• ‘I don’t know what game they’re trying to play,’ says Rahm

• Spaniard’s stance has put Ryder Cup place in peril

Jon Rahm’s dispute with the DP World Tour has escalated after the Spaniard accused the organisation of “extorting” golfers over fines for competing on the LIV circuit. Rahm’s Ryder Cup future remains in peril with no resolution to the matter in sight, with insiders at the DP World Tour and Europe’s Ryder Cup fans baffled by his stance.

Rahm incurred fines and suspensions as a DP World, formerly European, Tour member playing on what are regarded as competing Saudi-backed LIV events. Rahm signed for LIV in 2023 in a deal reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Case involved Trump orders targeting major law firms for representing clients or causes the president did not like

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The US justice department has dropped legal proceedings against four law firms that stood up to retaliatory executive actions by Donald Trump for representing clients or causes the president did not like.

A number of other law companies made settlements with Trump’s administration in the months after his second presidency began to avoid consequences, including being stripped of security clearances and having access to government buildings terminated.

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President claims in late-night social media post that US munitions stockpiles ‘have never been higher’; DHS secretary answers questions from lawmakers

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In a late night post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said that the US munition stockpiles “at the medium and upper medium grade” have “never been higher or better”.

He added that the US has a “virtually unlimited supply of these weapons”, meaning that “wars can be fought ‘forever’”.

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​De gas- en benzineprijzen schieten in Nederland omhoog, dus de vraag is nu: wat betekenen die prijsverhogingen voor de 787 Iraanse doden die er volgens de Rode Halve Maan nu al vielen?

“Je ziet vaak dat mensen die zijn overleden door bijvoorbeeld een Amerikaans bombardement veel minder gas nodig hebben. Wel fijn, op zich, dat zij zich hier niet meer druk over hoeven te maken.”

Voor de nabestaanden van de slachtoffers is de Nederlandse gasprijs ook minder interessant, legt expert Bert Bokhoven uit. “Die mensen zijn in diepe rouw en verachting van deze onrechtvaardige wereld waarin ook onschuldige burgers worden afgeslacht in een geopolitieke vleesmolen, dus voor die mensen maakt het ook minder uit dan je misschien denkt.”

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Zaterdagochtend 28 februari vielen de Verenigde Staten en Israël Iran aan. Een aflevering hierover volgt. Kan je niet wachten?

Een veelbesproken stop-motionscène waar een door een haai afgebeten been tekeer gaat op de cruisezone van de Braziliaanse stad Recife in het Oscargenomineerde ‘The Secret Agent’ werd gemaakt door de Arnhemse Holy Motion-studio’s.

Gedupeerden in de grote Barendrechtse zedenzaak zijn opgelucht. Dinsdag hoorden ze dat Mels van B. door de rechtbank tot 18 jaar celstraf en tbs met dwangverpleging is veroordeeld. Maar de échte opluchting komt pas als Van B. besluit om niet in hoger beroep te gaan, zeggen ze.

sizzlinkitty shares a Reuters report detailing how drone strikes in the Middle East conflict with Iran damaged AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting core cloud services and causing "prolonged" outages. Following the initial report, where Reuters said "objects" had triggered a fire at the data centers, the article was updated with additional information: A strike on the UAE facility marks the first time a major U.S. tech company's data center has been disrupted by military action. It raises questions around Big Tech's pace of expansion in the region. "In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impact to our infrastructure," Amazon's cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in an update on its status page. "These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage," AWS said. "We are working to restore full service availability as quickly as possible, though we expect recovery to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved," it added.

Financial institutions that use AWS services have been affected by the outage, one person with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "Even as we work to restore these facilities, the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable," AWS said. The AWS outage disrupted a dozen core cloud services and the company advised customers to back up critical data and shift operations to servers in unaffected AWS regions. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank said its platforms and mobile app were unavailable due to a region-wide IT disruption, although it did not directly link the outage to the AWS incident. "In previous conflicts, regional adversaries such as Iran and its proxies targeted pipelines, refineries, and oil fields in Gulf partner states. In the compute era, these actors could also target data centers, energy infrastructure supporting compute, and fiber chokepoints," Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies said last week.

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