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ING Groep NV, the bailed-out Dutch bank and insurer, said Friday it sold a further euro1.2 billion ($1.54 billion) worth of bonds issued by southern European nations, as it continues efforts to reduce risks to its balance sheet.
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered two major Internet service providers in the Netherlands to block their customers from accessing The Pirate Bay website or face large fines.
Royal Philips Electronics NV has warned that its fourth quarter profits were worse than expected due to a weak European market that made it difficult to charge customers as much as it wanted to for light bulbs.
ING Groep NV, one of Europe's largest bank and insurance companies, said Thursday it will cut 2,000 jobs in response to the euro-zone's deepening financial crisis, despite remaining profitable in the third quarter.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, says profits doubled to nearly $7 billion in the third quarter because of higher oil prices and one-time gains.
A Dutch court Friday rejected a suit brought by one of the Netherlands' best-known gangsters seeking to block the release of a film about the 1983 kidnapping of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken.
The Dutch government said Friday it would move to classify high-potency marijuana alongside hard drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, the latest step in the country's ongoing reversal of its famed tolerance policies.
Genocide suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic says a plan by U.N. prosecutors to split his indictment so he can be tried first for his alleged role in the Srebrenica massacre would lead to an unfair trial.
The boundaries of free speech in Europe widened Thursday after a Dutch court acquitted politician Geert Wilders of inciting hatred against Muslims when he compared Islam with Naziism and called for a ban on the Quran.
The Dutch parliament approved a bill Wednesday forcing mobile Internet providers to let customers use Skype and other rival services on their networks without charging extra or giving preferential treatment to their own offerings.
Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and other famed works by Dutch masters will return to their permanent home by 2013, as a radical decade-long renovation of the national Rijksmuseum nears completion.
The sun beams down on a warm Dutch spring morning, and the Iceman's students look wary as they watch him dump bag after bag of ice into the tub of water where they will soon be taking a dip.
ING Groep NV on Thursday reported first quarter earnings grew 12 percent on fat banking margins and improvements at its insurance business, and said it intends to pay back euro3 billion ($4.45 billion) in bailout money and penalties it owes the Dutch state.
Millions of tourists have stood in line to see the cramped quarters where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis while writing the diary that so powerfully conveyed the horror of the Holocaust.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, on Thursday reported booming profits of $8.78 billion in the first quarter, up 60 percent from a year ago thanks to higher oil prices as well as gains on asset sales and improving refining operations.
Unilever PLC, the maker of Dove soap, Lipton tea and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, reported Thursday that strong demand in emerging markets helped sales rise 7 percent in the first quarter, but predicted sharper rises in commodity costs will hurt profit margins this year.
The bailed-out Dutch insurer Aegon NV says it has agreed to sell the reinsurance business of its Transamerica arm to France's Scor SE for $1.4 billion in cash and capital.
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders' lawyers have called for a second panel of judges hearing his hate speech case to be dismissed because of alleged bias.
The man who went on a shooting rampage in a suburban Dutch mall fired more than 100 rounds in a few minutes as he killed six shoppers before turning one of his weapons on himself, Dutch prosecutors said Monday.
One of Europe's first countries to allow Jews to practice their religion openly may soon pass a law banning centuries-old Jewish and Muslim traditions on the ritual slaughter of animals.
Aegon NV, the bailed-out life insurer that does most of its business in the U.S., said Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings fell 19 percent and it will issue new shares to raise capital needed to repay Dutch state aid.
Unilever NV, maker of consumer products such as Dove soaps, Lipton teas and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, said Thursday its fourth quarter earnings rose 15 percent on strong sales growth in emerging markets — though margins suffered slightly from rising commodity costs.
Jewish groups in the Netherlands called Wednesday for swifter punishment for Holocaust deniers as parliament debated how to combat rising anti-Semitism.
Royal KPN NV, the largest Dutch telecommunications company, said Wednesday fourth quarter earnings fell sharply because a tax windfall had boosted earnings in the same period a year ago. Operating profits, which exclude such one-time effects, rose on cost-cutting.
Royal Philips Electronics NV, the world's biggest lighting maker, on Monday reported net profit rose 79 percent in the fourth quarter, less than analysts had expected, as cost-cutting and shifts in currency values made up for weak sales.
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