The news comes as Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was in Havana Thursday to meet with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Tijdens mijn zwangerschap van mijn oudste kind ontdekten we het ding, een blaasje gevuld met vocht, ontsproten aan een eierstok. We hielden het met tussentijdse echo’s in de gaten.
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The hottest day of the year so far was this week, obliging everyone to lose their minds
Easter Monday and we’re out in Camden, observing the tween girls’ stations of the cross: namely, Pop Mart and Miniso, Chinese retailers selling toys, collectibles and “blind boxes”, for which the devotional parent is invited to pay 15 quid for their child to unwrap a surprise. (The surprise – can you guess? – is that it’s not worth 15 quid.) Other purchasing options include: the “Action Figure Squid Game Set”, which retails for – adjusts glasses – £250. A range of DC Comics collectible figures starting at £32 a pop. And something called a “Cinnamoroll figurine”, which is, inexplicably, £95.
Continue reading...Ever Andrés Mercado won a World Press Photo award for his work on the Manacillos festival, which takes place among the Afro-descendant community of Yurumanguí. Here he talks about the ancestral ritual and why it’s so important
Every year, hundreds of Afro-Colombians climb into wooden boats and set sail down the Yurumanguí River. They navigate dense rainforest, scramble through mangroves, and battle charging river currents, to disembark about 12 hours later in the remote village of Juntas.
It is here that they reunite and gather for an ancestral ritual: the Manacillos festival.
People living in the Juntas village of Yurumanguí use the festival as a way to unite and attract more people who, for years, had to flee the territory.
Continue reading...Pushing his winsome songwriting into rootsier territory with a little help from co-producer MJ Lenderman, the New Yorker’s debut album is primed to soundtrack your summer
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Recommended if you like The Clean, This is Lorelei, The Feelies
Up next Debut album Hercules out 10 July
Tracey Nelson’s self-titled 2025 debut EP was one of the year’s best lesser-heard gems: Five tracks of sparkling, winsome indie-rock that recalled classic antipodean jangle bands the Clean, Twerps and Dick Diver. Tracks such as New Years Flowers and Just Shoot Me Now suggested that Austin Noll – the NYC-based singer-songwriter behind the project – was a classicist with a keen sense for bright melodies and self-deprecating one-liners.
Continue reading...Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
The global oil price may have remained below $100 a barrel this week following the two-week ceasefire agreed in the Middle East - but physical deliveries of regional crude have changed hands at much higher prices in a sign of the ongoing strain on the world’s energy supplies.
The price used to value oil deliveries from the North Sea, known as the Forties blend, reached highs not recorded since 2008 at almost $147 a barrel on Thursday as global refineries were forced to vie for fresh cargoes, according to LSEG data.
Global stock markets look set to end a volatile week on a more positive footing, with investor sentiment showing tentative signs of recovery heading into the weekend. The FTSE 100 opened broadly flat this morning, with US markets expected to follow suit later this afternoon.
While the term ‘ceasefire’ is used somewhat loosely, there has been enough perceived de-escalation in the Middle East to ease some of the pressure on risk assets we saw earlier in the week. The prospect of in-person talks between the US and Iran over the weekend is also helping steady nerves, offering hope that diplomatic channels remain open. Taken together, investors are becoming more comfortable that, while risks remain, the broader trajectory is moving in the right direction.
…Although it has not acted as the store of wealth or shock absorber that many might have expected during the recent Middle East tensions. That is largely because interest rate expectations have been the bigger driver of price action, outweighing the typical risk-off demand. This week’s tentative ceasefire, coupled with news of talks over the weekend, has shifted rate expectations into a more favourable position for gold, helping support the latest move higher.”
Continue reading...Campaigning in Newcastle before next month’s local elections shows the rise of the far right, the climate and cost of living are concerning voters as much as the Middle East
Mohammed Suleman, a self-described “straight-talking Geordie”, doesn’t love politics. The taxi driver and businessman prefers to focus on community initiatives. But when the time came, he voted Labour as the lesser of two evils.
Then came the war in Gaza.
Continue reading...Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime
The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.…
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Staat gaat in hoger beroep tegen de uitspraak van de rechtbank Den Haag die beveelt dat de overheid meer moet doen om Bonaire te beschermen tegen klimaatverandering. Dat maakt minister Stientje van Veldhoven (Klimaat, D66) bekend. De zaak was aangespannen door Greenpeace. De rechter oordeelde onder meer dat de Staat binnen anderhalf jaar "heldere, bindende doelen" moet opstellen om de uitstoot van broeikasgassen te verminderen.
Van Veldhoven ziet echter "zwaarwegende juridische redenen" om de zaak door het gerechtshof opnieuw te laten toetsen. Het kabinet vindt bijvoorbeeld dat de rechter anders moet kijken naar internationale afspraken over lucht- en zeevaart. Die emissies vallen onder internationale regels van VN-organisaties en moeten volgens het kabinet buiten beschouwing worden gelaten.
Ondanks het aangekondigde hoger beroep moet de Staat het vonnis alsnog uitvoeren en dus werk maken van meer klimaatbeleid. Dat gaat Van Veldhoven ook doen. In de Kamerbrief verwijst de minister naar eerder aangekondigd beleid om meer duurzame energie op te wekken en de industrie te vergroenen. De Staat gaat de rechter wel vragen of de verplichting om voor de hele economie klimaatdoelen op te stellen geschorst kan worden tot er een nieuwe uitspraak van het hof is.