<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS  --  Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[12 Heirs of Nazi Victims Win Swiss Bank Claim]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55500-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55500-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LOS ANGELES, April 14  --  Maria Altmann was still in disbelief Thursday, the day after a New York judge restored part of her family fortune by approving a $21.9 million award to her and 11 other heirs of her uncle and a business partner victimized by the Nazis.]]></description><author> Ryan Pearson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[$4.5 Billion in Aid Pledged For Postwar Efforts in Sudan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45986-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45986-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nations and international organizations on Tuesday pledged $4.5 billion over three years to help southern Sudan build government institutions and alleviate poverty as it recovers from a two-decade civil war.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Selling Democracy,' Marshall Plan in Miniature]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37406-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37406-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On  the heels of stories involving the appointment of Karen Hughes as a State Department undersecretary in charge of improving the U.S. image in the Middle East, as well as government-funded press releases masquerading as news stories, the timing for "Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan 1948-1953" could not be better.]]></description><author> Ann Hornaday</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard Davies; U.S. Envoy To Poland From 1973 to '78]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23955-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23955-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Richard T. Davies, 84, a career Foreign Service diplomat who was the U.S. ambassador to Poland from 1973 to 1978, died March 30 at Washington Hospital Center. He had leukemia.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europeans See Issue as Strictly Medical]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17001-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17001-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In European countries that have struggled through their own end-of-life debates in recent years, the case of Terri Schiavo has sparked widespread interest and befuddlement at how politics and faith intervened in what most Europeans view as a strictly medical decision.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Risks Putin's Ire With Visits to Latvia, Georgia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64106-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64106-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush expanded his planned May trip to Moscow by adding stops in two former Soviet republics that have resisted Russian influence, an itinerary seen as a pointed message to President Vladimir Putin.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airline Probed in Activist's Murder]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32206-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32206-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's best-known human rights campaigner, started feeling sick shortly after his overnight flight left for Europe last September. After he made brief layover in Singapore, the pain grew so intense that a doctor on board was roused from his sleep to tend to him. Within hours, somewhere in the night skies above Eastern Europe, Munir died.]]></description><author> Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digesting de Bray's Priceless Pearl]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28629-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28629-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This is a story about two pearl earrings. Both of them are huge, and obviously expensive. Both of them appear in 17th-century Dutch paintings. One is famous, one is not.]]></description><author> Paul Richard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Moves to Preserve Iraq Coalition Support]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51634-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51634-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[U.S. strategy calls for foreign allied troops to begin training Iraqi army to takeover security duties in the country, a move that will facilitate the ultimate goal of the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq.]]></description><author> Robin Wright and Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Aide Quits in Harassment Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39901-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39901-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The U.N.'s top refugee advocate resigned Sunday amid a festering controversy over allegations that he sexually harassed several female employees at the U.N. refugee agency.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post-Election, Many Critical of U.S. Presence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30682-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30682-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Almost two years after the Americans came here, many Iraqis say they see no sign that they're going to leave. Some say the U.S. presence is necessary to counter instability while others say it is causing violence and the Americans should go home.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amsterdam Good Chocolate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17207-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17207-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was after the raw scallops dressed in chocolate mayo and the shrimp risotto flavored with dark chocolate shavings and sugar beets, after the palate-cleansing caipirinha snow cone topped with sea salt, sugar cane and pure chocolate, after the medallions of duck wearing frothy caps of whipped chocolate and Chinese-spiced gravy, that I turned to my friend Karen and said: "Too much of a good thing."]]></description><author> Susan Harb</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Aid Boost Is Expected in Bush Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1495-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1495-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bush will propose a substantial increase in foreign aid in the fiscal 2006 budget he submits to Congress on Monday, although the boost for one of his signature aid programs falls well short of the amount he promised.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52502-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52502-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE HAGUE -- Sometimes the threats come by e-mail. Other times, warnings show up on Internet chat sites. Occasionally they are short video clips. The latest has a soundtrack of Arabic song and automatic-weapons fire, and a photograph of the intended target -- a Dutch lawmaker, Geert Wilders.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Rejects Condoms As a Counter to AIDS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29404-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29404-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ROME, Jan. 22 -- After several days of unusual public debate among senior figures in the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II on Saturday reaffirmed church teaching that urges abstinence and marital fidelity to stop the spread of AIDS and forbids condoms.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Report Urges Rich To Give More]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16530-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16530-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United States and other rich nations need to increase their overseas development assistance this year by as much as $48 billion in order to achieve their commitment to slash in half global poverty for a billion people in the next 10 years, according to a United Nations report.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bioterrorism War Game Shows Lack Of Readiness]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10746-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10746-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A real-life distinction between the nations with sufficient smallpox vaccines and those with far too little was a key element of the day's events.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aid to Poorest Nations Trails Global Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10692-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10692-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Though the United States is a top donor in international aid after disasters, it is the one of the smallest contributors for development.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swedes Bring Home Dead And Millions Fall Silent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51600-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51600-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/netherlands/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:47 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first six coffins carrying the bodies of Swedish tourists killed in southern Asia's tsunami arrived home early Wednesday morning from Thailand, and later in the day, millions fell silent throughout Europe for three poignant minutes to memorialize the nearly 140,000 dead.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item></channel></rss>
