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The newly elected chemical weapons chief says he will pursue the last seven holdouts — including Israel, Egypt and Syria — to get them to sign a disarmament treaty and submit weapons stockpiles for inspection.
The Dutch government plans to bring the polluter-pays principle into the home garage.
A Somali man suspected of recruiting youth in Minneapolis for Islamic terrorism in Somalia has a U.S. green card, Dutch media reported Friday.
Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have arrested a 43-year-old Somali man wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly financing Islamic extremist terrorists.
Unilever NV, maker of Dove soaps and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, saw net profit fall 36 percent for the third quarter, mostly because earnings in the same period a year ago benefited from the sale of operations.
The Dutch marked the fifth anniversary Monday of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic, a brutal killing that continues to shape politics in the Netherlands.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, reported Thursday a 62 percent fall in profit for the third quarter due to lower oil prices, and said it plans to cut 5,000 jobs to cope with continuing weakness in the global economy.
A Dutch court ruled Friday that 14-year-old Laura Dekker was still too inexperienced to be allowed to set off on her quest to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
European services giant ING Groep NV said Monday it will split itself in two, spinning off its insurance arm to simplify its business and issuing euro7.5 billion ($11.3 billion) in new shares to repay state bailout money.
A Dutch court declared DSB Bank NV bankrupt on Monday, ending hopes the regional lender, which suffered a run on deposits, might be sold or bailed out.
Anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders returned to Britain on Friday — eight months after being turned away by authorities at Heathrow Airport.
ASML Holding NV, a key supplier to computer chip makers, reported Wednesday a net profit of euro20 million ($29.7 million) for the third quarter, ending a nine-month streak of losses, and said new orders had increased sharply.
It's said that greed pushes investors to buy stocks when they're overpriced, while fear drives sales when stocks are at or near a bottom.
Royal Philips Electronics NV reported net profit of euro174 million ($256 million) for the third quarter on Monday, three times the depressed levels of a year ago, due to cost-cutting measures.
Lawyers for three Swedish men denied in Dutch civil court Thursday that the men are the owners of The Pirate Bay web site.
The Dutch are about to learn how Italian police catch speeders.
While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum seeks to remind us there was more method than madness to his style.
The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam has begun airing the only known video of the teenage diarist on a channel dedicated to her on YouTube.
U.S. health care products maker Johnson & Johnson Inc. has bought an 18 percent stake in Dutch biotechnology company Crucell NV for euro301.8 million ($440 million) in hopes of developing a universal flu vaccine, the companies said Monday.
Consumer products giant Unilever NV said Friday it has agreed to buy businesses including the Sanex and Duschdas brands from Sara Lee Corp. for euro1.28 billion ($1.88 billion)
Hundreds of British, American and Dutch parachutists drifted out of blue skies over the central Netherlands on Saturday to mark the 65th anniversary of an ill-fated operation aimed at bringing a swift end to World War II.
Dutch police were hunting Thursday for one of the country's most notorious human traffickers after he fled while on a temporarily release from prison to visit his wife and newborn baby.
Greenpeace said Thursday it has uncovered new evidence linking a major oil trading company to toxic waste that killed 15 people in Ivory Coast in 2006, and asked Dutch prosecutors to reconsider charging executives with illegal dumping.
A court has cleared a man on a charge of mutilating his young daughter's genitals in the Netherlands' first trial linked to an alleged female circumcision ceremony.
The top commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan said Friday he sees no signs of a major al-Qaida presence in the country, but says the terror group still maintains close links to insurgents.
Netherlands To Sell Bulk of its Swine Flu JabsFor Sale: 19 Million Doses of Pandemic Vaccine, as Good as New
Yuck: Scientists Grow Pork In LaboratoryDutch scientists are doing their bit to address the food crisis, the climate crisis and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals by growing pork meat from muscle cells harvested from a live pig.
Scientists 'grow' meat in laboratoryThe move towards artificially engineered foods has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time.
Scientists grow meat in laboratory | Deccan ChronicleA team in the Netherlands has created the "soggy pork" by using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish, which it believes may lead to sausages and processed products being made from laboratory meat in five years.
Fear of heights boosts church renovation costA civil servant with a fear of heights is partly responsible for a Limburg village spending several hundred thousand euros more than the budget to renovate a church spire, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday.
