Author: Yanne Kaers

Het is een veel voorkomend onderwerp in het nieuws: het impeachmentproces van president Donald Trump dat al enkele maanden loopt. Het is een ingewikkeld proces waarbij veel komt kijken. Zou impeachment ook bij ons staatshoofd, de koning, mogelijk zijn?

Poëzie dood? Integendeel. Dichten wordt steeds populairder door gebruikers als Rupi Kaur en Didalmi die hun werken delen via Instagram. Maar waarom vinden mensen het fijn om poëzie via sociale media te ontdekken?

Wanneer we kwaad zijn, beginnen we al snel met vloeken. In het Nederlands hebben we gelukkig veel vloekwoorden om uit te kiezen.

Woede en misdaad gaan vaak hand in hand. Maar hoe vaak is dat nu juist en wordt de woede-problematiek meegenomen bij het uitspreken van een straf in de rechtbank?

Iedereen kan zich wel eens kwaad maken over iets. Maar voor dat we kijken naar hoe woede geuit kan worden, is het handig om te begrijpen wat het is.

Diaken Dirk Van Erps gaat wekelijks in gesprek met gevangenen in Haren en Leuven. Deze waardevolle functie levert mooie en pijnlijke verhalen op.

Slapeloosheid is een aandoening waar één op de tien Belgen aan lijdt. Toch weten velen niet van waar het komt, en welke oplossingen er voor bestaan. Om mezelf te helpen, ging ik op onderzoek uit.

Milieudefensie daagt de energiereus voor de rechter na talloze milieumisdrijven. Hoe komen we hier?

Gus Steeves, co-voorzitter van de Green Party in Massachusetts, spreekt over de rol van zijn partij in het Amerika van vandaag.

Rusthuisfacturen stijgen, steeds meer mensen worden ouder en hebben hulp nodig en lang thuis blijven wonen wordt belangrijker. Maar hoe betaalbaar is thuiszorg? Zijn er voldoende zorgverleners voor de ouderen die de hulp nodig hebben?

De Mechelse band Geraldines brachten op 29 november 2024 een nieuwe plaat uit, 'real dinges' genaamd. Wij belden met frontman Bart van der Elst om eens te horen hoe de band te werk ging om dit nieuwe album te bekomen.

Rock Werchter maakte al enkele namen van hun line-up bekend, waaronder de 4 headliners. Op zondag zal Olivia Rodrigo het Rock festival afsluiten, waar veel commentaar opkwam. Wat vind de jeugd hiervan? Wij vroegen het aan studenten op de campus!

On Saturday, December 16 Luton Town's captain Tom Lockyer collapsed during a Premier League game between Bournemouth and his team in the Vitality Stadium. An additional case to the scope of football-related heart arrests.

Due to a leak, the new trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI was published sooner than anticipated, but it was well worth the wait. Find out what some players of Grand Theft Auto think about it.

Former Ballon d'Or winner Aitana Bonmatí's indisposition was the topic of discussion by sports media this week following the team's loss to Italy. Here are 5 things that you didn't know about her.

UEFA's decision to grant accreditation to tiktokers for this summer's EURO 2024 was a surprising one. Discover the details and different opinions from the case.

Spotify Wrapped Day 2023 finally arrived and we discovered some of the music tastes from our Belgian International journalism students.

Serbia's football team made history by qualifying for this summer's European Championship for the first time as an independent nation. A historical achievement of which some of their fans are really proud about.

Argentinian elections took place on Sunday 19th November and the final result ended up with Javier Milei a right-libertarian selected as the new president.

Carlotta Favento, an Italian first-year student studying international communication and media, is having a great time at Mechelen. But some obstacles appear in her way.

Enter the dark side of football, where scandals and secrets grow big and threaten to overshadow the beautiful game. From the Negreira Case to the Operation Clean Hands.

From culture shocks to train delays, my 4-year journey in Belgium has been a rollercoaster of lessons and surprises. Join me in this multicultural adventure, where time is a puzzle that needs to be solved.

Test your knowledge in our 2022 news quiz on Instagram and discover how much you know about some of the year's biggest news stories. Do that first, before you read more about the answers here.

Belgian police on Friday raided 16 addresses in and around Brussels. Read more about the 'most serious,' 'most shocking,' 'most egregious' corruption scandal in Brussels in years.

Nicole and Hugo's hit 'Goeiemorgen morgen' has started a new life in Ukrainian TikTok. The point is that Ukrainians hear something completely different in "good morning" than the Belgians. Read in our article what they hear and why this song is so viral.

On the 23rd of November, Russia launched another massive attack on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Read more about how Ukrainian journalism students study under constant rocket attacks, erratic electricity, and the Internet.

The Supreme Court of New Zealand recognised as discriminatory a limited voting age. There are a lot of discussions about this issue in a lot of countries. We asked some of Thomas More’s students about lowing the voting age. 

On November 11th, the Ukrainian military entered Kherson and liberated the region's right bank. We asked young people from the Kherson region how they found out about the liberation of their homes and how they connected to their families.

The Wall Street Journal calls Alexey Navalny as ‘the man Putin fears most’. But where is the catch? Is it possible to be in opposition in Russia? Why is Navalny perhaps not so dissimilar to Putin? Let’s try to figure it out.   

'The Girls at the Back' starts when a group of women, who know each other from school, find out that one of them has cancer. The first scene shows all five women shaving their heads, which is a strong start for an ordinary Netflix comedy.

When the war started in Ukraine, everything just turned upside down. Read the story of Nikita, a young Ukrainian journalist who tells us about the people staying in Kyiv. What caused his new political views, and how does he cope with them?

When the war in Ukraine started, everything just turned everything upside down. Read Katia's story, who had to leave her home and move to Khmelnytslyi, west of Ukraine. 'After the war, I want to celebrate as if nothing had happened.'

The Russo-Ukrainian war is changing the life of every Ukrainian student. They have to leave their homes, suspend their studies and reconsider their position or life view. 'We all were scared, but we tried not to show it.'

The Russo-Ukrainian war is changing the life of every Ukrainian student. They have to leave their homes, suspend the process of studies and reconsider their position or life view. 'The man from the Kremlin? I do not want to call his name. I hate him.'

Due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Europe is trying to get rid of its energy dependence on Russia. Now, most European countries have declared their real readiness to gradually abandon Russian oil and gas.