Een fietser is maandagmiddag aangereden door een automobilist aan de Marnixlaan in Vlaardingen. Daarna nam de automobilist de benen. De politie zoekt in de omgeving naar de verdachte.

• Norris and Piastri call for long-term changes to sport

• Mercedes’ Wolff suggests battery needs to remain

Formula One is under increasing pressure to consider immediate changes and the long-term future of its new engines, with the world champion Lando Norris reiterating after the Miami Grand Prix that the only answer to address sport-wide dissatisfaction was to “get rid of the battery”.

At the meeting in Florida, which was won by Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, with Norris second, F1 and the FIA had brought in fresh regulations to address unhappiness and safety concerns prompted by the pivotal role energy management plays under the new 2026 formula.

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Austrian foreign minister says ‘forest of antennae’ at mission in Vienna being used for illicit collection of data

Austria has expelled three Russian embassy staff on suspicion of spying after determining that a “forest of antennae” on the diplomatic mission in Vienna, Europe’s espionage capital since the cold war, was being be used for illicit data collection.

“It is unacceptable that diplomatic immunity be used to commit espionage,” Austria’s foreign minister, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, said on Monday. She added that the three embassy staff – whose expulsions bring the number of Russian diplomats sent home by Vienna to 14 since 2020 – had already left the country.

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As Russian aggression continues and Trump’s US threatens Nato, it is even more vital for a unified defence of the continent

As we mark the 81st anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe this Friday, 8 May, it’s clear that Germany will again soon be the leading European military power.

Already next year its defence spending will be as much as that of France and Britain combined – and it is projected to be significantly larger by 2030. The German government’s declared goal is to have the strongest conventional army in Europe. True, France and Britain have nuclear weapons, but that means less money to spend on the rest of defence. So the question is not, will this happen? Barring unforeseen developments, it will. The question, particularly on this solemn anniversary, is, how can we ensure that this time the growth of German military power is a positive development for all of Europe?

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Comments at European Political Community summit come as Britain seeks to join EU’s loan scheme for Ukraine

• UK politics live – latest updates

Keir Starmer has acknowledged that tensions are high between Donald Trump and Europe as he attends a summit of the European Political Community dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran.

With European leaders concerned over the US president’s waning interest in the Ukraine war, the prime minister will use the summit in Armenia to begin negotiations to participate in the EU’s loan scheme for Kyiv.

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Meanwhile, Russian attacks against Ukraine on Monday killed at least seven people and injured dozens of others.

I’m gonna call it: Every Frame a Painting, my all-time favorite YouTube channel, is back. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos stopped producing their fantastic video essays back in 2017 and while they have popped up here and there since then, they’ve mostly stuck to their retirement.

But for the past few months, the duo have been releasing video essays produced in partnership with Criterion: Night of the Living Dead: Limitations into Virtues, The Blade (1995): The Edges of Wuxia, and just yesterday, The Visual Comedy of Isle of Dogs (embedded above).

For the past three decades, Wes Anderson has left a distinctive fingerprint in American comedy, with his penchant for artificial worlds, deadpan performances, literary devices, and snappy narration. But there’s something else. These movies are funny to look at. Over the years, Anderson has experimented more and more with visual comedy. And none of this is more apparent than in Isle of Dogs.

It looks like they’re doing about one video a month. I hope they keep it up…I love their videos.

(Ok, maybe don’t read this bit until you’ve watched the Isle of Dogs video, but did you detect that Zhou’s narration seems to be synced to the mouth movements of the characters in the clips he’s talking over? Such a great little detail of visual comedy…I clapped my hands in glee like a toddler when I noticed.)

Tags: film school · Isle of Dogs · movies · Taylor Ramos · Tony Zhou · video · Wes Anderson

BRUSSEL (ANP) - EU-landen willen in gesprek blijven met de Verenigde Staten over de handelsdeal, maar zijn ook bereid te kijken naar eventuele maatregelen tegen de verhoogde importtarieven van 25 procent voor auto's. Dat stelden meerdere ministers van Financiën voorafgaand aan een vergadering van de eurolanden in Brussel.

"We willen geen escalatie, we willen het eens worden over een gemeenschappelijke koers met de Amerikanen. Maar wij in Europa zijn ook voorbereid en nauw gecoördineerd," zei de Duitse minister Lars Klingbeil.

"We hebben in de Groenland-kwestie gezien dat het goed is als wij Europeanen voorbereid en eensgezind zijn", zei hij. Tijdens de dreiging van Amerikaanse president Donald Trump begin dit jaar om Groenland te annexeren, sprak de EU over mogelijke inzet van de zogenoemde handelsbazooka om Amerikaanse handel uit de EU te weren.

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Volgens de Spaanse minister Carlos Cuerpo ( Economie) heeft de EU het volste recht om te reageren als de VS zich niet aan het handelsakkoord houden. Hij hoopt wel nog altijd dat Trump de handelsdeal zal nakomen.

"Het is heel vreemd dat een van de partners aan tafel op een bepaald moment zijn voorwaarden wijzigt", aldus de Belgische minister Vincent Van Peteghem (Begroting). "Ik ben er vrijwel van overtuigd dat het belangrijk is dat we ons aan de afspraak houden. Dat geldt voor Europa, maar zeker ook voor de Verenigde Staten."

De Franse minister Roland Lescure (Financiën) zei "door het lawaai heen te willen kijken" van de dreigingen van Trump. "Wij zijn bereid deze overeenkomst te goeder trouw na te komen en hopen dat iedereen er hetzelfde over denkt."

Een tiener mag haar ongewenste zwangerschap na meer dan 30 weken afbreken, oordeelde het hooggerechtshof in India. „Voor arts en patiënt is dit een overweldigend complex dilemma.”