• Portuguese will replace Massimiliano Allegri at San Siro

• United will not need to pay full £16.7m compensation

Ruben Amorim is poised to return to management after agreeing to become Milan’s head coach. The move will make Manchester United a significant saving on his compensation package, the club having dismissed him in January.

Amorim will replace Massimiliano Allegri at Milan after accepting a two-year contract, with the option of a third, and will be tasked with turning things around after the club finished fifth in Serie A.

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Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuc convicted at Old Bailey over attacks on property and car connected to PM

Two men have been found guilty of conspiring to carry out arson attacks on property and a car connected to Keir Starmer.

Ukrainian Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Romanian Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, were found guilty at the Old Bailey. Another Ukrainian man, Petro Pochynok, 35, was cleared of the same charge.

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BEIROET (ANP/RTR) - Een functionaris van Hezbollah heeft gezegd dat de groepering geen operaties heeft uitgevoerd sinds de aankondiging van het akkoord tussen Iran en de Verenigde Staten. De bron, die anoniem wenst te blijven, zegt ook dat het standpunt over de wapenstilstand afhankelijk is van de naleving door Israël.

De deal, die vrijdag wordt ondertekend, moet de eerste worden in een reeks van twee. Ze moeten een einde maken aan de oorlog die de Verenigde Staten en Israël eind februari ontketenden met luchtaanvallen op Iran. Dat is inclusief het conflict tussen Hezbollah en Israël, die beide geen partij zijn in de onderhandelingen.

Volgens de functionaris wijst Hezbollah de Israëlische "bewegingsvrijheid" in Libanon af. Ook zei hij dat Iran de ondertekening van het akkoord heeft uitgesteld om toezicht te houden op de naleving van het staakt-het-vuren in Libanon door Israël. De Libanese groepering heeft nog niet formeel gereageerd.

LUXEMBURG (ANP) - De EU-ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken hebben maandag nieuwe sancties aangenomen tegen 34 Russische mensen en 47 organisaties en/of bedrijven. Onder hen bevinden zich vijftien mensen en een bedrijf die een rol hebben gespeeld bij de vervolging, vergiftiging en dood van de Russische oppositieleider Aleksej Navalny.

Het zijn onder meer Russische rechters en aanklagers, medewerkers van de staatsveiligheidsdienst FSB en medisch personeel. Een bedrijf dat aan de EU-sanctielijst is toegevoegd, heeft samengewerkt met Moskou om een gezichtsherkenningssysteem te ontwikkelen. Dat systeem was bedoeld om onafhankelijke journalisten, oppositieactivisten en deelnemers aan vreedzame protesten voor Navalny en tegen de Russische oorlog tegen Oekraïne te volgen en te arresteren.

De andere maatregelen zijn gericht op het verzwakken van de Russische militair-industriële sector en het verlagen van Russische energie-inkomsten door meer schepen van de Russische schaduwvloot op de zwarte lijst te zetten.

Flatpak development has been very quiet for years. Discussions about a next-generation take are happening – and some of the signs are worrying if, like many FOSS folks, you are systemd-intolerant. In the course of researching our article on MX Linux 25.2, we came across an interesting Reddit discussion from last month, which in turn led us to a Flatpak development blog post from late last year. It looks like a team is collecting ideas for what is currently called "Flatpak-NG" – as in next generation. If this solidifies into code, this may form the basis of Flatpak version 2. The blog post isn't very informative, but the Reddit thread links to the video of a presentation from last month's Linux App Summit in Berlin, which spells things out more clearly. The Flatpak-NG idea involves handing off a lot of the isolation in Flatpak from the current bubblewrap layer to an as-yet-unwritten systemd component that the developers are currently calling systemd-appd. This would considerably simplify Flatpak, and enable it to do more isolation, including virtualizing the network stack – but at the price of making Flatpak 2 depend on systemd. A developer who was at the talk, Jorge Castro, later explained and confirmed this in a Fediverse thread. The teams behind other init systems could, of course, write their own replacement for the notional systemd-appd, but that would be a substantial amount of work. The tool that provides the new init-switching functionality in MX Linux 25.1 and 25.2, init-diversity, currently supports six other init systems besides systemd, and we've seen little sign of them cooperating to create an alternative to systemd that provides even a subset of its wider functionality. Flatpak is widely used and supported. Not all distros include it by default, but it's the only widely adopted alternative to Canonical's Snap packaging system. Snap is more versatile: it works fine with shell programs, and even the kernel can be packaged as a Snap, which is how Ubuntu Core handles it. Snap's implementation is much simpler and cleaner than Flatpak's, as is the distribution model – which, as we've reported before, is entirely open source. The only proprietary part is Canonical's Snap Store website. The trouble is, the louder advocates in the peanut gallery rarely even think about things like implementation details; they just get upset about more visible things that are easier to understand – such as who owns a website. There are other alternatives out there, such as AppImage, 0install, AppDir, and GNUstep's implementation of NeXT and Apple's .app format. We have compared these in detail before. Only two really have wide adoption, though. There's Snap, which Canonical claims has more users simply because Ubuntu has more users than all the other desktop distros put together, and there's Flatpak, which is used by every other distro with any kind of cross-distro package support. The snag is, if Flatpak 2 does arrive in a year or two, and requires systemd, then that could spell the end of Flatpak support on many systemd-free distros. That includes MX Linux, Alpine Linux, Devuan, Slackware, and many other smaller projects. For many of these, Flatpak is a lifeline: the only way to access much of the wider Linux app market. It's not so much that the Flatpak-NG team is the "A-Team," but the only team. In the original A-Team, Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith was wont to say "I love it when a plan comes together." We suspect a lot of people will not love it if this plan comes together. ®

De straattaferelen van de Amerikaanse fotograaf Helen Levitt (1913-2009) werden altijd als poëtisch getypeerd. De laatste jaren wordt juist benadrukt dat de foto’s politiek zijn. Dat leidt tot de vraag: als poëtisch werk politiek wordt, wordt het er dan beter of slechter op?