DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het is nog te vroeg om een volledig beeld te geven over mogelijke Nederlandse slachtoffers en vermisten bij de overstromingen in Nepal. Volgens het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken is er enkel gebeld door mensen die hun naasten in Nepal niet meteen konden bereiken. In sommige gevallen is dat contact inmiddels weer hersteld.
Eerder meldde het toerismebureau van de Nepalese overheid dat onder de vermisten ten minste één Nederlander was. Maar de reisorganisatie waarmee deze persoon op reis zou zijn, sprak dat tegen. De organisatie had aan het bureau doorgegeven dat een Britse toerist vermist was, niet een Nederlandse.
De Nepalese politie zegt dat er zeker 95 doden zijn gevallen. Er worden nog veel mensen vermist, onder wie meer dan driehonderd buitenlanders. Van velen is de nationaliteit niet bekend. Ook in buurland China zijn vermoedelijk veel slachtoffers gevallen. Het is nog niet duidelijk hoeveel.
Lethal temperatures and wildfires have exposed a widening gulf between voters demanding action and politicians unwilling to confront the long-term choices global heating requires
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The climate crisis means “we’re going to have to change everything – the way we live, the way we produce, the way we trade,” France’s veteran radical-left firebrand, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, told the summer congress of his France Insoumise party last weekend.
The term “climate change”, said Mélenchon – the most likely rival to Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential run-off, according to one poll this week – may sound “almost reassuring”, but its actual impact will feel like “landing on another planet whenever we leave home”.
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A flight attendant in France has succeeded in having her breast cancer recognised as an occupational disease, a first for the country’s aviation industry, her lawyer and a trade union said.
The ruling, which recognised that Sophie Lainault, a former flight attendant for Air France, had frequently worked at night and been exposed to passive smoking, could pave the way for similar claims, the lawyer and the CFDT union said.
Continue reading...Sentiment in hospitality and brewing sectors more positive since business rates action, trade bodies’ survey finds
Pubs, bars and hotels have reported a “Burnham bounce” in optimism as a result of the prime minister’s overtures to the sector, polling suggests, but they warn that the goodwill could evaporate without further tax relief.
Andy Burnham has positioned himself as a staunch ally of the UK’s hospitality industry both before and since his arrival at No 10, last month announcing a discount on business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues.
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Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
A lone walker walking along the River Torrens under the Morphett Street Bridge. Adelaide, South Australia
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
The Adelaide city skyline reflected in the River Torrens.
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Microsoft is giving customers who are still clinging to its doomed legacy Whiteboard technology a lifeline, and has pushed the deletion date to October 16, 2026. The migration tooling for "legacy enterprise whiteboards" will be retired on September 25, 2026, and the standalone Microsoft Whiteboard app will be deprecated on November 30, 2026. To be clear, Microsoft Whiteboard as a concept is not going away - this is more about migration for Azure-based files. The original dates were August 22 for the migration tooling, September 5 for the permanent deletion, and September 14 for the app deprecation. Therefore, customers have been granted a little more time to make the transition to OneDrive-backed whiteboards. Microsoft did not respond to a query about why it had moved the milestones. The lateness of the announcement suggests it either ran into technical problems or that enough customers were still on the legacy platform that Redmond uttered the computing equivalent of FINE! Have another month! New whiteboard files for commercial customers have been in OneDrive rather than Azure since 2022. However, legacy whiteboards could still be stored in Azure and, if not migrated to OneDrive, will be deleted on October 16. Migration happens automatically when a whiteboard is opened in Whiteboard on the web, Teams desktop, Teams web, or using the Whiteboard Windows app (through to September 22, 2026). If migration doesn't happen, then users have until October 16 before somebody at Microsoft hits the delete key. However, only owners of Azure Whiteboards can trigger migration. Users on vacation, or who have left the organization, could also present a headache for administrators, who might need to transfer ownership to active users. In Microsoft's original announcement, it promised a set of PowerShell cmdlets to ease the process. The Microsoft Whiteboard app became generally available in 2018. It was a useful collaborative tool for Microsoft 365 subscribers (or could be used standalone with a Microsoft account, although these days organizations are the target). It is very much a relic of a past era at Redmond, when touch-based experiences were all the rage. Today, the company would likely prefer users to bark instructions at an AI assistant. According to Microsoft, "Moving these files to OneDrive improves security, accessibility, revision history, eDiscovery, and access to current and future Whiteboard features." ®
