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AFP file photo of the protest.

Dutch policeman charged over shooting at farmer protest

He is being accused of attempted manslaughter

April 28, 2023| AFP
The company was forced to issue a global recall in 2021 of its devices that help people suffering from sleep apnoea, a disorder in which breathing stops and starts during sleep. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Philips sets €575m aside for US lawsuits

Dutch medical tech maker posts €583m net loss for Q1, sheds 5,400 jobs of 10,000 redundancies announced

April 24, 2023| AFP
The Rotterdam District Court. Photo: Shutterstock

Dutch court sentences four women on IS terror charges

The women have 'explicitly renounced the IS ideology'

April 13, 2023| AFP
Sex workers and sympathisers take part in a demonstration to protest plans to shutter the city's historic red light district, to be moved to a new erotic centre, in Amsterdam ,

Amsterdam at war over 'erotic centre' plan   

Plan to move legal prostitution from the city's historic red light district to a suburban 'erotic centre'

April 12, 2023| AFP
Sex workers and sympathisers take part in a demonstration to protest plans to shutter the city’s historic red light district, to be moved to a new erotic centre, in Amsterdam on March 30, 2023. Photos: Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP

Amsterdam at war over ‘erotic centre’ plan

It could take several years before any erotic centre takes shape

April 11, 2023| AFP
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (c) arrive to take part in a welcoming ceremony in The Hague.

Macron visits The Netherlands amid row over China comments 

Macron's China comments drew a sharp reaction on both sides of the Atlantic

April 11, 2023| AFP
Trouble erupted during the Feyenoord-Ajax cup clash. Photo: AFP

Dutch to probe Feyenoord-Ajax violence

Ajax midfielder Davy Klaassen suffered a head wound

April 6, 2023| AFP
The derailed train near The Hague (AFP).

One dead, many hurt as Dutch train hits crane

The double-decker train was carrying around 50 people from Leiden to The Hague

April 4, 2023| AFP
The train derailed near the Voorschoten station. Photo: AFP

One dead, dozens injured in Dutch rail accident

Train derailed after colliding with construction equipment

April 4, 2023| AFP
Amsterdam city council has earmarked three possible sites for an erotic centre. Photo: AFP

Amsterdam sex workers protest red light closure plans

Authorities wants to move them to outskirts of city

March 30, 2023| AFP
An aerial view of the Wikinger wind turbine farm in the Baltic Sea, northeast of Rugen Island in Germany. Photo: Fred Tanneau / AFP

Petrofac shares surge on European wind power expansion

€13bn multi-year projects to expand offshore wind capacity in North Sea

March 30, 2023| AFP
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Dutch prosecutors seek jail for footballer Promes over stabbing

Promes has scored seven goals in 50 appearances for the Dutch national team

March 3, 2023| AFP
Just Eat Takeaway was created in 2020 after Dutch online service Takeaway.com gobbled up Britain's Just Eat. Photo shows the food order and delivery service Just Eat app on a smart phone. Photo: Ben Stansall / AFP

Interest rate hikes force Just Eat to swallow huge losses

Amsterdam-based food delivery giant loses €5.7bn last year, looks to offload US subsidiary Grubhub

March 1, 2023| AFP
View of a canal in Amsterdam. Photo: Aurore Belot/AFP

Watch: The Dutch colonial past (ARTE)

Suriname is on the northeastern coast of South America, a former Dutch colony

February 27, 2023| ARTE
The flares were illegally set off by members of the Dutch navy. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi

Six Dutch navy crew members fined for setting off fireworks at Ta' Qali

The men have been barred from approaching football grounds in Malta

February 22, 2023| Edwina Brincat
One of the key characteristics of the Dutch online gambling industry is that not all operators entered the market at the same time. Photo: Shutterstock

State of iGaming in the Netherlands

From a business standpoint, what are the experiences in the Dutch market so far?

February 16, 2023
Roland Schüren has developed a fleet of electric vehicles.

Watch: Re: Electric cars for everyone (ARTE)

The Netherlands is on the forefront of new technology

February 16, 2023| ARTE
General director of the Rijksmuseum Taco Dibbits speaks to journalists as he stands in front of a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer titled ‘Girl with a pearl earring’. Photos: John Thys/AFP

Vermeer shines at ‘once in history’ Amsterdam show

The exhibition will feature some three-quarters of his total output

February 7, 2023| AFP
The UMCG hospital Groningen (above) saw its website crash in a cyberattack on Saturday. Photo: Shutterstock

Dutch, European hospitals 'hit by pro-Russian hackers'

The hospitals have most likely been hit by the pro-Russian hacking group Killnet

February 1, 2023| AFP
An aerial view taken on January 6, 2012 shows the flooding in the south of the city of Groningen. Photo: Evert-Jan Daniels / ANP /AFP

What happened on January 31,1953? Dutch flood memories unleash new climate fears

More than 2,500 people were killed

January 31, 2023| AFP
A cyclist rides past the headquarters of Dutch medical and consumer electronics manufacturer Philips in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Photo: Sem Van Der Wal / ANP / AFP

Philips cuts 6,000 more jobs after sleep device recall

Dutch medical tech maker loses €105m in Q4 2022, and €1.6bn last year as a whole

January 30, 2023| AFP
Amsterdam leads in the use of bicycles

Amsterdam unveils its largest bike garage. It's underwater   

Space for 11,000 bikes

January 25, 2023| AFP
Dutch Jews wearing prison uniforms marked with a yellow star and the letter "N", for Netherlands, stand at attention during a roll call at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Quarter of Dutch under 40 believe Holocaust was exaggerated

Survey results shock politicians, who call for more WWII education at school

January 25, 2023| Times of Malta
Dutch Agriculture Minister Piet Adema wants to outlaw the ownership of the designer breeds and to ban photos of them in advertising or on social media. Photo: Shutterstock

Dutch to ban unhealthy designer pets

Animals suffer "miserable" health problems, Dutch government said

January 20, 2023| AFP
Visitors looks at the Johannes Vermeer's painting ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ at the Mauritshuis museum. Photo: Lex Van Lieshout/ANP/AFP

Vermeer works were inspired by a pinhole camera, new book says

Book also reveals the extent of the influence of the Catholic church on the artist

January 6, 2023| AFP
The recall of the Philips respirator device has so far cost the company €2.2 billion, pushed it to cut 4,000 jobs and led to its chief executive stepping down. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Embattled Philips says respirators 'within safety limits'

Results of independent tests on recalled ventilators given to FDA

December 21, 2022| AFP
A sniffer dog searching for illegal goods. Photo: AFP

Europe's biggest port 'drowning in cocaine'

The cocaine is hidden in containers or underneath ships in openings below the water line

December 13, 2022| AFP
Zwarte Piet. Photo: Hannolans, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons

Dutch turn against blackface festive character

Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete, is the sidekick of Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas

December 2, 2022| AFP
Police have dismantled a huge drugs "super-cartel" that controlled a third of Europe's cocaine trade. File photo: Shutterstock

Police bust cocaine 'super-cartel' in Europe, Dubai: Europol

There were arrests in France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands

November 28, 2022| AFP
ohannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was the latest painting to be targetted by climate activists. AFP file photo

Climate activists now target 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'

The painting is at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague

October 27, 2022| AFP