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Walrus Thor seems to be doing a round of North Sea. A week ago the animal stayed at Neeltje Jans and rested on the dike near Westkapelle. Later, the walrus was spotted along the Belgian coast. This weekend he turned up in Port of the French city of Dieppe. On Friday, the Port Master of Dieppe, a city in Normandy, saw him resting at the entrance to the port. According to the authorities, Thor still looked healthy. On Friday, the port was closed to allow him to rest, on Saturday…

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Republicans are making it pretty difficult for Democrats in the House in the two years leading up to the next presidential election. During the US midterm elections (midterms), all 435 seats of the House of Representatives (the US House of Representatives) were lost. The House was controlled by the Democrats before the election, but now the Republicans gained the necessary 218 seats for a majority. The next few days should show how big the difference in the House will be exactly. In any case, it is clear that this is…

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Ahead of the summit this week in Indonesia, major G20 economies announced on Sunday a $1.4 billion fund to prepare for future pandemics. However, the host country of the meeting, Indonesia, has deemed the sum insufficient. The launch of the fund follows a meeting of G20 health and finance ministers on the sidelines of the summit scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday on the Indonesian island of Bali. At a press conference, Indonesian President Joko Wikodo explained that this fund, in which 24 countries are participating in, both G20 members and…

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The acting mayor of Schaerbeek, Cécile Jodogne (DéFI) deplored the murder of a police officer who was attacked on Thursday in the municipality’s red-light district. She denounced the lack of action taken by the Federal Government and announced additional safety measures in response. News broke out on Thursday evening that two police officers on patrol on Rue d’Aerschot, in the city’s red-light district, were attacked by a man wielding a knife. Both policemen were wounded before the assailant was apprehended and taken into police custody. One of the officers died…

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Soon, a NATO military exercise will take place in Belgian airspace in which the use of nuclear bombs will be trained. These maneuvers continue at a time when nuclear tensions between NATO and Russia are at an all-time high. The US nuclear weapons on Belgian soil and the presence of NATO headquarters make our country an important potential target. Today, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg chairs a meeting of the Nuclear Planning Group to discuss Russia’s nuclear threats and NATO’s nuclear role. He also announced this week that ‘steady Noon’maneuvers will take…

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Putin threatens with the atomic bomb (as a defence, though) and according to US president Joe Biden, among others, we better take those threats seriously. But then what? The Netherlands can hardly defend itself. Experts say that Netherlands is ’totally unprepared for a possible nuclear attack’. Defense expert Peter Wijninga of The Hague Center for Strategic Studies points out in the newspaper that air defense is not good enough. “With the current systems, we will never be able to defend the whole of the Netherlands against nuclear attacks. For example,…

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Anyone who drives through Belgium may have seen the strange prohibition sign for the use of cruise control. And yes, it does indeed mean that after passing that sign you have to turn off cruise control. The Belgian transport minister announced this week that the ban, and thus also this unique road sign for Belgium, will be lifted. The ban applied in particular to road sections where road work was carried out and in some places where traffic regularly suffered from congestion due to crowds. The intention of the cruise…

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Today, the Saby Charitable Foundation, represented by its founders Aselle Tasmagambetova and Kenes Rakishev, presented the children of Semey with a modern robotics class equipped with the latest technology. The class will operate free of charge on the basis of the Palace of Creativity of Children and Youth. The event was attended by the governor of the Abay region Nurlan Urankhaev. This is the third robotics laboratory donated by the foundation to Kazakhstanis. They are built and equipped by Kenes Rakishev and Aselle Tasmagambetova in Almaty and Petropavlovsk too. A…

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