BERLIJN (ANP/DPA) - Duitse transportbedrijven willen hulp van de overheid tegen de dieselprijzen die een nieuw record hebben bereikt in Duitsland. Brancheorganisatie BGL heeft een brief gestuurd naar bondskanselier Friedrich Merz om te pleiten voor steun, want door die recordprijzen komen kleinere en middelgrote transportbedrijven in gevaar en wordt de economische concurrentiepositie van Duitsland verslechterd.

De prijs voor Duitse diesel is nu ruim 2,45 euro per liter. Volgens BGL komt dat voor vrachtwagens die maandelijks 10.000 kilometer rijden nu neer op 1800 euro extra kosten per truck. "Deze kosten kunnen niet langer alleen door bedrijven gedragen worden", aldus BGL. De organisatie wil nu dat CO2-heffingen voor de transportsector worden geschrapt en dat de zakelijke accijns naar het Europese minimum wordt verlaagd.

Coalitiepartij SPD wil dat er snel maatregelen genomen worden, maar Merz (CDU) heeft nog geen concrete plannen gepresenteerd. Eerder dit jaar was er een tijdelijke accijnsverlaging in Duitsland om de druk voor automobilisten iets te verlichten.

ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De Rotterdamse korpschef Tolga Köklü heeft in een boodschap op social media zijn medeleven betuigd aan de nabestaanden van de 51-jarige Alfredo Goeloe. De man kwam zondagavond op de Vaarnerkamp in Rotterdam-Zuid om het leven bij een aanhouding door agenten.

De politiechef sprak ook zijn steun uit aan de politiecollega's die betrokken waren. "Ook op hen heeft deze gebeurtenis veel impact."

"Ik kan voorlopig niet inhoudelijk reageren op de gebeurtenissen rond de dood van het slachtoffer. We krijgen veel vragen, maar het onderzoek ligt bij de Rijksrecherche", aldus Köklü. "Ik begrijp dat dat niet makkelijk is en dat dit veel emoties en verontwaardiging oproept. Maar ik wil iedereen oproepen de rust te bewaren en de uitkomsten van het onderzoek af te wachten."

Een dochter van Goeloe gaat aangifte doen tegen de agenten die betrokken waren bij zijn arrestatie. Zij wil dat de agenten vervolgd worden, aldus haar advocaat Gerald Roethof.

At least 14 people are reported to have been killed in bear attacks across Russia since the start of the year, according to a tally by The Moscow Times.

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Keith Townsend says he hopes death of Ronald Paquin in prison helps victims and families to ‘keep pressing forward’

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse by a defrocked Boston Catholic priest who was portrayed admitting to molesting minors in the Oscar-winning Hollywood film Spotlight says he hopes the clergyman’s recent death in prison helps victims of his crimes and their families “keep pressing forward every single day”.

“We live with a big burden in our hearts and on our backs,” Keith Townsend said on Wednesday while reflecting on the criminal charges which he successfully pursued against Ronald Paquin, who was imprisoned in 2019 and died in custody at age 83 on 11 September. “And my hope is that people can find closure and move on.”

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My coccyx still hurts from an extreme cycling challenge almost two decades ago. Is there anything it’s good for?

‘Welcome to middle age.” This is what my GP said to me 10 years ago when I asked her why I needed this pill or that. Being then just shy of 50, that hit home. Now being just shy of 60, I mutter those words to myself at least once a day. There’s a long list of aches, pains and assorted maladies about which to mutter. High up on that list are my shoulders. Bloody agony, both of them. Picking something off a high shelf or fishing for something on the back seat of the car have had to become planned events to be undertaken only if absolutely necessary.

I interviewed Prof Alice Roberts this week. A writer, broadcaster, academic, anatomist, archaeologist and sometime medical doctor, she knows her bones, and no mistake. I noted with interest that her PhD thesis was titled “Rotator cuff disease in humans and apes: a palaeopathological and evolutionary perspective on shoulder pathology”. I’ve rarely felt so connected with my ancestors, so human, and indeed so ape-like. In an instant my shoulder pain became easier to bear, as I felt at one with a caveman wincing as he reached up to apply the finishing touches to some wall art.

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A shrewd performance by Simon Abkarian leads this blockbuster account of the wartime leader’s career as he ascends to political dominance

The massive and commercially triumphant two-part movie about General Charles de Gaulle comes to end with this second half, which does not, as I half expected it might, go into the complex area of De Gaulle’s postwar career and the issue of French Algeria. Maybe another movie, a part three, can cover this. Liberté takes us from De Gaulle’s growing international celebrity, or indeed notoriety, as the exiled keeper of the Free French flame, the king over the water, in which role his authority is still, however, contested and undermined. It includes the triumph of the D-Day landings and the liberation of France, in the course of which De Gaulle (Simon Abkarian) brings off the miracle of persuading the Americans, in the form of President Roosevelt (Campbell Scott), to back him when they had originally intended to treat postwar France as hardly more than a glorified US dependency, like postwar Japan.

De Gaulle’s stormy bromance with Winston Churchill (who is wonderfully played by Simon Russell Beale), continues from the first half, and the film genuinely has something new to say about Churchill’s Francophilia. It shows us De Gaulle’s foxy cunning, appearing to accept joint status in the provisional French government with General Henri Giraud (Thierry Lhermitte), his rival in the Allied leaders’ affections – and then deftly ousting him. But as in Résistance, the first part, it is in the African theatre of conflict that a new French hero arises; that is General Leclerc (Niels Schneider) whose maverick daring and improvisational brilliance is inspired by De Gaulle. Montgomery, incidentally, is shrewdly played by Pip Torrens, and I was wondering until the last moment if there would be a gamey cameo for Rommel, perhaps played by Lars Eidinger. But no. Germans are apparently not allowed in this mythic retelling.

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The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries

You can impress a certain kind of person at a party by reciting the fact that there are more yoga instructors in the US than there are coalminers. In fact, the disparity is greater than this catchy phrasing suggests: there are actually more yoga instructors in the US than there are people employed in the entirely of the coalmining industry, miners and otherwise. It’s not even especially close: about 38,000 people in the US work in coal, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared to about 100,000 yoga instructors who are registered with the Yoga Alliance, an industry group.

If you looked only at the numbers, you might think a politician would be incentivized to talk about the interests of the yoga industry, about the dignity that yoga jobs give to American families, or about the need to foster growth in the yoga industry, more than they talk about these things for coal; after all, yoga, not coal, is putting food on the table in more American households. But no politician would ever talk about the interests of yoga teachers, or wax poetic about their role in the American dream, the way they do with coal miners; if they did, they’d be laughed out of the room. And we all know why: yoga is thought of as decadent, cosmopolitan and feminine, while coal mining is imagined as hardscrabble, honorable and masculine.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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In de korte documentaire ‘Een flat met theater’ stelt een inwoner zijn oude flatgenoten voor als vogels. Maar vliegen lukt eigenlijk niet meer. Terugblikken wel. En die mevrouw van drie hoog, met die blauwe deur? Die heeft gewoon gelijk.