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The 28th edition of the Eco-marathon kicked off in Rotterdam this afternoon. The Eco-marathon...

Two Dutch lawyers representing women who have suffered health problems due to leaking PIP breast implants have announced that they are investigating whether it is possible to...

According to the Spring Accord, the budget deal agreed by a five-party coalition three weeks ago, the pensionable age will rise by one month next year, followed by one month...

A majority of Dutch Labour party voters are opposed to the budget agreement, hammered out three weeks ago by a five-party coalition, now that the financial details have been...

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Colin Powell could be charged with war crimes resulting from an illegal intervention in Iraq, that killed a million innocent men, women and children on the basis of a lie.

The bike club located in Hainan, a province in Southern China is a bike stadium devoted to pedaling.

As the Ugandan military seeks to flush out Joseph Kony, leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, analysts are downplaying the significance of last weekend's capture of a senior commander from the group.

[Times of Zambia] THE Government has signed a bilateral Air Service Agreement with the Netherlands government that will allow both countries' airlines to enter the respective markets without restrictions.

Vitesse are on the verge of qualifying for football in Europe next season. The Arnhem club beat RKC by three goals to one in Waalwijk on Thursday. RKC...

The Soyuz rocket that will bring Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers home arrived at the International Space Station ISS and docked on Thursday, according to Russian Mission...

At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the case against Ratko Mladic continued on Thursday. On the second day of the proceedings, the prosecution...

Today is Dutch Crown Princess Máxima's 41st birthday. The princess is celebrating her birthday with her family, according to the Government...

A majority of Dutch Labour party voters are opposed to the budget agreement, hammered out three weeks ago by a five-party coalition, now that the financial details have been...

It's not uncommon for the popular file-sharing website to be down for a few hours, but an outage this long is rare.

The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has been indefinitely postponed one day after it started. Presiding judge Alphons Orie made the announcement...

The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted on Thursday, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities" in the...

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The trial in Oslo of self-confessed mass-killer Anders Breivik has started hearing testimonies of those who were hit by his bullets at the Utoya summer camp, but who survived to...

GREECE: Senior judge Panagiotis Pikramenos was named Greece's caretaker prime minister today, and new elections will be held on June 17, according to reports on state TV.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Thursday expressed concern for the safety of witnesses in the case of four Kenyans accused of crimes against humanity in 2007-8...

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is seen at the start of his trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday May 16, 2012.

A Dutchman charged with conspiring to export prohibited goods to Iran has been sentenced to six months in prison by a New Jersey court and ordered to pay a 2,000-dollar fine....

Freedom Party PVV leader Geert Wilders is seeking an injunction against the Dutch state in a bid to scrap the European Stability Mechanism, a permanent bailout fund which is...

China and the Netherlands on Tuesday agreed to expand their mutual investment and oppose trade protectionism to seek closer trade ties.

China and the Netherlands on Tuesday agreed to expand their mutual investment and oppose trade protectionism to seek closer trade ties.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor waits for the start of the judgment hearing of his trial on April 26, 2012.

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Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday called for the disbanding of a paedophile group named Martijn which advocates consensual sex between adults and children, saying it threatened...

French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who studied German, could prove a key asset as France seeks to assuage Germany's austerity drive in the eurozone. He told DW Paris and Berlin...

Greece is to have another election, following the failure of last-ditch attempts to form a coalition government. The Radical Left may be in a position to increase its share of the vote.

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since World War...

The trial of former Bosnian Serb army leader Ratko Mladic started at the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague at 0900 local time on Wednesday morning. Mladic is...

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing, including Europe's worst atrocity since World...

Dutch wages are among the highest, not just in terms of gross salaries but also in terms of what workers actually receive after deduction of taxes and...

If there’s one big story today, it’s Greece. The papers also worry about the latest government cutbacks, the rights of asylum seekers, ‘sewer...

Widows and relatives of victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica on Wednesday denounced wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic as a "butcher" ahead of his trial before a...

The trial of wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic opened before a UN court Wednesday, where he faces charges for some of the worst atrocities committed in Europe since World...

Outgoing Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager on Wednesday announced reaching a definitive budget agreement with the party leaders of the conservative VVD, the Christian...

The Netherlands’ electoral council has announced that Freedom Party dissident Hero Brinkman can use the name Onafhankelijke Burger Partij Independent Citizen’s...

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The Dutch foreign ministry has published a booklet warning fans of the Dutch squad not to visit prostitutes, be careful when using alcohol or drugs and to take into...

Sierra Leone's UN-backed war crimes court will hear arguments Wednesday on the sentencing of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, who has been convicted of war crimes and crimes...

Convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor accused UN prosecutors Wednesday of paying witnesses to testify against him as he addressed a war crimes court in The Hague.Taylor,...

The brand new French President Francois Hollande had a mission on his first stormy trip to Berlin: renegotiate the EU fiscal compact. But the German chancellor was in no mood to slow...

Attempts to form a government in Greece have failed. Now that the parties have failed, says DW's Spiros Moskovou, it's up to the people to prevent the collapse of the country at new...

Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has appeared at the Hague tribunal, accused of mass murder and the expulsion of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. Two decades on, many...

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has announced new charges against a former Congolese rebel leader who is also a general in the Congolese Army despite having been already accused of war crimes.

Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen.

The Dutch children's ombudsman has called for better monitoring of children living in poverty in the Netherlands. According to the first edition of the Netherlands...

The Dutch children's ombudsman has called for better monitoring of children living in poverty in the Netherlands. According to the first edition of the Netherlands...