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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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New Zealand people in a referendum to legalize euthanasia | NOW

New Zealand people in a referendum to legalize euthanasia |  NOW

The New Zealand people have chosen in a binding referendum to legalize euthanasia. Not all the votes in the mid-October referendum were counted, but the lead of more than 65% can no longer be caught, the electoral commission reported on Friday. The law, which will come into effect in November 2021, will allow terminally ill patients 18 years of age …

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Kakapo Wins New Zealand Fraud Bird Election | NOW

Kakapo Wins New Zealand Fraud Bird Election |  NOW

The kakapo was named New Zealand’s Bird of the Year for the second time. The endangered parrot species delivered this unprecedented feat after a fraudulent survey. Kakapos also took the honor in 2008. New Zealand’s annual bird competition, first held in 2005, is hugely popular and, organizers say, has led to more attention for natural areas and the unique animal …

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Doping, whistleblower Stepanov: Russia is no longer my homeland | sport

Doping, whistleblower Stepanov: Russia is no longer my homeland |  sport

As a key witness in the ARD documentary “State Secret Doping – How Russia Makes Its Champions”, former employee of the Russian anti-doping agency Rusada sparked the downfall of his country as a sporting nation. He has since lived with his family in a secret location in the United States. “We no longer see Russia as our homeland, but only …

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Video: New Zealand rugby players honor Maradona for their haka | sport

Video: New Zealand rugby players honor Maradona for their haka |  sport

Ahead of their game against Argentina, Sam Cane, captain of the All Blacks, donned a New Zealand jersey with the name of the football hero who died on Wednesday and the number 10 between the teams that faced each other. It happened in Newcastle, north of Sydney, where the two teams met in the Tri Nations tournament. It had been …

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“ The IOC imposes a quarantine obligation, Tour-Olympic Games combination impossible ”

`` The IOC imposes a quarantine obligation, Tour-Olympic Games combination impossible ''

“ The IOC imposes a quarantine obligation, Tour-Olympic Games combination impossible ” Wednesday 30 December 2020 at 08:48 Athletes participating in the Olympics must be quarantined for the first two weeks after arriving in Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided so, writes Het Laatste Nieuws. This decision has major consequences for cyclists. This measure does not allow them to …

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