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Dutch Mourn 6 Shopping Mall Shooting Victims
By not in system - AOL NewsAMSTERDAM (AP) - Thousands of people, including the Dutch prime minister, gathered Sunday evening to lay flowers and mourn at a candlelit memorial service outside a mall in a quiet Amsterdam suburb where a mentally troubled young man shot six people dead a day earlier. Investigators are still puzzling over the gunman's motive and trying to understand how he was able to obtain and legally own five firearms in the Netherlands, where gun control laws are considered strict, despite prior run-ins with the law and a stay at a psychiatric institution. The attacker, identified as 24-year-old ...
Netherlands Considers Banning Religious Animal Slaughter
By not in system - AOL NewsAMSTERDAM -- One of Europe's first countries to allow Jews to practice their religion openly may soon pass a law banning centuries-old Jewish and Muslim traditions on the ritual slaughter of animals. In the Netherlands, an unlikely alliance of an animal rights party and the xenophobic Freedom Party is spearheading support for the ban on kosher and halal slaughter methods that critics say inflict unacceptable suffering on animals. Peter Dejong, AP The Netherlands is considering a law that would affect how Halal butcher stores, like this one in Amsterdam, slaughter animals for ...
International Women's Day: The 5 Worst Countries to Be Born Female
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOver the years a number of organizations have attempted to list the "worst countries for women," often to coincide with dates such as International Women's Day. One immediate challenge: What makes a country "worst for women"? Some researchers focus on humanitarian issues, others on educational attainment and literacy rates. Then, of course, there are health statistics to consider, as well as cultural biases and economic conditions. And no matter how accurate the underlying data are, numbers can only go so far in telling us what real women experience on a day-to-day basis. Those caveats ...
Opinion: The US Isn't Powerless In Libya
By Barbara Slavin - AOL NewsMoammar Gadhafi refuses to go down without a fight -- killing hundreds of civilians through indiscriminate firing from airplanes and helicopter gunships and by foreign mercenaries. In a vintage, rambling harangue on state television, Gadhafi today inveighed against the opposition as "greasy rats and cats" and sought to rekindle the anti-Americanism of the 1980s when U.S., not Libyan, warplanes struck Libya. "I am a revolutionary," the 68-year-old yelled, gesturing with his fists. "I will not leave the country and I will die as a martyr in the end." Libyan TV / AFP / Getty ...
Former Liberian President's Lawyer Storms Out of Court
By not in system - AOL NewsLEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands -- Calling the trial "a farce," Charles Taylor's lawyer stormed out of court Tuesday after judges refused to accept a written summary of the former Liberian president's defense at the end of his landmark war crimes case. British attorney Courtenay Griffiths ignored judges at the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone who ordered him to stay in court after unprecedented angry exchanges erupted before closing arguments in the three-year case. "How will posterity judge the credibility of this court if, at this 11th hour, they prevented Mr. Taylor from presenting ... 90 ...
New DNA Test Can Detect Hair Color of Suspects
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsScientists say they have developed a way to use DNA found at a crime scene to determine the hair color of a suspect. Researchers in the Netherlands identified 13 DNA markers from 11 genes that can help predict when a person has black or red hair with more than 90 percent accuracy and blond and brown hair with about 80 percent accuracy. Previously, only red hair could be detected by DNA sampling. The test will also be able to differentiate between blond and dirty-blond hair and red and reddish-brown hair. "That we are now making it possible to predict different hair colors from DNA represents ...
For Some, Banana-Smashing on New Year's Eve Is A-Peeling
By David Moye - AOL NewsMost New Year's Eve traditions involve alcohol, but for a growing number of people, smashing a banana is the most appealing way to ensure the New Year will be fruitful. This bizarre tradition is officially called "the Banana Smash" and, according to organizer John Podeszwa, has been around since 1992, when a few folks in Minnesota came up with the fruity concept. "It began on Xerxes Avenue South in Minneapolis as a good way to do away with all the bad juju from the previous year," Podeszwa told AOL News. "I came up with the idea of writing the date on a banana, but the ceremony was ...
Heavy Snow Hits Air Travel, Roads in Europe
By not in system - AOL NewsPARIS -- Heavy snow on Sunday shut down European airport runways, forced fast trains to slow down and left cars skidding through icy, slushy streets on a weekend where many people were trying to head home for the holidays. Travelers camped out at airports overnight. London's Heathrow Airport stopped accepting arrivals Sunday, causing havoc at the start of the Christmas travel rush. About 40 percent of flights were canceled at Frankfurt airport and Paris' Charles de Gaulle. Alastair Grant, AP Rare heavy snow brought Europe to a standstill, shutting down runways and slowing traffic. ...
Dutch Catholic Church Faces 2,000 Abuse Allegations
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- The Roman Catholic Church is still struggling to cope with the fallout of sex abuse scandals from Germany to the U.S., but it now faces a flood of damaging new allegations from the Netherlands. According to a report from an independent commission, almost 2,000 Dutch people have reported being sexually and physically abused by priests when they were children -- a huge number for a country with only 4 million Catholics. The church set up the investigative commission in March after scandals involving pedophile priests surfaced in neighboring Belgium and Germany. The panel published ...
Turning NYC's Times Square Billboards Into Art Exhibit
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Nov. 30) -- Billboards aren't cheap -- especially in New York City's Times Square. But a Dutch student is hoping to buy every single one of them in a massive public art project. After announcing the "Times Square to Art Square" project, Justus Bruns and a team of art lovers have started raising funds for a one-day billboard buyout that they estimate could cost about $24 million. "This is about dreaming to make the impossible possible," he told AOL News. That's a lot of money for an arts organization founded just 11 months ago. But Bruns has a plan. "We are trying to do it by using the ...
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