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Good morning! The cabinet is meeting again in the Catshuis to discuss the budget, SpaceX will try again to launch a “tourist flight” into space and the Paralympics will open in Paris.
Firstly the weather: It will be sunny and the temperature will be from 27 to 31 degrees locally. It will stay warm for a long time tonight. Tomorrow the winds will shift to the west and cold air will flow into the country. Then it will be from 20 to 27 degrees.
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What can you expect today?
- Cabinet members are meeting again in Catshuis to negotiate next year’s budget. Deputy prime ministers had already spoken earlier this week, considering that the cabinet may have to make “painful choices”.
- SpaceX is making a new attempt to send four people into space, including billionaire Jared Isaacman. The mission was intended to be the first civilian spacewalk. It was canceled yesterday due to a helium leak.
- British Prime Minister Starmer is visiting Germany. He will be received with military honours by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is the first time the Labour leader has travelled to Berlin since becoming prime minister last month.
- The Paralympic Games open with a ceremony at the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Thousands of top athletes are descending on the French capital for the world’s biggest event for athletes with disabilities. The opening ceremony can be followed live tonight on NPO 3, NOS.nl and the NOS app, from 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
What did you miss?
The number of incidents involving fake police officers has increased significantly. Fraudsters pretend to be police. In 2023, there were nearly 400 incidents. This year, the counter has already reached more than 2,400, the police report in the program said. Request for investigation.
According to the police, the elderly are the main victims. “They receive a call about robberies happening in their neighborhood. At that moment, the caller suggests sending an officer quickly to the scene to collect all the people’s jewelry.” In this way, the police say, people lose all their savings, possessions or works of art, because they donate their possessions to the fake officers in good faith.
Other news from the night:
- Around a thousand people took to the streets of Montpellier last night to demonstrate against anti-Semitism. They did so three days after a fire broke out at a synagogue in the seaside resort of La Grande-Motte, near Montpellier. One officer was injured.
- The charges against Donald Trump in the election interference case have been revised. For example, the charge that Trump wanted to pressure the Justice Department was dropped. The special prosecutor did so after a Supreme Court ruling that Trump could not be prosecuted for actions that fell within his authority as president. Trump is still accused in the revised indictment of trying to undo his election defeat.
- Scientists have yet to find a solution to exempt relatively small projects from strict nitrogen regulations. Provinces have asked for a threshold below which nitrogen permits are not required. But no such threshold has been found. Now, almost every new project that emits nitrogen must be required, frustrating farmers and businesses.
Then this:
The cathedral was covered in scaffolding for five years before it was restored. Now the symbol of Utrecht and the country’s tallest church tower can be seen in all its glory once again.
Cathedral of scaffolding