Amsterdam News
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Amsterdam, the constitutional capital of Holland, may be viewed as a liberal city, due to its previously lax laws on pot-smoking, but like so many other European countries, Holland is tightening its rules regarding migrant workers.
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Pop icon Miley Cyrus, who raised eyebrows earlier this year after a raunchy performance at the American MTV Video Music Awards, has done something else to draw the ire of parent groups. Cyrus allegedly smoked marijuana at an MTV event in Amsterdam.
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The Netherlands is unique in its policy on marijuana possession. While it is considered an illegal drug, having 5 grams or less on your person is not a criminal offense. Visitors to Amsterdam's coffee shops may find this law doesn't apply to them anymore.
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The International Documentary Film Festival, held in Amsterdam, opened Nov. 20th for its 26th run. With almost 300 entries from around the world, films often tell poignant and powerful stories. One of those stories this year is titled "Putin's Games."
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In what might seem at first glance to be a little counteractive, the Rainbow Foundation in Amsterdam is now paying local chronic alcoholics with beer for keeping the streets of the city clean.
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The Amsterdam flea market takes place once a month across the IJ in Amsterdam Noord, where private (non-commercial) sellers rent a stand and put up for sale everything from clothes to junk to hidden treasures.
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Dramatic video footage shows the moment that a hot air balloon carrying 11 people crashes into a lake near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Two people were injured.
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Unlike Hongkong, Montreal and a few other cities, Amsterdam does not have an internationally known and recognized skyline. Instead, the Dutch capital is more like a tapestry where sometimes the architecture is very modern, then again charmingly old.
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Christine Lagarde barely got a chance to open her mouth when giving a lecture at the University of Amsterdam, when student hecklers rose up and started a typical Occupy mic check.
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Whilst in the Netherlands, Justin Bieber visited The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and left behind a controversial message in the visitor's book.
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The video shows a lioness killing a heron that was foolhardy enough to land in the lion enclosure at the Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam.
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The UK food industry has been rocked by a meat scandal. In some cases products labelled as containing 100% beef have instead contained pork or horse. One Dutch steakhouse boss has revealed that he has sold horse as beef for 63 years.
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A group of Dutch pranksters are causing some confusion among motorists in Amsterdam, filming their perplexed targets and posting the videos on YouTube.
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Shipping containers will be the new homes for the neighours from hell. Amsterdam is planning to ship off the most anti-social tennants of public housing to supervised scum housing.
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Despite a newly enacted Dutch law aimed at reducing the country's drug tourism, Amsterdam's mayor has announced he will allow coffee shops that sell marijuana and hashish to remain open to tourists.
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Confusion spread across Europe today after Spanish media reported a plane traveling from Málaga to Amsterdam may have been hijacked. The plane was escorted by F16 fighter jets to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam and was surrounded by police.
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A section of Schiphol airport, located in Amsterdam, has been closed today after a suspected World War II bomb was found.
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Amsterdam will soon allow people on terraces to stand and drink their beer once again, according to a municipal spokeswoman.
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Amsterdam did its part in the global 12m movement yesterday by holding a flash mob in Dam Square. Looks like fun was had by all.
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Amsterdam is famous for its "coffee shops" where you can have, well, just a little more than just plain old coffee. But now a judge is upholding a plan to ban foreign tourists from indulging.
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Dutch media reports that 2 trains have collided in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, injuring at least 70 with more than 50 seriously.
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A head-on collision between two passenger trains in Amsterdam Saturday has left dozens of passengers injured including approximately 50 serious injuries, according to police.
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Over the weekend, a service in Amsterdam honored Holocaust victims and the memory of Dutch protestors who fought against the Nazis.
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The Netherlands government wants to institute a ban on marijuana in public coffee shops. Foreigners will no longer be getting high in the lowlands. Are snack-makers in a panic?
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The Dutch government is moving to restrict cannabis sales at 'coffee houses' nationally and is fully banning tourists from visiting these locations, a move that has been dubbed 'tourism suicide.'
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Every day EMS units in Toronto save lives. This year two teams of Toronto EMS Paramedics traveled to international medical competitions. One took home the gold and the other came in second place.
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A leading Canadian columnist is taking the media to task for their silence over gay-bashing incidents carried out by Muslims in Amsterdam, once a veritable “anything goes” city where gays used to go about without fear of attack.
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The chestnut tree that cheered Anne Frank during her period of hiding from the Nazis has toppled over in Amsterdam. The iron which had been supporting the tree also fell.
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Vehicles for city tours such as multi-person bikes offering free-flowing beer are beginning to irritate both motorists and pedestrians in Germany, leading some cities to consider banning them. While in the U.S. the popularity of the PedalPub increases.
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Remembrance Day ceremonies in the Netherlands were interrupted today after someone in the crowd yelled "bomb" during two minutes of silence. The chaos resulted in a stampede that saw 63 people wounded, many suffering from broken legs.
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Amsterdam Image
Courtesy Rijksmuseum
The Night Watch in its original place. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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A designated area where people can scatter the ashes (white) of their loved ones.
Zoergvliet, Amsterdam
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Amsterdam Schiphol Airport entrance
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Parked bicycles at Amsterdam Central Station
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Old and new meet at Museum Square: a modern Van Gogh Museum just opposite the venerable Concert Hall.
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Walking through the older city center. Dutch gables at the 'New Market'
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New architecture: NEMO, a technology museum in the form of a half sunken vessel.
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Joints are on the menu at an Amsterdam coffee shop.
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Old grave in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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The old clock at Central Station evokes memories of Venice.
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12m Flash Mob in Dam Square, Amsterdam on May 12, 2012
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Clock of the Central Station (ca.1890) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Some of the city's canals have been set aside for so-called house-boats where people live throughout the year.
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Replica of an old VOC ship the Dutch used to travel to Japan and Indonesia.
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A hot air balloon crashed into a lake in Almere near Amsterdam in the Netherlands carrying 11 passengers, 2 of which had minor injuries.
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Emptied grave, ready to receive a new occupant
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With a shortage of land, the Dutch have learned to live with and on the water.
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Steelman (2011) sculpture by Florentijn Hofman in Amsterdam, Holland
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Amsterdam store window displaying various medical cannabis, hemp food and other types of products
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2theloo is a company offering superior toilet facilities.
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