NICOSIA (ANP) - Eurocommissaris Magnus Brunner (Migratie) verwerpt de kritiek van ngo's op het EU-migratiepact dat vrijdag van kracht is geworden. Die ngo's zeggen onder meer dat met het pact een einde komt aan de menselijkheid in Europa en dat fundamentele rechten met de nieuwe, strenge asielregels worden ingeperkt. Het is "juist het tegenovergestelde", zei Brunner vrijdag bij aankomst in Nicosia.

"Voor het eerst kunnen we daadwerkelijk levens redden, omdat we mensen ervan weerhouden om aan de gevaarlijke, vaak fatale reis over de Middellandse Zee en de Atlantische Oceaan te beginnen", zei Brunner.

Daarnaast zijn er volgens hem veel "rode lijnen" opgenomen in het pact. "Natuurlijk moeten de mensenrechten worden gerespecteerd, natuurlijk moet het internationaal recht worden gerespecteerd." Hij voegde daaraan toe dat de Europese Commissie hierover "intensieve gesprekken" voert met internationale organisaties zoals de VN-vluchtelingenorganisatie UNHCR en de Internationale Organisatie voor Migratie (IOM).

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op het Damrak zette vrijdag de recordopmars voort. Beleggers trokken zich op aan de stevige koerswinsten op Wall Street, nadat de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump de geplande aanvallen op Iran had afgeblazen en zinspeelde op een vredesakkoord. Volgens Trump zou dat akkoord dit weekend al getekend kunnen worden. Daarnaast kijken beleggers uit naar de beursgang van Elon Musks ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX later op de dag in New York. Die beursgang wordt de grootste ooit.

De Amsterdamse hoofdindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,5 procent hoger op 1067,87 punten. De AEX steeg donderdag al 1,1 procent tot een nieuw slotrecord van 1063,09 punten. De MidKap klom vrijdag 1,4 procent tot 1092,12 punten. De beurzen in Frankfurt, Londen en Parijs stegen tot 1,4 procent.

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Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces

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An AI model trained on data collected from users of Pokémon Go will potentially help military drones find their location in war zones.

Pokémon Go, a 2016 augmented reality mobile game, allowed players to find and catch Pokémon in the real world using the cameras on their mobile phones, and exploded in popularity. In 2018, the company reported having more than 800m downloads worldwide.

This Polish drama is beautifully shot, darkly funny and full of social commentary about the difficulty of being a gay father in Poland. Even the toddler seems like an accomplished actor

Filip Raczyński (Ignacy Liss) is really enjoying his late 20s. We meet him on a modelling assignment, this vocation having been handed to him by his sparkling eyes and soft jawline, good looks he accentuates with a biker jacket and bleached hair. He has vodka and Diet Coke for breakfast and a bump of powder in an Uber on the way to his next job. At night we follow him through the backrooms of a club, until he finds one where the naked men are almost as beautiful as he is. He loses himself in them and worries about nothing.

It’s less fun to be in Filip’s immediate social orbit. His agent’s nervy assistant, Olek (Kamil Studnicki), has to cover for Filip’s perpetual lateness and, on the night after the club odyssey, is obliged to look after his badly behaved dog, because Filip has only just rescued it from a drug dealer who resorted to dognapping to force him to pay moneys owed. Filip’s decision to bring four of the guys from the club home with him, meanwhile, goes down poorly with his sister Anka (Sylwia Boroń), the single mum of a one-year-old girl, Tosia. Filip is crashing at their flat, and he’s not keeping to his promise to help with the bins and laundry.

Trump says hundreds of tankers have escaped Iran’s blockade. Data suggests shipments are increasing but many questions remain

Donald Trump has claimed that the US has been conducting a “secret mission” in the strait of Hormuz to help Gulf petrostates bypass Iran’s chokehold on oil flows – which has roiled global energy markets for months.

In televised comments from the Oval Office on Wednesday, the president claimed Iran was unaware that dozens of tankers had been escorted out of the blockaded channel at night with their transmitters off.

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The world No 1’s setback in Oslo and reduced participation coincides with the emergence of a new star

Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, had his worst tournament result since 2015 last week when the 35-year-old ended up fourth of six in the $178,000 Norway Chess event at Oslo, losing four games out of 10.

There were reasons for his disappointing showing. Previous editions of the event were in distant Stavanger, far from the hometown pressures of Oslo, while Carlsen is the father of a baby son, and he arrived at several games seemingly unprepared.

Eight years on from being sacked by Spain on the eve of the World Cup, Julen Lopetegui will get his chance on the big stage as head coach of Qatar

When the Qatari national team’s flight from Dublin touched down in Los Angeles at 2.12pm on 30 May there was applause on board the Boeing 777‑300ER. For the 26 players arriving in America, this represents the first time they have qualified for a World Cup. For the coach who has led them there it is the third, but this time is different; this time he will get a game.

“Football didn’t owe me anything,” says Julen Lopetegui in the dining room at the team hotel in Montecito, Santa Barbara, yet maybe he owed himself a moment like this. And, he says, if there were many reasons to answer the call from Doha 12 months ago, the simplest stood out most of all: this is the World Cup.