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However, Sala is in no doubt that the king returned the jewels to the state at the time. “From the time the jewelry was made until the last time it was seen in public, it was always state property,” he said after an investigation. “The royals had them on loan, but they weren’t their property.” According to him, it is …

Turkey is now officially called Türkiye, which means “Turkey” in Turkish. Last week, the Turkish government sent a letter to the United Nations asking it to use the name Türkiye from now on. A UN spokesperson said the name change took effect from the time the UN received the letter. The use of the letter “ü”, which is not part …

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he does not want to leave yet, despite mass protests against him. Rajapaska wants to complete his term. This means that he will leave in two years. “After that, I will not run for office again,” he told the Bloomberg news agency. earlier left his older brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Violent protests have …

US President Joe Biden wants the US to produce more solar power in the years to come. To make this possible, Biden wants to take steps to dramatically increase the production of solar panels in the United States. It also does not introduce import duties on cheap panels from Southeast Asia at this time. The press service reports that Reuters† …

In Ik Vertrek Even Weg, former contestants can inspire each other, can they learn something from each other or will it be a real test? This week, the Geurts and Mensing families hope to learn from each other how to balance family life and working from home. Geurts family In 2017, Dirk, Feikje and their children Jep and Siem leave …

Every year on June 5, the Hindu-Surinamese community in the Netherlands and Suriname commemorates Prawas Din, Hindu Immigration Day. Here you can read why. On June 5, 1873, the first indentured laborers arrived from India† Pakistan and Bangladesh †former British India) by boat in Suriname. The Netherlands needed these “Hindoestanen”, a population group and not by definition followers of the …

Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman Weibur (centre) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left).ImageAFP After ten days of diplomatic back and forth from island to island in the South Pacific, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi did not return completely empty-handed on Saturday. His “miracle trip”, as Chinese state media calls his Pacific tour, resulted in 52 bilateral agreements with island …

In large parts of Western Europe, roads to the south were busy today due to the Whitsun weekend. In France it was mostly busy today on the A7 near Lyon. It was also related to bad weather. According to the ANWB, the delay there was 1 to 2 hours at the peak. There were also people at the Mont Blanc …

Russian troops shelled Ukraine’s oldest wooden church on Saturday. The building caught fire, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported. This is All Saints Church, which was built in the early 17th century. The church has been destroyed and rebuilt several times since then. The last time was in 2009. The church is part of the Svyatohirsk Lavra monastery in the eastern …

The boar had previously been spotted in the bay by people on boats, who tried unsuccessfully to catch the animal. When the course was set for the beach, people on the boats alerted the rescuers. They tried to keep the bathers away from the boar, but when the animal burst onto the beach, a 67-year-old woman couldn’t avoid it. She …