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Het is ooit begonnen als een radioshow en inmiddels is het een mega-evenement. Dit jaar viert het festival van Armin van Buuren zijn 25e jubileum in Rotterdam, want voor de derde keer op rij is A State of Trance in Ahoy. Voor Van Buuren de perfecte plek, want hij voelt zich thuis in de regio Rijnmond.
Nathalie van Berkel, aanstaand staatssecretaris van Financiën, bracht haar partij D66 in verlegenheid toen bleek dat ze op haar cv onwaarheden had verkondigd over haar studies. Ze heeft zich teruggetrokken.
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State’s governor had demanded impartial inquiry into the shooting of the VA nurse by federal immigration agents
Minnesota law enforcement authorities have said the FBI is refusing to share any evidence on its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration authorities in late January.
Pretti was shot on 24 January by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement operations in the city. His killing came just two weeks after an immigration official shot and killed Renee Good and 10 days after the shooting of Julio C Sosa-Celis.
Continue reading...Abbas Araghchi is steeped in more than a decade of nuclear dealmaking with a book on the art of negotiations
If the US and Iran are to avoid a regional war, both sides need to start to make concessions at talks in Geneva on Tuesday, and also to accommodate one another’s very different bargaining styles.
The Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, steeped in almost 15 years of Iranian nuclear talks, is a near lifelong diplomat who has written a book on the art of negotiations that reveals the secrets of the Iranian diplomatic trade – the feints, the patience, the poker faces.
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For nearly four decades, Wall Street Raider existed as a kind of impossible object—a game so complex that its own creator barely understood parts of it, written in a programming language so primitive that professional developers couldn't decode it. The code was, in the creator's own words, "indecipherable to anyone but me." And then, in January 2024, a 29-year-old software developer from Ohio named Ben Ward sent an email.