Amsterdam

Oct. 9 (UPI) — Sosie Bacon’s horror movie, “Smile,” is the No. 1 movie in North America for a second weekend, earning an additional $17.6 million in receipts, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

A Dutch court is examining evidence of the fatal shooting of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was brazenly gunned down almost a year ago.

A gunman held a hostage at the Amsterdam Apple Store demanded a ransom of €200mn in crypto before he was run over by a police car.

Europe’s security could be under threat as security scanners in sensitive spots were revealed Thursday to have been manufactured by a Chinese Communist Party-backed company.

A United Nations official has slammed the ‘savagery’ of officers during a lockdown protest in the Netherlands, prompting Dutch police to complain to the UN.

Video footage has emerged appearing to show a police dog mauling a man at an anti-lockdown protest held in Amsterdam on Sunday.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch music fans have been banned for months from going to large-scale festivals due to coronavirus restrictions. On Saturday, the festivals came to them. Hundreds of performers and festival organizers held marches through six Dutch cities on Saturday to protest what they argue are unfair restrictions that have forced the cancellation of summer music festivals and other events. Thousands of people attended one of the “Unmute Us” marches in Amsterdam, walking and dancing behind a convoy of trucks carrying DJs and sound systems pumping out music.

Dutch police have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of veteran crime journalist Peter R de Vries, who was shot in the centre of Amsterdam earlier this week.

A Dutch court convicted a 32-year-old woman and sentenced her to six years’ imprisonment Tuesday for involvement in war crimes.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — One person was killed and four were injured in a stabbing late Friday night in Amsterdam and police said they arrested a suspect nearby.

Polling stations opened early Monday in a three day general election to allow people to vote safely during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Dutch government has denied it was planning to deploy the army to quell anti-corona-lockdown riots on Tuesday. 

Riots erupted in the Netherlands on Sunday as citizens rose up in defiance against the national 9 pm coronavirus curfew imposed on the country.

Yassin Elforkani, the Imam of Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque, has demanded Dutch lawmakers consider passing new legislation to ban insulting the Islamic prophet Mohamm

The left-wing mayor who was photographed at a protest without a mask has been slammed over her handling of the mass demonstration.

After weeks of being closed to the public, a restaurant in the Netherlands will start serving diners in enclosed glass greenhouses in order to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

Hundreds of users queued outside “coffee shops” to stock up on marijuana after the govt announced stores would close for three weeks.

A letter bomb that detonated in an Amsterdam mail sorting center was sent by an extortionist who is demanding payment in bitcoins.

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands was partially shut down amid reports of men armed with knives attempting to hijack a plane, later confirmed to be a false alarm.

A Dutch court on Monday convicted an Afghan asylum-seeker and sentenced him to nearly 27 years imprisonment for stabbing two American tourists in a terror attack at Amsterdam’s main railway station.

Dutch lawyer Derk Wiersum was shot dead on the streets of Amsterdam this week, with some believing the shooting was tied to a major Moroccan mafia drug case.

Climate advocate Prince Harry flew to Amsterdam to caution holidaymakers and tourism chiefs about the damage being done to the environment by frequent flyers.

An Afghan man accused of stabbing two American tourists in Holland says he went there to “protect the Prophet Mohammed,” according to reports. 

A pro-paedophile group calling themselves the “Children’s Liberation Front” attempted to infiltrate a pride parade over the weekend in Amsterdam before being removed.

The Dutch authorities overpowered a man who claimed to have a bomb at the Amsterdam Schipol airport.

Dutch Yellow Vests have planned action across The Netherlands to protest against “political correctness,” immigration policies, and to call for the resignation of liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

An Afghan asylum seeker accused of stabbing two American tourists at the Dutch capital’s main railway station has been ordered detained for a further 90 days as investigations continue into what prosecutors say was an extremist attack.

The Afghan migrant who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s Centraal Station on Friday “had a terrorist motive”, according to Dutch police.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Two people wounded in a knife attack at the Dutch capital’s busy main railway station on Friday are both American citizens who were visiting the Netherlands, the U.S. ambassador said Saturday as police investigated possible motives, including the possibility it was an extremist act.

Dutch police responded to a ‘stabbing incident’ at Amsterdam Central railway station early Friday afternoon, shooting a suspect after two were stabbed. The suspect and two victims were taken to hospital after the incident, and police confirmed they had shot

Hecklers disrupted former President Bill Clinton’s speech at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on Friday. 

TEL AVIV – A former staffer at a Dutch Muslim political party sent an email to the Netherlands’ largest newspaper saying, “May you get cancer, you filthy, far-right cancer Jews.”

A van was driven into the offices of a right-wing Dutch newspaper in Amsterdam Tuesday morning, bursting into flames and causing significant damage in what is being called an attack on the news organisation.

A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a fight broke out over a passenger who allegedly could not stop passing gas.

Dutch police are responding to an apparent mass shooting on Great Witten Street, east Amsterdam on Friday evening, which has left one dead and two wounded.

The Netherland’s Royal Military Police disabled a knife-wielding man at the capital Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport Friday afternoon.