World & Nation
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has visited the king to hand in the resignation of his four-party coalition, setting the deeply divided Netherlands on track for a general election later this year.
July 8, 2023
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his Cabinet are resigning, citing deadlock in a four-party coalition over how to rein in migration to the Netherlands.
July 7, 2023
First came the sighs of relief — and now come hard questions.
March 16, 2017
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte appeared to handily defeat anti-Muslim candidate Geert Wilders in a Netherlands parliamentary vote Wednesday seen as a key barometer of the political mood in Europe and the strength of the far right.
March 15, 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan drove his dispute with European nations to the hilt Sunday, claiming that “Nazism is alive in the West” after two of his ministers were prevented from campaigning in the Netherlands over the weekend.
March 12, 2017
Protest marches from Rome to Rotterdam bring out tens of thousands of people angry and fed up over COVID lockdown measures.
Nov. 22, 2021
Trial: U.S. seeks to seize $9 million from ex-deputy attorney general. Court told of cash, cars offered as bribes.
March 13, 1997
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte halted the search for victims’ remains and belongings at the eastern Ukraine site of the July 17 Malaysia Airlines passenger jet crash, saying Wednesday that the intensifying clashes in the area made it too dangerous for the forensic investigators to work.
Aug. 6, 2014
The Netherlands went into national mourning Friday over the scores of Dutch victims in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which took off from Amsterdam but never reached its destination.
July 18, 2014
The Netherlands went into national mourning Friday over the scores of Dutch victims in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which took off from Amsterdam but never reached its destination.