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Iceland Voters Set to Reject Debt Deal

Mar 4, 2010 9:00pm

Voting began Saturday in a referendum on a deal to repay British and Dutch customers for losses from a failed Icelandic bank that has so incensed residents it has little chance of passing....

Indicted Ex-Leader of Bosnian Serbs Calls Atrocities ‘Myths’

Mar 1, 2010 9:00pm

Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader, denied charges that his troops had committed large-scale atrocities during the Bosnian war....

Film: Rotterdam@BAM

Feb 27, 2010 9:00pm

“Alamar” opens the “Rotterdam@BAM” program at BAMcinématek on Wednesday....

Talks Stall Over Repayment of Iceland’s Debt

Feb 25, 2010 9:00pm

Iceland is trying to negotiate the repayment of more than $5 billion to Britain and the Netherlands and avoid the need for a politically risky referendum....

Disqualified Dutch Speedskater Kramer Grabs the Headlines at Home

Feb 24, 2010 9:00pm

Sven Kramer’s disqualification in the 10,000 meters on Tuesday was a national disaster in the Netherlands....

Dutch Pull-Out From War Expected After Government Collapse

Feb 21, 2010 9:00pm

A day after his government collapsed, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said he expected Dutch troops to come home from Afghanistan this year....

Dutch Government Collapses Over Its Stance on Troops for Afghanistan

Feb 20, 2010 9:00pm

A last-ditch effort to keep Dutch troops in Afghanistan brought down the governing coalition in the Netherlands, immediately raising fears that the Western military coalition fighting the war is increasingly at risk....

Party Leaves Dutch Coalition Over Troops

Feb 19, 2010 9:00pm

The coalition government collapsed on Saturday when the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw troops from an Afghanistan province as planned this year, Dutch media reported....

Dutch Fishermen Join Their Catch on Endangered List

Feb 15, 2010 9:00pm

The government decided that eel fishing would be banned from September to November to help restock the waters, but fishermen are negotiating for an alternative....

American Speedskater Shani Davis Belongs to the World

Feb 13, 2010 9:00pm

The Vancouver Games could be the bridge that traverses the distance between Shani Davis’s opaque image at home and his celebrity image abroad....

Sudan’s Leader May Be Accused of Genocide

Feb 3, 2010 9:00pm

The president of Sudan came under new legal scrutiny when appeals judges reopened the possibility that he may be charged with genocide....

State of the Union, in Dutch

Jan 26, 2010 9:00pm

A comparison of how six world leaders use a yearly address to lay out their agendas....

Flight From Amsterdam to Aruba Diverted After Threats

Jan 13, 2010 9:00pm

An ArkeFly flight carrying 235 people was diverted to Ireland after an unruly Dutch passenger made bomb threats during the flight. The threats turned out to be false....