Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore online. “Almost every institution with a significant collection of medieval manuscripts digitizes many of their most significant works and makes them freely accessible online.”
MONTREAL (ANP) - Shorttracker Melle van 't Wout is op de WK shorttrack in Montreal uitgeschakeld in de heats van de 500 meter. De 26-jarige shorttracker, die op de Olympische Spelen in Milaan zilver won op deze afstand, liep tegen een diskwalificatie aan.
Van 't Wout zat in een heat met de Canadees William Dandjinou. Die won de race. Van 't Wout kreeg na een duel met de Turkse shorttracker Furkan Akar een straf.
Jens van 't Wout, die op de Winterspelen brons won op deze afstand, kwalificeerde zich wel voor de kwartfinales op de 500 meter. Xandra en Michelle Velzeboer en Selma Poutsma deden dat eerder ook.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Koning Willem-Alexander heeft naar aanleiding van de Iranoorlog de afgelopen dagen gebeld met de staatshoofden van Jordanië, Oman en Qatar. Hij belde ook met de kroonprins van Koeweit. De koning wil met de gesprekken steun en solidariteit bieden, laat de Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst weten. De komende dagen belt hij nog andere staatshoofden in de regio.
Het Jordaanse hof liet in een bericht op sociale media al weten dat koning Abdullah met de Nederlandse koning had gebeld. Ook de Oman News Agency deelde dat de sultan een telefoontje van Willem-Alexander had ontvangen.
After months of red carpets and awards season campaigns, it’s all eyes on Hollywood’s night of nights - the Academy Awards. It looks like it will be a fight between Ryan Coogler’s thriller Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation One Battle After Another for most of the big prizes, with Jessie Buckley’s performance in Hamnet the clear favourite for best actress. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s film editor, Catherine Shoard
Continue reading...Two weeks in, it’s increasingly clear that the US-led war has taken every problem it aimed to solve – and made it worse
It’s not easy, but let’s try to look at this war in the best, most charitable light. Let’s try to see the US-Israel conflict with Iran as its prosecutors and advocates would want us to see it.
They would say that it has two aims, both legitimate. The first is to weaken if not remove a regime that has done terrible evil to its own people. Who could mourn the supreme leader of a government that, according to one report, gunned down 30,000 of its citizens on the streets in just two days on 8 and 9 January? Listen to those Iranians who long ago reached the glum conclusion that the only way they could be rid of their tormentors was through external military action. As one exiled Iranian put it to me this week: “The Iranian people have been begging the world for help for so many years. They tried voting for change in 2009; they were killed. They tried protesting in 2019, 2022 and this year; they were massacred in the tens of thousands … They were out of all other options.”
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist
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Waar veel van zijn leeftijdgenoten in het weekend druk zijn met voetballen of huiswerk heeft Joas Bergwerff (14) de laatste weken andere vrijetijdsplannen. Wanneer hij niet op school is, voert hij campagne voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen. Joas staat namelijk op plek vijf op de lijst van het CDA in Capelle aan den IJssel.
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