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What can you expect today?
- The final amount will be announced from the Glass House of radio station NPO 3FM. This year, DJs are raising money for the World Wildlife Fund to protect rainforests in South America.
- This year, due to the lockdown, there will be no midnight masses in the church, for example, there are no celebrations in Catholic churches after 5 p.m. Various churches have come up with alternatives, night masses per live stream, for example.
- The court in The Hague will rule this afternoon in the criminal case against Mohamed A. (41), who is suspected of shelling the Saudi Arabian embassy in November last year. Ten years in prison and TBS with compulsory treatment have been demanded.
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What did you miss?
Outgoing Prime Minister Rutte thinks that the formation took so long in part because no role more is in store for the king.
“What I don’t think has helped is that the king was taken out,” he says in an interview with The Telegraph about the longest formation ever. “Not that it suddenly takes three months less if you bring it back, but it would help.”
In 2012, the Rules of Procedure were amended, so that from now on the informants are appointed by the House. At the time, a majority of MPs found it undemocratic that the king played a role in the formation of a new cabinet. As a result, Willem-Alexander now mainly has a ceremonial function, but Rutte is now questioning this.
Other news from the night:
- Academic hospitals angry about relocation of pediatric heart surgery: the University Medical Center Groningen, Leiden University Medical Center and the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam do not agree with the decision of outgoing minister De Jonge to concentrate pediatric heart surgery in Rotterdam and Utrecht. The three academic hospitals are considering further steps.
- Los Angeles police accidentally kill teen in changing room: That happened when officers shot at a man who had previously assaulted a woman. Police responded to a report of someone being assaulted with a deadly weapon and shooting at a branch of the Burlington clothing chain.
- Former South Korea president convicted of corruption is pardoned: Park Geun-hye was South Korea’s first female president. She was deposed in 2017 after mass demonstrations. She was accused of allowing her non-government confidant Choi Soon-sil to exert too much influence.
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And then this:
Homeless people receive an annual Christmas meal from the Salvation Army. This year it is extra special; many restaurants have donated food that they had left over due to the lockdown. In Amsterdam 2500 meals are prepared in two days:
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