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New Zealand Prime Minister calls for new elections | Abroad

New Zealand Prime Minister calls for new elections |  Abroad

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced new parliamentary elections on Tuesday. They will take place on September 19. The Prime Minister has led a center-left coalition since 2017 and wants to run for a second term. Speaking at a press conference, Ardern said: “I ask New Zealanders to continue to support my leadership and the direction of the government. …

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The gymnast who lifted one leg on landing | sport

The gymnast who lifted one leg on landing |  sport

Every day we celebrate a historic sporting moment of the same date. Today July 23, 1996: Injured Kerri Strug wins gold in gymnastics for the United States. Atlanta’s Georgia Dome holds its breath. It’s July 23, 1996, the Summer Games have been going on for a few days, and Kerri Strug is ready for her last Nations Cup jump. The …

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Cookbook: “Hunting is not about shooting, it’s about eating” | 1Limburg

Cookbook: "Hunting is not about shooting, it's about eating" |  1Limburg

Roasted raccoon, squirrel in sauce, deer cooked in Coca-Cola. Here are a number of recipes from the book Op Jacht by photographer and writer Isabella Rozendaal (37) from Maastricht. Rozendaal has been photographing animals for years and accompanying hunters in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States and Brazil since 2007. She herself is trained in hunting, learning how to kill …

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Orange footballers to train against world champion USA

Archiefbeeld van de finale van het WK Foto: Orange Pictures

Sunday November 15, 2020, 4:20 p.m. IJSSELSTEIN / NIEUWEGEIN – Dutch national team footballers play a friendly against the United States on November 27. Orange meets the world champion at the Rat Verlegh Stadium in Breda. This is the first time the two countries will meet after the 2019 World Cup final in Lyon, in which ‘Team USA’ was 2-0 …

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Road marking on a dead opossum in New Zealand: ‘You had a task’

Road marking on a dead opossum in New Zealand: 'You had a task'

The photo of the dead opossum (a marsupial also called voskoesoe in Dutch) was taken in Pukekohe, a town on the North Island of New Zealand near Auckland. New road markings have been applied to a dead opossum. Plague In New Zealand, dead possums regularly lie on the side of the road. Animals are a huge nuisance in the country …

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