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A former suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of American teenager Natalee Holloway told a Dutch newspaper he regretted that he was not formally prosecuted for any crime.
Royal Philips Electronics NV said Friday it will bid around $5.1 billion for Murrysville, Pa.-based Respironics Inc., a maker of medical devices that assist or monitor breathing.
A man being held in a Dutch police cell on suspicion of growing cannabis got an unintended treat in his lunch — a piece of hashish-laced cake, a spokesman said Thursday.
The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software — freely distributed programs that anyone can modify — the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.
Dutch staffing company Randstad Holding said Monday it will bid around $5.17 billion in cash and shares for Vedior in a management-backed takeover that would create the world's second-largest employment agency.
Historians investigating the life of a Dutch Nobel chemistry laureate who worked in Germany during Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime found the scientist complied with anti-Jewish dictates while sometimes helping Jewish colleagues.
High school students clashed with riot police in Amsterdam and demonstrated in cities across the Netherlands on Monday to protest a national increase in classroom hours.
Royal Philips Electronics NV will buy Genlyte Group Inc. for $2.7 billion, the world's largest lighting maker said Monday.
One was a Somali refugee, the other an Argentine investment banker. Both are now high-profile Dutch women challenging this country to rethink its national identity.
SABMiller, the world's third-largest brewer, said Monday will bid $1.2 billion for Grolsch, the Dutch beer with a distinctive swivel cap.
One of Amsterdam's best-known sex clubs has become the latest target of the city's crackdown on organized crime infiltration of the city's world famous sex industry.
Police from across Europe have arrested 92 suspects linked to an alleged network that produced and sold child abuse videos to 2,500 customers around the world, authorities said Monday.
A Dutch court on Thursday barred a pedophile support group from publishing photos of children of the royal family on its Web site, a week after it displayed pictures of the 3-year-old daughter of the heir to the throne.
Garmin Ltd., the world's largest maker of personal navigation devices, unveiled an unsolicited $3.3 billion offer for Dutch digital mapmaker Tele Atlas NV on Wednesday, topping an offer by rival TomTom NV by 15 percent.
Garmin Ltd., the world's largest maker of personal navigation devices, unveiled an unsolicited $3.3 billion takeover bid for Dutch digital mapmaker Tele Atlas NV on Wednesday, topping an offer by rival TomTom NV by 15 percent.
A Belgian gangster dubbed "The Eel" for his skill at slipping away from Belgian prison authorities was caught in the Netherlands two days after his latest jailbreak, police said Wednesday.
Garmin Ltd., the world's largest maker of personal navigation devices, unveiled an unsolicited 2.3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) takeover offer for Dutch digital mapmaker Tele Atlas NV on Wednesday, topping an offer by rival TomTom NV by 15 percent.
The Netherlands will ease a ban on Segway electric scooters, allowing them to be ridden along the country's bicycle lanes and roads, the Transportation Ministry said Tuesday.
Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Thursday its third-quarter profit rose 16 percent despite a fall in production, but it warned that the underlying performance of its refining operations was weaker than it appeared.
A Dutch museum said Friday it is having trouble getting its hands on a parasite that just about everybody else is anxious to avoid: crabs.
ASML Holding NV, a key supplier of semiconductor equipment to chipmakers, said Wednesday its profit dipped in the third quarter and expects an increase in orders for the coming year.
A U.S. think-tank said Tuesday funds have been established in the United States and the Netherlands to help pay protection costs for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch author who faces death threats as a result of her criticism of radical Islam.
Dutch police arrested 11 Greenpeace activists who boarded a cargo ship Saturday to stop it unloading newsprint paper they suspected was made from ancient trees felled in Canadian forests, the environmental group said.
The Netherlands will ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, the government announced Friday, tightening the country's famed liberal drug policies after the suicide of an intoxicated teenage girl.
The Italian cabinet has approved negotiations aimed at Air France-KLM acquiring the government's controlling stake in struggling Alitalia.
Geert Wilders, the right-wing leader of an anti-immigration party, sharply criticized Queen Beatrix's Christmas Day speech, saying it amounted to "multi-culti nonsense."
"Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated!" By Thomas Horn
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch diplomat who caused an uproar when he returned an adopted Korean girl after seven years said he did so on medical advice because she had such severe problems fitting into the family.
The Netherlands delegation to the United Nations General Assembly has been instructed by parliament to change its position and give its support to demands for an international enquiry into the effects of depleted uranium.
Senior medical figures in Italy are campaigning to scrap the Hippocratic Oath for doctors on the ground that the passages forbidding abortion and euthanasia are outdated.
To support the proposed internationalization of Newsvine this user will report on a weekly basis on the Dutch issues that are dominating the Dutch news.
Dutch broadcasting companies IKON and Radio Netherlands Worldwide believe their new website www.bibleandkoran.net will build a bridge between Christians and Muslims. In a world first, the website will allow unrestricted and anonymous access to the Bible and the Koran.
AUSTRALIA'S number-one fugitive, once dubbed by police as the drug dealer to the stars, has been captured in Holland after three years on the run.
Dutch coach Marco van Basten has announced that he will step down after Euro 2008.
The city museum of The Hague has decided not to include in an exhibition a work of art that may offend Muslims, it was reported on Monday.
Belarus defeats Netherlands in the Euro 2008 qualifiers, the last match-day of the Group G. Watch all goals here!
The Netherlands' 2-1 loss to Belarus last night didn't stop them from joining champions Greece and co-hosts Austria and Switzerland in top seeding positions for Euro 2008. World Cup runners up France, meanwhile, are seeded third last.
Netherlands and Luxembourg is a match counting for the Euro 2008 qualifiers. Read a preview, get the live streams and watch the highlights in this article.
The right-wing Liberal party (VVD) has drawn up a 28-point plan to toughen up asylum laws, ban dual nationality, slash the number of low-skilled immigrants and reduce the number of 'imported' brides.
The journalist who had arranged the trip and conducted all the previous communication was away on reserve duty when the Dutch Consulate requested a preview of the questions that the journalists intended to ask.
An investigation into a Europe-wide child pornography network has led to 92 arrests across eight countries, prosecutors say. The network made videos of children being abused and sold them to 2,500 customers in 19 countries, says the European police force, Europol.
Mrs. Vos and her husband hid three dozen Jews in their home in the Netherlands during World War II, shepherding them into a secret tunnel whenever the Gestapo pounded on the door.
Belgium on Wednesday demanded the extradition of the convict known as the "jailbreak king" following his arrest for armed robbery in the Netherlands a day earlier.
Police in the Netherlands say they have cracked a crime ring which allegedly trafficked Nigerian children into the West to work as sex slaves. At least 19 people were arrested in the Netherlands and five other countries including the US and Britain.
The Dutch security service the AIVD, has reported that Salafism is gaining ground in Holland.
Brian Mikkelsen, the Danish culture minister, has indicated the government would be willing to allow outspoken Dutch-Somali author Ayaan Hirsi Ali to live in Denmark under its protection from fanatical Muslims seeking to kill her.
The Dutch - famous defenders of liberalism - remain taken aback by the accusations that they, of all people, would ban white socks.
The diseased chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II has been granted a reprieve.
Since mid-2005, a third phase has emerged in the Netherlands, led by Muslims of the second generation in the West.
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