News: Netherlands

We have started to collect the most important news related to Netherlands in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Netherlands: news

VIDEO: Dutch fans clash with police in Rome

Thursday, February 19th 2015, 21:44
related countries: Italy
related places: Rome

Fans of Dutch football club Feyenoord clash with police in Rome ahead of their team's Europa League match on Thursday night.
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Murray's motivational notes revealed

Wednesday, February 18th 2015, 11:31
related countries: United Kingdom

Dutch sports journalist Wilfred Genee revealed British number one Andy Murray's motivational messages at the Rotterdam Open.
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Dutchman released by Colombia's ELN

Thursday, February 12th 2015, 1:41
related countries: Colombia

Colombia's second largest rebel group, the ELN, releases a Dutch citizen who had been held in captivity for more than a year.
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VIDEO: Dutch chimps 'learn Scottish accent'

Friday, February 6th 2015, 6:05
related countries: United Kingdom

Chimpanzees from The Netherlands who were moved to Edinburgh Zoo appear to have learnt to speak in a Scottish accent.
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'Bullet-proof fashion' store opens

Monday, February 2nd 2015, 11:53
related places: Eindhoven

A company offering 'stylish' bullet-proof clothing for ordinary citizens opens in the Dutch city of Eindhoven.
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VIDEO: Dutch reporters film 'gunman' incident

Saturday, January 31st 2015, 15:49

Police in the Netherlands say a man who forced his way into a studio of Dutch news broadcaster NOS with a fake gun has no known links to terrorist organisations.
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10 things we didn't know last week

Saturday, January 31st 2015, 0:39
related countries: United States

Who smiles more - Dutch babies or US babies?
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Dutch TV intruder: 'No terror link'

Friday, January 30th 2015, 12:35

A man who forced his way into a studio of Dutch news broadcaster NOS with a fake gun has no known links to terrorist organisations, police say.
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Man with fake gun disrupts Dutch TV

Friday, January 30th 2015, 1:56

A man wielding a fake gun is arrested in a studio of Dutch news broadcaster NOS, causing the main evening bulletins to be cancelled.
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Shell revives Arctic drilling plans

Thursday, January 29th 2015, 14:36

Royal Dutch Shell revives Arctic drilling plans, despite announcing a $15bn cut in global spending and profit figures that disappointed investors.
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Indonesia executions prompt spat

Sunday, January 18th 2015, 13:15
related countries: Brazil, Indonesia

Brazil and the Netherlands recall their ambassadors from Indonesia following the execution of their nationals over drug trafficking.
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VIDEO: Meet the Author: Michaela DePrince

Friday, January 9th 2015, 15:48

On this week's Meet the Author Nick Higham talks to Dutch National Ballet dancer Michaela DePrince, author of Hope in a Ballet Shoe.
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Shell agrees Nigeria oil spill deal

Wednesday, January 7th 2015, 11:16
related countries: Niger, Nigeria
related places: Bodo

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell agrees to a $84m (£55m) settlement with residents of the Bodo community in the Niger Delta for two major oil spills.
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Dutch journalist detained in Turkey

Tuesday, January 6th 2015, 17:45
related countries: Turkey

A Dutch journalist, Frederike Geerdink, is detained briefly by Turkish police over her alleged support for Kurdish rebels.
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VIDEO: Could 'salt potatoes' create revolution

Sunday, January 4th 2015, 8:33

A team of researchers in the Netherlands has discovered that potatoes can grow in earth fed by salty sea water prompting hopes that previously unusable land could be used for agriculture.
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Luxembourg speaks for the Dutch

Thursday, December 18th 2014, 22:26
related countries: Luxembourg

How Luxembourg came to represent the Dutch
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Wilders faces charges of incitement

Thursday, December 18th 2014, 11:51

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders is to be tried on charges of inciting racial hatred against Moroccans in a speech, the authorities say.
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Dutch marriage proposal wrecks house

Saturday, December 13th 2014, 15:47

A Dutchman's attempt to engineer a romantic marriage proposal ends in chaos as a crane smashes into the roof a house and forces more to be evacuated.
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VIDEO: Crane crash as proposal goes wrong

