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Yassin Elforkani, the Imam of Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque, has demanded Dutch lawmakers consider passing new legislation to ban insulting the Islamic prophet Mohamm

Countries across Europe are enforcing masks, ordering curfews, cancelling hospital appointments, and going into lockdown after the number of coronavirus infections continues to rise, with Switzerland going from one of the least-effected countries on the continent to one of the worst.

Tech companies in the European Union have sent surveillance equipment and software to the Chinese Communist Party, some of which is being actively used to oppress the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, a report from Amnesty International claimed.

Activists have expressed disappointment at Dutch plans to deter illegal immigration from safe countries by bringing in a two-tier system for asylum seekers.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Rioters on rooftops and streets threw stones, eggs and fireworks at police overnight during a second night of unrest in a low-income neighbourhood of The Hague, Dutch police said Friday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police have dismantled what they describe as the biggest cocaine laboratory ever discovered in the Netherlands — hidden at a former horse riding school — and arrested a total of 17 people from Colombia, Turkey and the Netherlands.

A Nigerian woman has been accused of seriously injuring a fellow female migrant in a Dutch home, after throwing boiling water on her in an apparent homophobic attack.

Weary and bleary, European Union leaders were gearing up Monday for a fourth day of fighting over an unprecedented 1.85tn euro budget.

A Dutch military helicopter has crashed into the Caribbean Sea near the island of Aruba, killing two of the crew.

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.

Dutch police arrested dozens of farmers Wednesday who were protesting government plans to cut emissions of nitrogen oxide.

British authorities have arrested 746 suspects, seized tens of millions in cash, dozens of firearms and high-value cars, 2 tonnes of drugs, and even grenades in the country’s “biggest ever law enforcement operation”.

A mosaic of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus erected to the memory of Polish soldiers who helped to liberate a Dutch city from the Germans has been vandalised with Black Lives Matter graffiti.

The left-wing mayor who was photographed at a protest without a mask has been slammed over her handling of the mass demonstration.

Spain´s said that it received zero international tourists in April after the nation closed its borders for the coronavirus outbreak.

Employees of the Dutch Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) have claimed they work in fear of “underage” migrants they say use refugee reception homes as a base while they commit crimes.

Police arrested dozens of Dutch anti-lockdown protesters in The Hague on the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day, a holiday in the Netherlands celebrating the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany.

After weeks of being closed to the public, a restaurant in the Netherlands will start serving diners in enclosed glass greenhouses in order to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

China has confiscated over 89 million poor quality masks, a government official said Sunday, as Beijing faces increasing complaints from global customers about faulty protective gear being rushed onto the market.

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

Thousands of troops in European militaries have been impacted by coronavirus, including the crew of Frances aircraft carrier.

South Sudan’s first confirmed case of coronavirus infection was identified on Sunday as a 29-year-old Dutch woman who works for the United Nations. Local and U.N. officials said they were attempting to track down everyone she came in contact with during her five weeks in the country.

A group of Italian politicians have warned that the European Union will “cease to exist” if countries in the bloc refuse to increase funding to the nations hardest hit by the Chinese coronavirus.

The Dutch government has recalled 600,000 medical masks imported from China to fight the Chinese virus after the masks were revealed to have defective filters.

Dutch doctors are asking their older patients to choose between either long-term ventilation or letting nature take its course if they become infected with the Chinese coronavirus.

A debate on coronavirus was adjourned mid-session after the Dutch minister for medical care collapsed while standing at the dispatch box.

Hundreds of users queued outside “coffee shops” to stock up on marijuana after the govt announced stores would close for three weeks.

The Dutch PM told the public to stop shaking hands over coronavirus, before shaking hands with a medical advisor on national television. 

A terrorism trial starts Monday for a Dutch man of Turkish descent who allegedly opened fire on a tram, killing four people.

A Dutch organization that carries out euthanasia received 3,122 requests last year, a 22% increase from the year before.

French and Dutch authorities have arrested 23 people in connection with a people-smuggling network that is said to have helped around 10,000 Kurds illegally enter the UK.

TEL AVIV – The head of the second-largest party in the Netherlands has called on his country to expel the “biased pro-Palestinian” International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor over her bid to put Israel on trial for unsubstantiated war crimes claimed by the Palestinians.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – One of the Netherlands’ most-wanted fugitives, the alleged leader of a crime organization that prosecutors described as an “oiled killing machine,” is back in the country after Dutch police picked him up in Dubai, authorities said Thursday.

Amsterdam is once again choked with tractors in a zero-notice strike after the Dutch government voted to pass new green legislation.

(AFP) — Paris, London and Berlin on Saturday welcomed six new European countries to the INSTEX barter mechanism, which is designed to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the dollar.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man Saturday on suspicion of stabbing three teens on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers.