Dutch former queen Beatrix, 83, has tested positive for COVID-19, the royal information service RVD said in a statement Saturday. Princess Beatrix, as she has been known since her abdication in 2013, got tested after coming down with "mild cold symptoms", the statement said. "The princess is at home in isolation and adheres to the rules of life for people who have tested

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Dozens of flag-waving demonstrators from a Kurdish organization broke into the Dutch grounds of the global chemical weapons watchdog Friday to protest what they alleged was the use of chemical weapons by Turkish forces.

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Demonstrators of DemNed, the Dutch umbrella organization for Kurds in the Netherlands, stormed the building of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Johan de Wittlaan in The Hague on Friday. Between forty and fifty people have been arrested, a police spokesperson told NU.nl.

Dozens of arrests after storming of OPCW building in The Hague

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht have written to parliament and the cabinet calling for a reduction of maximum speeds on most urban roads to 30

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The food banks in The Hague and surroundings have recently been provided with a large amount of luncheon meat. Turkish entrepreneurs recently collected as much meat as possible from the Islamic festival of sacrifice to make sausage.

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Turkish entrepreneurs collect large quantities of luncheon meat for food banks in The Hague

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht want to reduce the speed limit on almost all city roads to 30 kilometers per hour, the AD reports. This should lead to a significant decrease in the number of fatal road casualties. The four largest cities sent a letter to the outgoing cabinet and the House of Representatives.

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Last year, the Team Threatened Politicians of the The Hague police unit made 600 reports of possible threats to politicians, a significant increase compared to the 393 cases in 2019. According to the Public Prosecutor, 274 of the reports in 2020 were reported. Ministry (OM) indeed for a punishable insult, compared to 206 in 2019.

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Some 54 member states of the Organisation fo the Prevention of Chemical weapons in The Hague have urged Russia to "disclose in a comprehensive and transparent manner" how dissident Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent last year.

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