TEHERAN (ANP/BLOOMBERG/RTR) - Iran zegt een akkoord te hebben bereikt met Oman over het delen van inkomsten uit de Straat van Hormuz. In een verklaring stelt de Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde voor beide kanten werkbare resultaten te hebben behaald. Details worden nog uitgewerkt, meldt persbureau Reuters op gezag van een anonieme Iraanse bron.

Dinsdag deelde Iran nog details uit de onderhandelingen met Oman over de Straat van Hormuz, waar beide landen aan grenzen. Iran houdt die belangrijke zeestraat gesloten om druk uit te oefenen op de VS en Israël, vanwege de oorlog tegen Iran.

In samenspraak met Oman - en zonder de Verenigde Staten - werd een vaarroute door Iraanse territoriale wateren afgesproken, al werd dinsdag nog niet gesproken van kosten om de doorvaart te mogen maken. Wel zei Iran dat de overeenkomst met Oman niet definitief is, maar een tijdelijke oplossing is tot er een definitief plan voor de Straat van Hormuz wordt gevonden.

PARAMARIBO (ANP) - In de vermissingszaak van de Nederlandse dj, filmproducent en ondernemer Rodney Leysner is de voortvluchtige verdachte Ryan T. gehoord, maar hij had toen nog niet de status van verdachte. Dat bevestigde de politie tijdens een persconferentie woensdag in Paramaribo. T. werd op 21 augustus als verdachte aangemerkt door de politie. Verder liet het korps weinig nieuws los over de vermiste Leysner.

Ryan T. is de ex-man van Warsha Sardjoe, directeur van Rudisa International NV, het bedrijf waar Leysner directielid was. De politie heeft in deze zaak geen internationale assistentie ingeroepen, zei ze woensdag.

Leysner is sinds 15 augustus vermist. Zijn uitgebrande en in elkaar geperste auto is op vrijdag 21 augustus opgegraven in een moerassig gebied ten westen van Paramaribo. In dat district had hij een werkafspraak. Sindsdien is hij onbereikbaar en onvindbaar. In het onderzoek naar zijn vermissing heeft de politie drie personen aangehouden. Zij blijven nog vastzitten.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show, It and Legend actor has died – we look back at his career

• Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies aged 80
• Why Tim Curry’s Rocky Horror Show will go on – appreciation
• Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke and 50 years of stardom

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Albanian criminal has cut bars, descended sheets and even used human pyramid in escapes in Italy and Belgium

Police in Spain have arrested a dangerous Albanian criminal nicknamed the “escape wizard” who has managed to break out of four jails in Italy and Belgium by sawing through bars, clambering down knotted sheets and even using a human pyramid to breach prison walls.

The fugitive, who has not been officially named, was arrested after officers from the Policía Nacional force discovered he was living in the north-eastern Spanish city of Tarragona. He was the subject of a European arrest warrant issued by the Italian authorities.

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China’s fashion giant will list in Hong Kong with a shrunken price tag – and big questions over its business model

In a parallel world, we might now be preparing for the arrival on the London stock market of Shein, the giant Chinese-founded fast-fashion retailer. Or it could have happened already.

The possibility of a London flotation was a running story during 2024 and into last year as politicians from both main parties engaged in behind-the-scenes wooing. Shein was seen as a shot of tech adrenalin for a listless local listings scene, and an opportunity to advertise the UK’s openness to international capital.

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De Nenco Food Group in Berkel en Rodenrijs is door de rechtbank in Rotterdam failliet verklaard. De 50 werknemers zitten volgens de curator sinds 7 augustus thuis. Het bedrijf zit pas een paar jaar op de huidige locatie, waar een gloednieuw pand met machines op 15.000 m2 is neergezet.

The rising cost of contract prices for memory chips could see DRAM and NAND flash account for more than two-thirds of the capital expenditure of cloud service providers (CSPs) by next year. Taiwan-based market watcher TrendForce forecasts that total capex by cloud operators will almost double this year - up 98 percent - and grow a further 50 percent in 2027. That rapid rise is driven partly by growing investment in new infrastructure, but also by soaring memory bills. The upshot is that TrendForce estimates DRAM and NAND flash will account for 47 percent of the total spend on hardware this year, jumping to 68 percent of it in 2027. The analyst doesn’t put revenue figures to its predictions, but reckons server DRAM components will have grown by 270 percent year-on-year by the end of 2026, with enterprise SSD prices up 235 percent over the same period. As Reg readers know, growing demand for high-performance memory from big customers is prompting DRAM and NAND chip suppliers to prioritize production capacity for server applications. TrendForce estimates that HBM - used in GPUs - and RDIMMs used in servers will together account for more than half of DRAM bit supply this year. The effects are already visible in PC prices climbing by double-digit percentages due to a shortage of standard memory parts, and overall PC shipments falling by 5 percent in response. The smartphone market has been hit in a similar fashion, with shipments expected to fall by 15 percent this year. For enterprise customers, the knock-on effects are becoming hard to ignore. As memory eats an ever-larger share of CSP capex, that cost is unlikely to stay with the cloud providers and will be passed down. Earlier this month, Euro operator OVHcloud warned it was planning to inflate its charges by up to 87 percent to cover rising memory costs in a preview of what other providers may follow with. As if that isn’t bad enough, TrendForce says that elevated memory costs provide server and AI chip suppliers such as Nvidia with greater justification for raising their own prices. Sure enough, recent news reports claim Nvidia plans to charge 15 percent more for products containing its Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips. To counter this cloud operators may need to increase capital expenditure even further to maintain their targeted level of infrastructure expansion - which means more price increases for users. ®

R.I.P. Tim Curry, 19 April 1946 - 25 August 2026