Een moeder is niet blij met het vriendinnetje van haar dochter (4), dat druk en brutaal is. Ze vraagt zich af wat wijsheid is. Experts geven advies.

Wij mensen zijn betekenisgevende wezens las ik laatst weer eens. En inderdaad, dat zijn we. Maar het is ook makkelijk om die betekenis te loochenen. Diploma’s, contracten, huwelijken, begrafenisrituelen, ze worden hooggehouden, maar ook om allerlei redenen verworpen.

Na een lang traject hebben Oekraïne en Moldavië een nieuwe stap gezet naar het EU-lidmaatschap. Oekraïne heeft zeker nog vier tot vijf jaar nodig om alle formele hordes te nemen, zeggen optimisten in Brussel.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Voters in Switzerland have rejected an unprecedented far-right proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million in a divisive referendum dubbed "the Swiss Brexit." Some 54.79% of voters were against the proposal by the Swiss People's party (SVP) and 45.21% were in favor. Turnout was 58.86%. A different outcome would have obliged the Swiss government to limit the population, currently 9.1 million, to 10 million by 2050, enacting tough restrictions on family reunification, residency permits and asylum if the number had reached 9.5 million before that date.

Under the proposals, if the threshold of 10 million people was exceeded before 2050, the Swiss government would have been obliged to withdraw from the country's free movement agreement with the EU -- ending its access to the bloc's single market. The SVP, which has the most seats in parliament, has for years fueled anti-immigrant sentiment, especially concerning workers from neighboring EU countries. The party had insisted that a so-called "sustainability initiative" was needed to address the increase in population, which it argued was putting pressure on Swiss infrastructure, housing, social programs, natural resources and way of life. "Voters were worried about negative consequences for Switzerland's relationship with the EU and for the labour market," said Urs Bieri, from the polling firm GFS Bern. "People are also worried about things like having enough care and health workers. Also, there's a feeling that in the current international environment it's not sensible for a small country to do this."

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RAMALLAH (ANP/AFP) - De Palestijnse president Mahmoud Abbas heeft per decreet besloten dat begin 2027, na meer dan twee decennia, weer presidentsverkiezingen gehouden moeten worden. Dat schrijft het Palestijnse persbureau Wafa, zonder te benoemen of de hoogbejaarde Abbas zelf ook weer wil meedoen.

De inmiddels 90-jarige Abbas won de laatste Palestijnse presidentsverkiezingen in 2005. Zijn ambtstermijn liep eigenlijk maar vier jaar, maar er kwamen geen nieuwe verkiezingen en Abbas bleef zitten. Dat leidde tot zowel interne als internationale kritiek. Abbas kondigde in 2021 weer verkiezingen aan, maar die zijn vervolgens voor onbepaalde tijd uitgesteld.

Abbas staat als president aan het hoofd van de Palestijnse Autoriteit, een bestuursorgaan voor Palestijnse gebieden. Hij wil volgens Wafa in november van dit jaar al nieuwe verkiezingen voor de Palestijnse Nationale Raad, die vergelijkbaar is met een parlement. Bij de laatste verkiezing in 2006 versloeg Hamas de Fatah-partij van Abbas.

ShinyHunters claims to have breached the Council of Europe and stolen more than 297 GB of data after exploiting a zero-day flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft and abusing that hole to hack more than 100 organizations. According to a post on the extortion crew’s data-leak site, the 429,000 pilfered files contain HR and payroll records, payslips, purchase-order records, CVs, and employees’ salary, banking, tax, and medical records. A Council of Europe spokesperson told The Register that it is “currently investigating the matter and assessing the situation,” but declined to comment further. A spokesperson for the cybercrime group told us that the Council is yet another victim of the Oracle PeopleSoft heist. Oracle has yet to respond to The Register’s inquiries, and it's unclear if the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35273, has been patched. ShinyHunters previously told us that the gang exploited the CVE to compromise more than 100 organizations across 300 vulnerable instances, and that these victims included the University of Nottingham. Last week, the crims listed the UK uni on their leak site, then dumped data belonging to around 454,600 current and former students, including personal and academic records. Meanwhile, a Google threat report published late last week noted malicious activity, “consistent with the exploitation of CVE-2026-35273,” between May 27 and June 9, and said that its incident responders notified more than 100 global orgs “whose IP addresses correlated with potentially vulnerable endpoints." Most of these are US-based organizations, and 68 percent operated within the higher education sector. This latest heist follows another ShinyHunters intrusion targeting data belonging to university and K-12 students, teachers, and staff. In mid-May, ed-tech giant Instructure said it “reached an agreement” - this is corporate-speak for “paid the ransom demand” - with the data theft and extortion crew after ShinyHunters breached its Canvas digital learning platform and accessed data tied to 275 million students, teachers, and staff. In March, ShinyHunters claimed it stole data from K-12 software provider Infinite Campus as part of a broader wave of Salesforce-related intrusions. The ed tech company did not pay up, and the group subsequently published data they claim was stolen from Infinite Campus, including 137,000 individuals’ email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and support tickets. Infinite Campus, in its data breach notification, said that the leaked files largely consisted of “names and contact information for school staff" and that “the majority is directory information commonly found on school websites.” ®

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