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Squad will be based at five-star Inn at Meadowbrook
‘We chose a hotel where you can open the window’
Thomas Tuchel believes England can create a home from home in Kansas City this summer to push their dream of World Cup glory. The manager is on board with the Football Association’s choice of an intimate boutique hotel for the squad – with training facilities 20 minutes away – and says they hope to fly in and out of Kansas City for matches throughout their stay at the finals.
The FA has been attracted by how Kansas City, which straddles the states of Kansas and Missouri, is located in the centre of the United States, thereby mitigating travel distances to games. It is also happy with the accommodation and training base that has been secured.
Continue reading...Solange Tremblay was ejected over 100 metres from the plane after collision at LaGuardia airport, her daughter says
A flight attendant on the Air Canada Jazz flight that collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia airport on Sunday survived in what her daughter called a “complete miracle”, when she was ejected more than 100 metres from the plane while still strapped to her seat.
The CRJ-900 jet, operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck as it landed, killing both the pilot and co-pilot. Nine people were sent to the hospital with injuries, including Solange Tremblay, a flight attendant.
Continue reading...Victories in Paris and Marseille suggest a united left can reclaim centre-ground voters. But the end of Macronism is leaving a complex political landscape
In 2002, divisions on the left allowed Jean-Marie Le Pen to shock France by reaching the run-off in that year’s presidential election. Lionel Jospin, the defeated Socialist candidate in the poll, would subsequently recall the humiliation to remind progressives of the need for unity in the face of the far-right threat. Mr Jospin’s death, announced on Monday, has overshadowed the weekend’s local election results. But as they are pored over for clues to a seismic presidential contest that Le Pen’s daughter, Marine, believes she can win next year, it is clear that alliances – or their absence – will shape that race too.
In Paris and Marseille, Socialist candidates won handsome mayoral victories at the head of a broad left grouping that included Greens and Communists, but not Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical left France Unbowed party (LFI). Emmanuel Grégoire’s second-round victory in Paris was particularly impressive, given that it was achieved against both a united right opposition and the LFI candidate, who refused to stand down. Outside the biggest conurbations, however, progressive outcomes were less stellar. Traditional strongholds such as the city of Clermont Ferrand, where Socialists and Greens made local alliances with Mr Mélenchon’s party, were lost to a mildly resurgent centre-right.
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Continue reading...The US president claims progress in talks with Iran, but uncertainty persists. Meanwhile, Israel advances West Bank annexation under cover of a crisis
It must be tough for Donald Trump: starting a war with Iran, but finding it terribly inconvenient to finish it before collecting a shiny prize from Benjamin Netanyahu or sharing a stage with China’s Xi Jinping. In war, as in peace, timing is everything. With the global economy teetering on fears of an uncontrolled escalation in attacks on electricity, oil and gas installations in the Gulf, Mr Trump revealed that he was having such “productive” conversations with Tehran that there would be a five-day pause in US strikes on “Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure”. The trouble is that Mr Trump’s talks may not exist. Tehran denies having them.
If real, they would be a welcome de-escalatory step. They are also an admission that Mr Trump’s threat risked consequences more damaging than its intended target. But it also means that after markets close on Friday, Mr Trump could return to “bombing our little hearts out”. It is as unsurprising as it is grotesque that the US president would speak so lightly of potentially killing hundreds of civilians. Neither is Mr Trump likely to have been telling the truth in claiming “major points of agreement” in talks with Iran, including commitments on nuclear weapons and the reopening of the strait of Hormuz.
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Continue reading...DEN HAAG (ANP) - Asielkinderen zullen alleen bij uitzondering worden opgesloten na de invoering van het migratiepact, verzekerde asielminister Bart van den Brink (CDA) maandag in het debat hierover. Hij reageerde daarmee op zorgen uit de linkse oppositie over het kabinetsplan om het mogelijk te maken asielzoekers met kinderen in bepaalde gevallen op te sluiten in een detentiecentrum in Zeist terwijl ze hun asielprocedure afwachten.
Dat kan na de invoering van het pact op 12 juni gebeuren bij asielgezinnen die via Schiphol zijn binnengekomen en op basis van hun herkomstland weinig kans maken op een verblijfsvergunning.
Normaal gesproken gaan gezinnen naar Ter Apel, zegde de minister toe. "Alleen als om zwaarwegende redenen anders moet worden besloten", moeten ze naar Zeist. Dat is het geval als er wordt getwijfeld of de ouders wel echt de ouders zijn, er sprake is van mensensmokkel of als er een gevaar is voor de openbare orde of veiligheid.
MIAMI (ANP) - Tennisser Daniil Medvedev is na zijn finaleplaats in Indian Wells al in de derde ronde uitgeschakeld op het masterstoernooi van Miami. Francisco Cerúndolo uit Argentinië versloeg de als negende geplaatste Rus in drie sets: 6-0 4-6 7-5.
Medvedev, die vorige week de titel op Indian Wells moest laten aan de Italiaan Jannik Sinner, verloor zijn eerste vier opslagbeurten en stond na minder dan een halfuur met 6-0 2-0 achter. De Rus kwam echter knap terug en won de tweede set met 6-4. In de derde set verloor Medvedev net als de Argentijn een keer zijn opslagbeurt, maar op het eerste matchpoint van Cerúndolo sloeg de Rus een dubbele fout.
Ook Félix Auger-Aliassime strandde in de derde ronde. De als zevende geplaatste Canadees verloor in drie sets van de Fransman Terence Atmane: 3-6 6-1 3-6.
Walmart found that purchases made directly inside ChatGPT converted at only one-third the rate of traditional website checkouts, leading it to abandon OpenAI's Instant Checkout in favor of routing users through its own platform. Search Engine Land reports: Starting in November, Walmart offered about 200,000 products through OpenAI's Instant Checkout. Users could complete purchases inside ChatGPT without visiting Walmart's site. Daniel Danker, Walmart's EVP of product and design, said those in-chat purchases converted at one-third the rate of click-out transactions. He called the experience "unsatisfying" and confirmed Walmart is moving away from it.
Instant Checkout was designed to let users complete purchases directly inside ChatGPT without visiting a retailer's website. However, earlier this month, OpenAI confirmed it was phasing out Instant Checkout in favor of app-based checkout handled by merchants. Walmart will embed its own chatbot, Sparky, inside ChatGPT. Users will log into Walmart, sync carts across platforms, and complete purchases within Walmart's system. A similar integration is coming to Google Gemini next month. In other Walmart-related news, the retailer announced plans to roll out "digital price tags" to all U.S. stores by the end of the year.
Instant Checkout was designed to let users complete purchases directly inside ChatGPT without visiting a retailer's website. However, earlier this month, OpenAI confirmed it was phasing out Instant Checkout in favor of app-based checkout handled by merchants. Walmart will embed its own chatbot, Sparky, inside ChatGPT. Users will log into Walmart, sync carts across platforms, and complete purchases within Walmart's system. A similar integration is coming to Google Gemini next month. In other Walmart-related news, the retailer announced plans to roll out "digital price tags" to all U.S. stores by the end of the year.
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Russia has increasingly turned to universities as a fresh source of recruits as enlistment numbers dwindle and war casualties soar.