Visiting Leiden, Canals and Charm Without the Crowds of Amsterdam

Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands, features museums, gardens, murals and plenty of ways to stretch your mind.

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As the Dutch Vote, One Issue Carries the Day: Affordable Housing

The small European nation of 18 million people is in the middle of its worst housing crunch in decades. But there is no quick political solution.

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Van Gogh Museum in Fight With Dutch State That Threatens Its Future

Its director says that the Amsterdam museum could close unless the culture ministry increases funding to pay for a refurbishment.

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He Announced His Intention to Die. The Dinner Invitations Rolled In.

On Instagram, the artist Joseph Awuah-Darko asked the world to invite him to dinner before he ended his life. More than 150 meals later, he is still going.

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The World Has Too Much Steel, but No One Wants to Stop Making It

A global plunge in prices, led by increased production from China, and U.S. tariffs threaten steel manufacturing, which has long been a symbol of national might.

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Dutch Municipality Accidentally Discards a 1980s Warhol Print

A portrait of former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands might have been worth tens of thousands of dollars. It was probably thrown out during a renovation.

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Amsterdam’s Mayor Apologizes for City’s Role in the Holocaust

The city “horribly abandoned its Jewish residents,” more than 60,000 of whom were deported and killed during World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema said on Thursday.

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The Dutch Love Their Bicycles. Helmets? Not So Much.

Cyclists comprise the highest number of road fatalities in the Netherlands. The country has introduced a campaign to promote helmets, but many cyclists are not convinced.

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An Anne Frank Exhibition in New York

The show, which opens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recreates the annex where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis.

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Thieves Blow Up a Dutch Museum Door to Steal a Golden Helmet

The police said the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a highly regarded artifact from Romania, was among the items stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands.

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