Minister Arie Slob of Primary and Secondary Education.Image ANP – Bart Maat Great satisfaction on Tuesday afternoon in the secular part of the Lower House. A motion to ban schools from refusing children because of their religion was supported by a large majority. The petitioner, SP Member of Parliament Jasper van Dijk, had already joined…
Twitter wants users to share more and also comes with stories feature
Snapchat started it seven years ago and Instagram made it big among the masses three years later: stories. Now Twitter also comes with the option to post messages that disappear after 24 hours. This has made it a tried and tested concept, but that does not mean that Twitter can automatically piggyback on its success….
Airbnb is still going public, despite the pandemic
After Airbnb hit the brakes earlier this year, the rental platform has now decided to hand in papers to go to the fair. The company has been hit hard by the corona crisis this year, but is nevertheless seeing bright spots. In the first nine months of the year, it posted a loss of 590…
Babel will not travel with the Orange to Poland due to a positive corona test | NOW
The Dutch national team has to do without Ryan Babel on Wednesday in the last group match of the Nations League, away from Poland. The attacker is the only one of the selection infected with the corona virus and will not board the plane on Tuesday. Babel left the Orange training camp on Sunday for…
The government is suffering from data hunger and that costs citizens privacy
The most recent news item came on Monday: the Ministry of Defense has set up an experimental data center that maps the online behavior of the Dutch. Amazement everywhere in the House of Representatives. But experts see it happening: the government comes dangerously close to people through smart technology. Huib ModderkolkNovember 16, 2020, 19:58 More…
Employers and trade union: do not phase out emergency aid
Do not phase out the emergency support. That is the call that the FNV trade union and employers’ organization VNO-NCW are making to the cabinet. As of today, employers who are in trouble can appeal to the third round of wage support, NOW 3. The scheme has changed compared to previous rounds: employers have more…
Recipe of the day: the first ‘real’ pea soup
Share your winter recipes! We all benefit from that. Van de Water makes his pea soup like this: Take pork shank, pork neck (boneless pork neck chop) and / or a piece of lean sauerkraut bacon and / or a piece of smoked bacon. Let this steep in 3 liters of water for 3-4 hours…
Facebook removes racist reports about Kamala Harris
Facebook has deleted several racist and misogynistic messages about US vice-president Kamala Harris. The company deleted the posts after the BBC reported that the messages were hateful. These are messages, images and comments in three Facebook groups, in which hateful comments are more often posted, according to the BBC. One of those pages has 4000…
Van Gerwen, Wattimena and Van Duijvenbode start Grand Slam with victory | NOW
Michael van Gerwen won his first group match at the Grand Slam of Darts without any problems on Monday. ‘MVG’ was too strong for Adam Hunt, 5-0. Dirk van Duijvenbode stunted against world champion Peter Wright (5-4), while Jermaine Wattimena also caused a big surprise by winning 5-1 against Glen Durrant. Van Gerwen had a…
Morocco and Polisario come to blows after 29 years of armistice
Archive photo of fighters from Front Polisario praying at sunrise in Western Sahara.Image AP Polisario wants to establish an independent state in Western Sahara, an area that Morocco annexed in 1975 when the Spanish colonizer withdrew from it. The inhabitants have always opposed that annexation, but a truce was reached in 1991 after mediation by…