Buying a house in the UK was not possible for British couple Paul Mappley and Yip Ward. The prices were too high. In the region where they lived, they had to pay at least 300,000 pounds (358,000 euros) for a very small house. This option was never really on the table for them. “We had always rented and lived in …

AFP ONS News•yesterday, 8:56 p.m. Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned his US counterpart Joe Biden not to “play with fire”. This warning concerns a possible visit to Taiwan by United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Xi strongly opposes such a visit to what he believes to be a renegade Chinese province, and he made that clear during the fifth …

28 jul 2022 om 20:44 | Update: 2 uur geleden The skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, related to Tyrannosaurus rex, was auctioned on Thursday for 6.1 million dollars (6 million euros). The unnamed buyer managed to get the skeleton into his private collection. Scientists are concerned about the latter. By: Lennart ‘t Hart The skeleton auction took place at the famous …

About four hundred campers had to leave a campsite in the south of France on Wednesday evening because of a forest fire. The evacuees also include Dutch people, including families with children. Holidaymakers had to leave the Gorges du Verdon campsite because of the approach of the forest fire, which has already burned more than 350 hectares. They are cared …

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in a speech on Thursday that his country was ready for a military confrontation with the United States. The leader will not hesitate to prepare his “nuclear deterrent”, report North Korean state media. In his speech, Kim Jong-un also criticized the South Korean government of Yoon Suk-yeol. Kim warned that “any attempt to neutralize …

Reuters ONS News•today, 20:22 Hundreds of supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq’s leading Shia clerics, stormed Baghdad’s parliament. They do not agree with a Prime Minister appointed by other Shia parties. No parliamentarian was present at the time of the attack. The security forces therefore did not intervene immediately. Anti-Iranian slogans were shouted during the storm. Despite his Shia …

Maximum concentration. We can read it on the face of Princess Elisabeth (20 years old). No wonder, because the bar is set high during the Royal Military School (KMS) summer camp. The purpose of the camp is to practice and further develop learned skills, such as patrolling techniques and leadership. Stress resistance and fatigue resistance are also tested. “The group …

27 jul 2022 om 06:00 Frank Masmeijer is free again since he was pardoned. He wants to get back to his presenting job, he said earlier, but a television career doesn’t seem in sight for him. Several broadcasters informed NU.nl that they were not immediately open to it. By: Danja Koeleman “We have read about Frank Masmeijer’s ambition to return …

AFP ONS News•today, 21:36 A close adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has resigned following a speech in which Orbán made racist remarks. According to Zsuzsa Hegedüs, we were talking about “pure Nazi discourse” that “even Joseph Goebbels” would have liked. Goebbels was Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda. Hegedüs and Orbán have known each other since 2002. In her …

APE ONS News•today, 12:35 p.m.•Amended today, 14:05 Energy ministers from EU member states have agreed on a plan to reduce gas consumption over the coming winter. The 27 member states have agreed to use 15% less gas from August to April. The countries themselves can decide how they will proceed. The 15% reduction is voluntary, but in the event of …