Tadej Pogacar was ten or eleven years old when Andrej Hauptman, now his sporting director in the United Arab Emirates, spotted him riding in a local criterium in Slovenia. The bike was too big, as was the helmet. The future Tour de France winner was at the back of the pack, a few heads shorter … Read more
On May 10, the day the Germans occupied the Netherlands, Ellis Brandon, then 17, went door to door on her street in Heemstede. “I told everyone who opened the door not to listen to what the Germans were saying,” she said in 2018. Brandon died on 12 July at the age of 101, “perhaps the … Read more
Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz has been named the most combative cyclist of the 111th edition of the Tour de France. The Tokyo Olympic champion won the polka dot jersey on Saturday. The 31-year-old EF Education-EasyPost rider previously won the 17th stage of this Tour. Source link
The Houthi movement said on Sunday that rockets had been fired again at the Israeli port city of Eilat. Israeli forces said a rocket from Yemen was shot down there. In civil war-torn Yemen, the Houthis in the north have overrun large parts of the country, including the western coast and the capital, Sanaa, which … Read more
It was September 2011 and PVV leader Geert Wilders was standing at the interruption microphone in the House of Representatives. The day after Budget Day, parliament debated general political considerations, but in the meantime it was mainly about the statement by a PVV MP who had called the Turkish president an “Islamic monkey.” Unacceptable, thought … Read more
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North Korea again sent balloons filled with trash into South Korea on Sunday. North Korea likely did this in response to South Korea’s decision on Friday to start broadcasting propaganda in the border area again, after trash balloons from the North also crossed the border on Thursday. Source link
The former president also said he is “not an extremist at all” and lashed out at the Democratic Party, which is under pressure to replace Joe Biden as the nominee. “They have some problems. Number one is they have no idea who their nominee is. That guy gets the votes and now they want to … Read more
Friday, July 19. Travelers are stranded at Schiphol. Patients have had their operations cancelled. A botched software update disrupts daily life around the world. Tech experts weighed in Fidelity that we must prepare for such events. “How? We can’t do that, and in fact we don’t want to. Digital technology provides so many benefits that … Read more
