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NANTERRE (ANP) - De Franse zanger Patrick Bruel wordt aangeklaagd voor verkrachting, poging tot verkrachting, aanranding en seksuele intimidatie. Dat meldt de rechter in Nanterre.
De 67-jarige zanger werd maandag opgepakt en in voorarrest geplaatst in afwachting van de resultaten van het onderzoek naar hem. Dat richt zich onder meer op seksueel geweld jegens dertien mogelijke slachtoffers. Het zou gaan om feiten begaan in de periode 2010 tot 2019 in Frankrijk, Zwitserland en België.
De zanger heeft altijd gezegd onschuldig te zijn. Maandag lieten zijn advocaten weten waar mogelijk te zullen meewerken aan het onderzoek.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Een Europees importverbod van producten uit illegale Israëlische nederzettingen lijkt dichterbij te komen. Minister Tom Berendsen (Buitenlandse Zaken, CDA) zei woensdagavond in de Tweede Kamer dat hierover "achter de schermen" wordt gesproken en dat er "positieve signalen" zijn.
Zo'n importverbod zou dan via het handelsbeleid moeten worden geregeld, aldus de bewindsman op vragen van Kati Piri (PRO). Dan is geen unanimiteit nodig zoals bij sancties, maar een gekwalificeerde meerderheid van lidstaten. "Wij zijn volop in gesprek met allerlei lidstaten", zei Berendsen. "Maar we zijn er nog niet."
Nederland werkt ook aan een nationaal verbod op de invoer van producten uit de illegale nederzettingen. De ministerraad is daar onlangs mee akkoord gegaan en heeft het voorstel naar de Raad van State gestuurd voor advies. De handhaafbaarheid is wel een zorg. Het zou veel effectiever zijn om het Europees te regelen.
De EU-ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken spreken elkaar volgende week. Dan zal nog geen meerderheid zijn gevonden voor een importverbod.
I love Star Trek so much. I’ve watched most Trek series multiple times over the decades, and was shocked when, on my most recent watch of The Next Generation, I noticed something: High definition upscaling makes the show look way worse. Old-school 4:3 CRT television screens with their low resolution hid a lot of stuff, like tape on the Enterprise set doors that hid whatever names were stenciled on them for prior episodes, which are glaringly present on modern editions of the show. I’ve always been on the lookout for a way to capture the classic Trek feeling, and one … ahem … enterprising developer has done just that. Anthony Caccese, a principal product lead for enterprise platforms at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by day and a Raspberry Pi tinkerer by night, recently published an open-source project called 240-MP on GitHub. It’s a simple concept: Text-based menus that look like an old-school VCR interface, but with modern functionality and, most importantly, the ability to play local media files and Plex libraries on an old-school CRT TV. 240-MP runs on a Raspberry Pi, is based on the command-line media player MPV, and can play local files (either on the Pi itself, a USB drive, an external hard disk, or even a network share) or media from a Plex server, as Caccese built modules for both local and Plex-based playback. If you don’t happen to have an old CRT TV or monitor lying around, or the necessary Pi-compatible composite cable to connect your SBC to said TV, 240-MP will also work with a modern screen and an HDMI connection, too. One note on the composite vs. HDMI option, as noted in the setup instructions: You will need to update the config.txt file to support one or the other, so have your output chosen ahead of time. Once the system is installed, you can navigate around 240-MP with either a remote control or a keyboard, where you’ll see text menus for navigating around to different folders, choosing episodes or playlists, switching audio and subtitle tracks, looping playback, and the like. It might look like an old-school VCR interface, but with a lot more capabilities. Caccese has only tested 240-MP on a Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 3B, noting that he’s not sure it’ll work on other devices and has no plans to test other hardware, either. What will be coming in the future, Caccese said in an accompanying YouTube video, is modules to support other media playback software, like Jellyfin (a popular Plex alternative in light of that massive price hike), and RetroArch, a frontend for emulators designed to play old-school video games. “Please feel free to fork this repo, update any aspects and tailor things to your own use case; that's why the source is fully open and available,” Caccese noted on GitHub. Now if I could only find a working CRT TV to pair with my old Raspberry Pi, I could go on a hardcore 90s nostalgia trip and feel just like I did watching VHS tapes of Star Trek episodes I recorded from the TV when I was a kid. After all, streaming high-def remasters just isn’t the same. ®
Cooper Lutkenhaus, 17, wins 800m by 0.01sec
Gout Gout sixth; Tebogo says: ‘He has a long way to go’
There are few venues more deeply embedded into track and field’s soul than the Bislett Stadion. An extraordinary 70 world records have been set here. Plenty of reputations have been made. Plenty more left frayed, too.
And so it proved again as the brilliant 17-year-old American Cooper Lutkenhaus added to his staggering résumé by taking down the Olympic 800m champion, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, with a race for the ages. But another, the Australian star Gout Gout, learned what it was like in the big leagues.
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The Asahi Linux team is warning Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple's changes to the boot picker and Startup Disk app make Asahi partitions invisible, preventing Linux from booting. The Register reports: The team added: "If you insist on trying out macOS 27 as soon as possible, please ensure you install a secondary copy of macOS 26 first, or install macOS 27 itself on a secondary volume." They've also updated the installer to prevent installs from running on macOS 27 for now. For anyone who ignored all of the above, "we will not support users who have installed the macOS 27 beta without ensuring at least one stable version of macOS is installed."
Considering macOS 27 is in beta, the issue may be accidental rather than an attempt by Apple to block Linux on its hardware. The Asahi team said it has filed bug report. The good news for anyone who pulled the trigger on installing the macOS 27 beta is that although the partition might not be visible, it hasn't gone anywhere. The Asahi team wrote: "If you have already upgraded to the beta and noticed that your Asahi partition has disappeared, do not stress. Your Asahi partition is still there, and you have not lost any data."
Considering macOS 27 is in beta, the issue may be accidental rather than an attempt by Apple to block Linux on its hardware. The Asahi team said it has filed bug report. The good news for anyone who pulled the trigger on installing the macOS 27 beta is that although the partition might not be visible, it hasn't gone anywhere. The Asahi team wrote: "If you have already upgraded to the beta and noticed that your Asahi partition has disappeared, do not stress. Your Asahi partition is still there, and you have not lost any data."
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