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They receive questions from job seekers, people who would like to change jobs and from employers who are urgently looking for staff. The employees of Werkcentrum Fryslân can now be found for a year at the Stationsweg in Leeuwarden. They noticed this. "More and more young people are coming."
Today marks Coming Out Day, highlighting the importance of everyone being able to be themselves. Meanwhile, new demonstrations against the violence in Gaza are taking place in Amsterdam. Heavy rain showers are expected in the northern part of the country.
The special Frisian team 'Mei Grand Prix, Nei Grand Prix' made a good impression on Saturday at the WTC Expo in Leeuwarden during the Horse Clinic Wolvega Team Challenge. On the second day of Indoor Friesland, various dressage levels came together in one competition.
Dozens of people gathered today at the Cross Church in Wezep, in the municipality of Oldebroek, to raise the rainbow flag. This happens every year in the context of International Coming Out Day, which takes place tomorrow, but this year it was an extra charged moment. The rainbow flag is not raised at Oldebroek town hall for the first time in years. The Christian-conservative congregation stops, as the first congregation in the Netherlands, all the way with the LGBTI policy.
Train service between Rotterdam and Delft is suspended until at least 11:00 PM following an arson incident at a railway bridge in Rotterdam-Delfshaven. Rail infrastructure manager ProRail has not ruled out sabotage. Repairs to the damaged tracks are expected to last until at least Sunday evening.
Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden will probably have to close for a longer period from autumn 2027. The building on Grote Kerkstraat is awaiting a major sustainability operation and restoration.
Municipalities feel that they do not receive enough money from the central government to make themselves resilient against all kinds of threats. These include, for example, cyber and hybrid threats or dangers caused by climate change, such as wildfires. Sharon Dijksma, chairman of the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG), says that municipalities need a multiple of what is budgeted in the Million Note for the resilience test. “I'm assuming that it's hundreds of millions in total.”
A first for the Old Catholic Church in the Netherlands this afternoon. In the Sint Bavokerk, on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, a woman was consecrated as a bishop for the first time in Dutch history. After the big celebration, Erna Peijnenburg can call herself bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Haarlem. The Old Catholic Church is a small denomination, with more than 5,000 members.
Russian attacks on Kyiv Russia wants to break the Ukrainian resistance with large-scale air strikes on the energy infrastructure. And Kyiv is high on the list. That is in plans that Ukraine has managed to lay its hands on, writes The New York Times. Russia has been hitting Ukraine hard in recent weeks.
After dozens of armed men appeared at his gate and shot his security guard, Jan G. was still in Overasselt for a large part of the day. He had fled to family elsewhere in the village. Omroep Gelderland spoke to several sources in Overasselt and, in collaboration with the NOS, reconstructed Jan G.'s flight.
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