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A warm welcome, to this website
that aims to give an overview and insight
at the news events of the day
and at important matters in this world.
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Een hartelijk welkom, op deze website
die tot doel heeft een overzicht en inzicht te geven
op de nieuws gebeurtenissen van de dag
en op belangrijke zaken in deze wereld.
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Ласкаво просимо на цей веб-сайт
який має на меті надати огляд та розуміння
новин дня
та важливих питань у цьому світі.
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Dit semi-humoristische gezegde suggereert
dat we niet volledig op God moeten vertrouwen
om ons te helpen.
God zal ons helpen als we ons inspannen.
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There is so much pollution that our climate is completely upset. We must realise that we ourselves have a great deal to do to counteract this rot. It would help if we would leave our cars at the side of the road a little more.
Tomorrow, 3 June, is World Bicycle Day, and wouldn’t that be a great opportunity to leave the car at the side and travel by bicycle?
In April 2018, the United Nations declared 3 June as World Bike Day, to make people pay equal attention to that mode of transport and to use that day as a global observance to promote the bicycle and its use, as it is an environmentally friendly mode of transport.
It is believed that awareness of the importance of the bicycle should be raised all over the world. This simple means of transport is not only good for the environment but also has great health benefits by contributing to clean air and less congestion around densely populated areas.
So why not use tomorrow to consider this environmentally friendly mode of transport?
So take tomorrow as a day to recognise and celebrate the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle.
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Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie: Morgen Wereld Fietsdag een dag om bij te dragen aan het milieu
Er heerst zoveel vervuiling dat ons klimaat helemaal overstuur ligt. Wij moeten beseffen dat wij zelf heel wat in de hand hebben om dat rot weer tegen te gaan. Indien wij de auto wat meer aan de kant zouden laten staan zou dit al een heel klein beetje helpen.
Morgen 3 juni is het de Werelddag van de Fiets en zou dat geen mooie gelegenheid zijn om de wagen eens aan de kant te laten staan en alle verplaatsingen met de fiets te doen?
De Verenigde Naties heeft in april 2018, 3 juni uitgeroepen tot Wereldfietsdag, om de mensen er toe te brengen even aandacht te schenken aan dat vervoersmiddel en die dag te gebruiken als een wereldwijde observatie om de fiets en het gebruik ervan te promoten, aangezien het een milieuvriendelijke manier van vervoer is.
Men is er van overtuigd dat het bewustzijn over het belang van de fiets over de hele wereld moet aangewakkerd worden. Dat eenvoudig vervoermiddel is niet alleen goed voor het milieu, maar heeft ook grote voordelen voor de gezondheid door bij te dragen aan schone lucht en minder opstoppingen rond dichtbevolkte gebieden.
Waarom zou u dus morgen niet gebruiken om die milieuvriendelijke manier van vervoer te overwegen?
Neem morgen dan ook de dag om het unieke karakter, de lange levensduur en de veelzijdigheid van de fiets te erkennen en te vieren.
