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Prime Minister Mark Rutte is due to deliver a speech on Monday in which he is expected to apologise for the Netherlands' historical role in slavery and its consequences into the present day.

The Dutch funded their "Golden Age" of empire and culture in the 16th and 17th centuries by shipping around 600,000 Africans as part of the slave trade

The Netherlands is the world's biggest tulip producer and also the second biggest agricultural exporter overall after the United States, with much grown in greenhouses.

England and the Netherlands will be the first World Cup heavyweights to arrive in Qatar on Tuesday as FIFA President Gianni Infantino again urged teams to focus on the football.

Two former finance chiefs at travel website Booking.com are set to be questioned after Dutch authorities agreed to cooperate with Italian prosecutors on a tax investigation, the Dutch prosecutors office confirmed to Reuters.

The Dutch government has banned British conspiracy theorist David Icke from the Netherlands and the entire Schengen area of the European Union for two years over fears his presence could "disturb public order."

China has been accused of setting up more than 50 unofficial police "offices" in several countries across Europe to clamp down on its dissidents.

A Dutch court on Thursday ordered the government to bring conditions in Dutch emergency asylum centres up to European Union standards and said vulnerable refugees should no longer be housed there.

Greenhouse owner Pieter Wijnen would like to focus on growing vegetables, but since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, his life has revolved around gas and electricity prices rather than his red and yellow bell peppers or mini cucumbers.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday said he was "ashamed" of problems at the country's centre for processing asylum requests as humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres sent in a team to assist with migrants' medical needs.

Deliveroo, the international delivery food app, announced Wednesday a big increase in losses as investment costs ate into rising revenues.

A Dutch detective has been able to recover the stolen ornate golden artefact that is said to contain drops of Jesus's blood.

The visit to Her Majesty marked the first time the Duchess of Sussex returned to the U.K. since Megxit in 2020.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be in The Hague for the Invictus Games from April 16 to 22.

The Duchess of Sussex will accompany Prince Harry to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands over the weekend.

The Duke of Sussex founded the international multi-sport event for wounded veterans and armed services in 2014.

Two people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant in the city of Zwolle in the Netherlands on Wednesday.

The scientists in France have detected a strain of the coronavirus that appears to have combined mutations from the Omicron and Delta variants of Covid-19. They believe that the mutation may have been circulating since early January in several regions of the country.

Crown Princess Victoria is the heir apparent to the Swedish throne, and will be succeeded by her eldest child, 9-year-old daughter Princess Estelle.

Barcelona have already signed Sergio Aguero and Eric Garcia on free transfers this summer and Memphis Depay will be their third.

Barcelona had been on the trail of Memphis Depay since January but decided to wait until the summer to sign him on a free transfer.