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Brief altercation between fans mars France-Israel soccer match despite heavy security
Read full article: Brief altercation between fans mars France-Israel soccer match despite heavy securityThere was a brief altercation between a small number of fans early into Thursday’s Nations League soccer game between France and Israel despite heavy security inside the stadium, a week after violence erupted in Amsterdam in connection with an Israeli club team’s visit.
Dutch lawmaker Wilders wants to deport those convicted of violence against Israeli soccer fans
Read full article: Dutch lawmaker Wilders wants to deport those convicted of violence against Israeli soccer fansHard-right Dutch political leader Geert Wilders has blamed “Moroccans” for attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam last week and recommended the deportation of people convicted of involvement if they have dual nationality.
Amsterdam warns of new calls for unrest after violence around Israeli soccer match
Read full article: Amsterdam warns of new calls for unrest after violence around Israeli soccer matchDutch police are warning of calls for more rioting in Amsterdam a day after dozens of people armed with sticks and firecrackers set a tram on fire in the Dutch capital.
Paris will deploy 4,000 police officers for France-Israel soccer match following Amsterdam violence
Read full article: Paris will deploy 4,000 police officers for France-Israel soccer match following Amsterdam violenceParis police say that 4,000 officers and 1,600 stadium staff will be deployed for a France-Israel soccer match to ensure security in and around the stadium and on public transportation.
Amsterdam police detain pro-Palestinian protesters at banned demonstration
Read full article: Amsterdam police detain pro-Palestinian protesters at banned demonstrationPolice have detained dozens of people for taking part in a demonstration in central Amsterdam that had been outlawed following violent clashes targeting fans of an Israeli soccer club.
Attacks on Israeli soccer fans in the Netherlands prompts prime minister to cancel climate trip
Read full article: Attacks on Israeli soccer fans in the Netherlands prompts prime minister to cancel climate tripDutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has canceled his planned trip to United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan so he can stay in the Netherlands to deal with the fallout from assaults on fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team in Amsterdam that authorities condemned as antisemitic.
Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam. The violence was condemned as antisemitic
Read full article: Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam. The violence was condemned as antisemiticDutch authorities say Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people.
Delta flight from Detroit to Amsterdam forced to stop after passengers served spoiled food
Read full article: Delta flight from Detroit to Amsterdam forced to stop after passengers served spoiled foodA Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was forced to make a stop after passengers were served spoiled food.
Dutch court convicts 3 men of murder in fatal shooting of investigative reporter in 2021
Read full article: Dutch court convicts 3 men of murder in fatal shooting of investigative reporter in 2021A Dutch court has convicted three men of murder for their roles in the 2021 shooting of investigative reporter Peter R.
Police break up another protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam
Read full article: Police break up another protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of AmsterdamIn sometimes violent confrontations, police have broken up a protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam Wednesday in a second straight day of unrest over the war in Gaza.
Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve US lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris
Read full article: Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve US lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debrisMedical device maker Philips will pay $1.1 billion to settle personal injury lawsuits in the U.S. over its defective sleep apnea machines.
Dutch court says the government must do more to rein in noise pollution at Amsterdam's busy airport
Read full article: Dutch court says the government must do more to rein in noise pollution at Amsterdam's busy airportA Dutch court says the government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
The Netherlands opens a Holocaust museum as protesters oppose Israeli president's presence
Read full article: The Netherlands opens a Holocaust museum as protesters oppose Israeli president's presenceThe Netherlands has opened a National Holocaust Museum in a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king and Israel's President Isaac Herzog, whose presence triggered protests by pro-Palestinian groups.
Henderson apologizes to LGBTQ+ community for short-lived Saudi stay after moving to Ajax
Read full article: Henderson apologizes to LGBTQ+ community for short-lived Saudi stay after moving to AjaxJordan Henderson has apologized to the LGBTQ+ community that fiercely criticized his transfer from Liverpool to Al-Ettifaq.
A wildcat strike that shut down English Channel rail services is over with gradual return of trains
Read full article: A wildcat strike that shut down English Channel rail services is over with gradual return of trainsA wildcat strike by staff at Eurotunnel, which links Britain and the European continent and paralyzed dozens of Eurostar trains, has ended.
Rembrandt portraits that were privately held for nearly 200 years go on show in Amsterdam
Read full article: Rembrandt portraits that were privately held for nearly 200 years go on show in AmsterdamA pair of small portraits by 17th-century Dutch Master Rembrandt van Rijn have gone on display after a long-term loan to the Netherlands’ national art and history museum.
Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania qualify for Euro 2024. France crushes Gibraltar in record 14-0 win
Read full article: Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania qualify for Euro 2024. France crushes Gibraltar in record 14-0 winThe Netherlands, Switzerland and Romania have all secured places at next year’s European Championship.
Ukrainian children's war diaries are displayed in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank wrote in hiding
Read full article: Ukrainian children's war diaries are displayed in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank wrote in hidingThe city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later.
Amsterdam wants ships to moor less, votes to move terminal out of city in latest hit to tourism
Read full article: Amsterdam wants ships to moor less, votes to move terminal out of city in latest hit to tourismAmsterdam wants to move a cruise liner terminal out of the heart of the historic capital city.
Amsterdam court gives green light to plan to reduce flights at busy Schiphol Airport
Read full article: Amsterdam court gives green light to plan to reduce flights at busy Schiphol AirportAppeals court judges in Amsterdam say the Dutch government can order Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, to reduce the number of flights from 500,000 per year to 460,000.
Amsterdam's Hermitage museum is renamed after cutting ties with Russia following Ukraine invasion
Read full article: Amsterdam's Hermitage museum is renamed after cutting ties with Russia following Ukraine invasionAn Amsterdam museum that severed ties with St. Petersburg’s Hermitage collection after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year has been renamed.
High art becomes body art as visitors to Amsterdam's Rembrandt House Museum get inked
Read full article: High art becomes body art as visitors to Amsterdam's Rembrandt House Museum get inkedA famous Dutch tattoo artist is inking sketches by Rembrandt van Rijn onto the skin of visitors to the building the Golden Age master once called home.
Dutch Supreme Court orders museum artifacts borrowed from Crimea returned to Ukraine
Read full article: Dutch Supreme Court orders museum artifacts borrowed from Crimea returned to UkraineThe Supreme Court of the Netherlands has ordered that a Dutch museum’s trove of historical treasures from Crimea be sent to Ukraine.
Dutch court nixes plan to reduce flights at Schiphol Airport
Read full article: Dutch court nixes plan to reduce flights at Schiphol AirportA judge has ruled that the Dutch government cannot order Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, to reduce the number of flights from 500,000 per year to 460,000.
Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches $45M
Read full article: Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches $45MA painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for 37.2 million pounds ($44.9 million).
Report criticizes Dutch protection system after 3 slayings
Read full article: Report criticizes Dutch protection system after 3 slayingsA critical report into the protection of three murder victims, including a celebrated Dutch journalist shot in downtown Amsterdam, says that security services in a “fragmented” system did not always act on tips about possible threats.
Stellantis earnings rise as EV push drives higher sales
Read full article: Stellantis earnings rise as EV push drives higher salesAutomaker Stellantis says earnings grew in 2022 from a year earlier and its push into electric vehicles led to a jump in sales even as it faces growing competition from the industrywide shift.
Survey shows lack of Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands
Read full article: Survey shows lack of Holocaust awareness in the NetherlandsA Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands says the results show “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust.”.
Dutch judges to deliver verdicts in MH17 downed plane trial
Read full article: Dutch judges to deliver verdicts in MH17 downed plane trialA Dutch court is set to deliver verdicts Thursday in the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian rebel for their alleged roles in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Schiphol Airport chief quits after summer of travel chaos
Read full article: Schiphol Airport chief quits after summer of travel chaosThe CEO of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has quit after a summer that descended into chaos and flight cancellations amid staff shortages in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline day: EPL clubs still active after $2 billion outlay
Read full article: Deadline day: EPL clubs still active after $2 billion outlayA wild summer transfer window was about to close with Manchester United and Manchester City completing deadline-day signings and other Premier League clubs still active in the market despite England’s top flight already spending more than $2 billion on new players.
Amsterdam's Schiphol compensating air travelers hit by chaos
Read full article: Amsterdam's Schiphol compensating air travelers hit by chaosAmsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has launched a compensation program for travelers who missed their flights because of lengthy delays that have plagued the busy European hub for months.
Videos in English depict last 6 months of Anne Frank's life
Read full article: Videos in English depict last 6 months of Anne Frank's lifeThe Anne Frank House museum is releasing an English-language version of three videos in which an actress playing the young Jewish diarist describes the last six months of her life.
Cars hit tires dumped on Dutch highway amid farmer protests
Read full article: Cars hit tires dumped on Dutch highway amid farmer protestsPolice say cars crashed into tires and other garbage piled on a highway in the northern Netherlands by radical farmers protesting against government plans to rein in nitrogen emissions.
