D66 heeft vijf zetels in de gemeenteraad en zat de afgelopen zestien jaar onafgebroken in het stadsbestuur. De partij hoopt dat het succes van de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van vorig jaar nog even aanhoudt.
De oorlog in Iran zou weleens snel voorbij kunnen zijn. Dat positieve nieuws bracht Donald Trump maandag zelf: "Ik heb erg veel pijn op mijn borst de laatste tijd."
De bleke en zwetende Amerikaanse president stond de pers te woord over de aanvallen op Iran. "Weet je, die pijn is behoorlijk hevig, en er hoopt zich ook veel vocht op overal in mijn lichaam. Heb je mijn enkels weleens gezien? De grootste enkels ooit. Als ik me stoot heb ik meteen een enorme blauwe plek, en ik vertrouw die uitslag in mijn nek voor geen meter. Dus ik denk dat die oorlog weleens heel snel voorbij zou kunnen zijn. Je weet het nooit, maar de voortekenen zijn goed."
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The rarely seen Mojtaba Khamenei is a surprise appointment, but his accession is above all a statement of defiance
When Mojtaba Khamenei was named Iran’s new supreme leader, many observers reacted with surprise. For decades, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been a shadowy figure in Iranian politics, rarely seen in public and almost never heard speaking.
He has never given interviews, has held no elected office and appears publicly only on rare ceremonial occasions. Even among political insiders, knowledge of his views is fragmentary. What little is known about him consists of scattered anecdotes: brief involvement in the Iran-Iraq war as a young man, occasional appearances in political circles and a long association with figures inside Iran’s security establishment.
Continue reading...From energy to food, all of life’s essentials are about to get even more expensive. But just knowing that won’t pay the bills
As soon as the attacks on Iran started, the warnings commenced: “Get ready for price shocks. Get ready for the oil price to spike. Oh, no need to get ready – it’s already hit $100 a barrel. Get ready for Russia to claw some circuitous but massive advantage from the fact that everything is on fire, get ready for energy bills to go up.” By about day five, experts were explaining how to lock in your current tariff except, whoops, given the global instability, those tariffs were no longer available. If it felt mercenary to worry about your unit price as people were dying, that’s because it was; but considerations of human decency and proportionality aren’t going to arrest the trajectory of life getting more expensive.
Get ready for everything to feed into everything else: rising petrol prices to lead to food inflation, food inflation to lead to stuff inflation. Get ready for wages to be unequal to the cost of living, get ready not to complain about it because you’re lucky to have a wage. Get ready for stock exchanges to crash, get ready to not be entirely sure what scale of economic disaster you’re looking at.
Continue reading...The Afro-Uruguayan rhythms, born among enslaved Africans and once banned, now draws thousands to public squares and carnival parades
Like the blues in the US, samba in Brazil, rumba in Cuba and plena in Puerto Rico, candombe, Uruguay’s Afro-descendent music, was once reviled, marginalised and even banned – but managed to endure.
But while other such genres have for decades formed part of the cultural mainstream across the Americas, only now is candombe experiencing its peak.
A drone view of the Rueda de Candombe gathering in the streets of Ciudad Vieja in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Continue reading...Most people fail with AI because they don’t understand what it actually is – if you treat it as a skill, not a shortcut, you’ll get the best results
Training teams to use AI at work has given me a front-row seat to a new kind of professional divide.
Some people hand everything over to the machine and stop thinking. Others won’t touch it at all.
Continue reading...Family-run farms in El Salvador and Honduras face mounting losses, rising costs – and the need to adapt or be left behind
Read more of our Coffee crisis series here
On a steep hillside in western El Salvador, Oscar Leiva watches rainfall in December, a month that once marked the start of the dry season. During this harvest cycle, flowering came early and then stalled. A heatwave followed. What remains of the crop is uneven, lower in quality and more expensive to produce than the last.
For Leiva and his family, coffee has never been just a crop. His mother, Marina Marinero, remembers when the rains arrived on schedule and the harvest could be planned months in advance. Today, the calendar no longer holds. Decisions about pruning, fertilising and hiring labour feel like educated guesses. Each mistake carries a cost the family cannot afford.
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Het gevaar van aanslagen door het sadistische online Com-netwerk groeit, concludeert het Haagse instituut HCSS. Het netwerk telt zeventig Nederlandse deelnemers, vooral minderjarigen. Het netwerk houdt zich bezig met ernstig geweld en uiteenlopende andere misdrijven.
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