In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws uit de regio van maandag 27 april.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - Drie mensen zijn omgekomen bij een aanval van het Amerikaanse leger op een vermeende drugsboot in het oostelijke deel van de Stille Oceaan. Dat maakte het Amerikaanse Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in de nacht van zondag op maandag bekend op X.
Volgens een telling van het persbureau AFP komt daarmee het dodental van dergelijke aanvallen van de VS op 185.
Net als bij eerdere aanvallen geeft SOUTHCOM als argument dat de boot werd bestuurd door een terroristische organisatie en dat hij langs een bekende route voor drugshandel voer.
Volgens juristen en mensenrechtenorganisaties kunnen de VS niet bewijzen dat de boten die ze aanvallen drugs vervoeren. De dodelijke aanvallen kunnen worden beschouwd als buitengerechtelijke executies, omdat ze zijn gericht tegen burgers die geen directe bedreiging vormen voor de Verenigde Staten.
He shot the YBAs boozing, canoodling – and shaking up the art scene. Now the photographer has found inspiration in some other unruly characters: his lurchers. We join him for walkies in rural Suffolk
‘Finn! Finn! FINN!” Johnnie Shand Kydd is having trouble keeping his inquisitive lurcher in sight. Finn may be an incredibly sweet-natured dog but he’s hard of hearing – and has previous for disappearing on this particular walk.
At least the photographer has experience in dealing with unruly characters. In the 1990s, he found himself embedded with the Young British Artists, granted free rein to shoot the hedonistic, chaotic and wildly creative art scene that birthed Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and more. Shot in black and white, these images upended the convention for artists posing in their studios, easels in hand. “I just wasn’t interested in that at all,” says Shand Kydd. Instead, his photographs capture Hirst balancing a tower of hats on his head, Emin in a rubber dinghy with Georgina Starr, a newly pregnant Sam Taylor-Johnson (then Taylor-Wood) and a whole load of partying, boozing and canoodling.
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