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Undated photo of a school of fish, with a perch in the left corner, at a river lock in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, Netherlands, where a "fish doorbell" was installed that lets viewers of an online livestream alert authorities to fish being held up as they make their springtime migration to shallow spawning grounds. (Visdeurbel via AP)
Quirky livestream that lets viewers help fish is a hit with millions
The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds.
 
People gather at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
One of the victims of Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting called his fiancée to say he loved her
Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call his fiancée to tell her he loved her one last time. He later died from gunshot wounds in what was Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting.
 
People take part in a vigil near the scene of a shooting at an adult education center on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Swedish police say mass shooter was connected to school where he opened fire
Swedish police say the shooter who killed 10 people in the country’s worst mass shooting was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire with at least one rifle-like weapon.
 
People gather at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Sweden’s worst mass shooting leaves at least 11 dead, including the gunman
Sweden’s worst mass shooting has left at least 11 people dead including the gunman and five seriously wounded at an adult education center.
 
People in costumes from Charles Dickens' 19th-century English era take part in a Dickens Festival, in Deventer, Netherlands, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Charles Dickens’ characters come alive in a Dutch town enamored with the English author
The Dutch city of Deventer has been transformed into a 19th-century English city where 950 people in costumes brought characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life. Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge, Miss Havisham and Mr.
 
Jordi Zonneveld poses for a portrait at Plug Power where they produce green hydrogen in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, Friday, June 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Profiles in clean energy: Dad concerned about climate change shifts company away from oil and gas
Jordi Zonneveld says his first decade in the oil and gas industry was great. His company in the Netherlands did well and he was promoted every few years. But for many people in the oil and gas industry, him included, 2015 was a turning point.
 
A test vehicle levitated by magnetic fields zips through a depressurized tube in a testing ground for a high-speed transit system during a press tour of a European test center for hyperloop transportation technology in Veendam, northern Netherlands, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
A capsule has been propelled through a hyperloop test tube in a step forward for the transit system
Hyperloop has achieved significant liftoff in the northern Netherlands. Hyperloop is a new form of mass transit involving capsules whizzing on magnetic fields through depressurized tubes, A company involved in developing the high-speed transit system once promoted by Elon Musk said Monday that a tes
 
This framegrab from video shows a suspected hostage-taker surrendering to police after a tense hours-long standoff in the central Dutch town of Ede, Netherlands, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Dutch police have detained a man who walked out of a nightclub where hostages were being held after a tense hours-long standoff. They said on X that the last hostage has been released and one person was arrested. The man walked out of the club before being ordered by armed police to kneel with his hands on his head. (AP Photo)
A man suspected of holding 4 hostages for hours in a Dutch nightclub has been arrested
Dutch police have detained a man who walked out of a nightclub where hostages were being held, after a tense hours-long standoff. They said on X that the last hostage has been released and one person was arrested.
 
Police take away a climate activist detained for blocking the main highway around Amsterdam near the former headquarters of a ING bank to protest its financing of fossil fuels, Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. Protestors walked onto the road at midday, snarling traffic around the Dutch capital in the latest road blockade organized by the Dutch branch of Extinction Rebellion. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion target bank and block part of highway around Amsterdam
Climate activists have blocked part of the main highway around Amsterdam for hours near the former headquarters of ING bank. They’re protesting the bank’s financing of fossil fuels.
 
A woman put flowers at the scene of a shooting in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Police in the Netherlands said a lone gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire in an apartment and a hospital in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, killing three people, including a 14-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Dutch hospital official says questions were raised over alleged gunman’s mental state
A hospital official says that a medical student accused of killing three people in shootings at an apartment and a hospital in the Dutch city of Rotterdam had been told to undergo a psychological evaluation to establish whether he was mentally fit to become a doctor.
 
Dutch police used a water cannon to disperse protestors who blocked a highway during a climate protest of Extinction Rebellion and other activists near the Dutch parliament in The Hague, Netherlands, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Dutch police cleared out climate protesters blocking a highway over fossil fuel subsidies
Several thousand climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday in anger at billions of euros in government subsidies for industries that use oil, coal and gas.
 
Cultural artefacts are handed back to Indonesia during a ceremony in Leiden, Netherlands, Monday, July 10, 2023. The Netherlands and Indonesia on Monday have hailed the return of hundreds of cultural artefacts taken, sometimes by force, during colonial times as a major step forward in restitution efforts worldwide. (AP Photo/Aleksandar Furtula)
Indonesia welcomes return of jewels, temple carvings as important step in global restitution effort
The Netherlands and Indonesia have hailed the return of hundreds of cultural artifacts taken — sometimes by force — during colonial times as a major step forward in restitution efforts worldwide.
 
Landmark euthanasia trial opens in the Netherlands
A landmark euthanasia trial has opened in the Netherlands seeking to pinpoint what to do with dementia patients who have previously stated their wish to die under certain circumstances but later might have second thoughts.
 
Mourners walk silently to honor Utrecht shooting victims
Dutch prosecutor say the main suspect in a deadly tram shooting in Utrecht confessed to the attack and said he acted alone.
 
Dutch parliament approves limited ban on burqa, niqab
The Netherlands has approved a limited ban on “face-covering clothing” in public places, including Islamic veils and robes such as the burqa and niqab but not the hijab, which covers only the hair.