Prime Minister Mark Rutte (pictured above) and his liberal VVD party appear to have clearly rejected the assault of the rightwing, populist, anti-Eu, anti-immigration, anti-Islam PVV, an early exit poll suggests. The leftwing environmentalists of GreenLeft (GroenLinks) might be the big winners of the night, quadrupling their number of MPs to 16, the poll suggested. Photo: LaPresse.
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Istanbul, Turkey: A woman shelters herself from rain with the Turkish flag during a demonstration in front of the Consulate General of the Netherlands. The Dutch Embassy in Ankara and Consulate in Istanbul have been sealed off for security reasons, after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was banned by the Dutch government from attending a rally on Saturday in Rotterdam and tensions between the two countries exploded in vitriolic protests. Photo: Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images.
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