Scattered confrontations broke out Saturday between supporters and opponents of the divisive helper of the Dutch version of Santa Claus, police and media reported, amid a fierce and increasingly polarized debate about the helper known as Black Pete. White people often daub their faces with ...
Seasoned, confident Dutch team focused on winning
These Dutch are hot and dangerous right now. The Netherlands advanced to the World Baseball Classic final round for the second straight edition, and is perhaps better this time because of experienced amassed along the way. Slugger Wladimir Balentien, though, said he doesn't feel a sense ...
Minister admits FBI warned Dutch about wanted El Bakraoui brothers week before Brussels attacks
The FBI told Dutch police that two brothers were being sought by Belgian authorities a week before the pair blew themselves up in suicide attacks in Brussels, the Dutch interior minister said on Tuesday. Ard van der Steur was responding by letter to questions from ...
At request of Paris, Dutch collar Frenchman suspected of plotting attack
Dutch police arrested a 32-year-old Frenchman in the port city of Rotterdam on Sunday at the request of French authorities who suspect him of "involvement in planning a terror attack," prosecutors said. Residents were evacuated from homes near addresses on two streets that were raided ...
Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff, who revolutionized the game with the concept of "Total Football," has died. He was 68. Family spokeswoman Carole Thate confirmed to The Associated Press that Cruyff had died. Joaquin Munoz of the Cruyff Foundation in Barcelona said he died as ...
Japan settles for ¥1.1 million payment to Dutch ex-POW, 95, denied hibakusha care
The central government has agreed in a court-mediated settlement to pay ¥1.1 million in compensation to a Dutchman who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a prisoner of war, his lawyers said. In the settlement reached at the Nagasaki District Court on ...
Dutch seen weighing plan to ferry refugees back to Turkey from Greece to ease flow
Senior Dutch government officials are discussing a plan to ferry refugees arriving in Greece back to Turkey to stem the flow of migrants seeking refuge in Europe, Labour Party leader Diederik Samsom said on Thursday. Samsom said in an interview with the daily Volkskrant that ...
MH17 crash site yields possible Russia-made Buk missile parts: Dutch prosecutors
Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have found what they believe could be parts of a Buk missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year. The announcement represents the first time prosecutors have confirmed possible physical ...
Dutch set to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigation
Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar on Tuesday. Members of the national Safety Board will piece together the ...
Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters Sunday in an attempt to gain control over the area where a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed earlier this month. Reports of the intensifying unrest prompted a postponement of a trip to the site ...
Documents detail how Imperial military forced Dutch females to be 'comfort women'
Documents on how Japanese forces carted off 35 Dutch women from a prison camp to provide sex during the war are handed to a civic group in Tokyo.
