Netherlands news

The Netherlands has carried out a mass culling of chickens, after at least two poultry farms detected a highly contagious strain of bird flu.

A Dutch reporter has managed to log into a supposedly highly secure EU videoconference, using a pin-code that had been accidentally exposed on the country’s defense minister’s Twitter account.

At least two people have been arrested during a major motorized protest by Dutch farmers in The Hague against the government’s policies to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions as part of its climate-change initiatives.

Dutch police scrambled to the Saudi Embassy in the Hague after the building was struck by gunshots in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The Dutch government has ordered the culling of a further 48,000 chickens after an outbreak of highly infectious bird flu was detected – the second such incident in less than a week.

The government of Hong Kong has announced the suspension of extradition and legal treaties with Ireland and the Netherlands in retaliation for the European states’ similar moves in objection to Beijing’s national security law.