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Google Doodle celebrates Great Union Day in Romania with a doodle dedicated to the country's flag Variações was born on December 3, 1944 in the village of Fiscal and spent his early years with several siblings on his parents' farm where he developed his love for music after hearing his father play the accordion and cavaquinho. While Variações did not witness many diverse styles during his growing up years owing to heavily censored media in Portugal that did not show people wearing clothes outside the traditional norms, the legendary singer developed his unique fashion sense when he travelled to London and learned in hairdressing in Amsterdam where he experimented with different styles.

For sure, key U.S. jobs data will test the exuberance, while Australia's central bank could reinforce a view that rates have peaked. Here's your week ahead in financial markets from Ira Iosebashvili in New York, Kevin Buckland in Tokyo, Naomi Rovnick and Marc Jones in London and Yoruk Bahceli in Amsterdam. SANTA'S BEEN Christmas has come early with global stocks posting their best monthly performance in three years in November and global investment-grade bonds returning almost 4% — the best month on record going back to 1997. Now, the early Santa rally risks running into a central bank Grinch. Markets price rate cuts as early as the first half of 2024.

LONDON (Reuters) — Festive cheer has come early to world markets (bar those dollar bulls) on growing certainty that central banks will start slashing interest rates next year.

MUMBAI : The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are bracing for a sobering placement season. For the thousands of to-be engineers in the class of 2024, the number of hirings is likely to taper, even while salaries may not fall much. “This year, we added more companies, but there is a 20% dip among the regular recruiters since many say they had over-hired last year.

Kyiv Monday after being stuck in a Dutch museum for nine years, where they were on show when Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula in 2014. Ukraine hailed the arrival of the jewels in the midst of the Russian full-scale 2022 invasion as a victory for its «identity and freedom». The Scythian artefacts — some around 2,000 years old — were on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson museum when they suddenly were at the centre of a geopolitical crisis following Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Years of legal battles ensued, with both Kyiv and Moscow-controlled Crimean museums filing suits that the jewels should be in their hands, before the Dutch Supreme Court ruled this summer they should go to Ukraine. «After almost 10 years of trials, artefacts from four museums of Crimea… returned to Ukraine,» the National Museum of the History of Ukraine (NMHU) said on its website. «They will be kept in the NMHU until the de-occupation of Crimea,» it added. Their return comes 21 months into Moscow's offensive, and is a symbolic win for Ukraine, which has repeatedly vowed to retake Crimea.

“I literally had two coffees and a beer, and I had this eureka moment at four in the morning," Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko recalls as he leans back thoughtfully. 

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The collapse of FTX in 2022 and Binance’s recent $4.3 billion settlement with U.S. authorities provide a strong argument for the provisions of the European Union’s markets in crypto-assets (MiCA) legislation, a European Commission official said in an interview.

The Dutch city of Amsterdam — no stranger to international conferences dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and decentralization — was recently host to the Network State Conference, which explored decentralization at an entirely different level. 

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Thousands of families are lining up for free handouts at food banks across the Netherlands

One last dance for the IPO market. Regional copper explorer Fuse Minerals’ float was approved by the corporate regulator on Friday, paving the way for an ASX-listing before Christmas.

Fidelity, an asset management firm overseeing $4.5 trillion in assets, has become the latest firm to seek approval for a spot Ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF).

awards at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world. Anand Patwardhan’s The World Is Family won the award for best editing in international competition while The Flickering Lights directed by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan bagged the IDFA award for best cinematography. Armenian filmmaker Shoghakat Vardanyan’s 1489 won the best film international competition and Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly won the best director award for his film Life Is Beautiful. The awards were declared late on Thursday. Besides international competition, the festival handed out awards under Envision Competition, a section devoted to daring cinematic approaches to documentary, short documentaries and youth documentaries among others. The jurors said The World is Family is “a vivid evocation of 100 years of history in less than 100 minutes of cinema”. The film focuses on Patwardhan’s family and their connection to leaders of the Indian independence movement. Flickering Lights portrays life in Tora, a remote village near India-Myanmar border in Manipur without electricity, mobile network, hospitals, or even a functional school, 70 years after independence.

The Dutch government has abandoned, for now, plans to rein in flights at Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol Airport

Dutch government said Tuesday it was temporarily shelving plans to cut flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, one of Europe's busiest hubs, admitting it was a «bitter pill for the environment.» The proposals to trim the number of Schiphol flights from 500,000 to 460,000 from next year faced too many legal headwinds, Infrastructure Minister Mark Harbers said in a letter to parliament. A Dutch court blocked the plans in April and the European Commission, the United States, and Canada have also raised concerns, Harbers said. «The government knows that suspending (the plans) is a bitter pill for the environment… I stress that the government is committed to striking a balance between Schiphol and its surroundings,» the letter concluded. Schiphol airport authorities said they were «disappointed» with the decision, «as local residents are getting the short end of the stick.» «It is time that hindrance for local residents is noticeably reduced,» airport authorities said in a statement. But airlines rejoiced. Dutch flag carrier KLM said the decision was «an important step to prevent retaliation and to continue flying to the US.» Marnix Fruitema, head of the BARIN association of Dutch airlines, was quoted by local agency ANP as saying: «We are delighted that the minister has come to his sense in time.» The government said KLM had agreed to a series of measures that would come into force from March. According to the minister, KLM had agreed to use its quietest aircraft at night and to avoid running passenger services between midnight and 6am.

With 20 employees, these businesses generated a revenue of approximately INR 2,300 million (ca. ~EUR 25 million) in the financial year that ended on March 31, 2023.

UAE. The Singapore-headquartered transportation solutions enterprise, BoxcoWorld FZE, on November 1 inked a memorandum of understanding with Dubai-based global maritime major DP World to invest $28 million to construct a modern warehouse in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, a free trade zone in the UAE. The deal was signed by Abdulla Al Hashmi, COO of Parks & Zones, DP World, UAE Region, and Vir Kotak, Founder of BoxcoWorld. DP World is an multinational logistics company specialising in cargo logistics, port terminal operations, maritime services and free trade zones.

Amsterdam-based crypto venture capital firm Maven 11 has unveiled its third fund with a goal of securing $100 million.

Air India on Thursday announced that it has entered an intermodal interline agreement with WorldTicket, the exclusive distributor for Europe’s largest railway operator, Deutsche Bahn. With this collaboration, Air India passengers will be able to travel on a single intermodal ticket beyond Frankfurt with train connections to or from other cities and towns across Germany, including those without airports, on Deutsche Bahn. The agreement will allow travellers to connect to and from over 5600 train stations in Germany on the Deutsche Bahn network. Travellers can also take train connections on Deutsche Bahn to and from Amsterdam, Brussels, and Zurich via Air India’s Frankfurt gateway, said the airline in a statement. Travellers will get the benefit of the same baggage allowance on the rail routes as offered by Air India on its own flights.

Blockchain technology is having a tangible positive influence on environmental stewardship through innovative projects that are retiring carbon credits, generating staking yields to support ecological initiatives and incentivizing communities to monitor and protect natural resources.