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Good morning! Military equipment from the USA lands in the port of Vlissingen and Rijkswaterstaat carries out test explosions with small explosives at the Middensluis in Terneuzen.
First the weather: this morning it will rain first in the east. In the rest of the country it is mostly dry sometimes the sun breaks through. At noon it will be drier with sometimes some sun. It will be 10 or 11 degrees. Afterwards it will become cloudy and in the evening and night heavy showers will move over the whole country.
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Are you going on the road? here you will find an overview of the activities. Check here the railway timetable.
What can you expect today?
- Military equipment from the United States, such as M-1 Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, will land in the port of Vlissingen this week. The equipment goes to Poland and Lithuania. Today the media can be present at the landing of the vehicles.
- Foreign Minister Hoekstra begins a visit to Abu Dhabi and Qatar. Today he will visit the Sheikh Zayed Mosque and visit the EMASOH mission which protects maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
- To date, Rijkswaterstaat is carrying out some test blasts at the Middensluis in Terneuzen. They do it with small explosives. They want to investigate how best to tear down that old lock.
- From today, the German police can begin the evacuation of the occupied “lignite village” Lützerath, not far from Roermond. For more than two years, the village has been attacked by activists occupied trying to prevent the ground under Lützerath from being excavated for lignite mining.
What did you miss?
Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, 75, was sentenced to five months in prison for helping the company commit tax fraud.
Weisselberg had been working for Trump since the 1970s. In the trial, he pleaded guilty to all fifteen charges. He thus avoided the maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. As part of the sentence, he has already transferred around 2 million euros in back taxes, fines and interest.
Among other things, Weisselberg confessed to defrauding the company by taking off the books of the holding company’s extra income, a Manhattan apartment and car for himself, and tuition for his grandchildren. Trump himself is not on trial in this case.
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And then this:
Scientists will test special cameras on manatees at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem. Once it becomes clear where on the body cameras can best be attached, manatees and sea turtles in the Caribbean will also temporarily receive cameras.
This is being done for a large-scale international study to map the consequences of climate change in tropical ecosystems. According to zookeepers, the animals are not bothered by cameras. “They have very thick skin.”
Manatees at Burgers Zoo are given a camera
