Amsterdam - The Netherlands may raise the legal age of retirement from 65 to 67, anonymous government sources told the media on Tuesday as politicians continued talks on special measures to stimulate the economy.

The measure would be one of several proposed by the government in an attempt to free money needed to invest in the Dutch economy to fight the ongoing crisis.

The government coalition parties Christian Democrats, Labour and Christian Union have for more than three weeks been discussing special measures to stimulate the economy.

Amsterdam - Bank account holders who feel let down by their account managers can now turn to a Dutch website to get a belated - but also fake - apology from top financial managers and politicians.

Dutch creative web design company Category 1, the initiator of the frivolous website www. shootabanker. com, says that too many bankers who contributed to the global financial crisis have not even bothered to apologize to their customers.

"The public should have heard more of an apology," said Jonne Kuyt of Category 1, based in the central Netherlands city of Utrecht. "People are very disappointed."

Website visitors fill out their name and e-mail address and the name of the person they want an apology from.

The Hague - The appeal chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday cut the jail sentence for convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Momcilo Krajisnik.

Krajisnik was convicted in 2006 of various charges of persecution, extermination, murder, deportation and the forced transfer of non- Serb civilians from Bosnia during the
1992-95 conflict, and sentenced to 27 years in jail.

That was cut to 20 years on Tuesday by the ICTY appeals chamber.

Amsterdam  - A former member of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion Dutchbat that was stationed in 1995 in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica plans to move to the Bosnian city permanently this summer with his family.

Speaking late Monday on a Dutch television show, Rob Zomer said he wanted to move to Srebrenica because of its beautiful nature and "to boost the local population's self-confidence."

His wife, who also appeared on the show, said she found Srebrenica "a most peaceful environment."

Amsterdam - A decision to evacuate, search and seal an entire Amsterdam shopping area Thursday was taken after what now appeared to be a dubious phone call by an anonymous informant warning of a terrorist attack, it emerged Friday.

Five of the seven people arrested Thursday on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack at the mall were released on Friday, the Dutch Justice ministry said.

Two suspects remained in police detention - one suspected not of terrorist activities but other crimes, police said.

Amsterdam - An Israeli and a Palestinian human rights organization on Friday received Holland's prestigious Geuzen Medal in the city of Vlaardingen in the south-west Netherlands.

The Geuzen Medal award has been awarded yearly since 1987 by the Geuzen Resistance Foundation, which was established in memory of the Netherland's Guezen resistance group that fought the Nazis during World War II.

The prize is awarded to persons or institutions dedicated to advancing democracy and opposing tyranny, discrimination, and racism.