The Defense Ministry wants to evacuate residents of Kabul about three times a day over the coming period, Col. Peter Tankink told the ANP news agency. He is responsible for coordinating evacuations. The intention is that the evacuees fly first to an airport in a country in the region and that they are transported from there to the Netherlands in …
Read More »Flight delayed with Dutch evictees க் Croningen camp set up for emergency shelter
Colonel Peter Danking told ANP that the Ministry of Defense wants to evacuate people from Kabul three times a day in the coming years. He has the responsibility of coordinating the discharges. The evacuees must first fly to a country airport in the region and from there they will be flown to the Netherlands on a large plane. “We weren’t …
Read More »3 Most Popular Olympic Sports in Tokyo Olympics 2020
The Olympic Games, one of the world’s most highly anticipated sporting events, occurs only once every four years. There are numerous well known sports which participate in the Olympics, furthermore not every sport is included in this massive event. The year’s Olympics held in Tokyo has attained a massive audience all around the globe, obviously because of the massive popularity …
Read More »Marvel boss Kevin Feige responds to Chinese ‘Shang-Chi’ controversy
The Chinese box office is pretty big for Hollywood right now. The box office has recovered faster than many other sectors of cinema, but at the same time, hardly any American films have been released there. On paper, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings seem to have the right cards for getting out into the land, and succeeding …
Read More »Reservations and lack of space hamper train travel by bike – Radar
The difficulty of making a reservation is the most famous obstacle to getting a bicycle on the train. 67% of the 1,115 survey respondents indicate that they see reservation problems as an obstacle when they want to get on the train with a bicycle. Lack of space comes second: 62% say there is not enough space in the train for …
Read More »Harsh criticism of rowing coach Emke: “What did Holland Eight do?”
With a fifth place in the Olympic final, the Dutch men’s eight disappointed at the Tokyo Olympics. Head coach Mark Emke was not happy with his team’s performance afterwards. “It didn’t make sense, it’s very frustrating. I thought I was done with this nonsense …” The Dutch rowers got off to a bad start and were therefore left behind throughout …
Read More »Kaag: First Dutch left Kabul • US evacuates 1,100 people in one day
Outgoing Foreign Minister Kaag said on Twitter that the first Dutch have left Kabul on two evacuation flights and are heading to the Netherlands. It is not known whether this means that these Dutch are on board a plane chartered by the Netherlands or that they were taken away by others. “We are working hard with our allies on new …
Read More »Kaag: First Dutch left Kabul • US evacuates 1,100 people in one day
Outgoing Foreign Minister Kaag said on Twitter that the first Dutch have left Kabul on two evacuation flights and are heading to the Netherlands. It is not known whether this means that these Dutch are on board a plane chartered by the Netherlands or that they were taken away by others. “We are working hard with our allies on new …
Read More »UK Inflation is declining – finance
Inflation has fallen again in the United Kingdom. In July, consumer prices were up 2 percent from a year earlier, up from 2.5 percent in June. This is due to the high moderate prices for clothing and entertainment products. This was announced by the British statistics firm ONS on Wednesday. Inflation in the United Kingdom reached 2.5 percent in June, …
Read More »Polish independent news channel stays on air thanks to Dutch license
Demonstration for press freedom and against the new media law on August 12 in Bydgoszcz.Beeld Agence Gazeta / Reuters To prevent TVN24 from turning black, the Media commissioner grants the broadcaster a license valid for five years. Poland is eager to get rid of TVN24 and has even passed a law that will drastically curtail press freedom in the country. …
Read More »The most detailed galaxy images ever seen with LOFAR
After nearly a decade of work, an international team of astronomers have released the most detailed images ever seen of galaxies beyond our own, revealing how they work in unprecedented detail. The images were created with data collected by the ASTRON built and operated Low frequency matrix (LOFAR), a radio telescope made up of a network of more than 70,000 …
Read More »The Apollo selection is taking more and more shape with regular De Randamie remaining in place
Apollo Amsterdam has signed a number of players again for next season. The basketball club has extended the contracts of Sergio de Randamie and Jacopo Bertotti and the American Justin Mitchell is also arriving at the Apollohal. At Apollo, many players had expiring contracts, including De Randamie and Bertotti. The two basketball players have extended their contract. Mitchell is from …
Read More »Afghan women fear for the future, but are also combative
They are not even three meters apart. Afghan journalist Beheshta Arghand and Taliban press secretary Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad. For example, the whole world can see that the Taliban are interviewed by a woman on the Afghan news channel TOLONews. On the same day, they also call on women to join a new government. It is an image that corresponds to …
Read More »US military expects Kabul to fall into Taliban hands within a month
The outlook is therefore much worse than in June, when the US military still assumed a period of at least six months. That’s because Taliban fighters are gaining ground on Afghan government forces faster than expected, now that the US military is gone. At least eight provincial capitals were captured by the Taliban in a week. Despite the bad news, …
Read More »14 Norwegians return home from Afghanistan
Writes Radio Denmark Tuesday night was late. The Danish Foreign Ministry said 14 Norwegians and one legal resident of Denmark were on board. After the Taliban captured Afghanistan on Sunday, the Pakistani capital Islamabad was forced to evacuate many of its embassy staff. Sorting process According to the Danish Foreign Ministry, the plane was forced to depart from Islamabad at …
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