A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday upheld a landmark ruling that ordered the Dutch government to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent by 2020 from benchmark 1990 levels.
Read moreA jogger’s run through the Dutch countryside turned into a walk on the wild side when he discovered a lion cub in a field.
Read moreA youth leader in the Netherlands has gone on trial for branding three children with a hot iron during a Scouting initiation ceremony.
Read moreFrom flooding to severe drought, the Bay Area needs to take control and be prepared for the effects of climate change, Dutch experts advised in a report on Bay Area resiliency presented Wednesday at a forum for urban and regional planners and local government.
Read moreDutch bank ING has paid 775 million euros ($897 million) to settle a huge money laundering case in the Netherlands, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Read moreA Dutch judge is extending by two weeks the detention of a 26-year-old man who allegedly threatened to attack the organizer of a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.
Read moreDutch police have appealed to the public for help tracking down a suspect in the slaying 20 years ago of an 11-year-old boy while he was attending a summer camp.
Read moreA pair Renaissance paintings stolen by Nazis and returned to the Netherlands after World War II will remain with the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, after the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday it has no power to invalidate an act of the Dutch government.
Read moreAn EU magistrate said Thursday that while Dutch law on dual citizenship may allow authorities to revoke citizenship for adults 10 years or more away from the Netherlands and the EU, the law cannot be applied to minors.
Read moreAn EU magistrate chided the Netherlands on Wednesday for testing divorced immigrants on civic integration before giving them autonomous residence permits.
Read moreA man rammed a van into the Amsterdam headquarters of one of the Netherlands’ major national newspapers before setting the vehicle alight Tuesday, an attack that the Dutch prime minister called “a slap in the face of a free press and Dutch democracy.”
Read moreThe Netherlands and Australia said Friday that they are holding Russia legally responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine nearly four years ago, killing all 298 people on board.
Read moreWhen assessing a suspected war criminal’s application for asylum, the EU’s highest court ruled Wednesday that member states must make case-by-case threat determinations.
Read moreA debate in the Dutch parliament has been halted after a man jumped from the public gallery into the debating chamber below.
Read moreUnilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods multinational whose vast stable of brands includes Dove, Knorr and Ben & Jerry’s, is to base its headquarters in the Netherlands, ending its longstanding structure of having head offices in both Rotterdam and London.
Read moreTrams ground to a halt across Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum was evacuated after workers hit an electricity cable in the Dutch capital Friday, causing a power outage that left 28,000 homes without electricity, the company that manages the network said.
Read moreAttempts at digital espionage and online political manipulation in Europe are on the rise both in number and in complexity, the Netherlands’ main intelligence agency said Tuesday in its annual report.
Read moreDutch anti-smoking activists vowed to fight on Thursday after prosecutors rejected their call for a criminal investigation into four major tobacco companies on charges including attempted murder or manslaughter, on the grounds that such a case would be unlikely to lead to a conviction.
Read moreThe winding journey of two Nazi-plundered masterpieces given by the Dutch government to a collector who in turn sold them to a Southern California museum made a stop at the Ninth Circuit Wednesday, where the heir of the paintings’ Jewish owner fought to have them returned.
Read moreA painting previously thought to be an 18th century copy of a work by artist Jan Steen is actually an original by the Dutch master, a museum announced Friday.
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