Minister-president Jetten brengt maandag 9 maart 2026 een kennismakingsbezoek aan minister-president Tusk van Polen. De ontmoeting staat in het teken van de goede bilaterale betrekkingen tussen beide landen. Andere onderwerpen van gesprek zijn onder meer de oorlog in Oekraïne, de goede samenwerking op het gebied van veiligheid en defensie en de voorbereiding van de Europese Raad, die later deze maand plaatsvindt.
OSLO (ANP/RTR/AFP) - De Noorse politie onderzoekt een incident bij de Amerikaanse ambassade in Oslo. Bij de publieksingang van het pand vond in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag een explosie plaats, met kleine materiële schade tot gevolg. In een persconferentie werd meegedeeld dat ook rekening wordt gehouden met het scenario dat het gaat om een gerichte aanval. Verdachten zijn nog niet in zicht.
"Het is niet gek dit voorval te zien in de context van de huidige veiligheidssituatie", aldus politiewoordvoerder Frode Larsen. Over de toedracht van de explosie is nog veel onduidelijk. Volgens de politie gaat het mogelijk om een geïmproviseerd explosief. De minister van Justitie en Publieke Veiligheid, Astri Aas-Hansen, zegt tegen de Noorse krant Dagbladet het incident zeer hoog op te nemen. Premier Espen Barth Eide sprak in een reactie van een "onaanvaardbaar" incident.
Naar aanleiding van het incident zijn de beveiligingsmaatregelen in het land opgeschroefd, al werd niet gemeld hoe.
BEIROET (ANP/AFP) - Israëlische aanvallen op Libanon hebben volgens het Libanese ministerie van Volksgezondheid aan 394 mensen het leven gekost. Onder hen zijn 83 kinderen. Ook kwamen negen hulpverleners om het leven. Minister Rakan Nassereddine veroordeelde aanvallen op medisch personeel en ziekenwagens.
Zaterdag meldde het ministerie nog 294 doden door de aanvallen. Libanon is na de oorlog in Gaza ook weer meegesleurd in de oorlog die uitbrak toen Israël en de VS Iran aanvielen. Vanaf Libanees grondgebied vuurt Hezbollah raketten af en worden drones naar Israël gestuurd. Hezbollah wordt door Iran gesteund.
Exclusive: ‘Witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse’ offending typified by sexual abuse, violence and neglect
ChatGPT is driving a rise in reports of organised ritual abuse, UK experts have said, as survivors of “satanic” sexual violence use the AI tool for therapy.
Police say organised ritual abuse and “witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse” (WSPRA) against children is under-reported in the UK. There is no modern-day charge that covers it specifically, but such offending is typified by sexual abuse, violence and neglect involving ritualistic elements – sometimes inspired by satanism, fascism or esoteric religious beliefs – to control victims.
Continue reading...The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity
Mark remembers the first time he wondered whether he was teaching Block’s AI tools how to do his job – and maybe even replace him. He was at his fintech company’s extravagant anniversary party last September. As executives led a presentation on the productivity benefits of a new internal AI tool, Mark, who worked in the product department, discussed his worries with colleagues. While he wasn’t sure what would happen in a few years, he told a co-worker sitting next to him that for now, there was no way the technology was so advanced that it could move the business forward without employees like him to help drive vision and strategy.
These AI tools were not proactive. He had to tell them what to do. Block still needed him, he thought.
Continue reading...As her debut novel becomes a Netflix series starring Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, the American author talks about comparisons with Lolita, moving on from #MeToo and problematic authors
When we meet in a cafe near her Brooklyn apartment, three weeks before the TV adaptation of her debut novel Vladimir hits Netflix, Julia May Jonas is feeling an anticipatory “mix of terror, excitement and dread”. The series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor in her 50s obsessed with a younger colleague, Vladimir, played by Leo Woodall, with Sharon Horgan executive producing. Combining hot sex and complex issues, it is bound to spark the kind of online discourse a novelist must avoid lest they be derailed from their next project.
“I do have to be cautious with putting myself too far out there,” says Jonas, who was active, and very funny, on Twitter until mid-2022, soon after her book came out, at which point she realised that engaging with the reception to her work wasn’t wise. “It’s not like I’m so enlightened. It’s just that I know it’s never enough. If someone tells me they love my book, I’m going to ask: ‘What part? Did it change your life? Is it the best book you’ve ever read?’” she says, laughing. “The ego can never be fulfilled!”
Continue reading...Funding cuts, US political pressure and bureaucratic delays have left thousands of Haitians facing prolonged uncertainty in Tapachula
A year ago, when Jean Baptiste Gensley stepped off a bus in Tapachula, Mexico’s southern city on the border with Guatemala, he carried a small backpack and the hope that his journey was finally over.
In his native Haiti, Gensley, 37, worked as a radio journalist and social worker, analyzing the effects of gang violence in some of Port-au-Prince’s most dangerous neighborhoods. With time, as his research led to police intervention, he caught the attention of the city’s gangs.
Continue reading...Iran experts believe the symbolism of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death is overwhelming and that the regime will struggle to fill the power vacuum
Even before US and Israeli missiles began raining down, those sensing the winds of change were forecasting a Berlin Wall moment for Iran.
Mass nationwide demonstrations in January – although savagely repressed, causing the deaths of an estimated tens of thousands – were seen as portents of a reckoning for the country’s ruling theocrats, just as the popular breaching of Berlin’s fearful symbol of Europe’s cold war division spelled the downfall of East Germany’s communist regime in 1989.
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