Het kabinet heeft soms te gedetailleerde vragen aan het Outbreak Management Team (OMT) gesteld. „Een beetje outsourcend, terwijl het ging over besluiten die het kabinet zelf…

Party podcast and social media host Ray Addison fronted films about province where China is accused of genocide

Reform UK’s top media presenter has worked for a Chinese state propaganda channel within the past year, the Guardian can reveal.

Ray Addison, who presents the political party’s in-house podcast and social media campaigns, fronted films about Xinjiang province – where the Chinese government is accused of committing genocide – for state media in September 2025.

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• Forward follows Gabriel Jesus out of champions

• Martinelli’s contract thought worth £17m a year

Arsenal have confirmed Gabriel Martinelli has joined the Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal for £60m. It is understood the deal for Brazil forward includes a sell-on clause.

Martinelli, who joined Arsenal from Ituano in 2019, has fallen down the pecking order at the Emirates despite being part of the squad that won the Premier League title last season. His fee surpasses the previous record £40m received by Arsenal when they sold Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to Liverpool in 2017.

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María Corina Machado says interim government does not have democratic mandate to negotiate natural resources

The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government, declaring that the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”.

In her first public comments since Trump announced what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela last Friday, Machado walked a diplomatic tightrope between challenging the controversial agreement and trying not to rile the White House.

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GOP-backed bill mandates institutions receiving federal funds not impose restrictions on programs related to Israel

The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican-backed bill that would penalize universities that participate in boycotts of Israel, or attempt to prevent students from taking part in exchange programs with the country.

The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act passed by a 237-169 vote, with 33 Democrats breaking with the rest of their party to vote in favor, and only two Republicans opposed. It now goes to the Senate for consideration.

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HEUMEN (ANP) - Het is juridisch niet mogelijk om het beschoten huis in Overasselt voorgoed te sluiten zodat de bewoners worden gedwongen het dorp te verlaten. Burgemeester Joerie Minses van de gemeente Heumen, waar Overasselt in ligt, zegt dat hij die bevoegdheid niet heeft. "Ik snap de wens van mensen die een permanente oplossing willen, maar die kan ik niet faciliteren. Ik zeg niet dat ik dat bevredigend vind. Je moet voor het maximale willen gaan, en dat is nu een sluiting van een jaar", voegde Minses eraan toe.

Het huis aan de Ewijkseweg is donderdag voor een jaar gesloten. De hoofdbewoner mag twee weken niet in de gemeente komen. In 2020 ging de woning voor een jaar op slot na de ontdekking van een drugslab. In 2024 ging het huis enkele weken dicht nadat mensen met wapens voor het huis waren betrapt. Vorig jaar werden zeker 25 kogels op de woning afgevuurd en ging de gemeente over tot sluiting voor een paar weken.

Audacity, a beloved open-source audio editing software tool, has just received a massive makeover. For those unfamiliar with Audacity, it’s a 26-year-old piece of FOSS software that provides incredibly robust audio editing capabilities for the perfect price – $0 – making it ideal for independent musicians, garage bands, vinyl rippers, and college students who want to make a slowly, deliberately spoken foreign-language recording for a group project sound vaguely fluent - not that this vulture would know anything about that. While an incredibly useful tool, Audacity’s interface has been stuck in the mid-aughts for a couple of decades now. That's changed with Thursday's release of Audacity 4.0.0. Not only has the interface been completely overhauled, but there are also a lot of under-the-hood changes as well. The new UI was rebuilt on Qt and adds a Home screen for recent projects, plus configurable Workspaces. Audacity veterans will notice that the actual editing workflow looks different – much more like a modern piece of software than a relic of the Winamp days. As part of that redesigned interface, a number of new features bring Audacity into the current age: Clips can be moved over one another, with the underlying portion replaced where they overlap, multiple clips can be selected at the same time, and clips can be grouped for moving as a single object. Audacity 4 also retains non-destructive trimming, meaning trimmed portions of a clip can be recovered simply by extending the clip back into the trimmed-out portion. Audacity users have been crying out for a dedicated splitting tool, parent company Muse Group said in a press release, and that’s been added in version 4. Clip envelopes have also been added, which allow users to adjust the volume and add fades to tracks without altering the original recordings. All of Audacity’s built-in effects have been given an interface redesign as well. In short, it’s a substantial rebuild, although Muse has tried not to alienate veterans, noting that "existing keyboard shortcuts remain available, projects created in Audacity 3 open normally, and the familiar layout of tracks and timeline has been preserved.” Audacity 4, like all the versions that preceded it in the past 26 years, is remaining open source and free as well. “We always like to thank the open source community who help our team make things better,” Muse’s head of communications Jack Sutton told The Register in an email. Sutton also tipped his hat to Martin Keary, former head of product for Muse Group, who was an instrumental part of building Audacity 4 and recently left the company. Speaking of Keary, he published a nearly hour-long YouTube video in October defending the early alpha build of Audacity 4 when the FOSS audio editing world maligned the early build for turning Audacity into a full-fledged digital audio workstation (DAW) used to record, edit, and produce audio, instead of the editing tool it had long been. Keary insisted that wasn’t the case, and Sutton reiterated the point to us. “DAW features like virtual instruments and MIDI support are not in Audacity 4,” the Muse Group spokesperson explained. “Some of the under-the-hood and structural changes do make it easier for our team to potentially build DAW-like features in future, but our current priority is on … speedy and efficient audio editing.” Audacity 4 can be downloaded on GitHub and on MuseHub for those who use Muse’s other tools. ®

Lewis Hamilton was all smiles as the F1 paddock reconvened at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on Thursday, with the Ferrari driver hoping that an engine update will boost his and the team’s Italian Grand Prix chances.

Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli is preparing to start from further down the order at the Italian Grand Prix due to an engine penalty, but the championship leader still hopes to make the most of the opportunity.