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Gay footballers stay in the closet
The present generation of football fans have no problem with top soccer stars being gay.
Film about Natalee Holloway case 'searches for the truth'
A Dutch film director is making a film about Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national who was recently arrested and charged with the murder of a young woman in Peru.RNW Player
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Radio Show: What's on this week? - The latest RNW programme schedule
Programme schedule for 31 July 2010 - 6 August 2010.
Video: Catalonia bans Spain's favourite blood sport
Catalonia today became the first region in mainland Spain to ban bullfighting. Animal rights activists collected 180,000 signatures calling on the region’s assembly to legislate against the centuries-old Spanish tradition.
Article: Watch out for pirates, Laura!
Everyone agrees. Laura Dekker should avoid a large part of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden during her upcoming voyage around the world. And that's because of Somali pirate activity.
Radio Show: New troops won't help Somalia beat insurgency
Newsline - 28 July 2010: The African Union promises more troops for Somalia but can they end the al-Qaeda-inspired insurgency?
Article: Iran sanctions felt in Dutch business world
Dutch newspaper Trouw reports today on the plight of Dutch firms being hit by new European Union sanctions against Iran’s banking and energy sectors.
Video: Pollution threatens Colombian coral paradise
Colombia's Isla Grande, a beautiful island set among coral reefs in the Rosario Archipelago, is facing an enormous threat. Work on the nearby historic metropolis of Cartagena de Indias could destroy it.
Article: EU and Google enlist ordinary people as environmental watchdogs
Eye on Earth, GEOSS and Google are planning to monitor the state of the environment. All three organisations plan to measure the influence of human activity on the environment and climate change.
Article: Press Review Wednesday 28 July 2010
The slow season is continuing and there isn’t much to report; MPs are on summer recess, the politicians holding pre-negotiation coalition talks are maintaining a strict news blackout and all the major sporting events have finished, so
Article: Baby hatches would save infant lives
On Sunday, Dutch police in the southern city of Breda found a dead baby in its mother's house. The 19-year-old woman, who had concealed her pregnancy, is still in custody. It is not clear how the baby died.
Radio Show: Born in the Sixties
EUROPEAN JAZZ STAGE: 1968 was a momentous year - for politics and in culture. Around the world antiwar protests were mobilizing a generation. Andy Warhol painted cans of Campbell’s Soup, John Cage played chess with Marcel Duchamp.
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Catalonia bans Spain's favourite blood sport
Catalonia today became the first region in mainland Spain to ban...
Pollution threatens Colombian coral paradise
Colombia's Isla Grande, a beautiful island set among coral reefs in the...
Afghan actress tests Islamic glass ceiling
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