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The cases were identified among 61 passengers who tested positive for coronavirus. The Dutch health authority said the investigation has not yet been completed and the new variant may be found in more test samples.

Two planes carrying some 600 passengers from South Africa landed in the Netherlands with 61 people infected with the coronavirus - including some cases believed to be the new omicron variant - Dutch health authorities said Saturday after halting flights from several southern African countries over fears of the new omicron variant of the virus.

ABP, which has around three million clients in the Netherlands, said it will divest from the fossil fuel producers in phases.

The sea level off the Dutch coast could rise by 1.2 meters around 2100 compared to the beginning of this century if the greenhouse gas emissions do not reduce. As the melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet at the South Pole accelerates, the KNMI said "even a 2-meter rise in sea level by 2100 is in sight."

The main political parties in the Netherlands are discussing a new approach to climate-related investments that would mean they dont count toward the countrys headline budget deficit.

For years, the Netherlands has held the world title for having the tallest people on the planet. But new data from the office for national statistics suggests that the height of the average Dutch person is shrinking. And scientists are puzzled as to why.

Dutch rioters who attacked police and destroyed property over the weekend while protesting new coronavirus measures are "criminals," Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Monday, as law enforcement warned that the violence could last for weeks.

South Korea on Friday banned imports of poultry from the Netherlands after a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu was found in the country.

Seven out of the 226 Thais who returned home on Wednesday (May 27) from the Netherlands, Canada and Hong Kong were classified as PUI (patient under investigation) as they showed symptoms similar to Covid-19, Suvarnabhumi Airport deputy director Kittipong Kittikachorn said on Wednesday.

A 68-year-old man from the Netherlands, wanted for transnational human-trafficking crimes and who had been laying low in Thailand over the past decade, has been arrested in Chon Buri province, Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpal told a press conference on Tuesday.

More than 40 companies last year moved, or said they would move, their operations from Britain to the Netherlands in response to Brexit uncertainties, Dutch authorities reported on Saturday.

Former champions Germany and the Netherlands will meet again in qualifying for Euro 2020 after being paired together in Sunday's draw in Dublin, but World Cup semi-finalists England have little to complain about.