VEGHEL (ANP) - VVD-leider Dilan Yesilgöz wil bij de volgende verkiezingen weer lijsttrekker worden van haar partij. Dat laat ze weten in een interview met de NOS na een VVD-bijeenkomst in Veghel. Yesilgöz is sinds 2023 partijleider, na het vertrek van Mark Rutte. Op de vraag of zij de volgende lijsttrekker is van de VVD antwoordde ze: "Ja, dat ben ik".

Op Yesilgöz is de afgelopen tijd binnen de partij veel kritiek, nu de partij er niet goed voorstaat in de peilingen. Die kritiek vindt de partijleider niet leuk, maar zo relativeert Yesilgöz, "die is van alle tijden".

Ook benadrukt de VVD-leider dat ze in het vervolg wel met Pro wil samenwerken, zolang dat maar gebeurt samen met de rechtse partij JA21. "We willen wel met Pro, maar dan niet zonder rechts", aldus Yesilgöz tegen de NOS.

Bij de bijeenkomst in Veghel waren zo'n 150 kritische VVD-leden uit Noord-Brabant aanwezig. Die verliep volgens Yesilgöz "heel goed".

New York film festival: the director has made a fascinating and troubling companion piece to her Netflix documentary 13th, which takes a fiery look at American injustice

It feels at once like the blink of an eye and an eternity since Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th arrived on Netflix, a month before the election of Donald Trump to his first term as president. The intervening decade has more or less borne out the film’s thesis on the enduring specter of white supremacy in American life: that a clause within the 13th amendment abolishing chattel slavery – that involuntary servitude could be used as punishment for a crime – was immediately and continually exploited to criminalize black people, mass incarceration thus being the modern incarnation of America’s original sin.

The Oscar-nominated film, which saw a surge in viewership during the protests of 2020, has remained both a time capsule of late Obama-era moral clarity and, arguably, the acclaimed director’s best picture. At least, until now – 14th, DuVernay’s sequel, of sorts, soon also to arrive on Netflix, is just as lucid and galvanizing as its predecessor, with an updated, more pressing urgency befitting a democracy in distress.

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Hammam al-Hammami’s shift towards extremism began while he was a student in Melbourne, according to Emirati attorney general

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The co-pilot who tried to seize control of a flydubai jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week had been radicalised while studying in Australia, prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates said on Friday.

Passengers and crew on the 30 September flight, which had 182 people onboard, intervened to stop 29-year-old Omani national Hammam al-Hammami’s alleged attempt to hijack the plane on its way to Israel.

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In 1850 45-hectare Lady Elliot Island, a coral cay 80 kilometres off the coast of Bundaberg, was covered with vegetation, hundreds of thousands of sea birds and 2 metres of guano. By 1870 guano miners had stripped the island of it vegitation and hauled away 20,000 tons of guano. The mining left the island a wasteland for the next century until aviator Don Adams made a deal with the Australian government for a recreation lease under which he started to restore the island. Today 70% of the island has been restored and the birds are back.