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What can you expect today?
- Shell shareholders vote on the departure of the head office to London. There is a good chance that there is enough support for the move.
- In Oslo, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to journalists Maria Ressa and Dimitri Muratov for their fight for freedom of expression.
- Olaf Scholz makes his first official visit to Paris and Brussels as the new Chancellor of Germany. He consults with French President Macron, EU top woman von der Leyen and NATO chief Stoltenberg.
- And Max Verstappen drives the first and second free practice before the decisive Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The first training is at 2.30 pm, the second at 6 pm.
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What did you miss?
In the south of Mexico are sure 53 people died in an accident involving a truck loaded with migrants from Central America. The truck overturned on the highway and collided with a pedestrian bridge. According to authorities, it appears that the truck overturned on a sharp bend due to the weight of the many people on board.
In addition to the 53 dead, dozens more were injured, 21 of them seriously. Aid workers say more migrants were on board, but they fled for fear of being arrested. The migrants would have boarded in Guatemala to go to the border with the US.
Other news from the night:
- Cabinet Rutte IV almost complete, ‘we are approaching the end’: The negotiators sat together from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. There is not yet a final coalition agreement, party leaders said afterwards, but there was optimism. Political analysts expect to present the agreement early next week.
- Jussie Smollett convicted of lying about assault: The American actor was on trial for falsely reporting a racist and homophobic assault in 2019. He is said to have paid two men to assault him. Smollett insists he did not stage the attack.
- Well-being of lhb youth lags behind that of heterosexual youth: lesbian, gay and bisexual young people feel unhappy more often than heterosexual young people, according to research by the Social and Cultural Planning Office. The research was published on Purple Friday, the annual day of action on which schoolchildren and students can show their solidarity with LGBTI people by wearing the color purple.
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And then this:
A rare first edition of the English edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has fetched $471,000 (417,000 euros) at an auction in the United States. According to auction house Heritage Auctions there is never deposited so much money before for a twentieth-century novel.
Of this particular 1997 edition, which has a hard cover and a color illustration, only 500 were printed, according to the auction house.
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