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AFP

NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 06:53

Good morning! The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) is today talking about the coup in Niger and the World Sailing World Cup, which is mainly taking place off the coast of Scheveningen, is about to begin.

First the weather: this morning in the northern half some persistent low clouds. The sun shines in the south. The sun will also break through in the north this afternoon and it will be 22 to 25 degrees. It remains dry everywhere with a moderate wind from the southwest.

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Are you going on the road? Here you will find an overview of the activities. And view here where the track is being worked on.

What can you expect today?

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) is back in talks in Nigeria about the coup d’état that was staged in Niger at the end of July. The partnership had given the junta in Niger until last Sunday to release the imprisoned president and restore democracy in the country. Niger did not respond to this. Today the World Sailing Championships start in The Hague. The sixth edition of the World Cup takes place off the coast of Scheveningen. AZ and FC Twente will play in the third preliminary round of the Conference League. The Alkmaarders will take on Santa Coloma in Andorra from 7 p.m. FC Twente will start the home game against Riga FC an hour later. And the Orange Women will play football next night in Wellington, New Zealand against Spain in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.

What did you miss?

Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio (59) was shot dead at a campaign rally in the capital Quito. There would also have been injuries, it is unknown how many and how they are.

Video footage on social media shows Villavicencio getting into a white car after a speech, after which gunfire can be heard. According to local media, he was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, where he died.

Shortly afterwards, authorities announced that the gunman was also killed in a shootout that followed the attack. It is not clear if he was the only perpetrator.

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And then this:

Parents are sometimes told that maternity care is not available due to a shortage of staff. So families with a newborn baby sometimes receive only three hours of maternity care a day. Those three hours are really the absolute minimum, says maternity carer Lieke.

Maternity nurse Lieke: ‘Three hours of care is the absolute minimum for mother and baby’

2023-08-10 04:53:19


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ANP

NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 07:02

Good morning! Crowds are expected on the roads to the holiday destinations. There are likely to be traffic jams, especially in the southern direction, just like around the Swiss and Austrian tunnels. And in Nijmegen the Four Days Marches celebrations will start. The annual walking tour starts Tuesday.

First the weather: at first the sun shines regularly, but from the southwest the clouds quickly thicken. A few showers will eventually follow, possibly with thunder in the east. It will be a maximum of 24 to 28 degrees.

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Are you going on the road? Here you will find an overview of the activities. And view here the rail timetable.

What can you expect today?

It is expected to be very busy on the roads in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, because many people are going on holiday. There will be traffic jams, especially in the southern direction, as well as around Hamburg and Munich and for the Swiss and Austrian tunnels. The Four Days Marches will start in Nijmegen. The parties frame the Four Days Marches, which start on Tuesday. During the festival, Nijmegen’s city center will turn into a festival site with dozens of stages. The Kwaku Summer Festival in Amsterdam will also start again. For the next four weekends, the Nelson Mandelapark in Amsterdam-Zuidoost will be dominated by music, food and drink and the traditional football tournament. The peloton awaits another tough mountain stage in the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France. The 152 kilometer ride from Annemasse to Morzine Les Portes du Soleil has five climbs, three of which are first category and the last, the Col de Joux Plane, hors category. Wimbledon men’s doubles final. Koolhof has never reached the final there before. He did lose the final battle of the US Open twice. Koolhof and Skupski play in London against the Argentinian Horacio Zeballos and the Spaniard Marcel Granollers.

What did you miss?

Writer Marga Minco (103) died on Monday. She is forever linked to her debut The bitter herb which appeared in 1957. In it she describes how she was the only one of her Jewish family to survive the war. The book was on the reading list of generations of Dutch students.

Minco received the PC Hooft Prize in 2019 for her entire oeuvre. According to the jury, this austere, only 90 pages long, but precisely because of this penetrating narrative, made her the Dutch voice in European war literature.

Other news from the night

And then this:

In London, climate activists disrupted a BBC classical music event. During the First Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, two protesters from Just Stop Oil stormed the stage with flags, as can be seen in a video that the action group published on Twitter.

2023-07-15 05:02:04


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