Voor deze rubriek sturen lezers een foto in van hun ouders. Deze keer stuurde Mineke van Essen (1942) een foto van haar moeder Janny van Essen-Monster (1910-1995) en haar vader Jan van Essen (1914-2012)
Voor deze rubriek sturen lezers een foto in van hun ouders. Deze keer stuurde Mineke van Essen (1942) een foto van haar moeder Janny van Essen-Monster (1910-1995) en haar vader Jan van Essen (1914-2012)
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Nederland is "in principe" alleen verantwoordelijk voor de repatriëring van Nederlandse reizigers van het cruiseschip m/v Hondius, aldus minister Tom Berendsen (Buitenlandse Zaken, CDA). "Maar we voelen wel degelijk de verantwoordelijkheid om ervoor te zorgen dat iedereen uiteindelijk ook veilig thuiskomt", voegt hij eraan toe.
Het cruiseschip is op dit moment onderweg van Kaapverdië naar Tenerife. Daar komt het dit weekeinde aan. Verscheidene opvarenden zijn gestorven aan het hantavirus. Berendsen werkt samen met onder meer Spanje, de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie en het ministerie van VWS om "ervoor te zorgen dat passagiers op een veilige manier straks zorg krijgen en van boord kunnen".
Over hoe de "heel complexe" operatie op Tenerife gaat verlopen, kan de bewindsman nog weinig kwijt. "De specifieke details daarvan, op het moment dat die helemaal helder zijn, gaan we eerst delen met de passagiers zelf en de naasten van de passagiers, voordat we dat openlijk doen."
As he plays a dodgy sheriff in Ben Wheatley’s Normal, Odenkirk will be here to answer your inquiries about a remarkable career that has taken him from Wayne’s World to Saturday Night Live and The Bear
Bob Odenkirk has achieved one of the more improbable small-to-big screen transitions in recent years. He was only meant to stick around for four episodes as shady lawyer Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad. Instead, creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould liked what they saw and he became a series regular – and, after that, the unlikely centre of Better Call Saul, widely regarded as one of the finest spin-offs ever made.
In 2021, he then popped up as a mild-mannered family man turned bone-crunching action hero in Nobody, a role for which he buffed up for two years. Released during Covid, Nobody was unexpectedly successful, leading to a sequel. Now he’s testing his knack for making deeply questionable characters oddly endearing by playing a dodgy small-town sheriff in Ben Wheatley’s new film, Normal, alongside Henry Winkler as the town mayor.
Continue reading...Stories of chance encounters at home and abroad and the influence of his programmes around the world
With David Attenborough celebrating his 100th birthday on Friday, we asked people to share their memories of him. Some recalled chance encounters, while others spoke of the abiding influence his programmes have had on them. Here are some of the responses.
Continue reading...Pressure is growing on government to act on legal threats designed to ‘harass and intimidate’ opponents
Verity Nevitt was just 21, a student living away from home for the first time, when she learned she and her twin sister, Lucy, were going to be sued in the high court. Someone knocked on the door of her London house share with a big bundle of papers and asked her to sign for them.
A year earlier, the sisters had reported a man to the police, accusing him of sexually assaulting Verity and then, after she had left the house, raping Lucy. When the case was dropped by police, they decided to name him on social media, in order to warn others. The man responded by suing them for misuse of private information, harassment and eventually defamation.
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