Tag: Netherlands

File - This July 17, 2014, file photo show people walking amongst the debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said the passenger plane was shot down as it flew over the country, killing all 298 people on board. Aviation has suffered one of its worst weeks in memory, a cluster of disasters spanning three continents. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Dutch Safety Board: 1st ‘factual findings’ soon

Washington Examiner · July 25, 2014 3:02 pm

Planes with Ukraine bodies arrive in Netherlands

dmytro-vlasov · July 25, 2014 2:07 am

A convoy of hearses bearing the remains of passengers and crew killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 makes its way along a highway near Boxtel, Netherlands, Thursday, July 24, 2014. The second flight of two military aircraft carrying remains of victims arrived in the Netherlands on Thursday. The bodies are to be taken to a military barracks in Hilversum, where a team of 25 forensic experts and dozens of support staff began working to identify remains Wednesday evening after coffins of the first flight arrived. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch sending unarmed police to Ukraine crash site

Mike Corder · July 24, 2014 8:56 pm

President Barack Obama visits the Dutch Embassy in Washington to sign a book of condolence, joined by Deputy Chief of Mission Peter Mollema, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Most of the 298 people aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that was shot down near the border between Ukraine and Russia were Dutch citizens. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama pledges justice in visit to Dutch embassy

Washington Examiner · July 22, 2014 11:41 pm

A refrigerated train loaded with bodies of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 departs Kharkiv railway station, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. The train carrying the remains of people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday on their way to the Netherlands, a journey which has been agonizingly slow for relatives of the victims. (AP Photo/ Sergei Chizavkov)

Plane crash bodies removed from war zone

SERGEI CHUZAVKOVJUERGEN BAETZ · July 22, 2014 9:49 pm

Beltway Confidential

Obama pays respects at Dutch embassy for victims of plane attack

Kevin Daley · July 22, 2014 2:01 pm

A Malaysian investigator takes a black box from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it is handed over from Donetsk People's Republic officials to Malaysian representatives in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Bowing to international pressure Monday, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel-held eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Rebels release train with bodies from downed jet

NICOLAS GARRIGANICOLAE DUMITRACHE · July 22, 2014 2:27 am

Dutch King Willem-Alexander, left, Queen Maxima, center, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, far right, leave a meeting in Nieuwegein, near the central city of Utrecht, Netherlands, Monday, July 21, 2014. Relatives of Dutch victims killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were meeting Monday afternoon with their king, queen and prime minister amid growing anger at the treatment of their loved ones' bodies by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. In an unusual move that underscored the severity of the national trauma, a somber King Willem-Alexander gave a brief televised address to his country after meeting grieving relatives. "This terrible disaster has left a deep wound in our society," the king said. "The scar will be visible and tangible for years to come." (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch anger swells at treatment of Ukraine bodies

Mike Corder · July 21, 2014 6:43 pm

People sign a condolence register at St. Vitus church in Hilversum, Netherlands, Sunday, July 20, 2014. An attack on a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch. Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Distraught Dutch mother: ‘Send my children home’

Mike Corder · July 20, 2014 8:26 pm

Dutch court: Black Pete is a negative stereotype

Toby Sterling · July 3, 2014 12:44 pm

Beltway Confidential

Twitter’s latest five minutes of hate, World Cup edition

Becket Adams · June 30, 2014 8:53 am

Visitors of the Wertheim Park point to a banner opposing plans for a second Holocaust monument in the park in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Plans for a second Holocaust monument in the park in Amsterdam designed by architect Daniel Libeskind have been put on hold after angry neighbors told the city it is too large for the park where it was to have been placed. Edwin Oppedijk, a spokesman for the city's central district, said Wednesday that after hearing the complaints, the city will reconsider whether to place the monument in the Wertheim Park after all or possibly an alternate location. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Plan for Dutch Holocaust monument on hold

Toby Sterling · June 18, 2014 4:11 pm