In de aandeelhoudersvergadering van Ajax, waar het nauwelijks nog over de trainerswissel gaat, maakt de vernieuwde bestuurstop duidelijk dat het een offensievere koers nastreeft. „Ik mis de drive die we nodig hebben om naar de top te gaan.”
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De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump is "niet blij" met de benoeming van Mojtaba Khamenei als nieuwe opperste leider van Iran, zei hij tegen The New York Post. Trump zei eerder dat hij de zoon van de vorige ayatollah niet zou accepteren, maar wilde tegen de krant nog niet zeggen wat hij van plan is met de nieuwe leider.
De 56-jarige Mojtaba Khamenei werd zondag gekozen door de Iraanse Raad van Experts. Zijn vader werd ruim een week geleden gedood bij het begin van de Israëlische en Amerikaanse luchtaanvallen op Iran.
Trump sprak via de telefoon vanaf zijn eigen golfbaan in Florida en ging ook in op berichten van internationale media dat hij zou overwegen om grondtroepen naar Iran te sturen. "Daarover hebben we nog geen beslissing genomen. Zover zijn we nog lang niet."
Nieuwsorganisaties Axios en Bloomberg schreven dat de Verenigde Staten en Israël mogelijk eenheden naar Iran zouden willen sturen om het verrijkte uranium van dat land in beslag te nemen.
TEHERAN (ANP/AFP) - Iran heeft gewaarschuwd dat de veiligheidssituatie in de belangrijke Straat van Hormuz vermoedelijk slecht zal blijven tijdens de oorlog. "Het is onwaarschijnlijk dat er enige veiligheid kan worden bereikt in de Straat van Hormuz te midden van de spanningen die door de Verenigde Staten en Israël in de regio zijn aangewakkerd", schreef regimekopstuk Ali Larijani in een bericht op X.
De uitspraak volgt op berichten dat Frankrijk met bondgenoten werkt aan een "defensieve" missie om de voor de wereldeconomie belangrijke zeestraat bij Iran te heropenen. Dat moet gebeuren als de meest intense fase van de oorlog voorbij is, stelde de Franse president Emmanuel Macron op Cyprus. Tankers en andere vrachtschepen moeten dan beschermd worden. De Straat van Hormuz ligt bij Iran en is momenteel feitelijk dicht door de vijandelijkheden in het Midden-Oosten.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Tonight, we have details of a classified U.S. intelligence mission that has obtained a previously unknown weapon that may finally unlock a mystery. Since at least 2016, U.S. diplomats, spies and military officers have suffered crippling brain injuries. They've told of being hit by an overwhelming force, damaging their vision, hearing, sense of balance and cognition. but the government has doubted their stories. They've been called delusional. Well now, 60 Minutes has learned that a weapon that can inflict these injuries was obtained overseas and secretly tested on animals on a U.S. military base. We've investigated this mystery for nine years. This is our fourth story called, "Targeting Americans." Despite official government doubt, we never stopped reporting because of the haunting stories we heard [...]. 60 Minutes interviewed Dr. David Relman, a scientific expert and professor from Stanford University who was tasked by the government to lead two investigations into the Havana Syndrome cases. What he and his panel of doctors, physicists, engineers and others found was that "the most plausible explanation for a subset of these cases was a form of radiofrequency or microwave energy," the report says.
According to confidential sources cited in the report, undercover Homeland Security agents bought a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network in 2024 and tested it on animals at a U.S. military lab. The injuries reportedly matched those seen in the human cases. "Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has been tested in a U.S. military lab for more than a year," says Dr. Relman. "Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans."
He continues: "Also, as a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos are classified but they were described to us. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain. Our sources say another video comes from a stairwell in the U.S. embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs suddenly collapse. Those videos and the weapon were among the reasons the Biden administration summoned about half a dozen victims to the White House with about two months left in the president's term."
Former intelligence officials and researchers claim elements of the U.S. government downplayed or dismissed the theory for years, possibly to avoid political consequences of accusing a foreign state like Russia of conducting attacks on American personnel.
According to confidential sources cited in the report, undercover Homeland Security agents bought a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network in 2024 and tested it on animals at a U.S. military lab. The injuries reportedly matched those seen in the human cases. "Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has been tested in a U.S. military lab for more than a year," says Dr. Relman. "Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans."
He continues: "Also, as a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos are classified but they were described to us. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain. Our sources say another video comes from a stairwell in the U.S. embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs suddenly collapse. Those videos and the weapon were among the reasons the Biden administration summoned about half a dozen victims to the White House with about two months left in the president's term."
Former intelligence officials and researchers claim elements of the U.S. government downplayed or dismissed the theory for years, possibly to avoid political consequences of accusing a foreign state like Russia of conducting attacks on American personnel.
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GPS jamming and spoofing is becoming commonplace in war. “Ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land.”
Save Act would limit voting access in the US and centers on Trump’s unfounded claims of noncitizens stealing elections
Donald Trump threatened not to sign any bills until Congress approves the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access.
The president, fixated on unsubstantiated claims that noncitizens are stealing US elections ahead of midterm elections that are expected to be bruising for Republicans, said on Truth Social Sunday that the Save America Act “must be done immediately” and “supersedes everything else”.
Continue reading...One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – for also daring to speak the truth
Sunday marked one year since Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, was arrested last year for his political advocacy. Below, he writes to Leqaa Kordia, a fellow Palestinian currently in ICE detention in Texas. Khalil was released after more than three months but the Trump administration continues to seek his deportation; Kordia has been detained for nearly a year. Read more about her case here.
Dear Leqaa,
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Maria Pevchikh and other Navalny allies roundly criticized The Insider’s decision to publish a photo of Navalny’s body.
Rafael Zenon Wagner has added a photo to the pool:
Actually, the surroundings and the night were perfect for night shots. This little chapel in Todtnauberg was to be my subject. However, I hadn't counted on the caterpillar tractor constantly illuminating the front :).
Todtnauberg, Black Forest. Germany.