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De olieprijzen weerspiegelen nog niet de ernst van de ongekende aanvoercrisis die is veroorzaakt door de oorlog in Iran. Maar dat zal binnenkort veranderen, waarschuwt topman Fatih Birol van het Internationaal Energieagentschap (IEA) maandag.
Ongeveer 13 miljoen vaten olie per dag aan aanbod is volgens hem stilgevallen door het conflict in het Midden-Oosten en de vrijwel gesloten Straat van Hormuz. Ook zijn meer dan tachtig energiefaciliteiten beschadigd tijdens de gevechten. Het herstel van de fabrieken, exportterminals en raffinaderijen kan wel twee jaar duren, aldus de IEA-topman.
Door de verstoringen zijn de brandstofprijzen hard gestegen. Vorige maand maakte het IEA bekend dat zijn 32 leden samen ruim 400 miljoen vaten olie vrijgeven uit de noodvoorraden. Dat is de grootste vrijgave uit de geschiedenis van de in Parijs gevestigde organisatie. Birol zei maandag dat hij hoopt dat een nieuwe vrijgave van olievoorraden niet nodig zal zijn.
Tesla kreeg vrijdag toestemming om zijn rijhulpsysteem in Nederland te lanceren, als eerste land in Europa. Dat FSD-systeem laat Tesla’s onder toezicht van de bestuurder vrijwel zelfstandig rijden. Het werkt niet perfect en is duur.
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Orbán is out in Hungary and talks have failed to end the war in Iran – ill-fated roadtrip has been setback for Maga aims
Shortly before JD Vance’s ill-fated week crisscrossing the world, Donald Trump asked him during a private Easter brunch about how the Iran negotiations were shaping up. “If it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” Trump said to laughs in the room. “If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.”
The joke at Vance’s expense contained an unfortunate nugget of truth: this is not an administration that rewards failure.
Continue reading...The finding that these murders could have been prevented is devastating for all those involved
The fatal stabbings that turned a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside, into a nightmare on 29 July 2024 would never have happened if public bodies had done their jobs properly. Sir Adrian Fulford’s conclusion, at the end of phase one of the inquiry into the murders, was blunt. The deaths of Bebe King, six, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and injuries to 10 other people, were the result of grave failures by police and council officers, health professionals and the anti‑terrorism Prevent programme. The multi-agency systems that are meant to link them together turned out to have deadly flaws.
Sir Adrian prefaced his findings by stating that the responsibility of the perpetrator, Axel Rudakubana, is “absolute”. He also attached significant blame to Rudakubana’s parents, who knew about the 17-year-old’s stockpile of weapons. They ought to have alerted police, above all in the week leading up to the attack, when his father managed to prevent him from taking a taxi to his former school to carry out a violent attack.
Continue reading...Dozens of feral pachyderms linked to drug kingpin to be killed because of threat to native species and villagers
Colombian officials have authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos descended from animals brought to the country in the 1980s by Pablo Escobar, after the feral beasts displaced native species and threatened local villagers.
The environment minister, Irene Vélez, said the decision was reached because other methods to control their population had been expensive and unsuccessful, including neutering some of the animals or moving them to zoos. Vélez said that up to 80 hippos would be affected by the measure. She did not say when the hunting would begin.
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