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The oldest western lowland gorilla in captivity is a year older today. To celebrate, Fatou received an edible bouquet and a basket full of fruits and vegetables from her keeper at Berlin Zoo. The presents with lots of berries – her favorite food – were all easy to chew because the female gorilla has no teeth. According to her regular …

The IIB headquarters in Budapest.ImageREUTERS When the bank moved its headquarters from Moscow to Budapest in 2019, all alarm bells rang among Western intelligence services. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government, which at the time was strongly opposed to Russia, promised the organization full immunity from criminal prosecution. There was also no need to monitor the bank. The bank building …

Charles Michel rejects criticism of his use of private jets. “They are independent officials who always analyze the best way for me to move and make a proposal.” Michel, President of the European Council of Heads of Government, responded this morning with an interview The standard And The Free to the criticisms he received after The world wrote last weekend …

Door Robbert van der Linde 12 apr 2023 om 17:25 Archaeologists have found a stone in Mexico that likely served as a scoreboard for an ancient Mayan ball game. The discovery will help scientists learn more about how people in Central America entertained themselves. The round stone is at least twelve hundred years old and weighs 40 kilograms. It was …

12 apr 2023 om 19:32Update: 2 uur geleden The French position vis-à-vis Taiwan has not changed. This was said by French President Emmanuel Macron on the last day of his state visit to the Netherlands on Wednesday. With this, he responded for the first time to the international criticism he received in response to earlier statements on Taiwan. “We want …

12 apr 2023 om 11:35Update: 36 minuten geleden It is smaller than an ice cream stick and weighs a little more than a packet of coffee. Chihuahua Pearl from the US state of Florida has been declared the smallest dog in the world. Pearl is 9.14 centimeters tall and weighs 553 grams. It is as long as a 1 dollar …

In France, on the eleventh day of national demonstrations against the increase in the retirement age, acts of vandalism were provoked and dozens of demonstrators were arrested. There were also wounded. According to the authorities, 570,000 people demonstrated. Foreign publishers April 6, 2023 Last update: 06-04-23, 21:26 The Parisian police have their hands full with the protests against the increase …

06 apr 2023 om 13:29Update: 6 uur geleden In Australia, a man was arrested this week after a manhunt for catching a wild platypus. The man showed the animal on the train and in shops. He faces a hefty fine. Platypus are protected in Australia because they are threatened with extinction. Capturing them and holding them captive is a crime. …

International•6 April ’23 07:39•Modified on 06 April ’23 09:27Author: Mark Van Harreveld Former Vice President Mike Pence will not appeal the call to testify in the investigation into former President Donald Trump and the January 2021 Capitol storming, a spokesperson for Pence said. “It’s really very valuable,” says US correspondent Jan Postma.

Like the rest of the earth’s surface, the oceans are also warming due to the continued emission of greenhouse gases. Suddenly, climatic records are collapsing, it seems. Where the sea ice around Antarctica bottomed out not so long ago, it is now the turn of the global ocean: the sea surface has never been warmer since was measured. Usually, the …