The Taaitaaipop was traditionally indispensable during the holidays, but seems to be losing popularity. In the shops the shelves are full of other, more luxurious delicacies and the bakery company Bolletje no longer bakes sour. Is the end nigh?

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Netherlands

Taaitaai is being competed out of the shelves by the chocolate spice nut

Comedian Martijn Koning has had no contact with the presenter after the controversial Baudet roast in Eva Jinek's talk show. He told that on Friday in the SBS6 program HLF8.

Martijn Koning had no contact with Jinek after Baudet roast

Various Islamic organizations announced in a joint press release on Friday that they disapprove of the decision of the Talpa channel to continue cooperation with Erica Renkema.

Muslim organizations denounce the continuation of collaboration between Talpa and the Meiland family

Demonstrators of DemNed, the Dutch umbrella organization for Kurds in the Netherlands, stormed the building of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Johan de Wittlaan in The Hague on Friday. Between forty and fifty people have been arrested, a police spokesperson told NU.nl.

The Hague

Dozens of arrests after storming of OPCW building in The Hague

In 2022, thirteen thousand new reception places for asylum seekers will be needed in the Netherlands, nine thousand of which will be before 1 July. For children who come to the Netherlands without family, five hundred extra places are needed within a month, estimates the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) on Friday.

Asylum seekers

Next year more than 13,000 new reception places for asylum seekers needed

A region in western Canada has notched up a record-high winter temperature, just months after the country sweltered under a historic global heat dome in the summer, boosting global concern about climate change.

Climate Change

International

Environment

NDTV

Channel News Asia

Phys

Western Canada sees record-high winter temperature

Dutch health authorities called for pre-flight COVID-19 tests regardless of vaccination status for travel from outside the European Union, revealing that about 90% of the 62 people who tested positive on two flights from South Africa on Nov. 26 had been vaccinated. Under rules in place at the time, more than 600 passengers were able to board the KLM airline

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Vaccines

Coronavirus

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam

Reuters

Today

The Straits Times

FijiTimes

Dutch say pre-flight tests needed as most COVID passengers from S.Africa were vaccinated

It is a major turnaround: anyone who has complaints such as a cough or sore throat can choose to do a self-test at home from Friday. Until now, the government's motto for complaints was: make a test appointment with the GGD. If the self-test is positive, you still have to go to the GGD test street for a PCR test for confirmation.

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