iraqi Wesam Delaema visits his mother country Iraq after the US and UK invasion. He marries his wife in Bagdad and wants to finally see his family again. To show his friends in The Netherlands the other side of Iraq, he decides… Read More
The Dutch public TV station BNN says it will go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Dutch political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN… Read More
A Dutch city in the North of The Netherlands introduced surveillance camera’s equipped with microphones that detect aggression and violence. The camera’s start working when they “hear” people becoming aggressive. The software only detects a change in tone in the human voice, so a fear… Read More
Research shows that the Dutch took over the position of the ‘tallest people in the world’ from the Americans. At the same time the second runners up, the Scandinavian countries, stay behind now. For the program Nightline ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto travels to the… Read More
That lesson, about the Netherlands’ nude beaches, is followed by another: homosexuals have the same rights here as heterosexuals do, including the chance to marry. Just to make sure everyone gets the message, two men are shown kissing in a meadow. The scenes are brief… Read More
Around a year ago Natalee Holloway, an American 18 year old girl, disappeared on a school trip on the Dutch Antilles island Aruba. A Dutch boy is a suspect in the case and decides to visit The States to proof his innocence. The news program… Read More