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A happy update on a stolen helmet
1:17
80 years since Auschwitz liberation
Full Episode
49:19
Black holes and the ‘hum’ of gravitational waves
5:28
An illustration of a person holding a book
Global Satire
The writer who published a satirical magazine while hiding in a Dutch home during WWII
This address is listed on an official police website back in China as an “Overseas Police Service Center,” but the locale appears abandoned. 
Global Politics
China has a police network that stretches across some 30 countries, NGO says
An F/A-18 E launches from the deck during flight training ops aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, off the Virginia Coast.
Critical State
Left unresolved: Part II
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo
Revealed: Untold story of the CIA/Stasi double agent abandoned after 22 years of service
Protestors clash with riot police during a demonstration against the reinforced measures of the Belgium government to counter the latest spike of the coronavirus in Brussels, Belgium
Top of The World
Europe sees widespread protests against COVID-19 restrictions
São Sebastião Fort and Museum with statues of conquistadors São Tomé.
History
‘Born in Blackness’: A new book centers Africa in the expansive history of slavery
US director, actor, screenwriter Melvin Van Peebles is seen during a tribute for his career at the 38th American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France
Arts, Culture & Media
This film professor says Melvin Van Peebles taught her that ‘when Hollywood is closing the door, you find your own way’
Students hold up a banners during a rally in front of the parliament in Athens, Greece
Top of The World
The Big Fix special edition newsletter
A caravan of migrants head north towards the US-Mexico border, as they depart from Tapachula, Mexico
Top of The World
Migrants set up camp under Del Rio bridge along US-Mexico border
Plastic fragments washed onto Schiavonea beach in Calabria, Italy, in a 2019 storm.
Environment
The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles. Researchers found a way to track them with satellites.
Tronco, or multiple foot stocks used to to constrain enslaved people
History
The Netherlands hosts a new slavery exhibit, as historical debates continue 
A man victoriously holds up a piece of paper and smiles as other people around him also smile
The Big Fix
Climate activists get more strategic with their use of the courts
A large cargo ship is shown smoking and sinking into the ocean.
Top of The World
Sri Lanka faces an environmental disaster
A scene from an Amsterdam metro subway with a huge TV ad of a white man's face
The Big Fix
Amsterdam bans fossil fuel ads from its metro
Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona is seen only from the head up, blocked mostly by ICC judges standing in the nearground.
Top of The World
Alleged CAR militia leaders reject ICC charges
A woman smokes a joint at cannabis coffee shop Prix d'Ami in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 13, 2020.
Lifestyle & Belief
Amsterdam officials move to ban tourists from its cannabis cafés
On Jan. 14, 2020, Nadhira al-Harthy became the first Arab woman to reach the summit of Mount Ama Dablam — about 22,000 feet — according to mountain records.
Lifestyle
‘Married to the mountains’: Arab women mountaineers set records despite social restrictions, pandemic
A large crowd of people are shown with arms locked standing opposite a line of police wearing riot gear with black helmets.
Top of The World
Pro-Navalny protesters clash with Russian police; Dutch protests erupt over COVID-19 curfew; Mexican president tests positive for coronavirus
Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte is shown in a close-up photograph wearing a gray suit and looking down.
Global Politics
Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal
Haliade-X wind turbines — nearly the size of the Eiffel Tower — are a game changer for the global offshore wind industry. A single turbine can power over 10,000 homes at competitive rates. 
The Big Fix
Enormous wind turbines may be coming to a coast near you
People crowd Via del Corso shopping street ahead of a Christmas Eve national lockdown due to start on Dec. 24, in Rome.
COVID-19
For many across Europe, Christmas is ‘canceled’ this year
Environmental activists hold a banner that reads: "Because watching is not an option [anymore]," as they protest outside of a court during a hearing in a case environmentalist and human rights groups have brought against Royal Dutch Shell to force the ene
Energy
Climate activists are taking their case to court — at The Hague and beyond
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a ceremony ahead of a meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 17, 2020.
Top of The World
China-Australia tensions escalate; Royal Dutch Shell faces climate lawsuit; Brazilian Amazon deforestation sees 12-year high
Amsterdam's red-light district remains sparse as many international tourists have stayed away during the pandemic.
Lifestyle
Is overtourism over? Travelers to Europe stay home due to COVID-19 restrictions.
A sign reads "no sex" in the red-light district in Amsterdam.
Jobs
Sex workers in Europe struggle to survive as clubs slowly reopen
A younger woman looks at an older woman behind glass at The Glass Garden House at the Claris nursing home.
