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One of the tubes allowing vehicles to travel on magnetic fields is seen at the new European test center for hyperloop transportation technology which opens in Veendam, northern Netherlands, Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
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Dutch Hyperloop Center Aims to Advance Futuristic Transport Technology
The tube will be a proving ground for developers of the evolving technology.
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Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what for a regular farmworker would be backbreaking work checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
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Support beams stabilize an historic farm in Hunzinge, northern Netherlands, on Jan. 19, 2018.
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Dutch Government End Gas Extraction After Damaging Quakes
A new report says the government put profits before people.
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February 24, 2023
The World Health Organization expressed concerns that rich countries spooked by the emergence of the omicron variant could step up hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines and strain global supplies again.
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WHO Warns Fears of Omicron Could Spark New Vaccine Hoarding
The U.N. health agency reiterated its advice to governments against the widespread use of boosters.
December 9, 2021
Russian opposition figure and former owner of the Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky smiles during a news conference after the Vilnius Russia Forum at the 'Esperanza' hotel in Paunguriai village, Trakai district west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, on Aug. 20, 2021. The Dutch Supreme Court is ruling Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 in a $50 billion legal battle between Russia and former shareholders of the country's bankrupted oil giant Yukos.
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Russia Gets Partial Win in $50B Case Over Bankrupt Oil Giant
Former shareholders of Yukos accused the Kremlin of taking down the company to silence its CEO.
November 5, 2021
Structural engineer Lou Ottens holds an audio cassette in a 1988 photo.
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Cassette Tape Inventor Dies at 94
The engineer's goal was simple: make tapes and their players far more portable and easier to use.
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Wind turbines are seen on a dike near Urk, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. A group of scientists, including five Nobel laureates, called Friday for more action to adapt the world to the effects of climate change, drawing comparisons with the faltering response to the coronavirus crisis, ahead of a major online conference on climate adaptation starting Monday and hosted by the Netherlands.
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The US is working to announce ambitious targets for cutting emissions.
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Boeing and a small number of other manufacturers around the U.S. geared up to resume production.
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Young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, right, unveils the Interceptor in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Slat is taking his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean to rivers, using the Interceptor, a new floating device to catch garbage before it reaches the seas.
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A floating solar-powered device called the "Interceptor" that scoops plastic out of rivers as it drifts past.
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October 16, 2019
In this Thursday, March 15, 2018 file photo, the logo for Unilever appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Consumer products giant Unilever, whose brands include Dove soaps and Lipton teas, said on Monday Oct. 7, 2019, they are pledging to halve its use of non-recycled plastics by 2025.
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In this file photo dated Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine load debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in Hrabove, Ukraine, with recovery operations carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Five years after a missile blew Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 out of the sky above eastern Ukraine, relatives and friends of those killed will gather Wednesday July 17, 2019, at a Dutch memorial to mark the anniversary.
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5th Anniversary of MH17 Downing
The names of all 298 passengers and crew killed on July 17, 2014 will be read out at a solemn ceremony.
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Ford of Europe Chairman Steven Armstrong is interviewed at a Ford event in Halfweg, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Ford's European boss said that if the United Kingdom can't work out a deal on how to leave the European Union while guaranteeing 'frictionless trade' then the company 'will have to consider seriously the long-term future of our investments in the country.'
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Ford May Reconsider UK Investments
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