BOGOTÁ (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Rond de nipte uitslag van de presidentsverkiezingen in Colombia heerst spanning. Demonstranten in de stad Cali hebben Amerikaanse vlaggen in brand gestoken en botsten met de oproerpolitie. De politie heeft traangas ingezet om een menigte van duizenden mensen uiteen te drijven. Sommige demonstranten gooiden met stenen.

Volgens de eerste snelle telling van de stemmen heeft de rechtse kandidaat en Trump-aanhanger, Abelardo de la Espriella, met 49,67 procent van de stemmen gewonnen. Zijn tegenstander, de linkse Iván Cepeda, kreeg 48,69 procent van de stemmen. Het verschil tussen de twee is heel klein: ongeveer 246.000 stemmen.

It is the 40th anniversary of Diego Maradona’s exploits against England. The scene is set for Lionel Messi to imbue the date with fresh significance

How do you build on perfection? It is the poser Argentina face before a match that, for all its prosaic appearance in the middle of a bloated group stage, may prove critical to their World Cup defence. Lionel Messi’s storybook entrance to the tournament set a near-impossibly high bar for football romantics; Austria may provide a sterner test than Algeria and perhaps progress, in this case, will simply be defined by getting the job done.

Messi will seek the goal that makes him this competition’s leading scorer of all time, a milestone he should reach in comfort over the coming days or weeks. The collective aim is clear enough, too. Argentina would rather not entertain finishing second in Group J, which would probably mean gritting their teeth for a last-32 meeting with Spain. Overcoming a ferocious, flawed Austria is the best way to postpone that level of test; Dallas, famed for its heady barbecue scene, is the perfect venue for an asado-loving nation to turn up the heat.

The goalkeeper’s 59th-minute save left mouths agape but it’s not the first time he has created an indelible moment for the team

As they prepared for the future, the Iran national team looked to its past.

Before Sunday’s matchup against a No 9-ranked Belgium with plenty of stars, the team was played a motivational video; a clip containing what midfielder Alireza Jahanbakhsh said were the indelible moments of Iran’s past two World Cup appearances. These included dogged defending, aggressive closing down, and the few moments of on-field triumph against world powers like Spain and Portugal that have characterized this latest generation of a proud footballing hotbed.

Guardian news editor David Batty spent years longing to meet his birth mother. But his reunion with the woman who had been forced to give him up was far from a fairytale ending. He explains why the legacy of forced adoption continues to cast such a long shadow

David Batty was seven years old when he was told he had been adopted. Years later, after learning more about his birth parents, he wanted to meet them. But when he was reunited with his mother, who had been forced to give him up, their relationship became strained.

David tells Annie Kelly how he came to be one of tens of thousands of children whose birth mothers were coerced into relinquishing them for adoption, often in the name of child’s “moral welfare”. The Church of England has apologised for its role in forced adoptions, and the government has indicated it will follow suit.

Opposition to plans for ‘small paradise’ island of Sazan becomes wave of dissent against establishment

For Ina Shkurti, like so many Albanians, the island of Sazan has played an outsized role. As a child she bathed in its “always calm and emerald green” waters, as a teenager it figured in her dreams and as an adult it was an indelible part of the memory and desire that drew her back, every summer, to Vlore, her home town across the sea.

What Shkurti never imagined was that plans to build a mega-resort on Sazan – one of two luxurious resorts on Albania’s southern coast backed by Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner – would trigger a revolt, an uprising that has convulsed the Balkan state in a spasm of disgust over the perceived excesses of “a rotten oligarchic class” just as it hopes to complete accession talks with the EU.

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満開の染井吉野と不忍池弁天堂。Shinobazu-no-ike Bentendo Temple beyond Someiyoshino in full bloom.

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Senjokaku (千畳閣, Senjōkaku, lit. "pavilion of 1000 mats") is the common name of Hokoku Shrine. The name describes the spaciousness of the building, as Senjokaku is in fact approximately the size of one thousand tatami mats. The hall, which dates back to 1587, is located on a small hill just beside Itsukushima Shrine.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three unifiers of Japan, commissioned Senjokaku for the purpose of chanting Buddhist sutras for fallen soldiers. The building was not yet completed when Hideyoshi died in 1598. As Tokugawa Ieyasu took power thereafter rather than the Toyotomi heirs, the building was never fully completed.

Senjokaku is strikingly sparse, lacking proper ceilings and a front entrance. In 1872, the incomplete building was dedicated to the soul of its founder, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which remains its present-day religious function. Adjacent to Senjokaku stands a colorful five-storied pagoda originally built in 1407, predating the shrine itself.

Source: www.japan-guide.com/e/e3452.html

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