Preparations for the nation’s second appearance at the tournament has been impacted by the troubling events at home

This week, Iran’s women’s football team is expected to touch down in Australia to compete in their second Women’s Asian Cup. But exactly who will arrive, or what condition they will be in when they get here, is anyone’s guess.

Amid a backdrop of anti-government protests and subsequent violent crackdowns by the authorities over the past few months, Iran’s top women footballers have been struggling to prepare for one of the biggest tournaments of their lives.

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One officer killed and two others wounded after blast at Savyolovsky railway station square in central Moscow

A man detonated an explosive device beside a police patrol car in central Moscow early on Tuesday, killing one officer and wounding two others, the Russian interior ministry said.

The blast occurred just after midnight at Savyolovsky railway station square, according to the ministry’s statement on Telegram. Savyolovsky station, in northern Moscow, is one of the capital’s main railway hubs.

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Economies such as the UK, India, Japan and the EU raced to hammer out agreements, but the blanket rate has left them wondering where they stand

“America is WINNING again,” Donald Trump declared last week, unveiling the first batch of Japanese-backed projects under a mooted $550bn investment surge into the US as part of his trade pact with Tokyo.

After the US president tore up the global economic order in 2025, Japan was one among the countries scrambling to strike a deal. They pledged to dramatically increase investment in the US in exchange for lower US tariffs on Japanese exports.

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A 7,000-word "doomsday" thought experiment from Citrini Research helped trigger an 800-point drop in the Dow, "painting a dark portrait of a future in which technological change inspires a race to the bottom in white-collar knowledge work," reports the Wall Street Journal. From the report: Concerns of hyperscalers overspending are out. Worries of software-industry disruption don't go far enough. The "global intelligence crisis" is about to hit. The new, broader question: What if AI is so bullish for the economy that it is actually bearish? "For the entirety of modern economic history, human intelligence has been the scarce input," Citrini wrote in a post it described as a scenario dated June 2028, not a prediction. "We are now experiencing the unwind of that premium."

Many of Monday's moves roughly aligned with the situation outlined by Citrini, in which fast-advancing AI tools allow spending cuts across industries, sparking mass white-collar unemployment and in turn leading to financial contagion. Software firms DataDog, CrowdStrike and Zscaler each plunged more than 9%. International Business Machines' 13% decline was its worst one-day performance since 2000. American Express, KKR and Blackstone -- all name-checked by Citrini -- tumbled. That anxiety, coupled with renewed uncertainty about trade policy from Washington, weighed down major indexes Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average led declines, falling 1.7%, or 822 points. The S&P 500 shed 1%, while the Nasdaq composite retreated 1.1%.

[...] Monday's market swings extended a run of AI-linked volatility. A small research outfit that has garnered a huge Substack following for macro and thematic stock research, Citrini said in its new post that software firms, payment processors and other companies formed "one long daisy chain of correlated bets on white-collar productivity growth" that AI is poised to disrupt. [...] Shares in DoorDash also veered 6.6% lower Monday after Citrini's Substack note called the delivery app a "poster child" for how new tools would upend companies that monetize interpersonal friction. In the research firm's scenario, AI agents would help both drivers and customers navigate food deliveries at much lower costs.

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joshuark quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in the classic Outlook desktop email client for some users. This bug has been acknowledged almost two months after the first reports started surfacing online, with users saying that Outlook became unusable after the mouse pointer vanished while using the app.

[...] Microsoft explained in a recent support document that the mouse pointer (and in some cases the cursor) will suddenly vanish as users move it across Outlook's interface. "When using classic Outlook, you may find that the mouse pointer or mouse cursor disappears as you move the pointer over the Outlook interface," it said. "Although the mouse pointer is not there, the email in the message list will change color as you hover over it. This issue has also been reported with OneNote and other Microsoft 365 apps to a lesser degree."

Microsoft added that the Outlook team is investigating the issues and will provide updates as more information becomes available. While a timeline for a permanent fix is not yet available, Microsoft has offered three temporary workarounds that require affected users to click an email in the message list when the cursor disappears, which may cause it to reappear. Alternatively, switching to PowerPoint, clicking into an editable area, and then returning to Outlook may also restore the mouse pointer.

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SEOUL (ANP) - De oud-president van Zuid-Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, gaat in beroep tegen zijn veroordeling tot levenslange gevangenisstraf voor het leiden van een opstand.

In 2024 riep Yoon de militaire noodtoestand uit in een poging het parlement buitenspel te zetten. Hij mobiliseerde troepen om te voorkomen dat het parlement zou stemmen over de opheffing van de noodtoestand. Dat lukte niet en 6 uur later was de crisis voorbij.

Vorige week werd Yoon schuldig bevonden aan het leiden van een opstand. De rechtbank veroordeelde hem tot levenslang. "Wij geloven dat wij de verantwoordelijkheid hebben om de problemen met deze uitspraak duidelijk vast te leggen - niet alleen in de gerechtelijke dossiers, maar ook voor het oordeel van de geschiedenis in de toekomst", zei het juridische team van Yoon dinsdag in een verklaring.

AMERSFOORT (ANP) - De Vereniging Eigen Huis (VEH) heeft een meldpunt heropend voor misstanden in het biedproces van koopwoningen. Dit gebeurt na signalen die de belangenvereniging zelf heeft gekregen en onderzoek van televisieprogramma Radar. Daaruit trekt VEH de conclusie dat "pogingen tot zelfregulering in de sector onvoldoende werken".

Vijf jaar geleden had VEH ook een meldpunt, waar honderden meldingen binnenkwamen over bijvoorbeeld makelaars die onderling informatie uitwisselden over biedingen en kopers tegen elkaar uitspeelden. Sinds 2023 is er een verplicht biedlogboek, maar dat heeft volgens VEH nog te weinig geholpen. "Ondanks eerdere beloften vanuit de sector blijft er ruimte voor manipulatie. Daardoor staan consumenten nog altijd zwak in een proces met grote financiële gevolgen", zegt directeur Cindy Kremer.

Met het meldpunt wil de vereniging hier bewijs voor verzamelen. VEH roept het nieuwe kabinet op de positie van de consument ten opzichte van de makelaar te verbeteren. "Daarvoor is nodig dat vastgestelde minimale eisen aan het biedproces wettelijk verplicht worden, samen met het voorschrijven van gecertificeerde biedsoftware en het organiseren van onafhankelijk toezicht met sancties."

MOSKOU (ANP) - Een explosie bij een treinstation in de Russische hoofdstad Moskou heeft het leven gekost aan een politieagent. Twee anderen raakten gewond. Dat meldt het Russische ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken in een verklaring op Telegram.

De explosie vond plaats rond 00.05 uur (lokale tijd) in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag. Een man bracht een explosief tot ontploffing bij een patrouillewagen van de politie op het plein van het treinstation van Savyolovsky.

Volgens het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken kwam de dader ter plaatse om het leven.