HARDENBERG (ANP) - Hardenberg dreigt een dwangsom op te leggen aan opvangorgaan COA, wanneer die de opvanglocaties in Hardenberg en Loozen niet sluit. De Overijsselse gemeente heeft maandag besloten een zogeheten last onder dwangsom op te leggen, als ultimatum.

De last onder dwangsom bedraagt 70.000 euro per dag voor elke dag dat het asielzoekerscentrum in Hardenberg open is, met een maximum van 6,3 miljoen euro. Daarnaast zou het COA 11.000 euro per dag moeten betalen voor het blijven gebruiken van de noodopvang bij het dorp Loozen, met een maximum van 990.000 euro.

Beide locaties hadden zondag moeten sluiten. Toen verliepen de contracten en vergunningen voor beide locaties. Daar verblijven nog enkele honderden asielzoekers. Door een tekort aan opvangplaatsen is het COA er niet in geslaagd om op tijd ergens anders opvang voor hen te vinden.

In de nacht van zaterdag op zondag zijn in het Zuid-Hollandse Goudswaard twee vrouwen in hun eigen woning verkracht nadat een man het huis was binnengedrongen via een openstaand raam in de achtertuin. De politie bevestigt dat er nog geen verdachte is aangehouden, maar zegt “groots in te zetten” op het opsporen van de dader, die volgens een van de slachtoffers een bekende is uit het dorp.

Volgens het 49-jarige slachtoffer, dat anoniem wil blijven, sprong de man over de schutting en drong hij in het holst van de nacht de woning van het echtpaar binnen, waarna hij beide vrouwen misbruikte. Een 58-jarige vrouw raakte daarbij zwaargewond en is met spoed geopereerd in een ziekenhuis in Rotterdam, waar zij voorlopig moet blijven.

Buurtbewoners werden rond 04.30 uur wakker van gegil; een van de slachtoffers rende de straat op en klopte bij buren aan om hulp te vragen. De woning is de hele dag door de forensische opsporingsdienst afgesloten geweest voor sporenonderzoek, waarbij onder meer in de tuin naar voetafdrukken is gezocht.

De slachtoffers geven aan dat zij de man herkennen als iemand die jaren geleden ook in Goudswaard woonde en noemen hem “een gevaar voor alle vrouwen” die zo snel mogelijk moet worden opgepakt. De politie zegt vanwege de gevoeligheid van zedenzaken terughoudend te zijn met het verstrekken van nadere informatie.

Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker

Former British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg and former president of Yahoo Susan Decker.…

Oil prices have already shot up thanks to the US-Israeli war in Iran. But what is the economic fallout likely to be? Will interest rates rise? What about inflation? Could the cost of borrowing increase – and by how much? Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss how the cost of living might be hit and the political implications of that

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Gottschalk documents lesbian life in the 60s and 70s, while this year’s Deutsche Börse prize ranges from appalling scenes from women’s prisons to an exploration of invented facts

When Donna Gottschalk came out as gay to her mother, she replied: “You’ve chosen a rough path.” It was New York in the 1960s, homosexuality was illegal and, as the photographer reflects in a video piece included in her new exhibition We Others: “There were no happy gay people.” A photograph of Gottschalk’s mother in the beauty salon she ran in the notoriously crime-ridden Alphabet City appears at the start of the show, in which the images are accompanied by texts by the French writer Hélène Giannecchini, recording the photographer’s memories of the people and events depicted.

Gottschalk picked up a camera at 17, so these pictures also constitute her own awakening, as she accepted her identity and became involved with the Gay Liberation Front. It starts with family. Here is a painfully poignant image of Gottschalk’s sister, Myla, aged 11, the picture of innocence and peace, asleep in bed in the family’s apartment in a tenement building.

Comments from defense secretary come as number of US service members killed in conflict has climbed to seven

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Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, has said “there will be more casualties” in the US military from the Trump administration’s war in Iran after officials confirmed on Sunday that the number of US service members killed had climbed to seven.

Hegseth made the statement during an appearance Sunday night on CBS’s 60 Minutes, during which he portrayed Donald Trump’s decision for the US to join Israeli attacks on the Middle East country as essential “to advance American interests, and protect American lives”.

Bundesliga survival looks an uphill struggle for Wolfsburg as a lack of leadership off the pitch has led to drift on it

Edin Dzeko, understandably, erred on the side of caution. Dieter Hecking has not. Wolfsburg are indisputably in crisis and have gone back to the future to stop themselves teetering over the ledge into the abyss, with a coach who left – or was invited to leave – nearly 10 years ago returning to the club to prevent the worst coming to pass. It had felt for a while as if change was coming at the Volkswagen Arena. The question to which we will find out the answer in the coming weeks is have they already left it too late?

This was a weekend that was a very bad one for Die Wölfe; pivotally so, potentially. It was not just their own 2-1 tumble at home to Hamburg, who were also in serious need of points, which defined the moment. After all, Wolfsburg began the weekend second-bottom of the Bundesliga and ended it in the same place, but things are not the same. That is largely due to results elsewhere. Even outside Lower Saxony little went right for Wolfsburg, whether it was St Pauli and Mainz clawing points from superior opposition in Eintracht Frankfurt and Stuttgart respectively, or Werder Bremen making the most of Union Berlin going down to 10 men seconds after they took the lead, paving the way to a second successive win of unexpectedly comfortable proportions (4-1, in the end, to Werder).

Ukraine criticises organisers’ decision to allow Russia to take part in prestigious art exhibition as ‘incomprehensible’

Ukraine has urged organisers of the Venice Biennale to reconsider Russia’s participation in the prestigious art exhibition, arguing that it must not become “a stage for whitewashing… war crimes.”

Biennale organisers said last week that Russia would be allowed to take part in the event, held from 9 May until 22 November, triggering widespread criticism, including from Italy’s culture ministry, which said it opposed the decision.

Startup still believes in ‘principle of treating adults like adults, but getting experience right will take more time’

OpenAI is delaying the launch of “adult mode” for ChatGPT after admitting it had more pressing priorities than introducing erotica on its signature artificial intelligence product.

The startup’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had announced last year that OpenAI would allow adult content as it rolled out age checking.

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