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Mass demonstrations erupted across Europe on Saturday with anti-lockdown protests being staged in Vienna, Rome, and The Netherlands.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Talks to hammer out a new ruling Dutch coalition broke the record Friday for the longest post-election government formation negotiations — 226 days and counting.

The Netherlands placed an Eritrean on the most-wanted list, intendingto prosecute for alleged involvement in large-scale human trafficking.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Hundreds of protesters from climate group Extinction Rebellion blocked a busy intersection Monday near the temporary home of the Netherlands’ parliament, marking the start of a week of protests the group plans in The Hague before a UN climate conference that opens on Oct. 31.

Mark Rutte has been given extra security after threats of potential kidnapping or an attack have surfaced from organised criminal gangs. 

Ank Bijleveld is the second minister to resign over the evacuations, following the foreign minister, Sigrid Kaag.

The streets of France were flooded for the ninth straight week with protesters against President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine passport scheme.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that Britain’s own airlift will continue unchanged despite Thursday afternoon’s bombing. 

The huge container ship that blocked the Suez Canal earlier this year finally reached the Netherlands on Thursday to begin unloading cargo.

My new hero politician (in an admittedly not very crowded field) is Gideon van Meijeren. He might be yours too after this exchange…

Officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that left over 180 people dead in Western Europe.

At least 100 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday.

Dutch veteran crime journalist Peter R. de Vries died on Thursday, just over a week after he was shot point-blank on the streets of Amsterdam.   De Vries, 64, passed away Thursday after fighting for his life for just over a week

BERLIN (AP) – More than 30 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse.

Dutch police have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of veteran crime journalist Peter R de Vries, who was shot in the centre of Amsterdam earlier this week.

A Dutch court convicted a 32-year-old woman and sentenced her to six years’ imprisonment Tuesday for involvement in war crimes.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has claimed that Hungary has no place in the Europan Union after he condemned the Hungarian government’s law on banning teaching LGBT ideology to children.

The horse-drawn carriage has been embroiled in a racism controversy over a picture on the left-side panel of the opulent coach.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – A Dutch court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels in a landmark case brought by climate activist groups. The ruling Wednesday by

AMSTERDAM (AP) — One person was killed and four were injured in a stabbing late Friday night in Amsterdam and police said they arrested a suspect nearby.

The Dutch govt has temporarily disabled its corona warning app amid data privacy concerns for phones using the Android operating system.

Despite heavy seas, a salvage operation has managed to get an abandoned Dutch cargo ship under control off the coast of Norway.

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.

The Netherlands has changed its postal voting system mid-election, which could result in thousands of votes previously considered invalid to be counted.

Polling stations opened early Monday in a three day general election to allow people to vote safely during the coronavirus pandemic.

A German man suspected in three heists against money transporters was arrested in the Netherlands on Tuesday, German investigators said.

The Dutch counter-terror office has expressed concern over alleged links between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and radical Islamists of Turkish descent.

The Netherlands has halted on all international adoptions after a study revealed that many children brought to the country had been stolen from their parents.

Transport disruption persisted into a second day on Monday as heavy snowfall and icy temperatures gripped parts of central and northern Europe

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police said Wednesday that the fourth night of the Netherlands’ coronavirus curfew passed more peacefully than the previous three nights marred by rioting. Even so, officers arrested 131 people, mainly for public order offenses

The Dutch government has denied it was planning to deploy the army to quell anti-corona-lockdown riots on Tuesday. 

Riots erupted in the Netherlands on Sunday as citizens rose up in defiance against the national 9 pm coronavirus curfew imposed on the country.

A Conservative MP has branded as “pathetic” a Dutch customs agent confiscating ham sandwiches from a lorry driver who had just arrived from the UK, with the officer telling the driver: “Welcome to Brexit.”

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has joined the Netherlands in banning flights from the UK and also banned rail connections in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus that is sweeping across southern England does not spill over on its territory.

THE HAGUE (AP) — The Netherlands is banning flights from the UK for at least the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus that is sweeping across southern England does not reach its shores.

A surge of industrial supertrawlers from the EU are devastating Britain’s territorial waters, including marine protected areas, as a ‘no-deal’ Brexit which would see the country reclaim its fisheries looms.