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A lone cherry tree in Ushinshiro, Shizuoka, illuminated by the first light of the day.
This is Mizumezakura, a single cherry tree standing quietly in the countryside.
I came here on my first photography trip, invited by a friend who taught me how to shoot.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft de astronauten van de Artemis II-ruimtemissie gefeliciteerd in een bericht op Truth Social. Daarin zegt hij dat hij als president niet trotser had kunnen zijn.

"De hele reis was spectaculair en de landing was perfect", aldus Trump, die meldde ernaar uit te kijken de "geweldige en zeer getalenteerde" astronauten binnenkort in het Witte Huis te ontvangen. "We zullen dit nog een keer doen en dan, de volgende stap, Mars!"

De bemanning van ruimteschip Orion bestond uit drie Amerikanen, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover en Christina Koch, en Canadees Jeremy Hansen. Ook de premier van Canada Mark Carney feliciteerde de crew. "De Artemis II-bemanning is terug op aarde. Felicitaties aan kolonel Hansen en het team voor deze historische prestatie. Welkom thuis", aldus Carney.

SAN DIEGO (ANP) - De vier astronauten van de Artemis II-missie zijn na tien dagen teruggekeerd van hun ruimtereis. Het Orion-ruimtevaartuig waarmee zij achter de maan vlogen, landde om 02.07 uur Nederlandse tijd voor de kust van de Californische stad San Diego in de Stille Oceaan.

Zodra de astronauten met boten zijn opgehaald, worden ze medisch onderzocht om te evalueren welke impact de reis op hun lichaam heeft gehad. Missiecommandant Reid Wiseman meldde volgens NASA vlak na de landing dat hij en zijn crew het "uitstekend" maken.

Amerikanen Wiseman (50), Victor Glover (49) en Christina Koch (47) en de Canadees Jeremy Hansen (50) begonnen op 1 april aan hun vlucht. Het was de eerste keer sinds december 1972 dat mensen richting het hemellichaam vlogen.

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Met de software kunnen bestuurders de weg op zonder hun handen aan het stuur te houden. De RDW gaat een aanvraag indienen om het systeem ook in de rest van de Europese Unie toe te staan.

De vier astronauten landden zaterdagnacht veilig in de Stille Oceaan na een historische vlucht om de maan.

More than a dozen survivors accuse first lady of ‘shifting the burden’ on to them after she called on Congress to hold public hearings – key US politics stories from Friday 10 April

More than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have accused Melania Trump of “shifting the burden” on to them after she called on Congress to hold public hearings with victims of Epstein’s abuse.

“Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony,” said a group of 13 people and the brother and sister of the late Virginia Giuffre, who was one of the most vocal Epstein accusers, in a statement. “Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility not justice.”

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Researchers say the world's largest known wild chimpanzee community in Uganda fractured into rival factions and has been locked in a vicious "civil war" for the last eight years. "It is not clear exactly why the once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park are at loggerheads, but since 2018 the scientists have recorded 24 killings, including 17 infants," reports the BBC. From the report: [O]ver several decades, [lead author Aaron Sandel] said the nearly 200 Ngogo chimpanzees had lived in harmony. There were divided into two sets - known to researchers as Western and Central - but they had existed overall as a cohesive group. Sandel said he first noticed them polarizing in June 2015, when the Western chimpanzees ran away and were chased by the Central group. "Chimpanzees are sort of melodramatic," he said, explaining that following arguments there would ordinarily be "screaming and chasing" and then later, they would grooming and co-operating.

But following the 2015 dispute, the researchers saw that there was a six-week avoidance period between the two sets, with interactions becoming more infrequent. When they did occur, Sandel said they were "a little more intense, a little more aggressive." Following the emergence of the two distinct groups in 2018, members of the Western group started attacking the Central chimpanzees. In 24 targeted attacks since the split, at least seven adult males and 17 infants from the Central chimps have been killed, the study found, although the researchers believe the actual number of deaths are higher. The researchers believe many factors such as the group size and subsequent competition of resources, and "male-male competition" for reproducing may be to blame.

But they say there were three likely catalysts:
- The first, were the deaths of five adult males and one adult female -- for reasons unknown -- in 2014, which could have disrupted social networks and weakened social ties across the subgroups
- The following year, there was a change in the alpha male, which the study says coincided with the first period of separation between the Western and Central groups. "Changes in the dominance hierarchy can increase aggression and avoidance in chimpanzees," it explained
- The third factor was the deaths of 25 chimpanzees, including four adult males and 10 adult females, as a result of a respiratory epidemic, in 2017, a year before the final separation. One of the adult males who died was "among the last individuals to connect the groups," the research paper said. The study has been published in the journal Science.

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He has finished in the points at the last two F1 races and will be looking to stay ahead of team mate Arvid Lindblad.