Zo’n veertig Europese leiders van binnen en buiten de EU kwamen bijeen in Armenië voor een topontmoeting. De aanwezigheid van de Canadese premier Mark Carney moet Rusland en de Verenigde Staten duidelijk maken dat het Westen nog bestaat.
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Moeten vrouwen lief zijn op het werk, of van zich afbijten? Krijgen ‘nice girls’ de ‘corner office’, of de onaardige meisjes? Japke-d. Bouma weet het antwoord. „Wat is er mis met lief zijn op werk? Waarom moeten aardige mensen zich aanpassen? Pas het systeem aan!”
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Designer Jenny Volvovski’s collection of unsolicited book cover designs. “I really wanted to design book covers but didn’t have any book cover work. So I hired myself to redesign my personal library.”
GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion cash-and-stock offer to buy eBay (paywalled; alternative source), with CEO Ryan Cohen arguing he can turn the marketplace into a far larger Amazon competitor. "EBay should be worth -- and will be worth -- a lot more money," Cohen said in an interview. "I'm thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars." The Wall Street Journal reports: Cohen said GameStop has a commitment letter from TD Bank to provide up to $20 billion in debt financing to help make a deal possible. GameStop delivered an offer letter to eBay on Sunday and released a copy of it following the Journal's report on the details of the bid. Cohen wrote in the letter to eBay Chairman Paul Pressler that GameStop started building its eBay position on Feb. 4. It said its offer consists of 50% cash and 50% GameStop shares.
EBay said Monday morning its board and financial advisers would review GameStop's unsolicited proposal. It said there were no discussions with or outreach from GameStop before receiving the offer. Ebay added that it will review the offer "with a focus on the value to be delivered to eBay shareholders, including the value of the GameStop stock consideration and the ability of GameStop to deliver a binding, actionable proposal."
If eBay isn't receptive, Cohen said he was prepared to run a proxy fight and take the offer directly to its shareholders. The window for shareholders to nominate director candidates at eBay ahead of an annual meeting scheduled for this June has already closed, according to the company's proxy materials. Cohen told the Journal that putting his videogame retailer and eBay under one roof could create opportunities to cut costs and improve earnings. The two companies have some overlap already, including a focus on selling collectibles such as trading cards. "There is nobody who is more qualified, based on my experience, to run the eBay business," Cohen said, referencing his time at GameStop and previously Chewy, the online pet-products marketplace he co-founded.
EBay said Monday morning its board and financial advisers would review GameStop's unsolicited proposal. It said there were no discussions with or outreach from GameStop before receiving the offer. Ebay added that it will review the offer "with a focus on the value to be delivered to eBay shareholders, including the value of the GameStop stock consideration and the ability of GameStop to deliver a binding, actionable proposal."
If eBay isn't receptive, Cohen said he was prepared to run a proxy fight and take the offer directly to its shareholders. The window for shareholders to nominate director candidates at eBay ahead of an annual meeting scheduled for this June has already closed, according to the company's proxy materials. Cohen told the Journal that putting his videogame retailer and eBay under one roof could create opportunities to cut costs and improve earnings. The two companies have some overlap already, including a focus on selling collectibles such as trading cards. "There is nobody who is more qualified, based on my experience, to run the eBay business," Cohen said, referencing his time at GameStop and previously Chewy, the online pet-products marketplace he co-founded.
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KYIV (ANP) - De Oekraïense president Zelensky heeft een staakt-het-vuren aangekondigd dat in de nacht van 5 op 6 mei om middernacht moet ingaan. Hij reageert daarmee op de Russische aankondiging van een bestand op 8 en 9 mei.
Moskou kondigde enkele uren eerder dat bestand aan, ter ere van de Dag van de Overwinning. Op die dag viert Rusland de overwinning op Nazi-Duitsland in 1945. "Wij geloven dat mensenlevens veel waardevoller zijn dan wat voor jubileumviering dan ook", schrijft Zelensky daarover op X. "Wij kondigen een wapenstilstand aan die begint om 0.00 uur in de nacht van 5 op 6 mei." Hij geeft geen einddatum voor het bestand, maar zegt wel dat Oekraïne "vanaf dat moment spiegelend zal handelen".
"Het is tijd voor de Russische leiders om echte stappen te zetten voor het beëindigen van hun oorlog, vooral omdat het Russische ministerie van Defensie niet gelooft dat het een parade in Moskou kan houden zonder Oekraïense goede wil", schrijft hij verder. De grote militaire parade die in Moskou wordt gehouden op 9 mei gaat dit jaar door zonder het traditionele vertoon van zwaar militair materieel.
US operation announced as ‘Project Freedom’ dramatically raises stakes in conflict
The US has launched Donald Trump’s operation to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink of full-scale war as Iran sought to reassert its blockade.
The US operation, which got under way on Monday after being announced as “Project Freedom” by Trump on Sunday night on his social media site, dramatically raised the stakes in a conflict that had been in a month-long period of uneasy limbo.
Continue reading...Costume Art pairs couture pieces with items from its collection in exploration of many kinds of human bodies
Speaking at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring exhibition in New York, Anna Wintour described the first Monday in May as her “favourite day of the year, and also my most terrifying one”.
This particular Monday may be more high-stakes than previous years, with Monday night’s Met Gala for the exhibition’s launch mired in controversy, owing to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos’s sponsorship of the event. It is also the inaugural exhibition for the Costume Institute’s new home: a 12,000 sq ft space, named the Condé M Nast Galleries, that puts the museum’s fashion exhibitions in a considerably more high-profile spot, right off its Great Hall.
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A timeless portrait of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, standing in quiet dignity beneath a deep blue sky. The weathered bronze surface tells centuries of history, while the calm expression reflects peace, balance, and spiritual stillness. A symbol of Japanese heritage and Buddhist serenity, this iconic statue invites contemplation beyond words.