Volgens de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump was afgelopen weekend „de laatste goede kans” om Iran aan te vallen en te voorkomen dat het land een kernwapen zou ontwikkelen.
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Het nieuwe kabinet kán alleen maar een fiasco worden. Voor elke deal moet onderhandeld worden, de nieuwe premier is de jongste ooit, en dan óók nog een millennial, schrijft Japke-d. Bouma. Of gebeurt er toch nog een wonder?
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As for Keir Starmer, even when he tries to make a reasonably sound judgment he somehow ends up losing both sides of the argument
Maybe we should have just had done with it back in December. Instead of offering a polite reservation, every western country should have sent a full, state delegation to Norway. Begging, imploring the Nobel Committee to award Donald Trump the peace prize. We could all have chipped in a couple of billion just to make it even more worth winning.
And if that wasn’t enough, we could have twisted the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, to upgrade his “Peaceiest Ever President” award to the “Makes Jesus Look Second Rate” prize. A large solid gold statue of The Donald would have done the trick. There’s more than enough in the Fifa slush funds.
Continue reading...Some who live in region are unsure what to do amid missile strikes, while others are desperate to get home to the UK
After the US-Israel attack on Iran and the disruption to travel, some flights are beginning to restart. Dubai Airports said “limited” flights would resume on Monday evening, three days after they were cancelled.
British people living in the Middle East or travelling through the region told the Guardian about how they were struggling to know what to do in an ever-changing situation. Others spoke about their efforts to return to the UK. Here are some of their experiences:
Continue reading...In a combative press conference, the Pentagon chief dodged questions about the goals of the US military’s Iran operation
Leave it to Pete Hegseth, the ex-Fox News host now leading the Pentagon, to reframe the massive US-Israeli military operation in Iran as an act of resistance against political correctness: the first based regime-change war of the Maga era.
In a combative press conference at the Pentagon on Monday, Hegseth brought his anti-PC ethos to defend exactly what Donald Trump has said he did not want: to embroil the US in a major intervention in the Middle East with no clear timeline for exit.
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Apple today announced the iPhone 17e with support for MagSafe and an upgraded A19 chip. The base model also gets a bump to 256GB of storage at $599, and Apple is equipping the device with its new scratch-resistant Ceramic Shield 2 glass that's supposedly 3x more durable than the 16e. Macworld reports: MagSafe would normally mean significantly faster wireless charging speeds too: the 16e is capped at 7.5W, whereas recent iPhones can wirelessly charge using MagSafe at up to 22W or even 25W. Unfortunately the iPhone 17e has not been given access to the full extent of MagSafe's powers in this regard, and has a limit of 15W. That's the same as MagSafe on the iPhones 12 through 15, and remains an improvement on the 16e, but is still disappointing. [...]
It was also expected that the 17e would get a new processor, as this is a standard upgrade for almost every refresh of almost every Apple product. The iPhone 16e came with an A18 chip; the 17 has an A19, which, according to Apple, "delivers exceptional performance for everything users do." Of course that depends on the user and their needs, and it's important to point out that, just like last year, Apple has chosen to use "binned" units of the chip in order to save money. Binned chips have failed manufacturing tests in some minor way and don't have the full complement of cores. [...]
And although the cameras are still disappointingly few in number -- one on the front and one on the back -- the wording for the portrait mode has been updated from "Portrait mode with Depth Control" (the same as on the iPhone 12) to "Next-generation portraits with Focus and Depth Control" (same as on the iPhone 17). This appears to highlight the fact that you can change the focus point. The 17e is available in white, black, and soft pink starting at $599.
It was also expected that the 17e would get a new processor, as this is a standard upgrade for almost every refresh of almost every Apple product. The iPhone 16e came with an A18 chip; the 17 has an A19, which, according to Apple, "delivers exceptional performance for everything users do." Of course that depends on the user and their needs, and it's important to point out that, just like last year, Apple has chosen to use "binned" units of the chip in order to save money. Binned chips have failed manufacturing tests in some minor way and don't have the full complement of cores. [...]
And although the cameras are still disappointingly few in number -- one on the front and one on the back -- the wording for the portrait mode has been updated from "Portrait mode with Depth Control" (the same as on the iPhone 12) to "Next-generation portraits with Focus and Depth Control" (same as on the iPhone 17). This appears to highlight the fact that you can change the focus point. The 17e is available in white, black, and soft pink starting at $599.
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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Lokale lijsttrekkers zien de kwaliteit van de gemeenteraad achteruitgaan. Dat werd duidelijk tijdens een debat met zes lijsttrekkers in Nieuwspoort, in aanloop naar de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 18 maart. "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys", zei Richard de Mos van Hart voor Den Haag daarover.
Lesley van Hilten van de Almeerse VVD snapt wel dat de kwaliteit van de raad achteruit is gegaan, met "ontzettend veel wisselingen, nieuwe leden, extra taken en complexe dossiers". Zonder behoud van kennis wordt het volgens haar lastig.
De Mos opperde om in de grote steden, van boven de 100.000 inwoners, van raadslid een fulltimebaan te maken. Waarop Jeroen Berends van CDA Doetinchem pleitte om ook naar de kleinere gemeenten te kijken, omdat de problemen daar net zo groot zijn. Sofyan Mbarki van de Amsterdamse PvdA staat niet achter het idee. Het is volgens hem niet de bedoeling dat de lokale politiek de landelijke nadoet.
NCSC urges all to review posture as escalating tensions increase risk of indirect digital spillover
The UK's cybersecurity agency is warning British organizations to brace for potential digital blowback as the Middle East conflict spills further into the online world.…
This is the most 2026 thing I’ve ever heard: Sigmund Freud’s great-granddaughter Bella Freud has a video podcast on YouTube where she interviews people (Cate Blanchette, Lorde, Graydon Carter) while they lie on a psychiatrist’s couch.