BRUSSEL (ANP) - Rusland wordt steeds roekelozer, maakt NAVO-topman Mark Rutte op uit de aanval op een trein tussen Kyiv en NAVO-land Polen. De NAVO heeft volgens hem genoeg mogelijkheden om terug te slaan als zij slachtoffer wordt van bijvoorbeeld een sabotageaanval. Voor het uitstralen van zwakte, als tegenmaatregelen van NAVO-kant uitblijven, zegt hij niet bang te zijn.

De Russische droneaanval van zondag op de spoorlijn, vlak bij de grens met Polen, maakte in Europese hoofdsteden veel los. Europese politici, diplomaten en andere reizigers van en naar Kyiv nemen soms deze verbinding. Volgens Rutte toont de aanval dat Rusland "steeds roekelozer" en "wanhopiger" wordt.

Als Rusland de NAVO zou treffen, staat het bondgenootschap klaar en beschikt het over "alle opties om te antwoorden", verzekerde Rutte tijdens een persconferentie. "Maar we kunnen gewoon niet altijd vertellen wat die zijn." Hij denkt "niet dat het als zwak wordt gezien" als nieuwe NAVO-maatregelen tegen Rusland uitblijven.

ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid (OVV) gaat geen nader onderzoek doen naar de trambotsing op de Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam. Op woensdag 22 juli reed een tram daar tegen een stilstaande tram die stond te wachten omdat de brug open was. De raad heeft vertrouwen in het onderzoek dat het openbaarvervoerbedrijf, de RET, van Rotterdam laat doen.

Bij de botsing raakten vijftien mensen gewond, van wie één ernstig. De RET meldde eind juli dat het onderzoek nog wel enige tijd kon gaan duren.

Twee onderzoekers van de OVV hebben die dag wel een verkennend onderzoek uitgevoerd. Dat doet de raad vaker. In enkele gevallen volgt daar een nader onderzoek uit. Bij bepaalde voorvallen in de luchtvaart, scheepvaart, industrie en railsector is de Onderzoeksraad volgens de wet verplicht om onderzoek te doen. In andere gevallen beslist de raad zelf of zo'n nader onderzoek er komt.

Het recept is nu volledig aanwezig om uit te groeien tot de Nederlandse George Floyd: de man die in Rotterdam overleed tijdens zijn arrestatie is de 51-jarige Juan Alfredo Goeloe. Hij werd verdacht van fatbikediefstal, weigerde zich bij aankomst van de politie te legitimeren, verzette zich stevig tegen zijn aanhouding en werd daarop een tot onwel gemaakte. Vanavond is er een stille tocht van de plek waar hij overleed tot aan politiebureau Zuidplein. Er is niet alleen familie van de man aanwezig, maar: "Ook partijen die zich afzetten tegen politiegeweld zullen aan de stille tocht deelnemen, kondigen zij aan." Het 'politiegeweld' wordt nog onderzocht door de Rijksrecherche, maar in tijden van emotie is er helemaal geen ruimte voor nuance. De laatste keer dat zoiets plaatsvond was trouwens eveneens na een fatbikediefstal: de vijftienjarige Jerryson had een vuurwapen op zak en werd na meerdere waarschuwingen door de politie doodgeschoten. Wel, wandel in vrede, lieve mensen.

In an interview about the donations, he said they are compliant with the law ‘today’

Andy Burnham has cancelled engagements today and tomorrow following the death of his father Roy, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s, the Press Association reports.

Burnham has spoken about his father’s illness which meant that he did not know his son had become prime minister.

[We] will continue bringing forward further reforms to strengthen confidence in our democracy.

Following on from the previous minister for democracy’s letter to you of 10 July 2026, we wanted to reiterate the government’s concerns, shared by many members of the public and parliamentarians, about the rise in the volume and concentration of money in UK politics. We have to limit the way financial power can end up dominating political power, to get to a politics that works for all people in all places.

We believe spending limits on parties and candidates are too high, and ought to be reduced.

Departure of head coach after defeat at Freiburg sums up club that could join other fallen giants in second tier

It could not go on. Even at this early stage the sinking feeling was familiar and impossible to shake, and something had to give at Borussia Mönchengladbach. The first Bundesliga coaching change of the season is upon us just three games in, and it is not a major surprise that it is Eugen Polanski departing. Neither is it a shock that Gladbach are involved; after all, it was at exactly this point last season – three games in – that they parted ways with Gerardo Seoane.

A club with more prospects and direction would have chosen to move on from Polanski in the summer, but the reality is that Gladbach have few of either. Saturday afternoon’s humiliation at Freiburg – a club enjoying a 100% record, guided by poise and purpose, having spent the Johan Manzambi money wisely – was no bad day at the office but a season in microcosm. The home side cruised into a 2-0 lead inside the first half-hour before the Gladbach captain, Tim Kleindienst, was sent off for a second yellow card (after an utterly avoidable first one). One former Gladbach player, Yannik Engelhardt, scored twice while another, Matthias Ginter, made two assists. It finished 5-0 and could have been way worse.

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On his first album in seven years, Beck keeps the quality control extremely high as he surveys mid-50s malaise in the wake of divorce

The last time Beck released an album it was 2019 and the singer-songwriter found himself in a strange and unenviable position. In some quarters, the arrival of Hyperspace was eagerly anticipated precisely because his personal life was in turmoil. Nine months before its release, his 15-year marriage to actor Marissa Ribisi had ended in divorce, an experience he understandably described as heartbreaking. Unfortunately for him, there exists a pervasive argument that Beck’s greatest work is born out of misery.

His beloved 2002 album Sea Change featured a set of disconsolate acoustic songs written in the wake of a break-up with his long-term girlfriend Leigh Limon that Beck had initially thought were too personal for public consumption. They were certainly very different from the knowing, postmodern approach with which he’d made his name, but no matter: Sea Change went on to become a huge critical and commercial success. It wasn’t entirely clear what prompted the gloomy mood of 2014’s Morning Phase, but it very much seemed to be cut from similar musical and lyrical cloth. Some critics suggested it was the best album of his career; it subsequently won three Grammys, including album of the year. Given the circumstances, there was much pre-release speculation that Hyperspace would be a companion piece.

St Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans

Inside the Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s North Wing, alongside stately portraits of the apostle from whom London’s oldest hospital takes its name and King Henry VIII, extravagant commemorative boards adorn the walls.

The Great Hall was a grand, formal space where governors weighed their philanthropic donations and drafted their wills, many while investing in the stock of companies built on the trafficking of enslaved Africans. Today, many of those donors are commemorated in acrylic gold paint on the boards.

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys. Today’s tech titans took all the wrong lessons from the science fiction of their youths and now they’re each building their version of the Torment Nexus.