CARACAS (ANP) - In Venezuela heeft een nieuwe aardbeving plaatsgevonden, ongeveer in hetzelfde gebied als waar de twee verwoestende aardbevingen van donderdag waren. De nieuwste beving had een kracht van 5.6, meldt het Europees-Mediterraans Seismologisch Centrum (EMSC).
ROME (ANP) - Zwemster Marrit Steenbergen heeft bij wedstrijden in Rome het wereldrecord op de 100 meter vrije slag verbeterd. De 26-jarige Nederlandse noteerde een tijd van 51,68. Ze was daarmee een fractie sneller dan de Zweedse Sarah Sjöström (51,71), die het record sinds 2017 in handen had.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De landelijke technische storing bij Rijkswaterstaat van zaterdag is verholpen. "Alle systemen werken weer", zegt een woordvoerster van de weg- en waterbeheerder. Volgens haar heeft de storing niet geleid tot grote ongeregeldheden in het verkeer en op het water.
De storing werd veroorzaakt door werkzaamheden aan een glasvezelkabel. Daardoor deden meerdere systemen het tijdelijk niet. Bruggen, sluizen en tunnels konden niet centraal bediend worden. Ook kon Rijkswaterstaat de matrixborden boven snelwegen niet gebruiken en deden meerdere websites en de Landelijke Informatielijn het niet.

Blunder that threatened qualification and poor start against Mexico are in the past as date with Canada looms
Hugo Broos, South Africa’s Belgian head coach, deserves a significant share of the credit for Bafana Bafana reaching the World Cup knockout stages for the first time in their rather chequered history. The country had been absent from the tournament since they hosted it in 2010 and participated only twice before that, in 1998 and 2002. A wave of unbridled excitement was triggered when Broos ended the long wait to qualify.
“The question I always asked myself is: ‘Why is South Africa not a dominating country in Africa?’” Broos said in a recent radio interview. “When I came here, I had a plan. I kept the plan till the end, till the results were there, because I knew that was the way to do it.”
Continue reading...Two eye-catching last-32 ties offer hope of a winner from outside the traditional powers – Brazil and the Netherlands could be gone
The World Cup exists in a state of perpetual flux. It goes to new territories. It gets bigger. It experiments with second group phases and replaces playoffs for sides level on points with goal difference then head-to-head. And still one of the same eight countries from western Europe or South America wins it.
Since Argentina in 1978, there have been two new winners, and those were France and Spain, from the heart of Uefa, their success based on maximising the advantages of being European and wealthy; no countries have been so successful at industrialising youth production, so much so that they now provide the models for every country seeking to invest in academy programmes.
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This is the real quiz in the group. It is winner takes all for second but Ghana have a one-point advantage and a draw would be enough for them. Carlos Quieroz is the man for the job because he knows how to bore everyone to tears with defensive discipline and organisation.
Croatia, however, are a decent side when they put their minds to it. Admittedly, they have not shown much indication of it thus far, losing to England and scraping past Panama thanks to the performance of goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic. Luka Modric made his 200th international appearance in that match but needs more help around him because the 40-year-old cannot do it all by himself.
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England recorded their biggest-ever World Cup win against Panama at the 2018 tournament. A 6-2 rout sent Gareth Southgate’s side on their journey to a fourth-place finish; Harry Kane’s hat-trick went a long way to securing his Golden Boot. And so here we are again … except last time, Panama were ranked 55th in the world, but now they’re ranked 42nd, and that after falling eight places in the wake of their 1-0 defeat to Croatia. Panama also gave Ghana a good game in their Group L opener, so while most observers expect England to do the business tonight, the current iteration of the Red Tide – runners-up to Mexico at both the previous Concacaf Gold Cup and Nations League – are no pushover. England will hope to bounce back from their struggles against Queirozball earlier in the week; should they do so, they’ll deserve the plaudits that will come their way, and hope it’ll be a good omen for another deep run. Kick-off is at 10pm BST, 5pm EDT, 7am AEST. It’s on!
Continue reading...Exclusive: Steve Reed is looking at government run scheme that could borrow at lower rates than private developers
The housing secretary has been working up plans for a state-owned housing developer, according to details leaked to the Guardian, as the government looks for ways to stimulate stubbornly low rates of housebuilding.
Steve Reed has been looking at proposals to set up a new state-owned developer which could borrow at lower rates than private developers and housing associations, according to plans leaked to the Guardian.
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