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About 35,000 people will take part in the 48th NN CPC Loop, a running competition in The Hague, on Sunday. The start and finish are on the Malieveld. The shortest distance is a youth run over 1 km, starting at 9.15 a.m. The main competition is the NN half marathon, which starts at 2 p.m., according to Omroep West.

Railroad infrastructure firm ProRail will work with construction contractor BAM on the tracks and platforms at the central station in The Hague, ProRail announced on Thursday. Passenger train timetables have already been adjusted on March 2 and 3 and then from March 9 to 13. Trains will not run between Den Haag Laan van NOI on the east side of the city and Den Haag Centraal. Additionally, there will be no trains at all to and from Den Haag Centraal on March 9 and 10.

Travelling between Rotterdam and The Hague? Keep an eye out of the schedules, as direct intercity trains won't run between the cities for four weeks.

Supporters of the climate action group Extinction Rebellion began the announced blockade of the A12 highway in The Hague on Saturday. Just before noon, several thousand protesters walked onto the highway. There they were stopped by the police. Start actie #A12 pic.twitter.com/ALJIyZRz1T

The police used water cannons against Extinction Rebellion demonstrators blocking the A12 highway in The Hague on Saturday afternoon. About 1.5 hours after the protest began, the climate protesters were asked to leave the highway. When they did not comply, the water cannons began spraying.

The first people blocking the A12 highway in The Hague are being removed by the police. They had been asked to leave the highway and go to the support demonstration at the station Den Haag Centraal. When they did not comply with this request, the arrests started.

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Jamel L., the 56-year-old who was detained for the fatal stabbing in a supermarket in The Hague, will remain in custody for at least another 90 days. The Council Chamber of the District Court in The Hague decided on Thursday to order him to remain in custody for killing Antoneta Gjokja. L. was suspected of stabbing the 36-year-old Albert Heijn employee to death on June 20, just after the store on the Turfmarkt opened for the day. The Romanian woman died at the scene.

Trains operating in the Netherlands will stop for a brief moment at 8 p.m. during Remembrance Day commemorations on Thursday, just like in previous years. National railway NS said it wants to give passengers the opportunity to commemorate the war victims. Air traffic will also be modified to take into account the ceremony to commemorate the country's war dead, said LVNL, the Dutch air traffic control system.

A double-decker train carrying about 50 passengers derailed in the southern Netherlands early Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 30 others, in what officials called “a black day for the Dutch railway."