It is difficult to predict who will win the Tour de Suisse even after the third stage. Bart Lemmen retained his third place in the standings on Tuesday, while Quinn Simmons took the stage victory. Simmons was the strongest of the early breakaway in the hilly stage to Heiden. The 24-year-old American from Lidl-Trek soloed […]
Lodewijk Asscher will temporarily chair the Supervisory Board of the FNV trade union. The Enterprise Chamber in Amsterdam appointed the former minister and former PvdA leader on Tuesday. It has been rumbling for months at the top of the largest trade union in the Netherlands. The judicial body intervened with the trade union last week,
The court in Arnhem sentenced Ahmet Y. from Amersfoort on Tuesday to four years in prison and compulsory psychiatric treatment (tbs). The 54-year-old Y. kidnapped and abused a one-and-a-half-year-old child in Barneveld in August last year. “It is a nightmare for every parent: waking up and discovering that your child has disappeared and been taken
The House of Representatives wants to debate the leaking of the investigation into former Speaker of the House Khadija Arib. The debate was requested by PVV member Gidi Markuszower, who resigned from the House’s board on Monday due to dissatisfaction with the situation. According to Markuszower, no stone should be left unturned. His request for
On hot summer days it can happen that your phone gets overheated and does nothing more. How do you cool your smartphone again? And what should you not do? The processor in your phone is busy with it: working all day, so that you can stream YouTube videos, send an app and scroll through Instagram.
After a few weeks with more rainfall, little rain is expected for the time being. The problems are not yet major, but the consequences of the drought will increase in the coming weeks. The next two weeks are expected to pass without significant rainfall. Due to the high temperatures, the precipitation deficit continues to increase.
The Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) must again process asylum applications within the statutory period of six months. If this deadline is not met, the IND must pay a penalty to asylum seekers who have to wait too long. Since January 2024, 18,250 applications have been open. The IND has been unable to handle the
The general practitioner mental health care assistant (POH-GGZ) conducted 6 percent more consultations last year than the year before. Long waiting lists at psychologists are a possible cause of this. The number of visits to the POH-GGZ had already increased and seems to continue to grow. Per 1,000 inhabitants, the POH-GGZ was visited 178 times
According to the inspections, the youth care for the abused foster girl in Vlaardingen was insufficient. But the fault does not lie with the William Schrikker foundation involved, which will therefore not receive a penalty. However, the foundation must draw up an improvement plan. According to the responsible inspections, young people and their parents “do
A group of regional investors is making a last-ditch attempt to save Vitesse from collapse, the club reported on Tuesday. They are currently in talks with the foreign owners to take over all shares of the club. The investors, who are united in a group called ‘Sterkhouders Vitesse Arnhem’ (Pillars of Vitesse Arnhem), still need