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Podcast: The Fake Kremlins and Rotten Parliaments Edition
Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces? Click here to become a Patreon backer In the week that Hugo de Jonge revealed that the Binnenhof renovation will cost €2bn and last until 2028, we ask if there is any chance of a government being in place by then. The king thanks his Spanish counterpart for putting up Princess Amalia in Madrid after she was threatened by gangsters, while Prinsjesdag is set
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Cyprus Parliament honors Armenian Genocide victims
The Cyprus House of Representatives on Thursday evening observed a minute’s silence for the victims of the Armenian genocide, with the body pledging to “fight for a world where peace and justice prevail and where the atrocities of the past never happen again.” In remarks, acting House President Zacharias Koulias noted that April 24 marks the …
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'Death to Israel' in Turkish parliament during Erdogan speech
The speech of Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Parliament in Ankara on Wednesday, was cheered on from the audience with calls "Death to Israel." Erdogan claimed Israel had repeatedly attempted to topple the Turkish government in recent decades and told parliamentarians that he expects to host the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh on the weekend, calling him "leader of the Palestinian struggle." "While everyone else remained silent, we defined Hamas as a resistance movement,...