DE BILT (ANP) - Na een reeks dagen van extreme hitte en meerdere warmterecords is de officiële hittegolf dinsdag ten einde gekomen. Dat laat Weeronline weten. In De Bilt werden dinsdag temperaturen gemeten tussen de 21 en 22 graden en daarmee is het geen zomerse dag meer.

De hittegolf begon op donderdag 18 juni en duurde tot en met maandag 29 juni. Het was de langste hittegolf ooit in juni met twaalf dagen. Hiermee is het oude juni-record met acht dagen ruim verbroken. Dit record werd in 1936 en 1976 genoteerd. Vrijdag was de uitschieter van de hittegolf. Het werd toen 36,8 graden in De Bilt en daarmee was het tegelijkertijd ook de warmste junidag ooit gemeten sinds het begin van de metingen.

De regionale hittegolf gaat nog wel door. In het oosten en zuidoosten van het land duurt de hittegolf nog langer en bereikte dinsdag een recordaantal van vijftien juni-hittegolfdagen in het Limburgse Horst en Ell. Vanaf woensdag zakken de temperaturen in het oosten en zuidoosten waarschijnlijk onder de 25 graden, waarmee ook daar de hittegolven eindigen.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) heeft last van een technische storing, dat bevestigt een woordvoerder na berichtgeving van BNR. Daardoor wordt de publicatie van de inflatiecijfers die voor woensdagochtend gepland stond, uitgesteld.

De storing is het gevolg van werkzaamheden in een datacentrum in Almere, laat een woordvoerster weten. De werkzaamheden hebben te maken met de brand die vorige maand uitbrak in het datacentrum. Ook toen kampte het CBS met een storing.

De inflatiecijfers over de maand juni zouden om 06.30 uur worden gepubliceerd. Dat wordt tot een later moment uitgesteld, zegt hoofdeconoom Peter Hein van Mulligen. Het zou op een later moment woensdag alsnog kunnen komen, stelt hij.

GENÈVE (ANP) - Infrastructuur in Europa, Noord-Amerika en Centraal-Azië moet worden aangepast aan de verslechterende klimaatomstandigheden, want niets doen is uiteindelijk veel duurder. Daarvoor waarschuwt de Economische Commissie voor Europa (UNECE) van de Verenigde Naties dinsdag.

Wegen op land, water en spoor, havens en vliegvelden zullen door klimaatverandering vaker te maken krijgen met hitte, overstromingen, minder ijs, sneeuw en permafrost en een stijging van de zeespiegel, aldus UNECE in een rapport. Die vraagt publieke en private instanties daarin om prioriteit te geven aan aanpassingen voor er schade ontstaat. Elke dollar investering aan klimaataanpassing zou ruim het tienvoud aan waarde opleveren.

Verstoringen in infrastructuur kunnen voor dramatische gevolgen en enorme kosten zorgen, zegt UNECE-secretaris Tatiana Molcean. "Aangezien extreme weersomstandigheden niet langer een toekomstig risico vormen, maar vandaag de dag realiteit zijn, is aanpassing van de vervoersinfrastructuur absoluut noodzakelijk."

Patience is required to do anything, except restringing rackets, while data gathering has gone to a new level

While thousands of fans shuffle around the grounds and soak up Wimbledon’s familiar mood of British unflappability, behind the scenes there is a hive of activity to keep the show on the road. Nowhere more so than at the restringing facility, which processed a record 6,565 rackets at last year’s tournament – an average of nearly 500 per day. “The balls change slightly every year,” says Josh Sillick, on the stall run by the tournament’s official “restringing partner” Babolat. “If they get fluffier more quickly, then the players have to hit them harder, and heat can make a difference too. When a player breaks a string, they can hand it over [to a ballboy or ballgirl] and they’ll run over to get it restrung, and they can get it done in 10 or 15 minutes.”

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Cristina Guarda says delegation was denied access to cells in offshore detention facility, at which six people have attempted suicide

An Italian MEP has questioned whether the Italian government is trying to “hide the truth” about conditions at an offshore migrant detention centre in Albania after a delegation she was part of said they were prevented from conducting a full inspection.

Cristina Guarda, from Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance (AVS), said staff at the Italian-run facility in Gjadër had refused to give MEPs from the Greens/EFA group key information, such as how many people were being held at the centre, and that they had not been allowed to access their cells.

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• Former captain says off-pitch ‘unrest’ key to shock defeat

• Having relatives there ‘was more important’ than results

Lothar Matthäus, the former Germany captain turned pundit, has blamed the team’s crushing World Cup defeat by Paraguay in part on the players’ dogged efforts to have their families, even parents, in tow, which he said had led to tension within the team and a lack of concentration on the football.

“While there’s a lot that needs to be processed about what happened on the pitch, what happened off the pitch also needs to be a topic of discussion,” Matthäus said.

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Euroclear holds much of the 300 billion euros in Russian state assets that were frozen in the West following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Now not only can you run Linux from within Windows without third-party tools, but can do so within containers. Microsoft has continued the trend of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) being one of the company's more interesting developer technologies with the arrival of a public preview of WSL containers. According to Microsoft, the update adds a pair of new features to WSL: "A built in Linux container CLI and an API for Windows applications to run Linux containers as part of their app logic." Microsoft senior project manager Craig Loewen said, "this CLI tool has a familiar format and capabilities," and indeed it does. If Docker is something you know, the wslc.exe syntax (wslc.exe is the new binary) will be very familiar. There's also a built-in alias for container.exe for users who prefer to type container instead of wslc. "Containers," said Loewen, "have become a foundational part of modern development – from cloud-native applications and AI workloads to testing and deployment pipelines. "WSL containers simplify this experience by providing a built-in, enterprise-ready way to create, run, and manage Linux containers on Windows, without requiring additional third-party tooling." WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly convenient for Linux developers who must comply with corporate edicts to use a Windows device. The CLI for end-to-end container workflows furthers this. Microsoft stated, "WSL containers make it easier for developers and organizations to build, test, and run containerized workloads while benefiting from the security, manageability, and integration of the Windows platform." Alternatively, you could run your preferred Linux distribution natively, but that might not be an option, particularly if an organization is keen on the "security, manageability, and integration of the Windows platform." And this is an important point. WSL's existing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) has been updated (in private preview) to be aware of Linux container events, and there are settings in Intune for managing WSL containers. Support is also in a pre-release version of VS Code, where the Docker path in the dev container settings can be changed to wslc. There is also a new default file system for WSL container that Microsoft claims makes Windows file access twice the speed. So, going from terribly slow to just slow? We'll wait until general availability is reached before passing judgment. There's a new default networking mode to improve compatibility and better memory reclaim techniques. However, none of these tweaks will be enabled by default in WSL. Microsoft wrote, "Since these changes touch mission critical paths like file system access and network, for now they are enabled just in WSL container." The company is also at pains to point out that this is currently in public preview, although things seemed quite solid in the version we downloaded to try. That said, relying on this for any serious work would be foolhardy in the extreme, but it is certainly worth trying out ahead of general availability later this year. ®

VK: Birgit Donker ten onrechte ontslagen bij het Nederlands Fotomuseum. Zij heeft daarom recht op een vergoeding van 400 duizend euro bruto.