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Flights were grounded, civil servants were locked out of their computers and police officers resorted to texting one another in the Netherlands on Wednesday as a network outage at the Ministry of Defense.

Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt and his wife committed legally assisted suicide by euthanasia simultaneously this week.

Three Dutch solders were shot in Indianapolis Saturday morning around 3:30 a.m. following an alleged altercation outside the hotel in which they were staying. 

Shops, bars and restaurants in a southern Dutch town opened Friday in a protest action in response to weeks of coronavirus lockdown measures.

A new Dutch translation of the medieval classic, the Divine Comedy by Italian poet Dante Alighieri removes mention of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, who appears in Hell.

Dutch police have arrested six men after a torture chamber was discovered in a series of underground shipping containers, kitted out with implements of torture including a dentist chair, handcuffs, pliers, saws, and black hoods.

The Netherlands’ highest court ruled that doctors can carry out euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia.

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 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.

69-year-old Emile Ratelband wants to legally change his age to 49 so he can find a new job and meet more women on dating apps.

(AP) — In a rare series of moves, Dutch authorities are investigating whether doctors may have committed crimes in five euthanasia cases, including the deaths of two women with advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

TEL AVIV – The Chabad emissaries on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Martin, which was almost entirely destroyed by Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, claim their lives were saved by hiding out in the mikvah.

TEL AVIV – A Muslim city councilman in The Hague recently called Israeli high school students visiting the Dutch parliament “future Zionist terrorists, occupiers and those who murder children.”

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court convicted 20 people Thursday of insulting or threatening a politician and television personality in a racially charged case that shocked the nation.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors say police have arrested a Dutch man with a Somali background on suspicion of “involvement with a terror organization” in Somalia.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) that is just 11 days away from potentially winning the Dutch general election has hit out at so-called “hate preachers” who have used their religious influence to call on their followers

(AFP) – Dutch military police were Wednesday investigating a major security alert triggered overnight at Amsterdam’s busy international airport, with one man still in custody. Dozens of heavily-armed military police had swooped on Schiphol airport, evacuating hundreds of people late

Israel’s embassy in the Netherlands has highlighted passages in a state-mandated Dutch history textbook that provides false representations of Israel’s history in its pages.

Afshin Ellian has a thing or two to say about terrorism.

He also has a few things to say about Islam – specifically political Islam – but many don’t particularly like to hear it. In fact, the threats against his life from radical Muslims, particularly in the Netherlands, where the Iranian dissident now lives, have become so frequent that at least one bodyguard accompanies him anywhere he goes.

The Turkish prosecutor in Diyarbakir, the symbolic capital of the Kurds, charged Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink with “terrorist propaganda.” She faces one to five years in prison if found guilty.