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The new exhibition highlights the painter's technical skills (Reuters)

Dutch Van Gogh Museum reopens video

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reopened after a seven-month renovation.

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Millions of Dutch people celebrate their new king after Queen Beatrix abdicated the throne for her eldest son Willem-Alexander (Photo: Reuters)

Netherlands welcomes first king in 123 years video

Millions of Dutch people dressed in orange flocked to celebrations as Queen Beatrix abdicated in favour of her eldest son, Willem-Alexander.

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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands signs an act of abdication next to her son Willem-Alexander (Reuters)

Willem-Alexander becomes Dutch king

Queen Beatrix has signed the official act of abdication at the Royal Palace in downtown Amsterdam.

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Dutch customs officials check a frozen meat load at the German/Dutch border (Reuters file)

Dutch recall 50,000 tonnes of meat

Dutch authorities are recalling 50,000 tonnes of meat sold as beef across Europe because it may contain horse meat.

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A Dutch prostitute sits behind her window in the red light district in Amsterdam (Reuters)

Amsterdam to raise prostitution age

The city plans to raise the minimum age of prostitutes from 18 to 21 and force brothels to close in the early morning.

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Horsemeat scandal gets murkier

The scandal has revealed the maze of middlemen and wholesalers that produce the frozen dinners that end up on Europe's supermarket shelves.

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A Nigerian fisherman showing his meagre catch from a creek reported to be affected by Shell oil leaks (AAP file)

Shell subsidiary must pay for sabotage

A Dutch court has ruled that a subsidiary of international oil giant Shell should be responsible for a pipeline leak poisoning farmland in Nigeria.

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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (L) and her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander (Reuters)

Dutch Queen abdicates for son

Dutch Queen Beatrix has announced that she will abdicate on April 30 after 33 years as head of state.

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An empty spot on the wall in Rotterdam's Kunsthal Art Gallery marks the place where a stolen Henri Matisse painting was (Reuters file)

Picasso art heist suspects caught

Romanian authorities have arrested three suspects in last year's multimillion-dollar art heist from a Netherlands art gallery, Dutch police say.

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The Belgian army has been involved in the search operation (Reuters)

Search called off for cargo ship crew

Rescuers have called off search efforts for six missing crewmen from a cargo ship that sank in the North Sea. The presumed death toll is 11.

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The Baltic Ace

Crew missing after cargo ship sinks

A cargo ship has sunk after colliding with another vessel on the North Sea, and rescuers were plucking crew members from life rafts and searching for others.

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Encrypted computers can contain damning evidence (file pic)

Dutch suspects must decrypt computers

The Dutch government says it is planning to make it a crime for suspects to refuse to help decrypt a computer.

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A coffee shop in Amsterdam (AAP file)

Amsterdam tourists can still smoke a toke

The Netherlands is scrapping a nationwide rollout of the so-called "weed pass" that was designed to keep non-Dutch residents out of coffee shops.

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Anti-government graffiti in Madrid, Spain (Reuters)

Eurozone falls back into recession video

The 17-country eurozone has fallen back into recession for the first time in three years with the fallout from felt from Amsterdam to Athens.

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Tourists won't be banned from marijuana cafes (file)

No tourist ban at Dutch weed cafes

The incoming Dutch government has ditched plans that would have banned tourists from Amsterdam's marijuana cafes.

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Art theft is the third most lucrative crime in the world

Stolen art could be a burden

The burglars dashed out the back door with seven masterworks, then sped into the night. Now comes the hard part.

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Director of Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum Emily Ansenk attends a news conference in Rotterdam (Reuters)

Art thieves foil ‘state of the art’ security

Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum and walked off with works from Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse.

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An F16 (top) approaches the passenger plane over Amsterdam (Sky News)

Dutch F16s called after hijack fears

Two F16 fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Spanish plane to Amsterdam's airport after air traffic controllers could not contact the crew.

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Kerri Walsh of the U.S. indicates strategy to her teammate Misty May-Treanor (Reuters/Marcelo del Pozo)

May-Treanor, Walsh win in Olympic beach volleyball

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates stopped by Horse Guards Parade to watch beach volleyball on Saturday night and saw Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor eliminate the Netherlands before the bells in Big Ben's clock tower could toll the half-hour.

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Mario Gomez, right, (Reuters)

Gomez scores 2 to give Germany 2-1 win over Dutch video

Mario Gomez scored both goals for Germany.

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