G7 meeting in Hiroshima • Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia

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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 06:33

Good morning! The leaders of the G7 meet in the Japanese city of Hiroshima and an Arab League summit is held in Saudi Arabia.

We start with the weather: quite a bit of sun and dry. Maximum temperature between 16 and 19 degrees. The temperature will be a few degrees higher in the coming days. The sun breaks through well, but especially inland it also comes to a local rain or thunderstorm later in the day.

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What can you expect today?

Leaders of the G7 countries meet in Japan. The three-day summit will be held in Hiroshima, the city that was destroyed by a nuclear bomb in 1945. A special criminal court in Slovakia is expected to rule on the trial of two suspects in the murder of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend. Deventer, the unveiling of two memorial stones for the Moluccan soldiers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) will take place. A total of more than sixty Moluccan KNIL soldiers are buried in both cemeteries. The Arab League is meeting in Saudi Arabia for a summit. Syrian President Assad is also there, for the first time since the uprising against his regime in 2011.

What did you miss?

Supporters of AZ stormed the main stand of the AFAS Stadium yesterday after the elimination in the semi-final of the Conference League. There they confronted supporters of opponent West Ham United.

It is not yet entirely clear whether these were fans or friends and relatives of West Ham players.

In any case, West Ham players rushed to the stands to intervene. They had many relatives at the place where the fighting took place. Players from AZ and trainer Pascal Jansen and director Robert Eenhorn also tried to prevent worse.

Last week, AZ lost the away match in London 2-1. Relatives of players and members of AZ’s technical staff were then attacked in the first half when they cheered on an AZ goal.

Other news from the night:

And then this:

Measures are being taken at the Schoonderlogt estate in the Gelderland town of Elst to manage the flow of tourists. People from all corners of the world come to the estate to take a Band of Brothers-style photo.

Schoonderlogt was the headquarters of an American army unit during World War II. Commander Richard Winters took a photo under the arches during the Battle of Arnhem, an event that was staged in 2001 in the popular war series Band of Brothers. That photo, with actor Damian Lewis as Commander Winters, is now being copied en masse by tourists.

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