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Netherlands: Another night of riots over coronavirus curfew



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The Netherlands experienced another night of unrest heading into Tuesday after protesters opposing a coronavirus curfew confronted police and threw fireworks.       Riot police clashed with groups of protesters in Amsterdam as well as the port city of Rotterdam, Amersfoort in the east, and the small southern city of Geleen near Maastricht, police and Dutch news reports said. Amsterdam police said they had made eight arrests. In Rotterdam, police used a water cannon after clashing with rioters, the national broadcaster NOS reported. The city’s mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has issued an emergency decree which gives police broader powers of arrest. “The riot …

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