AMSTERDAM: A stolen 15th-century book by the famed Persian poet Hafez has been recovered by a Dutch art detective after an international “race against time”...
AMSTERDAM: Bathed in red neon light, hundreds of prostitutes ply their trade from behind windows in the narrow canal-side streets of Amsterdam - and that’s...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” has struck again, finding a Picasso worth 25 million euros ($28...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: One of the last missing pieces of Byzantine art that was stolen from Cyprus in the 1970s was handed back last week by a renowned, and...
AMSTERDAM: Chinese villagers embroiled in a fight over the ownership of a 1,000-year-old mummified monk made a passionate plea last week for their idol to be...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Hague brands itself as the “City of Peace and Justice,” but last week the stately seat of the Dutch government also revealed a...
THE HAGUE: Iran’s legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the U.N.’s top court Monday, as Tehran seeks to avert painful...
THE HAGUE: Art lovers are in for a rare treat as four forgotten works by Dutch masters Vincent Van Gogh and 17th-century painter Govert Flinck have gone on...
THE HAGUE: A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that priceless Crimean art treasures loaned to an Amsterdam museum shortly before Russia annexed the peninsula in...
AMSTERDAM: At his newest exhibition, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled thousands of mobile phone pictures of refugees, saying it aims to speak...
AMSTERDAM: Nearly a century after she was shot as an alleged spy, the story of the world’s ultimate femme fatale, Mata Hari, is to be staged for the...
THE HAGUE: Dutch flags will fly at half-mast Friday as families remember those killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago, with all...
THE HAGUE: A Dutch court Wednesday ordered the state to slash greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by at least 25 percent by 2020, in a case that could serve...
THE HAGUE: Famed for shooting superstars from Bjork to U2 in offbeat poses, Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn is himself taking center stage with two...
THE HAGUE: The U.N.'s highest court Tuesday rejected rival claims of genocide by former foes Croatia and Serbia in landmark rulings over the bloody...
WASHINGTON: The United States joined Israel in condemning the International Criminal Court decision to open a preliminary probe Friday into possible war...
KROMMENIE, Netherlands: The Netherlands last week unveiled the world’s first solar bike path, a revolutionary project to harvest the sun’s energy that could...
THE HAGUE, the Netherlands: Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said Wednesday that “all Serbs” were on trial as he began his closing statement to the...
THE HAGUE: Bosnian Serb forces acted in self defense during the bloody siege of Sarajevo, the Yugoslav war crimes court heard as the first defense witness...
THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court on Friday convicted Congolese ex-militia boss Germain Katanga of war crimes for arming an ethnic militia that...
THE HAGUE: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's defense team said Wednesday his crimes against humanity case before the International Criminal Court "has...
THE HAGUE: The Netherlands said Monday it has taken Russia to the world's maritime court in order to free 30 crew members of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise,...
THE HAGUE: The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday that it had completed nearly half its inspections of Syria's arsenal, despite working...
THE HAGUE: The Netherlands said Friday it has started legal action to free 30 crew members of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise, charged by Russia with piracy after...
THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court on Tuesday unsealed a warrant for the arrest of ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo's youth leader, accusing him...