Netherlands news

A Dutch F-16 fighter jet somehow managed to shoot itself with its own autocannon during a military exercise this year, local media reports, citing investigators. The military is still not sure how exactly the incident happened.

Young Muslims in the Netherlands are increasingly influenced by “radical Islamic boosters” as they attend after-school classes in Arabic and Islam, the Dutch intelligence service has warned.

Dutch police have responded to the discovery of an explosive device, the second such incident this week in the Netherlands.

Euroskeptic party, Forum for Democracy, is set to become one of the two largest groups in the Dutch Senate, stripping the ruling coalition of its majority after winning provincial elections on Wednesday.

The terrorist threat level in Utrecht has been lowered after the Dutch security forces detained the main suspect in the tram mass shooting incident which left three people dead and five injured.

Theresa May’s unwillingness to yield her Brexit deal in the face of outstanding opposition among UK MPs has earned her a comparison to the limbless knight from the classic comedy, ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’.