PARIJS (ANP) - Frankrijk zet zeker 20.000 politiemensen in voor de WK-voetbalwedstrijd Frankrijk-Marokko, deze donderdagavond. Zo'n 8000 van hen worden ingezet in Parijs, heeft het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken bekendgemaakt, melden Franse media.

De autoriteiten houden er rekening mee dat rond de wedstrijd ongeregeldheden uitbreken, melden onder meer Europe 1 en Le Journal du Dimanche op basis van een instructie van het ministerie. Dat zou vooral een risico zijn als Marokko wint, gezien de "neiging van de fans om op een zichtbare en onrustige manier te vieren", aldus het document.

Le Figaro schrijft dat rekening wordt gehouden met geweld in fanzones waar de wedstrijd gekeken wordt, op andere openbare plekken in de steden en ook buiten de hoofdstad. De autoriteiten houden rekening met onder meer autobranden en plunderingen.

UTRECHT (ANP) - Bij de rechtbank in Utrecht demonstreren donderdagmiddag tientallen mensen tegen de vrijspraak van twee mannen (45 en 48) voor de verkrachting van een 17-jarig meisje in Nieuwegein. De veertigers werden vrijgesproken omdat volgens de rechtbank niet kon worden vastgesteld dat het minderjarige slachtoffer zich in een 'bijzonder kwetsbare positie' bevond. De actie wordt georganiseerd door de Dolle Mina's.

De demonstranten hebben borden bij zich met daarop teksten als 'blijf van mijn lijf', 'stop victim blaming' en 'geen ja = nee'. Een spreker op het podium vroeg aandacht voor de zogeheten fawn-reactie, een van de mogelijke reacties op dreiging of stress waarbij men zich uit zelfbescherming aanpast en over de eigen grenzen gaat. "Is het normaal dat ons rechtssysteem overlevingsreacties verwart met consent?"

Het Openbaar Ministerie had vier jaar cel geëist en gaat in hoger beroep tegen de vrijspraak.

Officials say climate crisis ‘worsening our exposure’ to bacteria as at least 28 people sickened in Manhattan

A New York outbreak of legionnaires’ disease, a rare but severe form of pneumonia, highlights the microbe’s growing and disproportionate impacts in a warming climate.

At least 28 people have been sickened in an outbreak on the Upper East Side, a wealthy neighborhood between Central Park and the East River in Manhattan. Health department officials, seeking to stop the outbreak, have sampled water from nearly 160 building cooling towers to test for the bacteria.

As his American Utopia tour film hits cinemas, the musician answers your questions about his Scottish sense of humour, working with Brian Eno and his desire to direct another film

In May 1977, Talking Heads along with Ramones toured the UK starting at Eric’s Club in Liverpool. Did touring as punk exploded have an impact on you? SpiritofWacker
There was something really great about that tour because other than maybe a few singles the audience had never seen us, so there was a lot of curiosity and openness to us and Ramones, as different as we were. Later on, fans kind of decided they liked this band or didn’t like this band, but everything happened very quickly. I remember we did a show at the Roundhouse [in London] where somebody in the audience was gobbing on the bands and, of course, Ramones really didn’t like this. Understandably enough, they didn’t see it as a sign of – ha! – respect: “We’re with you so we’re gonna spit on you.” Ramones got more of that than we did, but at least they had leather jackets. We didn’t.

Ever since the Stop Making Sense tour, it seems to me that your live shows have been a quest to unchain the band from the physical restrictions of the typical rock concert. If that is so, where do you go from here? Lucifer_Sam
From various tours I’d realised that my guitar could be wireless. Then I did a tour with St Vincent where the brass players had started in marching bands, so were used to being mobile. I thought: “OK, what about drums?” I looked at drumline in American football and samba schools in Rio. I asked my longtime percussionist Mauro [Refosco] how many players we’d need to break down the drum kit into components and he said six. I took a big gulp and said: “I think we can afford it.” Then I discovered a Hungarian company which had invented a Midi keyboard on a self-powered rack. Suddenly, the whole band were liberated to move about, which democratised the concert experience for the musicians and the audience, who get to understand what each one does.

Game of Thrones actor Anton Lesser brings poise and depth to this classic adaptation, conjuring monsters, heroes and Gods

With its gods, monsters and dizzying scale, Homer’s the Odyssey is deemed by many to be unfilmable, though it hasn’t stopped directors from having a go, including Christopher Nolan, whose blockbuster adaptation comes to cinemas next week. An audiobook would seem a smart choice, allowing listeners to deploy their imaginations to conjure dark sorcery, supernatural beasts and epic storms rather than leaning on CGI.

This classic recording, first published in 2006, is based on Ian Johnston’s much-admired translation. It is narrated by the Game of Thrones actor Anton Lesser, who brings gravitas and texture to this tale of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his efforts to get home after the 10-year Trojan War. Odysseus’s journey is fraught as he encounters the wrath of the sea god Poseidon in the form of a man-eating monster and a whirlpool that swallows ships. Then comes Calypso, the beautiful goddess-nymph and daughter of Atlas who keeps him on an island for seven years in the hope that he will stay as her husband.

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The young violinist pairs contrasting works by Goldmark and Sibelius in engaging and fluid performances

A relative rarity in the concert hall, Karl Goldmark’s 1877 Violin Concerto has nevertheless fared reasonably well on disc. South Korean violinist Sueye Park pairs it here not with another 19th-century staple but with miniatures by Sibelius: the bucolic Suite from 1929, the Two Serious Melodies, written at the outbreak of the first world war, and two of his six Humoresques.

The composers crossed paths when the Finn studied briefly under Goldmark in 1890s Vienna, but despite the polite whiff of folk music that hangs about the Hungarian’s concerto, it has little in common with Sibelius’s unvarnished Nordic nationalism. It makes the album something of a game of two halves, though there’s nothing inherently wrong with that.

• Plan unveiled for ground 350 metres from Old Trafford

• Working cost of stadium previously stated as £2bn

Manchester United have said their proposed new 100,000-capacity stadium may lead to further debt being loaded on the club but insisted it will be “a sanity, not vanity project”.

Plans for United’s new home were unveiled on Thursdayand showed it would be built 350 metres north-west of the current Old Trafford. The club are about £1.3bn in debt and in March 2025 Omar Berrada, United’s chief executive, said £2bn was the working cost of the stadium.

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