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Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport urged travelers on Saturday to stay away as a strike by ground personnel at the start of a school holiday caused chaos at Europe’s third-busiest airport. “The terminal is too full at the moment… Schiphol is calling on travelers to not come to the airport anymore,” airport …

Hundreds of protesters marched against the introduction of a “corona pass” in the Netherlands on Saturday, as proof of COVID-19 vaccination became compulsory to get into bars, restaurants, theatres, and other venues. The new requirement to show the pass or a recent negative coronavirus test came into force on Saturday, …

Journalist Peter R de Vries was reportedly shot in the head by an unidentified gunman, according to Het Parool newspaper. A man believed to be Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries was shot and seriously wounded on a street in Amsterdam, newspaper Het Parool reported on Tuesday, adding he …

Police in the Netherlands arrested six men suspected of preparing to commit kidnappings and hold people, hostage, after discovering an “underworld” prison equipped with a torture chamber made from converted shipping containers in a warehouse. In a statement on Tuesday, the National Prosecutor’s Office said the seven shipping containers were …

Two-letter bombs have exploded in separate incidents in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, with no injuries reported. “On Wednesday morning, an explosion took place in a mailroom of a business building just before 8 a.m., presumably caused by a bomb letter. No [one] injured,” Dutch police said on Wednesday. Bomb squads …

Almost 400 people more died in the Netherlands during Europe’s recent record-breaking heatwave than in a regular summer week, according to a report. In total, 2,964 people died in the Netherlands during the week that started on July 22, which was around 15% more than during an average week in …

As spring flower fields around the Netherlands burst into bloom, painting the countryside with dazzling swathes of red, white, and blue, a modern-day tulip bubble may be forming: tourists. More than a million foreign sightseers are expected to visit this country of 17 million people on Easter weekend, a record, …