Dutch parliament: China’s treatment of Uighurs is genocide
The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such...
Dutch police detain 240 nationwide as anti-lockdown protests turn violent
Rioters looted stores, set fires and clashed with police in several Dutch cities on Sunday, resulting in more than 240 arrests, police and Dutch media...
Thousands protest in Amsterdam against Dutch coronavirus lockdown
Dutch riot police used water cannon to disperse around two thousand people at an unauthorised protest in Amsterdam on Sunday against a national lockdown to...
EU faces Franco-Dutch call for rules to stop ‘greenwashing’
French and Dutch securities regulators called on Tuesday for European Union rules to prevent “greenwashing” or inaccurate claims that investments are sustainable and climate-friendly. Several...
Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
A train driver in the Netherlands has had a lucky escape thanks to a fortuitously placed art installation. A metro train shot through a stop...
Dutch inventor’s mushroom coffins turn bodies into compost
The coffin turns corpses into compost that enriches the soil Handout Loop Biotech/AFP In the Netherlands you can keep helping the planet after you die --...
Judges to rule on Dutch populist Wilders’ appeal of racial incitement conviction
Judges will decide on Friday whether to overturn the racial incitement conviction of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the right-wing populist who led supporters in chanting...
UK adds France, Netherlands to travel quarantine list
Britain had initially imposed a blanket quarantine on all visitors arriving in the country, but later carved out 'travel corridors' JUSTIN TALLIS AFP/File Britain on...
Netherlands’ Belgian enclave juggles tricky virus rules
Artist Sylvia Reijbroek, who owns an art gallery, wears a face mask on the Belgian side of her shop, marked out by white crosses, because...
Amsterdam enforces face masks in crowded places
People, wearing a face mask, walk in the Kalverstraat, in Amsterdam on August 5, 2020, from when wearing a face mask is mandatory in five...
Nigerian govt expecting $200m from Netherlands, Switzerland
The Federal Government has said the country is expecting the return of $200million from the Netherlands and Switzerland. According to the Attorney General of...
Dutch military helicopter crashes in Caribbean, two killed
A Dutch military helicopter crashed in the Caribbean Sea near the island of Aruba, killing two of the four people on board, the Dutch defence...
‘Mr. No, No, No’ – Why Dutch PM Rutte plays role of EU bogeyman
As EU negotiations over a coronavirus recovery fund and a new budget for the bloc ran into an impasse, Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte was...
Viktor Orban says ‘the Dutchman’ is responsible for EU summit disarray
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday that Dutch leader Mark Rutte was responsible for the deadlock at a European Union summit, where leaders...
Dutch king may stop using carriage celebrating colonial past
Dutch King Willem-Alexander may stop using a ceremonial horse-drawn carriage with images celebrating the Netherlands’ former rule over colonies, he said on Friday, following an...
Dutch king may stop using carriage celebrating colonial past
Dutch King Willem-Alexander may stop using a ceremonial horse-drawn carriage with images celebrating the Netherlands’ former rule over colonies, he said on Friday, following an...
Dutch gov’t to fine store selling wine from Hebron, labeled from Israel
The warning came during a July 10 inspection of the Israel Products Center, an importer and retail outfit run by the pro-Israel group Christians for...
Mark Rutte, the Dutch PM cycling into EU headwinds
Rutte lives in the same flat he bought after graduating, drives a second-hand Saab when not cycling, and volunteers as a teacher Bart Maat ANP/AFP/File...
Dutch PM ‘quite gloomy’ about EU virus deal
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (pictured July 9, 2020) told parliament that despite meeting a string of EU leaders in recent days to break the...
Dutch government to file suit against Russia over downing of MH17
The Dutch government on Friday said it would file a suit against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights over the downing of Malaysia...
Netherlands bans arrivals from Serbia and Montenegro again
The Netherlands shut its borders to people from Serbia and Montenegro again on Wednesday, a week after opening them, citing a rapid rise in coronavirus...
Dutch police say they discover criminal gang’s torture chamber
Dutch police uses explosives to enter a building where a torture chamber is hidden in a shipping container and allegedly used by criminals to detain...
What the Dutch can teach the world about remote work
If you've been balancing your laptop on a precarious stack of cookbooks, or lamented VPN speed from your kitchen table, you're not alone. Ever since...
Dutch police arrest 400 in The Hague after coronavirus protest turns violent
Dutch police arrested about 400 protesters and used a water cannon Sunday after violence erupted around a demonstration in The Hague against measures put in...
Ban ‘racist Black Pete’ Jesse Jackson writes Dutch PM Rutte
U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has written Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte asking him to end the use of the pre-Christmas character “Black Pete,”...
Over 1,000 Nigerian asylum seekers disappear in Netherlands
About 1,089 Nigerian asylum seekers who arrived Netherlands between last year and January this year are reportedly missing, raising serious concern in the country. The National Research...
Rotterdam police seize 151 million euros worth of cocaine
Dutch police in the port of Rotterdam seized 2,020 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated value of over 151 million euros ($ 170 million), the...
Dutch PM Didn’t See Dying Mother Due To COVID-19 Rules
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte holds documents during a parliamentary debate on the coronavirus crisis (COVID-19), in The Hague, on May 20, 2020. Bart MAAT...