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Tabaksgigant Philip Morris hielp burgers AI-teksten te maken voor de consultatie rond strengere EU-regelgeving. Longartsen dienden een klacht in bij de Reclame Code Commissie. De fabrikant: „Wij moeten klagers bedanken voor de aandacht voor burgerparticipatie.”

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Nederland kijkt welwillend naar de gezamenlijke militaire oefeningen die Frankrijk wil organiseren met de bondgenoten van Oekraïne. Het ministerie van Defensie heeft "een positieve grondhouding", laat het weten.

De leiders van de zogeheten coalitie van bereidwillige landen komen maandag weer bijeen en dan willen ze ook oefeningen plannen, zei de Franse president Emmanuel Macron op de NAVO-top in Ankara. Hoe die oefeningen eruit moeten zien, liet hij in het midden.

Ook Defensie kan nog niet ingaan op "de concrete invulling van deze oefeningen, bijvoorbeeld welke eenheden gaan deelnemen". Maar de positieve grondhouding die Nederland heeft jegens de coalitie, waarvan het van meet af aan deel uitmaakt, geldt ook hier.

Bestand ver weg

De coalitie van enkele tientallen voornamelijk Europese landen wil Oekraïne blijven beschermen tegen Rusland als het ooit tot een bestand komt. Maar dat lijkt nog ver weg, benadrukt het ministerie. "Veel hangt af van of Rusland bereid is tot serieuze onderhandelingen. Helaas zien we weinig bereidheid van het Poetin-regime. Maar als het moment daar is, willen wij klaarstaan."

Frankrijk voert het verbond van landen samen met het Verenigd Koninkrijk aan. Het herbergt ook het hoofdkwartier van de coalitie.

Premier Rob Jetten gaat maandag ook naar de bijeenkomst in Parijs.

Even Bashkortostan, Russia's leading producer of diesel and gasoline, is feeling the impact of this summer's fuel crisis.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented engraved revolvers – with bullets – to his guests in Ankara, causing security concerns

What does a world leader do with a gun and six bullets? That was the conundrum Nato leaders faced after the Turkish president offered them each a revolver after the Ankara summit.

Keir Starmer was the first to mention the highly unusual gift presented by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to his guests. On the flight back from Ankara, where Nato leaders had gathered for two days, the British prime minister said he and others had received a revolver engraved with their names.

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Microsoft's apparent ambition to make Outlook the worst email client for Mac shows no sign of fading after a recent update broke font selection in emails. The problem occurs when composing an email. Outlook uses the default font as the user types, but will ignore any request to select something different. Several threads have appeared on Microsoft's forums about the issue, and a moderator confirmed that something was amiss in a post on July 8. One workaround is to roll back to an earlier version of Outlook and turn off updating. Another is to copy and paste text from elsewhere. Alternatively, users can wait for a fix to arrive. An affected Register reader told us: "Not being able to share terminal output and snippets of code in a monospaced font is quite the limitation. The workaround, sad that it is, is to compose messages in Word and then paste them into Outlook." Savvy users have looked into the issue and noted that the problem appears to lie with the HTML behind the scenes and quotes being inserted where they shouldn't. The Register asked Microsoft to comment, and will update this piece should an explanation be forthcoming. In the meantime, there are reports in the forums that the issue is not present in the beta and preview versions of Outlook, suggesting a fix may be on the way. Our reader noted that the bug wasn't the end of the world (unlike, say, something that removed the original email text from replies), but the fact that it made it into production highlighted a greater malaise at Microsoft. "It's a fairly fundamental problem that should never have made it past the unit tests, let alone into the wild and for it to take four weeks with still no fix is astonishing." ®

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