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The bottom of the North Sea is full of internet cables. Suspicious Russian ships have recently been spotted around these cables that would like to sabotage our internet. Should we be afraid that our internet will go down? Nederland is een belangrijk knooppunt in het wereldwijde internet. Rond Amsterdam komen veel zogenoemde backbones samen. Dat zijn dikke internetkabels die ons …

During the storming of Washington by supporters of then-President Trump, Peter Schwartz threw a chair at police officers and attacked them with pepper spray, according to court documents. Schwartz, 49, was granted parole during the assault and has a lengthy criminal record. This played a role in determining the amount of the sentence. “Mr. Schwartz, can I say that not …

06-05-2023Ralph Posset© News Department Photo: Marina Bauer/Wiki Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 In London, a well-aged man in his seventies provided some happy times today. The old man insisted he was the new King of England. Hilarity abounds on the streets of London. As hundreds of thousands of spectators prepared for the coronation of the new king, they were shown a …

State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Asylum) is not authorized to simply send asylum seekers back to Italy, even if they entered Europe via that country. This the Council of State determined this morning. Currently, more and more boats with migrants are leaving Tunisia for Europe. If the boats do not sink, they mainly arrive on the Italian island of …

Labor leader Keir Starmer, with a five-month-old baby from one of the passers-by in his arms, among his supporters on Election Day in Chatham, just south-east London.ImageGetty Images The opposition Labor Party won by a large margin, winning about a quarter more seats than in previous elections. For the first time since 2002, Labor has more councilors than the Conservatives. …

A top French diplomat was sent home immediately after getting a new job. Evenings with prostitutes were reportedly held at his official residence in Marrakech, Morocco. The career of diplomat Philippe Casenave began last Tuesday, after a career of almost twenty years in various embassies, as “head of protocol” at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, writes the …

Anyone who has been to Casablanca cannot have missed the many palm trees along the roads. A group of activists, led by landscape architect and teacher Salima Belemkaddem, are fed up with the palm tree and are calling on the town hall to put an end to the “biodiversity massacre”. These include the Washingtonia, a species of palm native to …

UPDATEIn Guatemala, the Fuego volcano, near the capital Guatemala City and the most active in Central America, erupted on Thursday, Guatemalan authorities report. Ash clouds were ejected up to six kilometers high. In neighboring towns and villages, more than a thousand inhabitants were evacuated as a preventive measure. “An increase in the activity of the Fuego volcano has been confirmed,” …

Aaf Brandt CorstiusMay 4, 20234:40 p.m. In Italy, I found that Italy is the most beautiful country in the world. I was already aware of this, but still, once in a while, you have to see a rock, a village, an azure sea and an Italian grandpa or grandma in a nice woolen sweater to determine that it’s TRUE. These …

her own garden firstGardening expert Romke van de Kaa is angry about the fight against ants this week. Fighting them is useless, he thinks, because they are good for biodiversity. I am an addicted newspaper reader. I’m completely upset when the newspaper isn’t delivered. I read several daily newspapers, including loyaltya good journal, not one of those, but which uses …