Dutch government to rein in flights at Schiphol Airport
Read full article: Dutch government to rein in flights at Schiphol AirportThe Dutch government plans to cut the maximum number of flights allowed each year at the country’s busiest aviation hub, Schiphol Airport, in an attempt to reduce noise and air pollution.
Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacks
Read full article: Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacksAfter two years of pandemic restrictions, travel demand is back, but airlines and airports that slashed jobs during the depths of the COVID-19 crisis are struggling to keep up.
Dutch prosecutors demand life sentences in reporter slaying
Read full article: Dutch prosecutors demand life sentences in reporter slayingProsecutors have demanded life sentences for two men charged in the brazen killing of a Dutch investigative reporter as his children paid tribute to a courageous journalist and loving father and grandfather.
Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book amid critique
Read full article: Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book amid critiqueA group of Dutch historians has published an in-depth criticism of the work and conclusion of a cold case team that said it had pieced together the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.
Amsterdam Apple shop hostage-taker sought 200M-euro ransom
Read full article: Amsterdam Apple shop hostage-taker sought 200M-euro ransomPolice say that an armed man who held a hostage for hours in the Apple Store in Amsterdam demanded a ransom of 200 million euros (more than $226 million) in cryptocurrencies before he was run over by police as he chased his hostage out of the shop.
Europe storms: Ships collide off Dutch coast; crew evacuated
Read full article: Europe storms: Ships collide off Dutch coast; crew evacuatedThe Dutch coast guard says rescue helicopters have evacuated all 18 crew members from a ship that was left drifting rudderless in a wind turbine park off the Dutch North Sea coast after colliding with another ship during a powerful storm.
Cold case team shines new light on betrayal of Anne Frank
Read full article: Cold case team shines new light on betrayal of Anne FrankA cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II’s enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.
Tulips for Amsterdam: Growers hand out free flowers
Read full article: Tulips for Amsterdam: Growers hand out free flowersAs stores in Amsterdam and across the Netherlands cautiously reopened after weeks of a coronavirus lockdown, the Dutch capital’s mood was further lightened by dashes of color as thousands of free bunches of tulips were handed out.
Dutch impose new tighter lockdown amid spiking infections
Read full article: Dutch impose new tighter lockdown amid spiking infectionsThe Netherlands has moved into a tougher lockdown that was announced amid spiking infection rates even before the country recorded its first confirmed cases of the new, more highly transmissible omicron variant.
Dutch police arrest more than 30 amid ongoing unrest
Read full article: Dutch police arrest more than 30 amid ongoing unrestDutch police have arrested more than 30 people amid unrest in The Hague and other towns in the Netherlands that followed violence that erupted the previous night at a protest against coronavirus restrictions.
2 men guilty of lawyer's murder that shocked the Netherlands
Read full article: 2 men guilty of lawyer's murder that shocked the NetherlandsTwo men have been convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of a Dutch lawyer who represented a witness in a high-profile criminal case against suspected gangland bosses.
New Rijksmuseum exhibition showcases Renaissance portraits
Read full article: New Rijksmuseum exhibition showcases Renaissance portraitsThere is a gathering at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum of people from around Europe depicted in more than 100 Renaissance portraits as COVID-19 lockdowns ease and borders reopen.
Dutch court jails 'incorrigible' thief over 2 museum heists
Read full article: Dutch court jails 'incorrigible' thief over 2 museum heistsA 59-year-old man, described as an “incorrigible and calculating criminal” has been convicted of stealing a painting by Vincent van Gogh and another by Frans Hals from two Dutch museums last year.
'New' Van Gogh drawing to go on display in Amsterdam museum
Read full article: 'New' Van Gogh drawing to go on display in Amsterdam museumA drawing newly attributed to Vincent van Gogh that has never been displayed publicly before is going on show at the Amsterdam museum that bears the Dutch master’s name.
EU regulator evaluating if COVID vaccine booster is needed
Read full article: EU regulator evaluating if COVID vaccine booster is neededThe European Medicines Agency says it has started an expedited evaluation on whether to recommend use of a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech.
"A childless father": MH-17 families speak of deep trauma
Read full article: "A childless father": MH-17 families speak of deep traumaRelatives of the 298 passengers and crew killed on July 17, 2014, when a Buk missile blew a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur out of the sky above conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, are finally having their say.
Dutch crime reporter shot, badly wounded in Amsterdam street
Read full article: Dutch crime reporter shot, badly wounded in Amsterdam streetOne of the Netherlands’ best known crime reporters has been shot in a brazen attack in downtown Amsterdam, and the city's mayor say he is fighting for his life in a hospital.