In een poging de militaire regering in Mali ten val te brengen, hebben separatistische Toearegstrijders de handen ineengeslagen met aan Al-Qaida gelieerde jihadisten. ,,Soms heb je het te doen met de gek of duivel in je familie”, zegt hun woordvoerder.

LONDEN (ANP/RTR) - De Britse premier Keir Starmer heeft zijn kabinet laten weten dat hij niet opstapt. "De Labourpartij heeft een procedure om een partijleider aan te vechten en die is niet in gang gezet", staat in een verklaring van zijn kantoor.

Starmer vergaderde dinsdagochtend met ministers die volgens Britse media niet met hem verder willen. The Telegraph schreef dat naar verwachting zes kabinetsleden aandringen op zijn vertrek. Het gaat volgens bronnen onder meer om de ministers van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Volksgezondheid en Defensie.

Onder de afvallige ministers bestaat volgens de krant nog wel onenigheid over hoe zijn vertrek eruit zou moeten zien. Defensieminister John Healey zou een snelle partijverkiezing willen om een vervanger te kiezen, maar er is ook steun voor een langer proces. Dan heeft de populaire burgemeester van Greater Manchester Andy Burnham nog mogelijkheden om mee te doen. Die zit nu niet in het parlement en kan Starmer daarom niet uitdagen.

A month after Chevin Fleet Solutions declared its FleetWave outage contained and systems restored, the company has now admitted that attackers accessed customer databases and potentially acquired operational and personal data. Chevin confirmed the breach in an email to customers, seen by The Register, marking the first time it has acknowledged that data was accessed during the April incident that knocked parts of web-based software offline across the UK and US. At the time, Chevin said it had pulled parts of its Azure-hosted FleetWave tool offline while outside cybersecurity specialists investigated. Status pages showed a "major outage" across the UK and US, but beyond that, customers got little detail on what had happened or whether any data had been caught up in it. Now it turns out that at least some customer databases were indeed affected by the breach. According to the email, Chevin’s forensic investigation determined that an "unauthorized third-party accessed and potentially acquired certain data" from customer databases backed up on April 3, 2026. The exposed information varies depending on how customers configured FleetWave, but includes operational fleet management data alongside personal information such as names, contact details, and payroll numbers. It’s unclear how many individuals and organizations have been affected. The Register’s asked for comment and a spokesperson told us: "Chevin recently experienced a cybersecurity incident affecting certain systems. We immediately took steps to contain the incident, engaged with law enforcement and external cybersecurity experts, and have since restored impacted services. "Following consultation with external cybersecurity forensic experts, we are confident our systems have been secured. Our customers are our top priority, and we are working directly with those impacted." The company insists that the stolen information does not generally include any of the higher-risk categories under GDPR, such as financial information, payment card details, passport data, or special category data. Chevin also claims in its email to customers that it has taken steps to stop the information from being "published, sold, or misused," and says ongoing dark web monitoring has not identified evidence of the data circulating online. One Chevin customer told The Register their organization was unlikely to have been the intended ransomware target due to its size, suggesting the breach may have been aimed elsewhere. The customer also questioned why Chevin appeared confident enough to restore systems and close out forensic work before later returning with confirmation that data had in fact been accessed. The customer said the mention of payroll numbers came as a surprise because their company does not use FleetWave for payroll data, raising questions about how tailored the notification really was. Chevin is now offering affected customers a one-time download of their SQL database and a spreadsheet summarizing potentially exposed records through a secure portal. In the email, signed by CEO Gary Thompson, Chevin says it is "confident that the incident has been contained" and FleetWave systems are now "safe and secure for customers." ®

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Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS

• What is PCOS, what are the symptoms and treatment, and why is it being renamed PMOS?
• ‘I still want to scream’: the loneliness and confusion of living with PMOS

After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – a condition that affects one in eight women – has been renamed.

The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).

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James Chilimigras, 18, graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans’ law school

A Mississippi teenager recently became one of the youngest people ever to graduate from law school after gaining admission in 2023 at age 15.

James “Jimmy” Chilimigras, 18, graduated on Sunday with highest honors from Loyola University New Orleans’ law school, a little more than three years after he earned national news headlines with an entrance exam score that was the highest in a region encompassing his home state, Alabama to the east, and Louisiana to the west.

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Polycystic ovary syndrome is being relabelled polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome to correct the misconception that it is solely a gynaecological disease that creates ovarian cysts. Here’s what you need to know about the condition

• ‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women
• ‘I still want to scream’: the loneliness and confusion of living with PMOS

With polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) now being rebadged as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), we take a look at the condition and explore why experts have decided it is time for a new name.

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Rising cost of living such as high gas prices also a concern in election that will have record number of voters

Voters in the Bahamas head to the polls on Tuesday in a hotly contested general election featuring high-profile candidates such as the former basketball champion Rick Fox.

Voters in the Caribbean archipelago are divided over concerns about immigration, especially from neighbouring Haiti, and the rising cost of living, with significant spikes in gas prices caused by war in the Middle East.

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Cockrow Bridge in Surrey will open in the coming weeks to provide wildlife, including lizards and insects, with the ability to move between fragmented habitats

When James Herd moved near to Wisley Common 17 years ago, the heathland nature reserve was teeming with wildlife. “I’d take the dog around the common in spring and summer, and every few hundred metres I’d hear the rustle of a lizard in the undergrowth – and I’d see adders,” he says.

But over the past decade, the Surrey Wildlife Trust’s director of reserves management, who oversees the internationally important habitat, has seen that wildlife become depleted.

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