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 …

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Marvel boss Kevin Feige responds to Chinese ‘Shang-Chi’ controversy

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 …

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Reservations and lack of space hamper train travel by bike – Radar

Reserveren en ruimtegebrek hinderen treinreis met fiets

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 …

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Harsh criticism of rowing coach Emke: “What did Holland Eight do?”

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 …

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Kaag: First Dutch left Kabul • US evacuates 1,100 people in one day

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 …

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Kaag: First Dutch left Kabul • US evacuates 1,100 people in one day

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 …

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UK Inflation is declining – finance

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, …

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Polish independent news channel stays on air thanks to Dutch license

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. …

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The most detailed galaxy images ever seen with LOFAR

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 …

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Afghan women fear for the future, but are also combative

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 …

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US military expects Kabul to fall into Taliban hands within a month

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, …

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14 Norwegians return home from Afghanistan

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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