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Netherlands' Quincy Promes looks on during the Euro 2020 group C qualifying soccer match between Northern Ireland and the Netherlands at Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Promes was found guilty Monday, June 19, 2023, of stabbing his nephew in the leg and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Dutch soccer player Quincy Promes convicted of stabbing cousin, sentenced to 18 months

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A woman reacts after failing to smash a tomato in a game as people celebrate King's Day in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, April 27, 2023. The Netherlands celebrated the 56th birthday of King Willem-Alexander on Thursday with street markets, parties and pastries, even as polls showed the monarch's popularity declining. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Netherlands celebrates birthday of King Willem-Alexander

By Peter Dejong - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Dutch King Willem-Alexander listen to national anthems outside the royal palace on Dam square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron begins a two-day state visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday and is making a speech on his vision for the future of Europe. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Macron visits Netherlands after Taiwan comments make waves

By Peter DeJong and Mike Corder - Associated Press

View of the historic center of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Amsterdam’s message to young Brits aiming to visit Dutch capital: ‘Stay away’

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A meatball made using genetic code from the mammoth is seen at the Nemo science museum in Amsterdam, Tuesday March 28, 2023. An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mastodon. The high-tech treat isn't available to eat yet - the startup says it is meant to fire up public debate about cultivated meat. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Elephant in the dining room: Startup makes mammoth meatball

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

View of the historic center of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Amsterdam aims to combat overcrowding with ‘Stay away’ campaign

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Passengers wait to check-in in a terminal of Charles de Gaulle airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, at Roissy airport, north of Paris. Flights from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and other French airports faced disruptions Friday as airport workers held a strike and protests to demand salary hikes to keep up with inflation. It's the latest trouble to hit global airports this summer, as travel resurges after two years of virus restrictions. (AP Photo/ Thomas Padilla)

After two pandemic years, a summer travel bounce — and chaos

By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

Police special intervention units and rescue workers are seen next to the Apple Store, two windows at right, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, where an armed person was holed up in with at least one hostage in an hours-long standoff with scores of police massed outside. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Amsterdam Apple shop hostage-taker sought 200M-euro ransom

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Ronald Leopold, executive director Anne Frank House, gestures as he talks next to the passage to the secret annex during an interview in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years may have solved one of World War II's enduring mysteries: Who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family? Their answer, outlined in a new book, is that it most likely was a Jewish lawyer called Arnold van den Bergh. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Cold case team shines new light on betrayal of Anne Frank

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, visitors queue to enter the modern and contemporary art museum, Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam municipality said Friday Aug. 27, 2021, it will return the valuable &quot;Painting With Houses&quot; artwork by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned it, ending years of legal wrangling over the work that was sold at auction in 1940. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

Amsterdam to return Kandinsky work to pre-war owners’ heirs

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 file photo PSV's Eran Zahavi celebrates his second goal against Olympiakos during a Europa League, round of 32, first leg soccer match, between Olympiacos and PVS at Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus port, near Athens. The wife of PSV Eindhoven and Israel striker Eran Zahavi said Monday May 10, 2021, she was the victim of a “horrifying experience” after two robbers, one of them armed, tied up and gagged her and her children in the couple's home in Amsterdam. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

‘Horrifying’ robbery at home of Israel, PSV striker Zahavi

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Visitors admire the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican Museums on the occasion of the museum's reopening, in Rome, Monday, May 3, 2021. The Vatican Museums reopened Monday to visitors after a shutdown following COVID-19 containment measures. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Fireworks damage Amsterdam cafe frequented by Ajax fans

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Sotheby's personnel display « Scene de rue à Montmartre » (Street scene in Montmartre), a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at Sotheby's auction house in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 25, 202. The artwork painted in 1887 is to be on public display for the first time ahead of an auction next month. It has remained in the same family collection for over 100 years, according to the auction house which did not reveal the identity of the owner. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Rarely seen Van Gogh painting exhibited ahead of auction

By SYLVIE CORBET and OLEG CETINIC - Associated Press

Dutch get their skates on in Amsterdam before the thaw

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Dutch police use water cannon on anti-government protesters

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A person enters the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, where the EMA's human medicines committee is holding an exceptional, fully virtual, meeting to conclude the evaluation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

EU greenlights COVID-19 vaccine after agency gives safety OK

By FRANK JORDANS and LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Dutch court refuses to return painting to Jewish heirs

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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 12, 2019 file photo, Jacqueline van Maarsen, left, and Albert Gomes de Mesquita, school friends of Anne Frank, talk to students during an event to mark what would have been Anne Frank's 90th birthday, in Amsterdam. Jacqueline van Maarsen laid the first stone Wednesday Sept. 23, 2020, at a new memorial under construction in Amsterdam to honor all Dutch victims of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Michael C. Corder, File)

First stone laid at Dutch Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam

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A statue is seen outside Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. A spokeswoman for Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium says a bronze statute of an athlete saluting with an outstretched arm reminiscent of the gesture made infamous at rallies in Nazi Germany is to be removed from outside the stadium because the salute has links to fascism. The 3-meter (10-foot) tall bronze statue that was placed outside the stadium for the 1928 Summer Games that were staged in the Dutch capital. (AP Photo/Esther Corder)

Saluting statue to be removed from Amsterdam Olympic Stadium

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A statue of the Dutch Golden Age trader and brutal colonialist Jan Pieterszoon Coen stands tall above a square in his hometown of Hoorn, north of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, June 19, 20202. Coen was a leading figure in 17th-century trading powerhouse the Dutch East India Company, but has gone down in history as the &quot;butcher of Banda,&quot; the man who ordered a bloody massacre on the Banda Islands, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Netherlands marks anniversary of abolition of slavery

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