Court ruling forces Mininova to end illegal torrentsThe Netherlands-based file-sharing website Mininova has removed all torrents that enabled users to download copyright-protected material.
Arsenal's Robin van Persie to soothe ankle pains with placenta massageRobin van Persie intends to do everything he can to get back into action for Arsenal as soon as possible – and will travel to Serbia for radical medical treatment that involves a massage using fluid from a placenta.
Giant cat dies after two years in custodyA giant Ashera cat seized by customs officials at Schiphol airport almost two years ago, has died of unknown causes while still under official investigation, the Telegraaf reports.
VW bus stolen 35 years ago is found in shipping container bound for Europe -- latimes.comCustoms agents inspecting a load bound for the Netherlands discovered a 1965 van that disappeared from a Spokane repair shop in 1974. CHP investigators are searching for the thieves.
114 countries voted for the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Richard Goldstone Report on Gaza, 18 voted against, 44 abstained, and 16 were absent.
Dutch 'among lowest cannabis users'THE Dutch are among the lowest users of marijuana or cannabis in Europe despite the Netherlands' well-known tolerance of the drug, according to a regional study.
The woman who had to go under the knife - after swallowing an entire canteen of cutleryMargaret Daalman came to hospital complaining of stomach ache - and one glance at her X-ray shows why. Surgeons in Rotterdam in the Netherlands were flabbergasted when X-rays showed 78 different items of cutlery in the 52-year-old woman's stomach.
Waterpolo sisters guilty of attacking opponentTwo sisters have been found guilty of physically abusing an opponent during a water polo match by holding her under the water so long she almost drowned, news agency ANP reported on Thursday.
French Vogue Showcases a White Fashion Model Painted BlackIn a dubious editorial move, a Dutch model poses as a painted Black woman in a fashion magazine. On the heels of a roundly criticized Australian minstrel act (The Jackson Jive), why is so little tact being shown regarding racial depictions?
Anti-Pirates Try to Nail The Pirate Bay with Faked Evidence In August, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN won its case against The Pirate Bay, and the court ordered the defendants to block access to Dutch visitors. The case was appealed today and rightly so.
Netherlands has Europe's best healthcare systemThe HCP research director, Dr. Arne Bjornberg, comments on the EHCI 2009 outcomes: "As the Netherlands are expanding their lead among the best performing countries, the Index indicates that the Dutch might have found a successful approach.
War in Afghanistan: Civilians Killed in Dutch Air Raid An air attack by a Dutch F-16 on September 30, 2009 resulted in civilian casualties in Afghanistan.
World's top climate scientists, top science journal Nature: CO2 must NOT exceed 350 ppmThe World's top climate scientists including Professors James Hansen (US), Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Germany) , Paul Crutzen (Netherlands Nobel Laureate), top journal Nature: air CO2 must NOT exceed 350 ppm.
Breathalyse pedestrians, says Dutch ministerHome affairs minister Guusje ter Horst wants to introduce breathalyser tests for pedestrians in popular night club areas to cut down on alcohol-related crime and violence.
Crime hotline caller's details made publicThe identity of a woman who rang a telephone crime hotline with a tip-off about a fatal stabbing has been made known to the defendant because her phone was being tapped at the time, news agency ANP reports on Monday.
Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response To FOXFor eight years CNN & corporate media have ignored the Left. When challenged by FOX that it failed to cover the Right, CNN is apoplectic to prove it covers the Right extensively. Shameful bias and hypocrisy.
Speech by Geert Wilders on the first day of the General Debate in the Dutch parliament | EuropeNews"But, fair is fair; there is also a lot being achieved by this government. For instance, integration goes very well… At least, the integration of the Netherlands into Dar-al-Islam, the Islamic world.
Dutch lawmaker Wilders wants headscarf taxGeert Wilders has done it again. The leader of the far-right Freedom Party managed to make the Dutch headlines during the annual general political debate. Wilders's newest proposal is to tax the Muslim headscarf.
The brain may not be fooled by sugar substitutesSome of us have already suspected this -- but now hard evidence shows that the brain is not fooled by sugar substitutes as dieticians had hoped. Somehow the brain also measures calories in addition to sweetness.
Congress.org - Abortion is Big Business!Credible sources allege that mandated abortions are included in Obama Care 3200 which would lead to the reduction of future U.S.
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