DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het bestuur van BBB "betreurt" dat een brief waarin een groep prominente leden zorgen uitte over de gang van zaken binnen de partij, "in de media is beland". Dat laat secretaris Ronne Smolders in een verklaring weten. In de brief spraken enkele tientallen leden, onder wie senatoren en oud-bewindspersonen, hun ongenoegen uit over het vertrek van Mona Keijzer, nadat zij gepasseerd was als opvolger van partijleider Caroline van der Plas.
"De situatie zorgt voor onrust binnen de vereniging en leidt de aandacht af van het gezamenlijke campagnewerk voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen, waar veel leden zich momenteel voor inzetten", aldus Smolders. De leden die de brief hebben ondertekend, zijn uitgenodigd "om in gesprek te gaan over de zorgen die bij hen leven". Op de in de brief genoemde zorgen en bezwaren gaat Smolders niet in.
ARNHEM (ANP) - Hoogspanningsnetbeheerder TenneT heeft het afgelopen jaar meer geïnvesteerd in het uitbreiden van het volle elektriciteitsnet. In totaal stopte TenneT ruim 14,8 miljard euro in het stroomnet in Nederland en Duitsland, waarvan 4,9 miljard euro in Nederland. Wel waarschuwt de netbeheerder voor vertraging van de uitbreiding van het net.
Ongeveer 60 procent van de Nederlandse projecten op het vasteland loopt gemiddeld 2,5 jaar achter op schema, meldt TenneT bij het publiceren van zijn jaarverslag. Dat komt volgens de hoogspanningsnetbeheerder vooral door lange vergunningsprocedures en complexe locatiekeuzes en het verwerven van grond.
De omzet van TenneT steeg in 2025 naar 9,1 miljard euro, dat is 671 miljoen euro meer dan in het jaar daarvoor. De winst voor de aftrek van onder andere belasting nam met ongeveer een miljard toe tot meer dan 2,7 miljard euro.
In 2024 stopte TenneT nog ruim 10,6 miljard euro in het uitbreiden van het elektriciteitsnet.
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For Anna Jones, it’s lemons. For Ben Benton, it’s rice. For Gurdeep Loyal, it’s anchovies on pizza and, for me, it’s Yorkshire Tea in the morning. I could – did – date someone who “didn’t drink hot drinks”, but I would never have married a man I couldn’t make tea for when I woke up, or who couldn’t make me tea in turn.
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Continue reading...The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacy
The US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations. That’s one of the major takeaways from a dramatic dispute between the Department of Defense and some of the leading AI companies in America. What this clash highlights most of all, however, is just how easily AI surveillance systems can be turned against the people in this country, and the urgent need for Congress to intervene.
Last week, the Pentagon and Donald Trump announced that the government would cease using Anthropic’s AI products, asserting that the safety guardrails proposed by the company – no mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons – were unacceptable. The Trump administration went even further, claiming that these positions render Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, and prohibited anyone doing business with the US military from conducting commercial activity with Anthropic in their military work.
Continue reading...Yes, we all know blueberries and kale are good for us. But what about some of the other less well-marketed food heroes that have fallen out of favour?
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But what is and isn’t a superfood is actually down to trends – take the current resurgence of a previously shunned, tragically uncool food: cottage cheese. Beloved by Richard Nixon with pineapple (the Watergate tapes weren’t just illuminating in the ways Woodward and Bernstein hoped for) and a diet-culture favourite in the 60s and 70s, the creamy, tangy cheese curd concoction is back. And there are other supposed superfoods that are just as nutrient-rich, but that marketing hasn’t (yet) brought to our attention. Once a regular part of the UK diet, they have fallen, perhaps unfairly, out of favour. So which foods with serious nutritional chops have we forgotten? Which should we reintegrate?
Continue reading...Critics say sprawling corruption case against Ekrem İmamoğlu aims to stop him running as president against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Hundreds of former and current employees of the Istanbul municipality are due to give evidence, including more than 106 people already in jail. All stand accused of involvement in a broad network of corruption and organised crime centred on İmamoğlu’s office.
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The "Water Mirror Garden" at the D.T. Suzuki Museum in Kanazawa, Japan.
The museum commemorates the life and works of Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966), a native of Kanazawa and a well-known Buddhist philosopher who was influential in spreading Zen Buddhist precepts to the West.
The building was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi (known for his 2004 redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City), and aims to convey a sense of tranquility and contemplation. It opened in 2011.
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