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Dutch worked more last year; 17,000 more jobs

Last year, people in the Netherlands started working more hours on balance. The group of people who started working more hours was slightly larger than the group who started working less.

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Scientists concerned about biodiversity as Cabinet refuses to present nature plan

Scientists from Wageningen University & Research are concerned that the government is not presenting a draft nature plan ahead of a summit on biodiversity, they wrote on Sunday on the nature pl

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ON! chairman Arnold Karskens fired after complaints of transgressive behavior

Arnold Karskens has been dismissed as chairman and member of the board of directors at broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland (ON!). The supervisory board (rvt) of ON! announced this on Friday.

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Crocodile spotted off the coast of Bonaire, popular beach closed

Last Wednesday, an unusual spectacle took place off the coast of Bonaire when a crocodile was spotted. A father and his son spotted the crocodile in a bay in the shallow water near Sorobon beach.

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SpaceX catches returning rocket in mid-air, turning a fanciful idea into reality

BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas—SpaceX accomplished a groundbreaking engineering feat Sunday when it launched the fifth test flight of its gigantic Starship rocket and then caught the booster back at the launch pad in Texas with mechanical arms seven minutes later. This achievement is the first of its kind, and it's crucial for SpaceX's vision of rapidly reusing the Starship rocket, enabling human expeditions to the Moon and Mars, routine access to space for mind-bogglingly massive payloads, and novel capabilities that no other company—or country—seems close to attaining. The test flight began with a thundering liftoff of the 398-foot-tall (121.3-meter) Starship rocket at 7:25 am CDT (12:25 UTC) from SpaceX's Starbase launch site in South Texas, a few miles north of the US-Mexico border. The rocket's Super Heavy booster stage fired 33 Raptor engines, generating nearly 17 million pounds of thrust and gulping 20 tons of methane and liquid oxygen propellants per second at full throttle. Read full article

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