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Arvind Kejriwal's ED summon challenge was listed for April 24. Meanwhile the Income Tax Department has issued a demand notice of ₹1,823 crore to the Congress. A hostage drama in the Netherlands ended peacefully after several hours on Saturday afternoon.

hostage drama at a nightclub in the eastern Netherlands ended on Saturday when police arrested a man wearing a balaclava mask after he exited the club. «The last hostage has just been released. One person has been arrested,» a police statement said. «We cannot share more information at this time.»

Dutch hostage crisis: A man with weapons and explosives has taken several people hostage in the central Dutch town of Ede. The Netherlands police have rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. The authorities have evacuated more than 150 homes in the area as a preventive measure in the escalating situation.

A 420-meter or quarter-mile white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told visiting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte that attempts to restrict China’s access to technology will not stop the country’s advance

A Dutch court says the government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport

The Dutch government says that French defense industry heavyweight Naval Group has been chosen to build four new diesel-electric submarines for the Dutch navy

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the Dutch Central Bank, has imposed a major fine on crypto exchange Crypto.com .

Old Masters, Roman statues, modern furniture, tribal masks and vintage watches are vying for the attention of well-heeled collectors at the annual TEFAF art fair that opened in the southern Netherlands

By Toby Sterling

Mark Rutte just draws our wallet till he becomes Secretary General of NATO, and then he’ll draw all of yours too.’ Meanwhile, reacting to the statement, Elon Musk said, ‘Doesn’t seem like he has the legal authority to do this.’ Dutch officials on Friday announced that it has sealed a 10-year security deal with Ukraine. Similar agreements were earlier signed by Germany, Britain, France and Denmark.

An Amsterdam court has rejected Russia’s final argument in a years-long legal battle over a $50 billion arbitration award

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Dutch government on Monday to halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a clear risk of violations of international law. A trio of human rights organizations brought a civil suit against the Netherlands in December, arguing authorities needed to reevaluate the export license in light of Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip. «It is undeniable that there is a clear risk that the exported F-35 parts are used in serious violations of international humanitarian law,» Judge Bas Boele said in reading out the ruling, eliciting cheers from several people in the courtroom. The exports must cease within seven days.

ASML, which supplies chipmaking machines to the semiconductor industry, reported Wednesday a rise in annual net profit despite a high-tech trade spat between China and the West. Net profits came in at 7.8 billion euros ($8.5 billion) for 2023, the firm said in its annual results statement, compared to 5.6 billion euros the previous year.

Dutch bank ING says it is accelerating its phasing out of funding for oil and gas exploration and production activities while it increases financing for renewable energy

A paradox at the heart of the Netherlands’ permissive pot policy has gone up in smoke in two Dutch cities as “coffeeshops” began selling the country’s first legally cultivated cannabis

UK PM Rishi Sunak welcome Mark Rutte, the outgoing leader of the Netherlands to Downing Street. They shook hands and were talking when PM Rishi Sunak was seen slightly pushing the entrance door to 10, Downing Street. Rishi Sunak and Mark Rutte after the failed attempt to enter the building seemed visibly confused.

Human rights lawyers have gone to court in the Netherlands to call for a halt to the export of fighter jet parts to Israel that are being used in attacks on Gaza

The author of a new book about the British Royal Family has been scrutinized after a Dutch translation of the bombshell publication named two members of the family who allegedly raised concerns about the skin colour of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s unborn son, Archie.

Kyiv Monday after being stuck in a Dutch museum for nine years, where they were on show when Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula in 2014. Ukraine hailed the arrival of the jewels in the midst of the Russian full-scale 2022 invasion as a victory for its «identity and freedom». The Scythian artefacts — some around 2,000 years old — were on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson museum when they suddenly were at the centre of a geopolitical crisis following Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Years of legal battles ensued, with both Kyiv and Moscow-controlled Crimean museums filing suits that the jewels should be in their hands, before the Dutch Supreme Court ruled this summer they should go to Ukraine. «After almost 10 years of trials, artefacts from four museums of Crimea… returned to Ukraine,» the National Museum of the History of Ukraine (NMHU) said on its website. «They will be kept in the NMHU until the de-occupation of Crimea,» it added. Their return comes 21 months into Moscow's offensive, and is a symbolic win for Ukraine, which has repeatedly vowed to retake Crimea.