The Latest Breaking News from Mark Rutte

Advocates claim it will promote equality, detractors say it will be an empty gesture

Chinese president Xi Jinping has invited Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to visit Beijing next year, following a bilateral meeting at the G20 conference in Bali in which Xi urged the Netherlands not to politicise trade.

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid said the US-mediated agreement demarcating a disputed maritime border with Lebanon will be signed on Thursday and make Israel “a major gas supplier to Europe.” He described the agreement as “historic” because not only it was signed with Lebanon but also because the calm it…

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The heir to the Dutch throne has been forced to give up on student life in Amsterdam and continue living at home in her parents’ palace

Amalia, 18, who is next-in-line to the Dutch throne, had moved into an Amsterdam apartment with other students, but her monarch mum and dad now fear for her safety and have moved her back to the royal palace at The Hague

The eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander has moved back to the Huis ten Bosch royal palace in The Hague

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake rattled the northern Dutch province of Groningen in the early hours of Saturday, the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute said.