08 mrt 2023 om 16:13Update: een uur geleden The provincial elections will take place on March 15. Nineteen parties stood for election in the province of Drenthe. In this overview, you will find some spearheads per party. Over de verkiezingen PvdA De PvdA wil het ov goedkoper maken zodat iedereen hiervan gebruik kan maken voor reizen naar school, werk of …
Read More »Swimmer Toussaint will train in Spain under a Canadian coach
Swimmer Kira Toussaint leaves the United States for Spain. The 28-year-old back specialist joins Canadian coach Ben Titley’s training squad in Catalonia. Toussaint left the national training center in Amsterdam last year, where she had enjoyed five successful years under current national coach Mark Faber, and moved to the United States. “I was ready for new incentives. In fact, I …
Read More »Thai man sentenced to two years in prison for selling a calendar with yellow ducks | Abroad
08 mrt 2023 om 12:26 A Thai man has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling yellow duck calendars. This was decided by the court on Tuesday after a six-day trial. The 26-year-old was arrested on New Year’s Eve 2020 at his home in Bangkok. The calendars with the ducks were confiscated. According to the authorities, selling the …
Read More »Australian PM Albanese meets Biden in US after trip to India
“I look forward to continuing the contacts I have with the US government,” Albanese told reporters before leaving for India, without specifying a date for the US trip. SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that after his trip to India this week he would travel to the United States for a bilateral meeting with President …
Read More »Arnold Schwarzenegger warns against anti-Semitism and hatred
In the video, Arnold talks about his recent visit to the German extermination camp of Auschwitz. “How can we prevent this from happening again? ” he is asking himself. The actor addresses the group of people sensitive to the theories of hate speech or who may have already fallen out of it. “I don’t want to preach in my own …
Read More »I want to go back to school with this textbook
Kirsten Poortier, Erik Myin and Peter-Paul VerbeekWhat makes man? Our physicality in relation to science and technologyBoom Editor; 272 pages. €34.90★★★★★ Tjesse RiemersmaMarch 8, 202301:00 The writers Kirsten Poortier teaches philosophy and art. Erik Myin is a professor of philosophy at the University of Antwerp, specializing in perception, cognition and consciousness. Peter-Paul Verbeek is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of …
Read More »New Zealand declares state of emergency following severe flooding in Auckland | Abroad
27 jan 2023 om 11:21Update: een maand geleden New Zealand declared a state of emergency on Friday due to flooding in Auckland due to heavy rain. Large parts of the city are under water. Rescuers fear the flooding will worsen due to the storm and will last until Saturday morning. The declaration of a state of emergency gives the city …
Read More »Column | Folk music from around the world
In the Radio House, on the couch opposite the dining table, on which eggplant and cheese sandwiches are placed in a cardboard box for studio guests, I found a man with an accordion. A gray lady with a guitar flew around him. I don’t know what I thought of it, probably not: “good live music”, because I only really like …
Read More »Column | Proud Farmer – NRC
Four years ago we had Thierry Baudet, now we have Caroline van der Plas. She will have great success in the Provincial Council elections next week, as Baudet triumphed in previous elections. Talk shows run away with her, populism can have a new face. “You helped Baudet get into the saddle,” Jeroen Pauw, host of Sjuul Paradijs’ talk show, said …
Read More »Balloon and ‘octagonal thing’: Here’s what we know about what the US shot from the sky | Abroad
Door Robbert van der Linde 15 feb 2023 om 07:47Update: 21 dagen geleden The United States has shot down at least four objects over North America in the past ten days. The case is shrouded in much obscurity and secrecy. On our NUjij response platform, this brings up many questions and a lot of theories, some more logical than others. …
Read More »In another timeline, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ once won an Oscar
How a hyperactive epic about a woman struggling with her taxes became the frontrunner at the 95th Academy Awards, scheduled for Sunday.
Read More »With what awareness do we make selfish choices?
About the episode Some choices we make are good for us, but not so good for others. And some are worse for us, but better for others. How do we manage these choices? Are we perhaps learning to ignore the negative consequences when we make selfish choices? Or do we make these choices very consciously? To find out, Dutch researchers …
Read More »TOP Arnemuiden convinces from start to finish and scores a resounding victory | Sports in Zeeland
The TOP Arnemuiden korfball players signed the biggest victory of this season against DeetosSnel (24-16) on Saturday evening. Coach Edwin Coppoolse’s team convinced from the first to the last minute. In November, the team from Walcheren also won in Dordrecht. This match, which ended 10-16, was hardly worth watching and was not a model of how Korfball League 2 is …
Read More »A man in Florida opens his front door and is bitten by an alligator | Abroad
A man in Florida got the shock of his life last weekend. When he opened his front door Saturday night, he was bitten by an alligator. “As soon as I realized what it was, I went back into the house.” The Hollingsworth family had previously seen alligators near their Daytona Beach home. It’s no surprise, more than a million crocodilians …
Read More »Severe weather causes tornadoes in southern US states
Downed trees after a tornado in Alabama in January 2023. Photo: ANP/EPA/ERIK S. LESSER In the United States, an area of large-scale precipitation is active and moving northeast across the country. The system causes severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, especially on the south side. In recent hours, several tornadoes have been observed in the state of Texas and have caused considerable …
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