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After cabin project, Jackson eyeing restoration incentives

By CODY COTTIER - Associated Press

Climate activists gather outside the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, The Hague, on Friday Dec. 20, 2019, ahead of a ruling in a landmark case in which the government was ordered to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020. The government appealed saying that the ruling effectively meant that courts were setting government policy. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Activists cheer victory in landmark Dutch climate case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Sweden sentences Iraqi man of spying for Iran

By DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

Alleged head of Dutch ‘killing machine’ flown home from UAE

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Dutch police block a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague's main shopping street. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch police: Multiple people injured in Hague stabbing

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Redesigned Holland Tunnel decorations return after debate

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Former soccer player Marco Van Basten arrives to attend the Best FIFA soccer awards, in Milan's La Scala theater, northern Italy, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. Netherlands defender Virgil van Dijk is up against five-time winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for the FIFA best player award and United States forward Megan Rapinoe is the favorite for the women's award. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Marco van Basten, Fox Sports analyst, benched for saying ‘sieg heil’ on air

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-FILE- In this Saturday Nov. 16, 2013, image The Dutch version of Santa Claus, Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas, and his blackface sidekicks &quot;Zwarte Piet&quot; or &quot;Black Pete&quot; arrive by steamboat in Hoorn, north-western Netherlands. Saint Nicholas is due to arrive in the Netherlands Saturday Nov. 16, 2019, in an annual children's party that has become the backdrop for increasingly acrimonious confrontations between supporters and opponents of his sidekick, Black Pete, a depictions which opponents say promotes racist stereotypes. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch version of St. Nicholas has controversial sidekick

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2014, file photo, people walk amongst the debris at the crash site of MH17 passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, that left 298 people killed. An international team of investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine said Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, that evidence suggests links between Russia and rebels in the region were closer than previously believed. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

MH17 probe reveals close ties between Russia, Ukraine rebels

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2019 file photo United States defender Sergiño Dest looks to pass the ball during an international friendly soccer match against the Mexico in East Rutherford, N.J. Dest received a lot of advice but in the end made up his own mind in deciding to play with the U.S. national team rather than switch to the Netherlands. The 18-year-old outside back, who has a Surinamese-American father and Dutch mother, played for the U.S. in the Under-17 and Under-20 World Cups. &quot;It's a hard decision, of course, because you are for both of them,&quot; Dest said Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 two days before he likely will make his senior national team competitive debut. (AP Photo/Steve Luciano, file)

Dest: Best decision was stay with US and not switch to Dutch

By MARK DIDTLER - Associated Press

Netherlands' Frenkie de Jong, left, challenges for the ball with Northern Ireland's Paddy McNair during the Euro 2020 group C qualifying soccer match between The Netherlands and Northern Ireland at De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Northern Ireland bid to stifle De Jong falls short

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 file photo, forensic experts search for evidence in the area where a lawyer who represented a key witness in a major Dutch organized crime trial was gunned down in Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dutch police say they have arrested a man on suspicion of involvement in the shooting last month of a lawyer, a slaying that shocked the nation. Police said Thursday, Oct. 3 that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday in the investigation into the killing of lawyer Derk Wiersum in Amsterdam.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

Dutch police arrest suspect in slaying of witness’ lawyer

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Dutch Supreme Court asked to clarify euthanasia case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

This photo taken in Jan. 2019 and made available by Deltares shows the flume wave tank in Delft, Netherlands, that is used to test structure designs for the strengthening work for the Afsluitdijk. With climate change bringing bigger storms and rising sea levels, one of the low-lying Netherlands’ key defenses against the sea is getting a major makeover. The 5-year project will see workers lay thousands of concrete blocks and raise parts of the 87-year-old Afsluititdijk dike. (Guus Schoonewille/Deltares via AP)

Dutch reinforce major dike as seas rise, climate changes

By MIKE CORDER and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA - Associated Press

This Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, file photo shows the outside of The Hague District Court. The Dutch court on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, acquitted a doctor in a landmark trial that prosecutors and physicians hope will help clarify how the country’s 2002 euthanasia law can be applied to people with severe dementia. (AP Photo/Aleks Furtula)

Dutch court clears doctor in landmark euthanasia trial

By Mike Corder and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Derek Holland works against the Colorado Rockies in the fifth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Cubs acquire Holland from Giants for lefty bullpen option

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People cool off next to the fountains at Louvre Museum in Paris, France, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Temperatures in Paris are forecast to reach 41 degrees C (86 F), on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

Paris hits new heat record; London boils in Europe heat wave

By Angela Charlton and Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

People cool off next to the fountains at Louvre Museum in Paris, France, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Temperatures in Paris are forecast to reach 41 degrees C (86 F), on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

The Latest: Heat wave smashes weather records in Europe

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A young woman stands under an artificial waterfall in a public pool in Grossroehrsdorf, eastern Germany, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. A heatwave hit big parts of Europe. (Robert Michael/dpa via AP)

Europe heat wave breaks records, mercury set to go higher

By BY KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 13, 1995 file photo, Dutch U.N. peacekeepers sit on top of an armored personnel carrier while Muslim refugees from Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, gather in the village of Potocari, just north of Srebrenica. The Dutch Supreme Court is ruling Friday July 19, 2019 in a long-running legal battle over whether the Netherlands can be held liable in the deaths of more than 300 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. (AP Photo/File)

The Latest: Relatives of victims condemn Srebrenica ruling

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