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Italy's Lorenzo Pellegrini celebrates with teammates after scoring his side's opening goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Italy and the Netherlands at Azzurri d'Italia stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Italy held 1-1 by the Netherlands, slips to 2nd in group

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FILE - In this Monday, March 23, 2020 file photo, a cyclist takes images of a barricaded backroad used by locals on the Netherlands border with Belgium between Chaam, southern Netherlands, and Meerle, Northern Belgium. European Union countries are set to adopt a common traffic light system to coordinate traveling across the 27-nation bloc, but a return to a full freedom of movement in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic remains far from reach. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch order bars, restaurants closed over pandemic fears

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Jimenez’s penalty gives Mexico 1-0 win over Netherlands

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Refugees and migrants wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of coronavirus leave on a bus after their arrival at the port of Lavrio, about 75 kilometers (48miles) south of Athens, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Greek authorities have moved nearly 1,000 asylum-seekers from eastern Aegean islands to the mainland as part of efforts to improve conditions in overcrowded island camps. Most of the people on a ferry that docked Tuesday at Lavrio, near Athens, were from a temporary facility hastily built on the island of Lesbos to replace a squalid camp that angry residents burned down three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Dutch activists want to airlift migrants off Greek island

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017 file photo, Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas, arrives in Dokkum, northern Netherlands. The annual nationally televised arrival in the Netherlands of Saint Nicholas, known locally as Sinterklaas, will happen without public this year because of concerns about the coronavirus, the broadcaster that organizes the event announced Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

No public at Dutch Saint Nicholas party due to coronavirus

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FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, houses are on fire in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Two soldiers who defected from Myanmar’s army and confessed on video to taking part in massacres, rape, and other crimes against the Muslim Rohingya minority are believed to be in the custody of the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands and should be prosecuted to obtain their evidence, a human rights organization said Tuesday. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar army deserters confirm atrocities against Rohingya

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Italy's Nicolo Barella, center scores his side's first goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between The Netherlands and Italy at the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Barella scores for Italy to beat Netherlands 1-0

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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

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

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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

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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