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May 9, 2013
2:39 am

Anne Frank's diary is seen on her writing desk as visitors tour the first house of Anne Frank in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where the Frank family lived from 1933 to 1942. (photo credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Rival Anne Frank charities wage bitter fight

Nazi comparisons fly as battle over Frank family archive threatens to tarnish reputations of Basel and Amsterdam institutions

By Toby Sterling

April 30, 2013
3:43 pm

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima appear on the balcony of the Royal Palace with their children, from left: Catharina-Amalia, Ariane, and Alexia in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Tuesday April 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

The Netherlands crowns new king

Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand becomes the first Dutch king in more than 100 years, and Europe’s youngest monarch

By Mike Corder and Toby Sterling

December 11, 2012
2:47 am

Johan Huibers poses with a stuffed tiger in front of the full scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (Peter Dejong/AP)

Noah’s Ark opens in Netherlands

Dutchman launches life-sized replica of biblical vessel

By Toby Sterling

July 12, 2012
11:56 am

Berthe Meijer is seen during a 2010 interview at her home in Amsterdam. (photo credit: AP Photo/Evert Elzinga, File)

Dutch Holocaust survivor, author Berthe Meijer dies

Memoir comparing her own life to Anne Frank’s, whom she remembered from the camps, brought withering criticism upon Meijer

By Toby Sterling