More than half (58 percent) of all girls and women between the ages of 15 and 25 worldwide are victims of online harassment. Aid organization Plan International draws this conclusion after researching more than 14,000 girls and young women from 31 countries. The aid organization questioned girls and women in Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands and…
Month: November 2019
Cookbook tested: recipes for the beer lover with a firm stomach
The chocolate pots from Melissa Cole’s beer cookbook are somewhat vaguely called ‘pots’, for the simple reason that there is no correct culinary term for this attack on the stomach. Chocolate spread may come closest, but we usually don’t eat it with a spoon. So intense, this dish. But the flavors of the chocolate and…
Retailers: scrapping Sunday shopping has the opposite effect
Retailers do not want shopping evenings and Sundays to be canceled, as the cabinet may intend. According to INretail, the trade association for non-food shops, the measure will not on balance lead to less traffic on the street. Last night it was announced that the cabinet is considering the corona measure to ban late night…
Macron’s EU minister praises the relationship with the Netherlands
The French Minister of European Affairs Clément BeauneImage Freek van den Bergh / de Volkskrant ‘I don’t think the Dutch DNA resembles the British in Europe. On the contrary, the new Europe consists of many ad hoc alliances and the Netherlands can play an active role in this. ‘ Clément Beaune (39), President Macron’s closest…
Kelderman is catching up with rosette knitted bearer Almeida and is second in Giro | NOW
Wilco Kelderman did excellent business on Sunday in the ninth stage of the Giro d’Italia. The Dutchman climbed to second place in the rankings and took time on rosette jersey carrier João Almeida. Steven Kruijswijk had to give up some ground in the mountain stage won by Ruben Guerreiro. The last kilometer of the final…
Thousands of Facebook members switch to Friendweb: ‘There is no censorship here’
“I have been a member here for two weeks now because of trouble with Facebook, which I am completely done with. I hope to find peace here because on Facebook I only got more angry and angry.” “I came here because I was blocked on Facebook, because I posted Zwarte Pieten photos.” “I ended up…
Recipe of the day: brown beans with rice
Necessary for 4 people: 800 gr canned or glass brown beans, rinsed 1 large onion, chopped 3 carrots, cut into pieces 2 parsley roots, chopped (or some celery) 1 chilli, without seeds 1 shoulder chop 1 cassette rib 4 dl chicken stock 2 tbsp vinegar 2 tbsp mustard or 2 tsp mustard seeds Black pepper…
Poverty is increasing rapidly due to pandemic, Nobel laureates call for action
For the first time in twenty years, the number of people living in extreme poverty is increasing again. This is partly due to corona, the World Bank announced earlier this week. Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee say it is time for action. More than 100 million people worldwide have fallen below the threshold…
Another conflict in Marengo trial: investigating judge resigns. How should it proceed?
A secured car arrives at the extra secured court at Schiphol for a hearing in the Marengo trial. Image ANP What is going on? According to the investigating judge, ‘certain statements of some counsel’ go in her opinion ‘beyond all standards of decency’. For that reason, she withdrew at the beginning of October. “ Where…
Italy loses points in Poland, France and Portugal do not score | NOW
Poland and Italy were unable to take advantage of the loss of points of groupmate the Netherlands against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Nations League due to a mutual draw (0-0). France and Portugal were also stuck on a goalless draw in division A on Sunday evening. Poland and Italy entered the field in Gdansk…