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The Netherlands expands parental rights for LGBT families
Dutch kids may soon be able to have three or more mothers or fathers after the government said it was seeking to enshrine parenting rights for the Netherlands’ 25,000 children in gay families. “The justice ministry is going to investigate and see what the possibilities are for recognising three parents…
Top Nazi war criminal dies at 90
A Nazi war criminal who escaped from a Dutch jail after the war and evaded all attempts by the Netherlands to get him back has died at the age of 90 in Germany, a hospital source said Saturday. Klaas Carel Faber, who was second on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s list…
Dutch roll out ‘cannabis card’ to stop pot tourists
Keen to stub out an era of dope tourism, the Netherlands on Tuesday starts restricting cannabis sales in the country’s south to residents only, despite opposition from pro-pot lobby groups. Famous for decades for its laid-back attitude to marijuana, the Netherlands will now require so-called coffee shops in some regions to only sell to…
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