COVID-19
Netherlands nursing home builds ‘glass cabin’ where families can safely connect
A worker picks roses that will be thrown way because they cannot be shipped to Europe due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Maridadi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, March 19, 2020.
Jobs
Coronavirus pandemic wilts global flower industry
A midshot of a woman in front of a bookshelf
Language
The Netherlands to immigrants: Speak Dutch
A close-up of the blue-gloved hand of a toilet paper packer who is boxing rolls of individually wrapped toilet paper to be shipped in Bangor, Maine, on April 7, 2020.
COVID-19
‘Sewage surveillance’ may be early warning tool in fight against COVID-19, says one study
Tulips and a windmill
Language
Damn coronavirus! How the Dutch use diseases as curse words.
A picture of victims of the MH17 crash rests on empty chairs during a protest outside the Russian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands March 8, 2020.
Justice
Start of MH17 murder trial offers some ‘relief,’ victim’s mother says
Soccer field
As racist incidents mount, European soccer officials vow to do more
Six men are show sitting side-by-side at a table with a sign hanging behind them with "Joint Investigation Team" written on it.
Justice
Russians, Ukrainian to face murder charges over downing of flight MH17
European Parliament
Environment
Green wave in EU elections illustrates a desire for urgent action on climate
voting in holland
Global Politics
In upset, Dutch Labor party trumps populists in European vote
Two while men in suits
Global Politics
With far-right topping Dutch polls, EU elections could see Eurosceptics take the lead
Jeroen Nijland
Business, Economics and Jobs
In wake of Brexit, British companies head to Amsterdam
A bird walks inside a commuter underground tube train
Why Luxembourg’s free transit may not fix its traffic problem
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is shown surrounded about people on all sides next to a van.
Global Politics
Major European nations recognize Guaido as Venezuela’s president
Three siblings smile and pose while sitting in the pew of a church
Dutch church ends 96-day service as Armenian family spared deportation
A preacher stands at the front of a mostly full church
Immigration
A tale of two sanctuary churches: Congregants in Ohio and the Netherlands find ‘instant connection’
a closeup of an older man with a bald head and glasses
This Holocaust survivor convinced a Dutch rail firm to make reparations
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov are shown walking past a marble floor depicting a bat at the new GRU military intelligence headquarters building in Russia.
Conflict & Justice
Britain says Russian military intelligence behind host of global cyber attacks
Nuria at My Red Light, a social project in the form of a brothel in Amsterdam. Nuria plans to retire from sex work later this year and work full-time in an administrative role at My Red Light.
Women & Gender
A Dutch brothel where women work for themselves
A large piece of silver meta, a damaged missile,l sits on a table while MH 17 is projected in the background of a screen.
US, Australia, Netherlands urge Russia to ‘accept its responsibility’ for MH17 crash
members of a battalion lining up in front of a palace
Global Politics
There are 28 other monarchies in the world
Rie van de Mueren (r) used to be a professional ballroom dancer. She's with Dieuwer Duijf at the Music Salon, which holds dance parties for the elderly in north Amsterdam.
Music
Amsterdam is tackling loneliness one dance party at a time
Those who have the neurological condition synesthesia often automatically see colors when they hear music or see numbers or letters.
Music
Study begins to reveal genetic ties behind a neurological phenomenon
Two people walk across the beach sand. Across the water are wind turbines and other buildings
Environment
Sea levels off Dutch coast highest ever recorded in 2017
A screenshot of the headline from Germany's Speigel.
Global Politics
How countries around the world translated Trump
Demonstrators rally on behalf of LGBT asylum-seekers in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Justice
‘Not gay enough’: Dutch authorities challenge asylum-seekers to prove their sexuality
DNA testing in The Hague
Justice
Cutting-edge DNA labs help identify people missing in conflicts and disasters
Americans spend six billion hours and $10 billion every year preparing and filing their taxes.
Books
Many countries have a simple, fair tax system. Could the US be next?
Police investigates a van with Spanish license plate packed with gas canisters in the vicinity of the concert venue Maassilo, after a concert was cancelled because of a terror threat, in Rotterdam.
Conflict
Dutch police step up probe into terror scare after canceling a rock concert in Rotterdam
Dutch city on the river
Environment
The Netherlands, always vulnerable to floods, has a new approach to water management
A KLM Boeing 737.
Culture
The Dutch king has been secretly flying commercial planes for 21 years
Linawato Sidarto has lived in Amsterdam almost as long as she lived in Indonesia, but she says she doesn't think she'll ever be able to feel Dutch.
Global Politics
First- and second-generation Dutch wonder whether they’ll ever be considered locals