Partly because of rising tensions around Ukraine, the US and Russian presidents will meet by telephone on Thursday. According to spokespersons, Putin would have asked for the continuation. They also had many contacts on this subject at the beginning of December. Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are trying to calm their growing feud. Earlier this week, it was announced that …

Temperatures of 19.4 degrees Celsius were measured on Kodiak Island in the US state of Alaska. A climatologist finds the situation “absurd”. He is afraid of extreme weather conditions because of the humid air. The weather is almost summer in the US state of Alaska. Temperatures normally stay below freezing throughout the month, but now it has warmed up considerably. …

Marc Van Ranst: ‘I had time recently for… well, nothing. Nothing but the pandemic.BELGA image The porter shrugs his shoulders. Marc Van Ranst is half an hour late, but that’s not unusual. ” I have already seen it. I’ll send him a message. He never picks up when you call him, does he. It’s a weekday afternoon in Leuven, at …

Dozens of people were killed in Sudan when a gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan province, about 700 kilometers south of the capital Khartoum. At least 38 people were killed, according to the AP news agency. Previously, the director of the mining company had mentioned 31 deaths. An unknown number of people were also injured. The state mine was no …

Belgium is not going to deliver Spanish rapper Valtònyc to his home country. A judge in Ghent also ruled on appeal that he could stay in Belgium. Josep Miquel Arenas, as Valtònyc is actually called, fled to Belgium in 2018, after being sentenced to 3.5 years in Spain because of the lyrics to his songs. A Spanish court ruled that …

NATO planes took off a total of 290 times in 2021 to intercept a Russian military plane that had come too close to a member state. This happened most often in the Baltic region (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). NATO announced it on Tuesday, several news agencies report. The number of interventions by NATO countries has decreased compared to last year, …

Belarusian authorities have presented plans for a new constitution. The changes appear to be intended to strengthen the position of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko and make it even more difficult for the opposition to gain power. For example, according to the draft constitution, former presidents of Belarus can no longer be prosecuted after their mandate. Since its independence from the …

The start of the year promises to be particularly mild this year. According to the weather forecast, it will be around 12 to 14 degrees during New Years Day and around midnight it will be around 8 to 10 degrees. “Very hot,” says meteorologist Peter Kuipers Munneke. The mild weather around New Year’s Eve is due to the fact that …

UpdateHeavy rains and flooding have left at least eighteen dead in the Brazilian state of Bahia, reports the main Brazilian news site G1. Two dam ruptures worsened the situation on Sunday. Residents of the northeastern region of the country, many of whom are already homeless, are urged to seek safe refuge. “A dam that is retaining a very large volume …

File photo: Marten Schalkwijk briefs government officials. In September, the Special Tripartite Consultation was established with representatives of employee organizations, employers’ organizations and the government. The government then appointed Prof. Dr. Marten Schalkwijk – then secretary of the Tripartite Consultation in 1994 – was invited to chair the new consultation. Willem de Miranda was appointed secretary, who in 1986 was …