From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Dozens of people were arrested on Sunday after protesting outside Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall, where multiple Hanukkah concerts were taking place. The day’s concert lineup came under scrutiny last ...

A new overnight bus service in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland offers comfort and sustainability I feel my travel-scrunched spine start to straighten as I stretch out on the plump mattress, a ...

The Amsterdam Police has issued a statement regarding the violent clashes in the city during and around Ajax's Europa League tie against Maccabi Tel Aviv in November 2024. Here is the statement in ...

India is a land of stunning natural beauty. We have the mighty Himalayas, lush green valleys, and beautiful, life-giving rivers. Many places in India remind travellers of Europe. Think of the ...

Amsterdam is once again the “most attractive” city in the Netherlands to live in, according to the latest edition of the local authority almanac Atlas voor gemeenten, which ranks the 50 biggest cities ...

At 7:50 am exactly, in torrential rain, mayor Femke Halsema cut into a 75-metre-long cake, eventually divided up into 7,500 pieces and distributed around the city. It was on October 27, 1275, that the ...

A couple of hundred protestors gathered in Amsterdam’s Museumplein to stage a “No Kings” demonstration on Saturday in support of the anti-Trump rallies taking place across the US. “I felt like I ...

The protest comes weeks after a similar anti-immigration protest turned violent in The Hague, with rioters and police clashing. Later this month, the Netherlands is expected to hold a snap election.

Amsterdam’s year-long 750th birthday party ends October 27 with a 250-foot-long cake, a citywide feast and a celebrity concert broadcast nationwide. ByR. Daniel Foster, Contributor. Forbes ...

Amsterdam, one of the European cities where locals have rallied against mass tourism over the past few years, is again confronting the issue. Political group Amsterdam Heeft een Keuze (Amsterdam Has a ...

Residents of Amsterdam have taken a pioneering step to express their frustration with the city’s overtourism problem. Locals have launched legal action against the council, which they say is not doing ...