Saturday, December 13th 2014, 15:33
related places: IJsselstein, Utrecht

A crane tips over and crashes into the roof of a house in IJsselstein, near Utrecht in the Netherlands, after a marriage proposal went wrong.
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VIDEO: Explorer drives tractor to South Pole

Tuesday, December 9th 2014, 10:32

A Dutch explorer who has driven to the South Pole in a tractor says she has achieved "an impossible dream".
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Man injured by Dutch pop-up toilet

Friday, November 28th 2014, 21:03
related places: Amsterdam

A man is injured after a pop-up toilet unexpectedly emerges from underground in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, throwing a stationary scooter onto him.
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VIDEO: MH17 wreckage leaves east Ukraine

Sunday, November 23rd 2014, 23:45
related countries: Malaysia, Ukraine

The European security organisation, the OSCE, says that wreckage collected from the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine is on its way to the Netherlands.
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Dutch 'Syria bride' custody extended

Friday, November 21st 2014, 15:38
related countries: Syria

A judge in the Netherlands agrees to extend the period police can hold a Dutch teenager who travelled to Syria to marry an Islamist fighter.
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World's biggest crane ship sets sail

Friday, November 21st 2014, 15:02
related places: Rotterdam

The world's largest crane ship, which is capable of lifting oil rigs, sets sail from its shipyard in Korea for Rotterdam port in the Netherlands.
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Man Utd's Blind not out for six months

Thursday, November 20th 2014, 17:06

A knee injury will sideline Manchester United midfielder Daley Blind for several weeks but not six months.
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Dutch mum rescues daughter from IS

Wednesday, November 19th 2014, 17:41
related countries: Syria, Turkey

A Dutch mother arrives with her daughter in the Netherlands, after travelling to Syria to bring her back from the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa.
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Shell wins big tax battle in India

Wednesday, November 19th 2014, 3:26
related countries: India

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell wins a long-running court battle against Indian authorities over a tax dispute involving billions of dollars.
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EU adopts new bird flu measures

Monday, November 17th 2014, 21:43

The European Commission adopts protective measures to try to contain a bird flu outbreak after new cases in the Netherlands and UK.
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VIDEO: 'Contagious' bird flu at Dutch farm

Monday, November 17th 2014, 12:33

A highly contagious strain of bird flu has been discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands.
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MH17 team removes crucial debris

Sunday, November 16th 2014, 19:28
related countries: Ukraine

Investigators remove crucial debris and human remains from the MH17 crash site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, after months of delays.
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Clashes at Dutch Black Pete protest

Saturday, November 15th 2014, 19:28

Dutch police arrest dozens during a protest over Black Pete, the controversial black-faced sidekick to the Dutch St Nicholas.
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Shell 'warned pipeline could leak'

Thursday, November 13th 2014, 0:00
related countries: Nigeria

Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell was told a pipeline had reached the end of its life years before it spilled up to 500,000 barrels of oil in Nigeria, according to court documents seen by the BBC.
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Netherlands 2-3 Mexico

Wednesday, November 12th 2014, 23:39
related countries: Mexico
related places: Amsterdam

Carlos Vela scores twice in his first international since 2011 as Mexico beat Netherlands in Amsterdam.
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VIDEO: Solar cycle path opens in Netherlands

Wednesday, November 12th 2014, 15:12

The world's first public solar cycle lane has opened in the Netherlands.
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MH17 salvage team 'unable to start'

Tuesday, November 11th 2014, 11:23
related countries: Ukraine

A Dutch salvage team arrives at the MH17 disaster site in east Ukraine, where 298 people died, but say they cannot yet start removing wreckage.
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Moyes told of 'head-spinning' start

Tuesday, November 11th 2014, 9:41
related countries: Germany

The first six months at Real Sociedad will be tough for David Moyes, says Steve McClaren, who coached in the Netherlands and Germany.
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VIDEO: 'I will never see her smile again'

Monday, November 10th 2014, 14:01
related countries: Malaysia, Ukraine

Hundreds of bereaved family members and friends of passengers who died in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster have gathered in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.
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MH17 Dutch memorial day: Air disaster that touched a nation

Monday, November 10th 2014, 1:00

How the MH17 air disaster touched a whole nation
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