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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Climate protesters have blocked a Dutch highway to demand an end to big subsidies for fossil fuels

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Several thousand climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday in anger at billions of euros in government subsidies for industries that use oil, coal and gas revealed in a report earlier this week.

The protesters — from Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and other organizations — broke through a police barrier and sat on a main road in The Hague heading to the temporary venue for the lower house of parliament.

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