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Water polosters avoid USA in group stage games

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At the Olympics, the Dutch water polosters were split into a group with Australia, South Africa, Spain and Canada. This is the result of the draw that took place in Rotterdam on Sunday after the Olympic qualifying tournament for men. The men failed to win a ticket to the Tokyo Games there. The water polosters led by coach Arno Havenga …

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Water polosters avoid defending US Games group stage champion | NOW

Water polosters avoid defending US Games group stage champion |  NOW

The Dutch polosters have been assigned to the Spanish European champions in the draw for the Tokyo Olympic tournament next summer on Sunday. The other group is the United States, the reigning Olympic and world champions. The Netherlands, ninth in the world rankings, will compete in the group stage in addition to Spain (third in the world) also against Canada …

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Meerssen plane crash coincides with incident in the United States | 1Limburg

Meerssen plane crash coincides with incident in the United States |  1Limburg

Not only did debris from a plane fall in Meerssen on Saturday, but villagers in Colorado in the United States also escaped disaster when an airliner lost an engine. It concerned the town of Broomfield where parts of a Boeing 777-200 landed over a length of over 1,600 meters. Landed safelyIt was a passenger plane with 231 passengers and 10 …

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95-year-old Nazi camp guard transferred from US to Germany

95-year-old Nazi camp guard transferred from US to Germany

A former guard from a German concentration camp was transferred to Germany after spending more than 60 years in the United States. Friedrich Karl Berger, a 95-year-old German, was a camp guard in 1945 in a camp outside the Neuengamme concentration camp, south-east of Hamburg. According to future Attorney General Wilkinson, the deportation shows the United States is not a …

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Who exactly is Amanda Gorman and what does she have in store for us?

Who exactly is Amanda Gorman and what does she have in store for us?

22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman has hundreds of thousands in one fell swoop Instagram Followers has received. The poet wore at the inauguration of President Joe Biden like the youngest poet to recite a poem. At 6.30 p.m. Dutch time it still had 170,000 subscribers, a few hours later it was already 1.1 million. Amanda Gorman probably wasn’t expecting it. But …

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America is – once again – back. But for how long?

America is - once again - back.  But for how long?

Joe Biden knows better than anyone how to do this, announcing that America will be a reliable partner again. “I come to Europe on behalf of a new government, a government that wants to make a new declaration not only in Washington, but also in America’s relations with the rest of the world.” Those words were appropriate on Friday, but …

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New Zealand Makes Menstrual Products Free for All Students by June | NOW

New Zealand Makes Menstrual Products Free for All Students by June |  NOW

From June, students will benefit from free menstrual products at all schools in New Zealand, according to the news agency Reuters and New Zealand media Thursday. Students sometimes did not go to school because they could not afford to buy tampons and pads. New Zealand had already announced last year the fight against so-called menstrual poverty. A trial in which …

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Facebook bans all news on feeds in Australia

Facebook bans all news on feeds in Australia

Facebook has chosen to block all Australian and international news from all feeds in Australia. The company opposes proposed new laws that would force tech companies to pay for the journalism they run. “The bill does not at all understand the relationship between our platform and the publishers who use it to share topical content,” said William Easton, managing director …

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