Audi have announced that Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley is leaving the organisation with immediate effect, just under a year after his arrival.

TEHERAN (ANP/RTR) - De Iraanse leider Mojtaba Khamenei heeft ontkend dat zijn land verantwoordelijk is voor raket- en droneaanvallen op Turkije en Oman. Volgens hem zijn die aanvallen "onder valse vlag" opgezet door Israël, bedoeld om verdeeldheid in het Midden-Oosten te zaaien.

Khamenei deed de uitspraken in een verklaring ter ere van het Perzische nieuwjaar, Nowruz. De nieuwe leider is nog niet in het openbaar verschenen sinds het begin van de oorlog met de Verenigde Staten en Israël. Volgens de Amerikanen is Khamenei gewond geraakt bij dezelfde luchtaanval waarbij zijn vader omkwam. Iraanse functionarissen hebben verklaard dat er niks met de opperste leider aan de hand is.

In de verklaring claimde Khamenei ook dat de vijanden "verslagen" zijn. Volgens hem komt dat door de eenheid onder het Iraanse volk.

Israël en de VS hebben ook al meermaals gezegd dat Iran "zo goed als" verslagen is. Zo zou het land volgens de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu geen uranium meer kunnen verrijken.

Peter Vandermeersch says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’ after being investigated by NRC title where he had once been editor-in-chief

The publisher of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Irish Independent has suspended one of its senior journalists after he admitted using AI to “wrongly put words into people’s mouths”.

Peter Vandermeersch, former head of the Irish operations at Mediahuis, said he “fell into the trap of hallucinations” – the term for AI-generated errors – when using the technology.

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There has long been a notion that the League Cup, in its many sponsorship guises, can be a “springboard” for future success. No other trophy has ever achieved springboard status, not even the Emirates Cup. It seems the idea was born around the time José Mourinho’s Chelsea were on the rise, fuelled by Roman Abramovich’s totally legitimate takeover, winning the Carling Cup in 2005 and then rocketing to back-to-back Premier League titles. Many of that Blues squad have since spoken about the three-handled Georgian silver cup as if it were some gateway drug to glory. And that Chelsea team went on some trips. You wouldn’t understand, man. We saw five trophies in two years, man.

Am I alone or are there 1,056 others who see the irony in Xavi Simons declaring that, for Spurs, ‘every game is a cup final for us’ having just exited their third and final cup competition of the season?” – Glyn Berrington.

The way Barry deadpanned ‘Of the six teams that advanced to this season’s Round of Arsenal, only two (including Arsenal) made it into the quarter-finals’ puts me in mind of the old joke about 2010-11 Manchester City having ‘all the best players in the league (and Craig Bellamy)’. Fabulous stuff” – Rowan Sweeney.

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Lokale partijen wonnen deze week de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen. Eén verklaring daarvoor is er niet, behalve dan dat kiezers hun keuze steeds meer door lokale thema’s laten bepalen.

Last year, aids to Vance ordered a State Department office to investigate how European regulators were censoring online speech. It uncovered no records indicating censorship. (Gift Link) Nonetheless, the Trump administration pressed ahead with an effort to crack down on "censorship" in Europe. They have targeted academics researching "misinformation" and "online harassment" for instance by taking away their visas. The also propose to use export controls to allow US social media companies to not comply with European laws, including the Digital Services Act, that require US social media companies to remove hate speech from their platforms in compliance with European law. And they are also proposing to launch a site to host "banned" content.

You have to ignore the title of this article to focus on the buried lead. Of course we all understand that these moves are about supporting white supremacist politics in Europe.

The words shark (the animal) and shark (a predatory scoundrel) may have two different origins. “This would make ‘shark’ possibly the only word borrowed from a Mayan language into English directly.”

De politie heeft vorige week vrijdag twee tieners aangehouden voor een explosie bij een woning op de Watergeusstraat in Rotterdam-Delfshaven van begin maart. Het betreft twee 15-jarigen uit Rozenburg en Spijkenisse.

De politie heeft donderdag een verdachte aangehouden voor het schietincident aan de Watergeusstraat in Rotterdam-Delfshaven van begin maart. Het betreft een 31-jarige Rotterdammer. Bij de schietpartij op 5 maart raakte een 28-jarige man gewond.