Shinkawachō, Tokyo, Japan

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Shinkawachō, Tokyo, Japan

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Berendsen hoopt op EU-sancties tegen gewelddadige kolonisten

BRUSSEL (ANP) - Minister Tom Berendsen (Buitenlandse Zaken, CDA) hoopt dat de EU-ministers maandag een besluit nemen over nieuwe sancties tegen gewelddadige Joodse kolonisten op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Nederland zet zich daar al lang voor in, maar Hongarije blokkeerde dit tot nu toe.

"We gaan vandaag merken of Hongarije zijn positie heeft veranderd", zei Berendsen voor het begin van een vergadering van EU-ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken in Brussel.

Zaterdag is in Hongarije de nieuwe regering van de pro-Europese conservatieve premier Peter Magyar geĂŻnstalleerd. De nieuwe minister van Buitenlandse Zaken is nog niet bij de bijeenkomst van de EU-ministers in Brussel, maar laat zich vervangen door zijn EU-ambassadeur in Brussel.

"Wat Nederland betreft nemen we maatregelen tegen producten uit de nederzettingen en zeker tegen gewelddadige kolonisten", zei Berendsen.


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‘It was either this or the pool’: hantavirus ship becomes latest Tenerife tourist attraction

The MV Hondius, the cruise ship hit by an outbreak of a virus that has left three dead, reached the Canary Islands on Sunday

On a dusty hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the south of Tenerife, groups of tourists and locals are gathered to witness one of the island’s best new attractions.

Some are gazing through binoculars while others are taking photos on their phones of a vessel only a few hundreds metres away, anchored near the Granadillo commercial port.

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Britain and Ireland’s wildflowers – in pictures

The Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre is opening entries for its Wildflower Photographer of the Year 2026 competition on 29 May. The contest showcases images of some of Britain and Ireland’s 1,600 wildflower species, and a selection of photos from last year’s competition will be on display at Eden Dock, Canary Wharf, London, during CWG’s Nature Week, from 13 July

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My first thought after having a vasectomy: why aren’t more British men having them? | Tim Burrows

While women continue to toil with the coil, fewer men are prepared to get snipped. The answer why may lie in the rumours and fear that spread online

There I was, lying on the operating table in just my socks and a Steely Dan T-shirt. I had taken the train back to my seaside home town in Essex to have a vasectomy after being on the NHS waiting list for almost two years, since our third child, Sylvia, was born. Three was our magic number. Any more and the car would become a wagon and dinner would turn into feeding time. And now, finally, the contraceptive burden would fall on me. After Hayley’s years of toil with a coil, and the pain of childbirth, I was due a little discomfort.

A vasectomy, as the pre-op letter explained, “is designed to make you sterile”. (You’d hope so.) It would involve “removing a segment of a tube called the vas deferens from each side so that sperm cannot pass through”. There would be an “injection of local anaesthetic to the skin of the scrotum” before “a tiny incision through the painless area of the scrotum, first on one side and then the other”.

Tim Burrows is an author and journalist

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What is a ‘Scientology speedrun’ and why is social media suddenly obsessed with it?

The name is deceptive. It’s not about Tom Cruise in tight shorts, but the craze has racked up 90m views for one content creator

Ima, if someone said “Scientology speedrun” to me I would think about Tom Cruise in tight shorts. But that is not what is happening, is it?

Not quite, Cait. The Scientology speedrun appears to have spawned in March when content creator Swhileyy filmed himself rushing the Church of Scientology on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. That video gained 90m views before it was deleted.

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