More than 1,500 climate activists have been arrested at an anti-fossil-fuel protest in the Netherlands. The event, organized by Extinction Rebellion, was described as an effort to stop the Dutch government handing out subsidies to fossil-fuel companies. Police used water cannons in an attempt to disperse the protesters, who were blocking a major highway connecting The Hague with the German border.

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