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In this photo released by Wylde Swan on Friday April 10, 2020, Dutch high school children work the sail on the bowsprit of Wylde Swan tall ship, sailing between The Carribbean and The Netherlands. The Caribbean tall ship voyage of 25 Dutch high school students was supposed to end with a comfortable flight home from Cuba. Then the coronavirus outbreak intervened. Now the youngsters, aged from 14-17 years, are taking the long way home, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a 60-meter (200-foot) schooner called the Wylde Swan under the watchful eye of a crew of 12 experienced sailors and three teachers to make sure they keep doing their school work in between hoisting sails. (Arthur Smeets/Wylde Swan via AP)

Schooner is school for Dutch teens sailing home due to virus

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Raffat Altekrete is battling the coronavirus one shopping cart, or one stroller, at a time as he uses a disinfecting spray outside a supermarket in Ter Apel, north-eastern Netherlands, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The Iraqi migrant, armed with latex gloves, a cleaning rag and a spray bottle of disinfectant is also aiming to express his gratitude and win hearts in a small Dutch community that hosts the Netherlands' biggest asylum seeker center. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Virus gives asylum-seekers chance to thank Dutch villagers

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, left, walks with his wife Queen Maxima during their visit at a Dutch war cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. The Dutch royal couple are currently on on a five-day visit in the country. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Dutch king apologizes for colonial killings in Indonesia

By ANDI JATMIKO and NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens to a debate on growing threats from far-right extremism at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, in the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merkel speech to mark end of WWII occupation of Netherlands

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Netherlands' Kjeld Nuis competes in the men's 1,500 meters during the world single distances speedskating championships Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, in Kearns, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Nuis, Wust earn gold in 1,500m at world championships

By JOHN COON - Associated Press

Carlijn Achtereekte, of the Netherlands, reacts after competing during the women's 3,000 meters at the world single distances speedskating championships Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in Kearns, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Sablikova, Bloemen win world speedskating titles

By JOHN COON - Associated Press

In this July 9, 2018, file photo, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attends a ceremony for Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey. A top Sudanese official said Monday, Feb. 11, 2020, that transitional authorities and rebel groups have agreed to hand over al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including mass killings in Darfur. Since his ouster in April, al-Bashir has been in jail in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum over charges corruption and killing protesters. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Sudan to hand over Omar al-Bashir for genocide trial, official says

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

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

Associated Press

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