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English version / Engelse versie: Tomorrow is World Bicycle Day, a day to contribute to the environment
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Pleasure boat at centre of police investigation into Bournemouth beach tragedy |
| A restored pleasure cruiser is at the centre of a criminal investigation into the tragedy involving the deaths of two children on Bournemouth beach. The Dorset Belle has been impounded by police after a man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. Steve Bird, Will Bolton and Ewan Somerville have the latest details on the case, and graphics showing how events unfolded at the pier. |
Migrants barricade London hotel after being denied private roomsMigrants are staging a pavement protest after deciding the hotel they have been transferred to was nothing like the “nice” accommodation they saw on Google Maps. Instead of the single rooms with en suite bathrooms they had been expecting, they were made to share a single room with two bunk beds in a hotel in central London. Home Affairs Editor Charles Hymas spoke to several of the migrants refusing to return to their rooms — you can read more here. |
Oxford college threatens to expel students who misgender trans peersRegent’s Park College has unveiled a new policy that could see students face expulsion or dismissal if caught using incorrect pronouns. Students are also banned from “making jokes about trans people or their trans status” and “denying or disputing the validity and/or existence of a trans person’s identity”. |
Around the world: Girl, nine, and mother killed as they tried to reach locked Kyiv bomb shelter |
| Olha Ivashko, 33, and her daughter Vika, nine, were killed in a Russian missile strike yesterday as they tried to get into a locked bomb shelter. Their deaths have prompted officials in the capital to open a criminal investigation into those responsible. Joe Barnes was at the scene in Kyiv. |
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| Olha Ivashko, 33, and her daughter Vika, nine, who were killed during the Russian missile strike |
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Also in the news this morningWatch | Joe Biden tripped and fell on stage while giving out diplomas at a military graduation ceremony. The US president appeared to be unhurt and later joked with reporters. You can watch the video – and read Donald Trump’s comments – here. |
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Business news: House prices fall at fastest pace since financial crisisHouse prices fell by 3.4 per cent in the year to May, according to data from Nationwide, the biggest annual drop since 2009. Melissa Lawford and Charlotte Gifford investigate the causes behind the rapid decline. |
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Tories demand Rishi Sunak scrap inheritance tax |
| More than 50 Conservative MPs are demanding that Rishi Sunak scrap inheritance tax. The Telegraph is also launching a campaign to abolish the death duty amid additional fears that Labour is plotting to target estates and savings should they win the next election. Lauren Almeida and Charlotte Gifford detail one family’s heartbreak at having to hand over life savings to the state, not to loved ones. Writing for The Telegraph today, former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi describes inheritance tax as “morally wrong” and warns that it is adding inflationary pressure to house prices. |
Man arrested after two die off Bournemouth PierDorset Police have said that a 17-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl sustained “critical injuries” and later died in hospital following an incident at Bournemouth Pier yesterday. Eight people were treated for injuries that are not life-threatening, while a man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. A witness stated that he believed those involved had been jumping into the sea. You can read his account here. |
Duchess of York to to launch ‘no holds barred’ podcastThe Duchess of York will “set the record straight” in her new podcast, close friend and co-host Sarah Thomson has said. Ahead of the first episode – set to be released later today – the pair have promised to “spill the tea” and “leave no stone unturned, and no biscuit un-dunked.” Royal Correspondent India McTaggart has an account of what to expect. |
Madeleine McCann detectives seize ‘number of items’ from Algarve reservoirDetectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have “seized a number of items” from a reservoir in Portugal, it has emerged. The Barragem do Arade was searched by Portuguese and German police last week, about 30 miles from the Praia da Luz resort where the three-year-old disappeared while on holiday with her parents in May 2007. Ewan Somerville has more details on the update given this morning by the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor’s Office. |
Phillip Schofield to sell £1.2m London flat where he ‘secretly met’ ITV colleaguePhillip Schofield is selling the London flat in which he allegedly conducted an affair with his much younger ITV colleague, it has been claimed. Henry Bodkin reports that the two-bedroom penthouse has been put on the market for £1.2 million. The asking price appears to have been reduced by £100,000, with sources reportedly saying the family are anxious to offload the property. |
Around the world: Germany should legalise trans people accessing female-only spaces, says MP |
| Germany’s top official on LGBT issues has criticised a draft trans law, saying it should go further in allowing trans people to access female-only spaces. Green politician Sven Lehmann said that a clause reaffirming a business’ right to turn individuals away would send a “fatal signal” that trans people pose a threat to women. |
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| Sven Lehmann, Bundestag member from North Rhine-Westphalia Credit: Christoph Soeder/Pool/AFP via Getty Images |
Also in the news this morningMacron | The French president has admitted he ignored warnings on Putin. Speaking at the Globsec regional security forum in Bratislava, Mr Macron said he should have listened to Eastern European calls to take the threat from Russia more seriously. |
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Evening Briefing: Today’s essential headlinesCovid inquiry | The Cabinet Office will take the Covid inquiry to court in the wake of its demand for “unambiguously irrelevant” WhatsApps sent during the pandemic. Follow the latest updates from Westminster here. |
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Ukrainian shells have allegedly hit a five-storey building in the centre of a Russian border town as anti-Kremlin Russian fighters, reportedly backed up by tanks, launched another incursion into Russia, writes James Kilner. Get up to speed with all the developments on the ground by reading our Ukraine live blog.
