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ING: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Oct. 31, 2024 05:07 AM EDT

AMSTERDAM (AP) — AMSTERDAM (AP) — ING Groep NV (ING) on Thursday reported net income of $2.07 billion in its third quarter. The Amsterdam-based bank said it had earnings of 65 cents per share. The financial services provider posted revenue of $6.49 billion in the...

Philips: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Oct. 28, 2024 05:53 AM EDT

AMSTERDAM (AP) — AMSTERDAM (AP) — Koninklijke Philips NV (PHG) on Monday reported net income of $198.9 million in its third quarter. The Amsterdam-based company said it had net income of 21 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 35 cents per share. ...

Premature baby taken from Paris region hospital found in Amsterdam and his parents were detained

Oct. 25, 2024 17:33 PM EDT

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A prematurely born baby who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital earlier this week has been found in an Amsterdam hotel, police in the Dutch capital said Friday. Amsterdam police released few details because the investigation was led by...

Dutch adopt US war graves to harbor memories of the country's liberation 80 years ago

Sep. 12, 2024 05:51 AM EDT

MARGRATEN, Netherlands (AP) — In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never forget the American and other Allied soldiers who gave their lives in the fight to liberate towns and villages from the Nazi occupation in World War II. Nowhere is the...

A Pakistani religious leader is tried in his absence for allegedly threatening Geert Wilders

Sep. 02, 2024 14:27 PM EDT

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors demanded a 14-year sentence Monday for a Pakistani Muslim leader accused of inciting the murder of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, the leader of the party that won last year's general election in the Netherlands. Muhammad Ashraf Asif...

Defense ministry network disruption causes widespread outages in the Netherlands

Aug. 28, 2024 06:29 AM EDT

THE HAGUE (AP) — Flights were grounded, civil servants were locked out of their computers and police officers resorted to texting one another in the Netherlands on Wednesday as a network outage at the Ministry of Defense caused major IT failures across the country. The extent and...