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Dutch female darts players Anca Zijlstra and Aileen de Graaf, leave the Netherlands National Team to protest trans athlete Noa-Lynn van Leuven playing on the team.
2024-03-24

The Netherlands awards a contract to French defense firm Naval Group to build its "Orka"-class submarines. The new submarines will replace the aging "Walrus"-class submarine fleet.
2024-03-15

A new species of prehistoric millipede named "Lauravolsella willemeni" is discovered in the Netherlands.
2023-10-23

The Netherlands detects at least 30 cases of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in an outbreak linked to a primary school in Bergschenhoek.
2021-01-11

Voters in the Netherlands go to the polls for a general election. Exit polls suggest that incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy will win the most seats in the election.
2017-03-15

Avian flu virus H5N8 outbreaks are reported in birds in India, Germany, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and several other European nations. The World Health Organization advised on 17 November that human infection is possible, but unlikely, based on information available.
2016-11-26

Indonesia executes six people for drug trafficking including foreign citizens from Brazil, Malawi, the Netherlands, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Brazil and the Netherlands withdraw their ambassadors in protest.
2015-01-18

Fourteen Caribbean nations file a lawsuit against the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands for damages caused during the Atlantic slave trade.
2014-03-11

Dutch police arrest 12 Somalis on suspicion of plotting an imminent terrorist attack in the Netherlands.
2010-12-25

Services from the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands remain disrupted as investigations continue into the Halle train collision in Belgium.
2010-02-17