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Dutch players celebrate after their first goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between the Netherlands and Poland in the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Steven Bergwijn scores as Netherlands beats Poland 1-0

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Dutch govt offers stricter advice after virus cases rise

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2005, file photo, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, center, speaks to people outside the Lebanese Parliament minutes before an explosion killed him and 22 others, in Beirut, Lebanon. More than 15 years after the truck bomb assassination of Hariri in Beirut, a U.N.-backed tribunal in the Netherlands is announcing verdicts this week in the trial of four members of the militant group Hezbollah allegedly involved in the killing. (AP Photo, File)

UN-backed court to issue verdicts in Lebanon’s Hariri case

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Windmills line a canal in Kinderdiijk, Netherlands, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. The five windmills are part of 19 mills built in the 18th century some 15 kms. (9.3 miles) south of Rotterdam. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Dutch economy shrinks by ‘unprecedented’ 8.5% as virus hits

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Destruction is seen after a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The explosion on Tuesday flattened much of a port and damaged buildings across Beirut, sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. In addition to those who died, more than 3,000 other people were injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The Latest: Australia pledges $1.4M for Beirut relief effort

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People wearig facemasks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus walk through Amsterdam, Wednesday Aug. 5, 2020. The Netherlands' two most populous cities began ordering people to wear face masks in busy streets Wednesday amid rising coronavirus infection rates. Amsterdam ordered masks to be worn in the red-light district and busy shopping streets and markets. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Amsterdam, Rotterdam order use of masks in busy streets

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FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012, file photo, minks look out of a cage at a fur farm in the village of Litusovo, northeast of Minsk, Belarus. Coronavirus outbreaks at mink farms in Spain and the Netherlands have scientists digging into how the animals got infected and if they can spread it to people. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Scientists study coronavirus outbreaks among minks in Europe

By ARITZ PARRA and MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 11, 2020, file image, 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. 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. Activists spurred by the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States are seeking to shed more light on the Dutch colonial past and tackle what they call ingrained racism and discrimination in this nation that was once known as a beacon of tolerance. (AP Photo/Michael Corder, File)

Black Lives Matter spurs scrutiny of Dutch colonial past

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Nearly 200 historic Dutch ships sailed in a flotilla to the fortress island of Pampus, east of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, to protest against the economic hardship they face from a lack of paying guests after COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions took the wind out of their sails. Pampus island was chosen as location for Tuesday's waterborne demonstration because of a Dutch saying, translated as anchored at Pampus, that means exhausted.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Coronavirus takes wind out of historic Dutch fleet’s sails

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2015 file photo, Suriname President Desire &quot;Desi&quot; Delano Bouterse observes a military parade, after being sworn in for his second term, in Paramaribo, Suriname. The president stands a fair chance of holding onto power as the small South American nation elects a new National Assembly on Monday, May 25, 2020, a body that will choose the next president in August. (AP Photo/Ertugrul Kilic, File)

Suriname opposition parties near power following election

By HARMEN BOERBOOM - Associated Press

Holland mayor asks visitors to enjoy city’s tulips next year

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A helicopter drops water in a wildfire at a national park at the Dutch-German border near Herkenbosch, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Due to the long dryness the danger of forest fires increases all over Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Dutch village evacuated as precaution due to wildfire smoke

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Journalists look at the damaged glass door of the Singer Museum in Laren, Netherlands, Monday March 30, 2020, where a Van Gogh painting was stolen. The Dutch museum that is currently closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus says a painting by the Dutch master titled &quot;Spring Garden&quot; was stolen in a smash-and-grab raid overnight. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Video shows thief stole van Gogh painting with sledgehammer

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

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