Martijn van Halen has every right to be angry at Jan Karbaat. The Dutch fertility doctor lied to his parents and used his own sperm to inseminate Van Halen’s mother. But, somehow, the 39-year-old Dutch landscape gardener doesn’t seem to harbor too much resentment.
Read moreFollowing a groundbreaking ruling that ordered the Dutch government to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the country, climate activists are expected Friday afternoon to hit Shell with a court summons.
Read moreDutch lawyer Serge Weening only wanted to vacation in Miami with his girlfriend. But his work defending terror suspects in the Netherlands apparently resulted in his being denied entry into the United States.
Read moreA Dutch art detective says he has recovered a valuable painting by Pablo Picasso 20 years after it was stolen from a wealthy Saudi’s yacht in France.
Read moreAfter a documentary cast a spotlight on the never-prosecuted 1982 slayings of four Dutch journalists in El Salvador, calls are mounting now in the Netherlands for those responsible to be brought to justice. The investigative piece, aptly titled “In Cold Blood,” revealed that the brigade commander who ordered the murders, Col. Mario Reyes Mena, had been living for years in relative obscurity in the United States.
Read morePreliminary elections results show a big win for the Netherlands’ far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD) party in provincial elections.
Read moreIn the wake of a shooting on a tram in the Dutch town of Utrecht on Monday, politicians have resumed campaigning for provincial and water board elections set for Wednesday.
Read moreDutch police and prosecutors pressed on Tuesday with their investigation into the motive of a suspect who they believe shot and killed three people and injured five more in an attack on a tram in the central city of Utrecht.
Read moreA gunman killed three people and wounded five on a tram Monday morning in what authorities said may have been a terror attack, and a suspect was seized after a manhunt that convulsed the Dutch city of Utrecht.
Read moreChilly temperatures and rain didn’t stop teachers from striking in the Netherlands on Friday.
Read moreThe EU’s highest court backed the Netherlands on Tuesday for declining to issue national passports to foreign nationals who have not lived in the EU for 10 years.
Read moreFor the first time, and likely the last, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is showing off most of its works by Rembrandt van Rijn in a single exhibition.
Read moreDutch fisherman are lobbying lawmakers in a last-ditch attempt to avert a European Union ban on the practice of using electric shocks to stun fish before scooping them up in nets.
Read moreDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s four-party ruling coalition was struggling Tuesday to reach agreement over whether to call a temporary halt to deportations of young asylum seekers.
Read moreA “full body scan” carried out on the Van Gogh Museum’s version of the Dutch master’s iconic “Sunflowers” has shown the painting is not fit to travel because it’s in “stable but vulnerable” condition, the museum’s director said Thursday.
Read moreRide-hailing firm Uber said Monday it is raising the minimum age of its drivers in the Netherlands and taking other measures to increase road safety after a series of fatal accidents involving Uber drivers.
Read moreTax arrangements between sneaker giant Nike and the Dutch government are being scrutinized by European Union competition regulators, the bloc’s executive Commission said Thursday.
Read moreA Dutch appeals court on Friday upheld a prison sentence of nearly 11 years for a man convicted of cyberbullying dozens of young women and gay men around the world
Read moreA Dutch appeals court on Thursday refused to order public prosecutors to open a criminal investigation of tobacco companies, in a major setback for anti-smoking activists.
Read moreA Dutch court has given the go-ahead for a cull of hundreds of red deer in a nature reserve north of Amsterdam, in a wildlife management case that has sparked fierce opposition from animal rights activists.
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