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The Dutch PM told the public to stop shaking hands over coronavirus, before shaking hands with a medical advisor on national television. 

A Dutch organization that carries out euthanasia received 3,122 requests last year, a 22% increase from the year before.

French and Dutch authorities have arrested 23 people in connection with a people-smuggling network that is said to have helped around 10,000 Kurds illegally enter the UK.

TEL AVIV – The head of the second-largest party in the Netherlands has called on his country to expel the “biased pro-Palestinian” International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor over her bid to put Israel on trial for unsubstantiated war crimes claimed by the Palestinians.

Amsterdam is once again choked with tractors in a zero-notice strike after the Dutch government voted to pass new green legislation.

(AFP) — Paris, London and Berlin on Saturday welcomed six new European countries to the INSTEX barter mechanism, which is designed to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the dollar.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man Saturday on suspicion of stabbing three teens on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers.

Dutch police have arrested two men this week on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack during the December holiday season using explosive vests and car bombs.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say they have detained two 15-year-old boys in an investigation into the possible shooting of two trains.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch appeals court has overturned a lower court’s order that the government must attempt to bring home children whose mothers travelled to Syria to join Islamic extremist groups.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police say two trains in the southern Netherlands may have been hit by gunfire. Nobody was injured in either train.

A cargo ship bound for Britain was turned back to Europe Tuesday night after a refrigerated truck onboard was found to have a human cargo of illegal migrants.

A Pakistani man has been jailed in the Netherlands for his plot to launch a terror attack against Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The Dutch version of St. Nicholas is due to arrive in the Netherlands in an annual children´s party that has become the backdrop for increasingly acrimonious confrontations between supporters and opponents of his sidekick, Black Pete.

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands was partially shut down amid reports of men armed with knives attempting to hijack a plane, later confirmed to be a false alarm.

Thousands of Dutch construction workers converged on The Hague on Wednesday to protest restrictions they say are crippling their industry, the latest large-scale demonstration against the government’s environmental policies.

Officials became involved when the parents of a family living in the cellar of an isolated farmhouse near the town of Ruinerwold were flagged for not sending their children to school.

Thousands of farmers shut down highways in a go-slow protest converging on the Dutch capital Monday, as they protested being victimised by a government trying to meet European Union emissions laws by cracking down on agriculture.

A Dutch court on Monday convicted an Afghan asylum-seeker and sentenced him to nearly 27 years imprisonment for stabbing two American tourists in a terror attack at Amsterdam’s main railway station.

A Dutch ban on the wearing of face-covering garments such as the burqa which came into place in August has “no place” in a tolerant society, a U.N. representative said Monday.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte told European Union countries to heed the call of U.S. leader Donald Trump and pay their fair share to sustain NATO.

Thousands of Dutch farmers are heading en masse to the Netherlands capital, the Hague, to protest against environmental policies being inflicted on them by their coalition government.

Five Moroccan jihadists are set to get their Dutch passports back after the government withdrew the process to strip them of citizenship.

Dutch lawyer Derk Wiersum was shot dead on the streets of Amsterdam this week, with some believing the shooting was tied to a major Moroccan mafia drug case.

Islamic primary schools across the Netherlands have distributed anti-LGBT literature which claims Allah destroyed an entire people based on their homosexuality.

A museum in Amsterdam is facing criticism for its decision to stop using the term “Golden Age” to describe the 17th century, when the Netherlands was a global mercantile, military and artistic superpower.

Vandals spray painted Nazi swastikas on hundreds of war graves at a cemetery the Netherlands, where 664 British soldiers and one Dutch soldier are buried.

A Dutch court ruled Wednesday a doctor accused of forcibly euthanizing a 74-year-old woman with dementia had fulfilled “all requirements of the euthanasia legislation.”

The Dutch government on Friday announced it would budget 23.8 million euros (about $26 million) for the Caribbean islands of Curacao and Aruba to help deal with a massive influx of refugees from Venezuela.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that a Yahoo News report linking the Netherlands to a landmark 2007 cyberattack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility is being “carefully examined” and could lead to diplomatic action between the two countries.

Pope Francis spoke out strongly against the practice of euthanasia this week, saying that it embodies a utilitarian vision that dehumanizes people.

Google says it has temporarily stopped its contractors from listening to Assistant audio recordings around the world. The move arrives shortly after the tech giant learned of a data leak from a media outlet in the Netherlands, which revealed that Google Assistant had been recording users without their prior knowledge.

A pro-paedophile group calling themselves the “Children’s Liberation Front” attempted to infiltrate a pride parade over the weekend in Amsterdam before being removed.

The Netherlands has brought into force a ban on Islamic face veils in public spaces, 14 years after it was mooted by Dutch populist Geert Wilders.

TEL AVIV – Switzerland and the Netherlands have suspended payments the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees after a leaked internal report alleged corruption, sexual misconduct and mismanagement at the agency’s highest levels. 

BRUSSELS (AP) — Dutch prosecutors said Monday they have a “strong indication” that a man accused of fatally shooting four passengers on a tram in the central city of Utrecht in March had a “terrorist motive.”