Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the head of the Netherland's Freedom Party, is one of Israel's greatest supporters in Europe.

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Animal photographer Ren Netherland has captured some of the more extreme lengths to which some owners have gone, including also carving the coat of one canine into a Native American headdress.

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Their study shows that there is a heavy concentration of International stores in some locations such as Singapore (85%), Denmark (85%), Portugal (77%), Spain (68%), Germany (60%), UK (55%), France (54%), Netherland (51%), while markets such as Australia (40%), USA (39%), Canada (37%), and Switzerland (29%) have lower penetration.

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This will almost certainly be the case should Silicon Valley Group be sold to the Netherland's ASML. The latter has made no secret of its desire to eliminate what is today an increasingly formidable competitor -- thanks to many tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars invested in enhancing SVG's ability to bring to market state-of-the art, high-end lithography machines used to mass-produce sophisticated microcircuitry.

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