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The American military has disabled a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman because the crew ignored warnings and tried to break the naval blockade against Iran, while UN chief Antonio Guterres was 'deeply shocked' by the recent deadly attack by the Houthis on the airport in Riyadh. #MiddenOosten #Iran #VS (translated)

Simon Rozendaal wrote in EW Magazine that Greenpeace, with the support of the RIVM, was scaring the Netherlands with a postcode map about PFAS in drinking water. He stated that according to his calculations, it concerned percentages between 0.0000000004 and 0.0000000009, with nine zeros after the decimal point. https://t.co/00RU5aXcJI #PFAS #Drinkwater #Milieu (translated)

The Netherlands has returned the 'diamond of Banjarmasin', which was stolen by the colonial authorities in 1859, along with nineteen other cultural objects, to Indonesia, as a result of the advice of the Colonial Collections Committee. #Restitutie #KolonialeErfgoed #Banjarmasin (translated)

Paul Weller (Woking, Surrey, 25 mei 1958), is een Brits muzikant en zanger. Hij werd bekend met de bands The Jam en The Style Council, alvorens vanaf begin jaren negentig als solo-artiest aan het werk te gaan. Weller groeide op als zoon van Ann (schoonmaakster) en John Weller (taxichauffeur, amateurbokser, bouwvakker); hoewel hij het niet breed had zetten zijn ouders alles op alles om hem te geven waar hij om vroeg. Als tiener ontdekte Weller The Beatles en raakte hij geïnteresseerd in de Modcultuur. https://hvdommelen.nl/w/WellerP.html

Margaret Hamilton, the mathematician who developed navigation software for the Apollo moon missions and played a crucial role in saving astronauts during a onboard computer crash, died on September 30, 2026, at the age of ninety. #MargaretHamilton #ApolloMissies #VrouwenInWetenschap (translated)

Sander Sassen addressed Henri Bontenbal and wrote that he had been little visible for months, despite an earlier column by Sassen about his absence. According to Sassen, Bontenbal had published a long thread on October 7, in which he labeled Hamas a terrorist organization and reflected on the victims and the Jewish community. Sassen felt that Bontenbal had subsequently blurred the responsibility for the violence by talking about a chain of violence, the Israeli response, and civilian casualties. He also believed that Bontenbal had pointed to Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement policy as an obstacle to a two-state solution. Sassen argued that this approach equated Hamas's attack and kidnappings with Israel's response, thereby fueling antisemitism. Sassen also criticized Bontenbal's reference to an article in Trouw about Maoz Inon, who lost his parents to Hamas, and Aziz Abu Sarah, whose brother died in an Israeli prison. Sassen described their pursuit of reconciliation as hopeful but felt that Bontenbal presented this initiative as a serious way forward without giving sufficient attention to Hamas's persistence and objectives, according to him. He also stated that Hamas deliberately saddled Palestinian children with hatred for Jews. Sassen wrote that, in his opinion, Bontenbal offered false hope and insufficiently placed responsibility for Hamas's violence on the perpetrators. He claimed that Hamas and its supporters aimed for the destruction of Israel and stated that disarmament by Palestinians, in his view, would bring peace, while Israel's disarmament would lead to a new attack like the one on October 7. #Israël #Hamas #Antisemitisme (translated)

On Wednesday, Russia destroyed an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Pryloeky with a cruise missile, resulting in the deaths of nineteen residents, including five children, during a heavy aerial attack on civilian infrastructure in the country. #Oekraïne #RussischeOorlog #Vluchtelingen (translated)

"I think it is a beautiful discipline and you have to invest a lot of time in it, and then it is of course a pity that you can't show that much in a competition." Daan Hoole said this in the lead-up to the world championship, where he finished ninth. #Tijdrijden #Wielrennen #NederlandsToptalent (translated)

Symphony wrote that he was 63 on paper, but depending on the situation, sometimes felt 37, 25, or even 104. He also claimed that he could suddenly take on the age of 14 again out of anger. According to Symphony, someone carries all previous versions of themselves: from the amazed child and the love-struck boy to the older person who knew how precious time was. A song from the 80s could bring that person back to the summer when they were 17, with friends in a field and the feeling that the future was still endlessly far away. Symphony wrote that the boy had never completely disappeared and that getting older might mean carrying more and more lives with you. An old song could make that person feel 17 again, if only for three minutes — but now with the realization of how special that time was. #ouderworden #herinneringen #tijd (translated)