• Team make gesture before loss to Nigeria in Turkey

• Attack on Iranian school killed more than 175 people

Iran’s players wore black armbands and held schoolbags as their anthem played before a friendly in Turkey on Friday in what a team official said was a protest over the killing of schoolgirls on the first day of the US-Israel war on Iran.

Iran were facing Nigeria in the resort town of Belek before the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, where their participation is in doubt over the conflict.

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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Brent crude trades over $110 a barrel for first time since Monday

• Middle East crisis live: Trump pausing strikes on Iran energy sites; Houthis say ‘no reason’ to halt Red Sea shipping

• UK car production falls 17% as industry warns of ‘worrying’ decline

  
  

The UK’s car industry is at “crisis point”, economists are warning, after a slump in production in the run-up to the Iran war.

Vehicle production fell by 17.2% in February, with 68,061 units leaving factories, data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders shows.

Today’s SMMT figures are further evidence that the UK automative industry is at crisis point.

At a time when it was already struggling, the war in the Middle East will add to its woes, not only pushing up energy prices but also disrupting the supply chains of key input materials with car makers “panic-buying” aluminium amid fears of a supply shortage.

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Intelligence reports find Russia is close to completing phased shipment of drones, medicine and food

• Middle East crisis – live updates

Intelligence agencies in Europe believe Russia is in the final stages of preparing to supply drones to Iran for use in its war with the US and Israel, according to a senior European official.

Russia has already been providing intelligence sharing with Tehran to help it target US forces in the region, the official said, but the upcoming delivery of explosive-laden drones would mark the first evidence of lethal support since the start of the war.

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Bij het Gemeenschappelijk Hof van Justitie worden dhr. mr. Th. (Thomas) Veling, dhr. mr. M.J.M. (Maarten) van der Weijden en dhr. mr. M.W. (Menno) Zandbergen tot plaatsvervangend lid benoemd. De Rijksministerraad heeft op voorstel van staatssecretaris Van Bruggen van Justitie en Veiligheid ingestemd met de voordracht voor de benoemingen. De benoemingen zullen ingaan op de dag dat het Koninklijk Besluit wordt getekend. De plaatsvervangend leden kennen geen vaste standplaats maar worden ingezet waar de behoefte is.

De oorlog met Iran duurt nu precies vier weken. Olie- en gasprijzen schoten omhoog en de minder meetbare onzekerheid sloeg toe. Wat merken sectoren daarvan? „Klussen kunnen langer duren of duurder uitpakken. We vragen opdrachtgevers om coulance.”

Flea, de bassist van de Red Hot Chili Peppers keert op soloalbum ‘Honora’ terug naar zijn eerste instrument: de trompet. – Het hart van Raye ligt op haar nieuwe plaat duidelijk bij de brede mix van musical, opera, swing, doo wop, big band stijl en show jazz.

Vijfentwintig jaar geleden sloot toenmalig burgemeester Job Cohen het eerste huwelijk ter wereld tussen mensen van hetzelfde geslacht, in Amsterdam. Twee echtparen kijken terug.