2010 Giro to start in Amsterdam

Next year's Giro d'Italia will start in Amsterdam and the first three stages will be contested in the Netherlands.

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Dutch museum shows New York's 'birth certificate'

To see some of the most important documents in the early history of New York, you need to go to Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam to close many brothels, marijuana cafes

Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to drive organized crime out of the tourist haven.

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Major setback for Amsterdam subway project

An accident that damaged the foundations of centuries-old downtown buildings shut down work Thursday on Amsterdam's troubled new subway line.

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Amsterdam 'No Toking' Signs Being Pilfered

If you can't beat 'em ... joint 'em? The City of Amsterdam has begun selling recently introduced "no toking" signs to prevent the official ones from being stolen as collector's items, a spokesman said Friday.

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The cabinet is considering introducing passes for cannabis cafe users in an effort to keep foreign tourists out, sources in the Hague have told news agency ANP.

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The beer bike will ride on in Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam city council has been ordered to pay a brothel owner over €40,000 in compensation because it took too long to decide whether she could have a licence.

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A video blogger by the name of "roberwter" recently posted a video (on YouTube.com) of daily life in Amsterdam which contradicted the false claims by Bill O'Reilly and guest Margaret Hoover that Amsterdam is a city of crime, drugs and anarchy.

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msterdam police is deeply concerned about a new craze in which vandals toss parked cars from the Smart brand into the city's canals. The so-called 'Smart tossing' takes place mainly during the weekend, when many youths are out for a night on the town.

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Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city's key business sectors -- banking and credit for prostitutes who can't get accounts from mainstream institutions.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his latest incarnation as a gay Austrian fashion reporter, jet skied through a canal into Amsterdam's red light district on Friday to open a brothel full of men in thongs ahead of the Dutch premiere of 'Bruno'.

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HUMAN FAITH WITHOUT CASTE

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In an attempt to discourage crime and drug tourism, as well as because sharing is really annoying when the cycle of Puff-Puff-Give is FUBAR'd by greedy tourists, some Coffee shops will be for card carrying members only. The government is backing this decision.

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A little 'last month' but I'm certain nothing has changed in three weeks. (I would like to know if they profile travelers and peer into their card statements looking for hash brownie or red light district charges.)

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Police say they've found the passport of a University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater.

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A park near Amsterdam unveiled Tuesday information signs pointing out spots where officials say gay men are known to have sex -- so no visitors are taken by surprise.

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In the first rigorous study comparing marijuana use in the Netherlands and the United States, researchers have found no evidence that decriminalization of marijuana leads to increased drug use.

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Seven people have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of planning to blow up shops in Amsterdam. Police said they had acted on a tip a day earlier from an anonymous caller in Belgium who had warned of attacks intended to cause many casualties.

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The band that loves to rail against global corporate malfeasance is being criticized at home over allegations of tax dodging...

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A passenger jet carrying more than 130 people crashed into a field as it was coming into land in Amsterdam Wednesday. The Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 broke into three pieces on impact, but fatalities were initially thought to be minimal.

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This story is still evolving, so I'll update things as more reports come in. So far, it seems that about 50 of the 135 aboard have managed to get off of the plane. **UPDATE** FNC has just reported 20 injured, 1 dead from another report coming out of Amsterdam.

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A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed on landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport. The plane, with 135 passengers on board, crashed near the A9 motorway and suffered significant damage. It was Flight 1951 and was a 737-800 aircraft, the airport said.

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Albert "Jack" Stanley, a former KBR chief executive, pleaded guilty last September to charges stemming from the bribes and agreed to cooperate with investigators. Stanley, who had worked under former U.S.

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It's official: the Dutch have managed to make pot smoking uncool. The Dutch don't smoke nearly as much cannabis as Canadians, which is surprising because cannabis use is legal in the Netherlands. What can we learn from this?

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A US airline has completed the first test flight of a plane partly powered by biofuel derived from algae. More Articles

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It's official: the Dutch have managed to make pot smoking uncool. The Dutch don't smoke nearly as much cannabis as Canadians, which is surprising because cannabis use is legal in the Netherlands. What can we learn from this?

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Dutch parliament member Harry van Bommel (Socialist Party) calls for intifada against Israel during anti-Israel / pro Gaza, pro Hamas, pro Hezbollah demonstration in Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam hosted a Christmas celebration for its gay community on Sunday featuring a nativity tableau with a male Mary in drag that church organizations denounced as an affront to traditional values.

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A Dutch gay group is planning a "Pink Christmas" festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys.

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