Amsterdam to clean up "Red Light" district
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The city of Amsterdam announced plans on Monday to clean up its infamous "red light" district to fight human trafficking, money laundering and drug abuse and replace prostitutes' windows with upmarket boutiques.
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City officials said Thursday they are shutting down nearly a third of the 350 prostitution "windows" in Amsterdam's famed Red Light District as part of a crackdown on crime.
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A new proposal from the mayor of Amsterdam is sure to be considered a bummer by certain visitors to the Dutch city: a three-day waiting period to buy hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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NORTHBOROUGH, Massachusetts  - The red Victorian home on Maple Street has a wounded, abandoned look: trash litters the yard, the pool has frozen over, old clothes are strewn across dirty floors. Renovations are half-done.
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AMSTERDAM -- Authorities announced a major crackdown on organized crime in Amsterdam's Red Light District yesterday , for the first time allowing national police investigators and tax authorities to see the extent of what had long been seen as a local problem.
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By Will Elliott  The sweep is on.  Volunteers will be scouring shorelines in a clean-up effort to beautify and make more functional waterways around Western New York.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- On the day of his cremation, hundreds of people laid flowers, candles and notes at the spot where controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was killed.
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the world's most celebrated art galleries, will not reopen after renovation work until 2010, two years later than planned.
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Amsterdam's infamous Yab Yum brothel, which calls itself the world's most exclusive men's club, must shut its doors, an Amsterdam court ruled on Friday.
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At the European Union's daily news conference recently, the names of the 20 languages into which questions and answers would be translated shone in red lights on an elevated board, like the departure ...Comment
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Cars are set alight in an Amsterdam suburb in a sixth day of unrest after a Moroccan man was shot dead by police.
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New European governments aim to clean up their streets with a pet project
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Here's an idea that could boost the tourist industry, alleviate traffic, encourage smart growth and open neglected urban areas for development while helping to unify an often fractured region:
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A non-profit corporation has purchased a large number of the buildings where prostitutes pose in windows in Amsterdam's Red Light district, the city said Thursday, in a deal that may lead to a third of the windows being shuttered.
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Years after many of Amsterdam&#39;s world famous houseboats were connected to cable television and broadband Internet, the next innovation awaits: sewers.
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As the Dutch capital closes down a third of its brothels in an attempt to cut crime, Anushka Asthana spends a night in the city where the prostitutes are a tourist attraction.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 9--Shortly after noon today, police removed barricades from most streets surrounding the charred remnants of the Chemcentral Corp. plant in the East Bottoms.