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Dutch police open fire on COVID lockdown protesters as European nations reintroduce restrictions

Police opened fire on anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch city of Rotterdam Friday as several European cities braced for further demonstrations against new COVID restrictions.

Dutch movie theaters remain open, IDFA to run as planned, despite partial lockdown

The Netherlands imposed a partial lockdown Friday, amid a surge in COVID-19 infections, but the entertainment business escaped unscathed, with movie theaters remaining open, and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) set to run as an in-person event as planned.

Dutch court hands jail term to refugee over ties to anti-Iran terror group

A court in the Netherlands sentenced an Iranian refugee to four years in prison after he was convicted of preparing and financing terror attacks in the Islamic Republic.

Dutch crime reporter dies after shooting

Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was critically wounded after being shot in broad daylight in Amsterdam last week, died in hospital, Dutch media reports said Thursday.

Dutch police arrest man over £18m theft of Van Gogh and Hals paintings

Dutch police arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals with an estimated value of £18m during night-time raids on museums in the Netherlands last year.

'Insane' blast damages Dutch coronavirus test center

An explosion struck a Dutch coronavirus test center in a "cowardly act of destruction" on Wednesday, shattering windows but causing no injuries, police and government officials said.

Dutch PM condemns coronavirus curfew riots as 'criminal violence'

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has condemned weekend riots against newly imposed coronavirus restrictions as "criminal violence".

Job whale done as dutch train lifted to safety

Cranes safely lifted a Dutch metro carriage off a huge sculpture of a whale's tail on Tuesday, a day after the artwork stopped the runaway train from crashing to the ground.

Huge whale's tail sculpture saves Dutch metro train from plummeting into water below

This really was a fluke.

Dutch museums vow to return art looted by colonialists

Thousands of pieces of art deemed looted by Dutch colonialists could be returned to their country of origin after the Netherlands’ most famous museums backed a report proposing a wholesale “recognition and rectification of these injustices”.

Zarif discusses ties, intl. issues with Dutch, Austrian counterparts

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Dutch welcome new ideas on EU recovery fund but deal far off

The Dutch welcomed new proposals on a massive EU stimulus fund on Saturday in a second day of negotiations among the bloc’s leaders though a final deal on how to revive growth stifled by the coronavirus pandemic remained far off.

Dutch close museums, ban public gatherings amid virus outbreak

Two of the Netherlands’ premier tourist attractions, the Rijksmuseum national gallery and Van Gogh museum, closed to the public as a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people was imposed in response to the coronavirus epidemic.

Dutch police: Two suspected letter bomb blasts; no injuries

Two suspected letter bombs exploded early Wednesday in the Netherlands, police said. Nobody was injured in the blasts.

Dutch art detective finds stolen invaluable copy of Hafez book of poetry, worth €1 million

A stolen 15th-century book by the famed Persian poet Hafez was recovered by a Dutch art detective after years that Iranian authorities had also been on the hunt for it.