Netherlands News

NEW YORK: The top UN human rights official said Monday that crimes against humanity have likely been committed in the bloody crackdown on dissidents in Syria.

The former Netherlands boss, who has been out of the game since parting company with Ajax in 2009, will assume control of the club in the summer Dutch legend Marco van Basten will succeed Ron Jans as Heerenveen coach at the end of the season, according to Voetbal International .

Dutch police say they have arrested a man who locked himself in a toilet and claimed to have a bomb at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.

A bomb attack aimed at members of the Israeli embassy has injured four people in New Delhi, India, according to NDTV.

SLOVAK judge Peter Tomka was elected by his peers as President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague on February 6 for a three-year term, the TASR newswire reported.

Read about and sign the online petition seeking public support for a proposal to take UNESCO's acceptance of non existent "Palestine" to the ICJ in Hague to check its constitutionality.

Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg and Dutch artist Wendela Hubrecht poses during the presentation of their project 'Les vacances de Monsieur Grunberg' at the Foam Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Many of Europe's chemical sites are now attracting levels of investment similar to those before the 2008 financial crisis, with some even exceeding figures of five years ago.

A 16-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after he was shot Saturday by RCMP in Fort McMurray as they tried to stop a stolen vehicle he was allegedly driving.

Canadian athletes skated to four silvers and a bronze medal on Sunday at a ISU World Cup short-track speedskating event in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

There are few crimes more despicable then stealing your neighbour's water.and polluting what's left, then watching him and his children suffer thirst, disease and ruin.

Many hoped that the trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic would help Serbians confront the past.

The Woyome judgement debt payment scandal seems to have taken a better part of our attention for us not to consider as worth our bother other important events that have occurred within the period.

ROME Roman Catholic Church leaders have unveiled an Internet teaching project to help clergy around the world root out pedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers.

Once again, the spotlight is on Africa as four Kenyans - three political leaders and a journalist - have been indicted at the International Criminal Court .

An employee of the Calder Foundation in New York installs several works by renowned US sculptor Alexander Calder in the Hague Municipal Museum the Netherlands.

Candice Jolly drives Montser Mutt during a Monster Jam event at Lluis Companys stadium in Barcelona, on October 24, 2009 in Barcelona.

"We have a problem in Uganda": the Dutch government may have been the victim of an extensive fraud case in Kampala.

Australian publication The Global Mail has a fascinating account of the The Hague , the Dutch-capital that also serves as the center of attempts at international and humanitarian justice.

A new study, published online in the journal Social Psychological & Personality Science , has found people have bigger regrets about love than they do about work.