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Heir to the Dutch throne Princess Amalia speeches as she takes an honorary seat at the Council of State, the highest government advisory body in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, one day after celebrating her eighteenth birthday. The heir to the Dutch throne has been forced to turn her back on student life in Amsterdam and continue living at home in her parents' palace in The Hague, in the latest evidence of the threat of violent organized crime gangs to Dutch society. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

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Heir to Dutch throne forced to stay home amid security fears
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Fri,10/14/22-5:26AM , 523 Reads
THE HAGUE (AP) — The teenage heir to the Dutch throne has been forced to give up on Amsterdam's student life and live instead at her parents' palace, the latest indication of just how much of a threat organized crime poses to Dutch society.
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Jos van Wijk, chairman of the Cooperative Last Will, leaves the court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, where campaigners calling for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Netherlands took the Dutch state to court, arguing its ban breaches human rights norms. The case at The Hague District Court was brought by Cooperative Last Will, which has long urged a change of the law to allow people to help relatives end their lives. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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Dutch activists sue government over assisted suicide
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Mon,10/10/22-6:51AM , 389 Reads
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Activists calling for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Netherlands took the Dutch government to court Monday, arguing that its ban on helping a person end their life breaches human rights.
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A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 1, 2022. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the sprawling plant in southern Ukraine on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 The IAEA’s Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi highlighted the risks they had to deploy a team in the area amidst the war. (AP Photo, File)

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IAEA visit to Ukraine nuclear plant highlights risks
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Sat,09/03/22-1:24AM , 375 Reads
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are used to risky missions — from the radioactive aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan to the politically charged Iranian nuclear program.
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Protesting farmers block a drawbridge at locks in the Princess Margriet canal, preventing all ship traffic from passing in Gaarkeuken, northern Netherlands, Monday, July 4, 2022. Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions also used tractors and trucks Monday to blockade supermarket distribution centers, the latest actions in a summer of discontent in the country's lucrative agricultural sector. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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Anger simmers for Dutch farmers who oppose pollution cuts
By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press
Sun,07/10/22-1:32AM , 362 Reads
MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because distribution centers are blocked by farmers. Then, at dusk, a police officer pulls his pistol and shoots at a tractor.
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