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Business news: Airline to weigh passengers before boarding flightsAir New Zealand plans to survey the weights of 10,000 passengers, with the data being used to calculate fuel costs and improve safety during flights. |
On May 29 Ukraine’s air defense shot down 11 ballistic and cruise missiles launched by Russia at Kyiv Oblast.
Russia launched yet another drone attack against Kyiv overnight on May 30, its third air raid in 24 hours, targeting Ukraine for the 17th time this month, the Kyiv City Military Administration said at around 5 a.m. local time.
Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko has confirmed that 20 residents were evacuated from a damaged building, and that one person died, four were injured. He cautioned residents against ignoring air alarms, urging residents to stay indoors, saying
“do not go out to the balconies and streets to observe how the air defence works. Last night, a woman died in a house in Holosiivskyi district, who went out on the balcony to see how drones were shot down.”
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports that in the last 24 hours, the Russian army shelled eight cities and towns of the Donetsk region. It states that a total of 26 civilian objects were damaged, ten people were injured, and two people died.
Ukraine strikes Russian positions in occupied Berdiansk. Ukraine launched an attack on Russian positions in Russian-occupied Berdiansk in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Ukrainian responded to Russian attacks by shelling Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, according to the region’s Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
“Yesterday, Russian border guards celebrated their professional holiday. The fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps congratulated them by successfully crossing the ‘holey’ state border once again,”
one of the Russian militia groups fighting on Ukraine’s side said on May 29.
Moscow has been targeted with a large-scale drone attack, with more than 30 drones participating in the attack, for the first time in its 15-month-old war in Ukraine, marking a new inflection point in a conflict that the Kremlin said would never threaten the lives of ordinary Russians.
Three of the drones hit residential buildings in the south-west of the city but no explosions were reported. Two people were injured in the attack, said Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow mayor, and the buildings sustained minor damage. Video showed broken windows and a blackened facade at one address hit by a drone early on Tuesday morning.
Russia blamed Kyiv for the attack. Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak denied Ukraine was involved, but said he predicted
“an increase in the number of attacks”
We can safely expect that it is possible that opposition could come from Russia itself and attacks will be carried out on Russian territory. Whether or not Ukraine is behind it or wants to help Putin’s opponents, it will not change the fact that the war is now starting to spread to both states.
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By Leslie Kaufman
Tire dust versus discarded fishing nets.
These two items are not normally paired together, much less seen as being in competition, but countries and activists are sparring over how or if they should be addressed in a UN global plastic treaty being negotiated in Paris this week.
A key tension point is whether an agreement should focus on cleanup of the plastic waste already clogging the world’s oceans or move beyond that to limiting the manufacture of potentially harmful components in polymer products, or even enforcing plastic-use bans. The US, one of the largest producers and users of plastic, is so far pushing for the first option, say people following the negotiations.
Negotiators expect to have a draft at the end of this round of talks after agreeing last December to develop a legally binding deal on plastic pollution by 2024.
“This will be the first real draft text of the international legally binding agreement and getting things added after that becomes really, really difficult,”
said Anja Brandon of the Ocean Conservancy, a Washington, DC-based environmental advocacy organization.
“So this becomes the basis on which all other conversations and negotiations move forward.”
The Ocean Conservancy is lobbying for the draft to include regulation of abandoned fishing equipment, sometimes known as “ghost gear,” which is mostly made of plastic and creates health risks for marine mammals.
“Yes, there are other types of international agreements and forums that talked about ghost gear,”
Brandon said.
“But this is really an unparalleled opportunity to actually get everyone on the same page and setting standards and practices for reducing harms.”
Some View on the World 