Netherlands News

But no one knows what will happen if, over the next year or so, one or more countries actually reject the EU constitution.

The Associated Press Keita Sugimoto, Masahiro Koga and Brazilian Claiton all scored in the second half Sunday as Nagoya Grampus Eight upset Jubilo Iwata 3-0 in the J. League's first division.

The Dutch government has begun its phased pullout of its military personnel from Iraq, Radio Netherlands reported Monday.

The European Constitution was signed on 29 October 2004 at a ceremony in Rome, but before it can be adopted it must be ratified by all 25 EU member states, either through a referendum or by vote in the national ...

Dutch dairy producer Friesland Foods claims that increased sales volumes of its key brands to Southeast Asia and West Africa have helped it deliver 'satisfactory' 2004 results, but a continuing sales decline ...

There has been speculation in the media here that a new citizenship test for immigrants to the Netherlands might include this question about Dutch soccer: "If Holland is playing the national team from your ...

A paramilitary leader accused of atrocities against Muslims during the Bosnian war will surrender to the United Nations war-crimes tribunal after five years on the run, the Serbian government said Sunday.

Want us to spy for you? Here's the bill. That's what, in effect, a Dutch Internet service provider is saying to its government as it sues for reimbursement of costs it says it has incurred to install technology ...

TV watchers in Norway got a video view of the future during a live broadcast of a ski competition.

IT'S a good bet that the average moviegoer knows little about Ka zakhstan, a former So viet republic bordered by China and Russia.

The present Dutch government is taking seriously a recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents that have taken place within the last few years, said the Dutch ambassador to Canada.

A Dutch cafeteria owner used piping hot french fries to fend off a gun-wielding would-be robber, police in the southern city of Helmond said on Friday.

Dutch prosecutors accused two Afghan men on Friday of committing war crimes including torture while they were top officials in the Khad secret police during Communist rule of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

A UN war-crimes court charged Kosovo's former prime minister Thursday with 37 counts of war crimes for alleged atrocities committed against Serbs and Gypsies by Albanian separatists during the province's ...

Dutch heavyweight Nauta Dutilh is splitting with its Rotterdam-based private client team as the firm continues to pursue its corporate-focused strategy.

Oslo, Norway - Crown Princess Mette-Marit's freewheeling father married an ex-stripper half his age at the Norwegian Embassy in the Netherlands on Friday, the TV-2 television network reported.

AND Automotive Navigation Data provides detailed digital maps of Central & Eastern Europe to TomTom.

An IBM engineer who works in networking technologies has been named the next chairman of an influential standards-setting body for the Internet.

Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson has at least one more European tour on her agenda before her term ends this fall.

Dutch tulip growers have been called in to plant hundreds of thousands of flowers at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport to deter mice.

Sixty years ago, between October 1944 and May 1945, parts of the Netherlands were suffering a severe famine, which became known as the Dutch Hunger Winter.

A special war-crimes court meant to take over cases from the UN tribunal in The Netherlands will help Bosnian society heal and bring justice closer to the victims, a war-crimes expert said Tuesday.

Illinois lawmakers want to take the glint out of your eye. A House committee last week approved legislation 11 to 4 that would criminalize the practice of inserting jewelry into the surface of the eyeball, ...

ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents It's all Dali - Film, Fashion, Photography, Design, Advertising, Painting, through 12 June 2005.

Spain at Slovak Republic Surface: Hard indoors Karol Beck/Michal Mertinak d. Al Costa/Rafael Nadal 7-6 , 6-4, 7-6 Dancing in the streets as the Slovaks ambush the defending champion Spaniards, with Beck and the ...

THE estranged wife of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, who disappeared in France in November, has told police he was beaten to death after she asked her brother to intimidate him during a discussion over their ...

MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS.- TEFAF Maastricht, the world s leading art and antiques fair, runs from 4-13 March 2005 at the MECC, Maastricht.

The Tottenham Hotspur hierarchy must have breathed a huge sigh of relief on Tuesday when manager Martin Jol snubbed the opportunity to return to his native Netherlands with Ajax Amsterdam and confirmed he was ...

Royal KPN NV, the largest Dutch phone company, plans to cut as many as 5,250 jobs over three years, mainly at its traditional phone business, as it seeks ways to lower costs to make up for slowing fixed-line ...

MAASTRCHT, THE NETHERLANDS.- The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production in the fields of Fine Art, Design and Theory, based in Maastricht, in the south of the Netherlands.

The top of the Eredivisie standings stayed the same as PSV, AZ Alkmaar and Ajax all picked up victories away from home on Sunday.

Silicon is the stuff of memories and microprocessors. III-V semiconductors-compounds made of elements inhabiting the third and fifth columns of the periodic table, like gallium arsenide-are the stuff of ...