WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Pakistan heeft Iran en de Verenigde Staten een plan voor een einde aan de vijandigheden voorgelegd. Dat meldt persbureau Reuters op basis van ingewijden. Het tweedelige plan zou bestaan uit een onmiddellijk staakt-het-vuren, gevolgd door een akkoord over duurzame vrede.
TOKIO (ANP) - Op de aandelenbeurzen van Japan en Zuid-Korea gingen de graadmeters maandag omhoog. Beleggers trokken zich op aan een bericht van nieuwssite Axios over gesprekken tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran.
De landen zouden samen met bemiddelaars spreken over de voorwaarden voor een mogelijk staakt-het-vuren van 45 dagen. Daardoor was in de Aziatische beurshandel sprake van lichte hoop dat de strijd in het Midden-Oosten binnenkort wellicht voorbij kan zijn.
De Nikkei-index in Tokio en de Kospi in Seoul stegen elk rond de 1 procent. Op de Europese beurzen wordt maandag niet gehandeld vanwege Tweede Paasdag. De Amerikaanse beurshandel hervat later op maandag wel weer na een lang paasweekend. Zowel de Europese beurzen als Wall Street bleven op Goede Vrijdag gesloten.
Op de oliemarkten was maandagochtend sprake van een gemengd beeld. Amerikaanse olie ging iets in prijs omlaag. Brent-olie, de maatstaf voor olie uit het Midden-Oosten en de Noordzee, werd wel iets duurder.
NASA's Artemis astronauts are now entering "the lunar sphere of influence," reports NBC News, "meaning the pull of the moon's gravity will become stronger than Earth's." Now as they begin their swing around the moon, the Artemis astronauts "are chasing after Apollo 13's maximum range from Earth," reports the Associated Press, hoping to beat its distance from Earth by more than 4,100 miles (6,600 kilometers).
They'll begin their six-hour lunar flyby 14 hours from now (at 2:45 p.m. ET Monday). But in a space-to-earth interview Saturday with NBC News, the astronauts were already describing their first glimpses of the edge of the far side:
[NASA astronaut Christina Koch realized] it looked different from what she was accustomed to on Earth. "The darker parts just aren't quite in the right place," she said. "And something about you senses that is not the moon that I'm used to seeing...."
[Astronaut Reid] Wiseman called the flight a "magnificent accomplishment" and said the astronauts' ability to gaze at both Earth and the moon from their spacecraft has been "truly awe-inspiring." "The Earth is almost in full eclipse. The moon is almost in full daylight, and the only way you could get that view is to be halfway between the two entities," he said... And while the early photos of Earth and the moon that [Canadian astronaut Jeremy] Hansen and his colleagues have beamed back have been spectacular, the Canadian astronaut said they pale in comparison to the real deal outside their capsule's windows. "I know those photos are amazing," he said, "but let me assure you, it is another level of amazing up here."
And their upcoming six-hour lunar flyby "promises views of the moon's far side that were too dark or too difficult to see by the 24 Apollo astronauts who preceded them," notes the Associated Press:
A total solar eclipse also awaits them as the moon blocks the sun, exposing snippets of shimmering corona.... At closest approach, they will come within 4,070 miles (6,550 kilometers) of the moon. Because they launched on April 1, the rendezvous won't have as much of the far lunar side illuminated as other dates would have. But the crew still will be able make out "definite chunks of the far side that have never been seen" by humans, said NASA geologist Kelsey Young, including a good portion of Orientale Basin.
They'll call down their observations as they photograph the gray, pockmarked scenes. There's a suite of professional-quality cameras on board, and each astronaut also has an iPhone for more informal, spur-of-the-minute picture-taking... Orion will be out of contact with Mission Control for nearly an hour when it's behind the moon. The same thing happened during the Apollo moonshots. NASA is relying on its Deep Space Network to communicate with the crew, but the giant antennas in California, Spain and Australia won't have a direct line of sight when Orion disappears behind the moon for approximately 40 minutes...
Once Artemis II departs the lunar neighborhood, it will take four days to return home. The capsule will aim for a splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego on April 10, nine days after its Florida launch. During the flight back, the astronauts will link up via radio with the crew of the orbiting International Space Station. This is the first time that a moon crew has colleagues in space at the same time and NASA can't pass up the opportunity for a cosmic chitchat.
They'll begin their six-hour lunar flyby 14 hours from now (at 2:45 p.m. ET Monday). But in a space-to-earth interview Saturday with NBC News, the astronauts were already describing their first glimpses of the edge of the far side:
[NASA astronaut Christina Koch realized] it looked different from what she was accustomed to on Earth. "The darker parts just aren't quite in the right place," she said. "And something about you senses that is not the moon that I'm used to seeing...."
[Astronaut Reid] Wiseman called the flight a "magnificent accomplishment" and said the astronauts' ability to gaze at both Earth and the moon from their spacecraft has been "truly awe-inspiring." "The Earth is almost in full eclipse. The moon is almost in full daylight, and the only way you could get that view is to be halfway between the two entities," he said... And while the early photos of Earth and the moon that [Canadian astronaut Jeremy] Hansen and his colleagues have beamed back have been spectacular, the Canadian astronaut said they pale in comparison to the real deal outside their capsule's windows. "I know those photos are amazing," he said, "but let me assure you, it is another level of amazing up here."
And their upcoming six-hour lunar flyby "promises views of the moon's far side that were too dark or too difficult to see by the 24 Apollo astronauts who preceded them," notes the Associated Press:
A total solar eclipse also awaits them as the moon blocks the sun, exposing snippets of shimmering corona.... At closest approach, they will come within 4,070 miles (6,550 kilometers) of the moon. Because they launched on April 1, the rendezvous won't have as much of the far lunar side illuminated as other dates would have. But the crew still will be able make out "definite chunks of the far side that have never been seen" by humans, said NASA geologist Kelsey Young, including a good portion of Orientale Basin.
They'll call down their observations as they photograph the gray, pockmarked scenes. There's a suite of professional-quality cameras on board, and each astronaut also has an iPhone for more informal, spur-of-the-minute picture-taking... Orion will be out of contact with Mission Control for nearly an hour when it's behind the moon. The same thing happened during the Apollo moonshots. NASA is relying on its Deep Space Network to communicate with the crew, but the giant antennas in California, Spain and Australia won't have a direct line of sight when Orion disappears behind the moon for approximately 40 minutes...
Once Artemis II departs the lunar neighborhood, it will take four days to return home. The capsule will aim for a splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego on April 10, nine days after its Florida launch. During the flight back, the astronauts will link up via radio with the crew of the orbiting International Space Station. This is the first time that a moon crew has colleagues in space at the same time and NASA can't pass up the opportunity for a cosmic chitchat.
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Popular diet tweaks may boost the hormone a little, but the effect on your pecs is likely to be limited
It’s an increasingly popular idea: “boosting” testosterone with diet tweaks – increasing foods rich in zinc and magnesium – hoping to build muscle faster. But the reality is more nuanced.
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Aan zijn grove gedrag in het reality tv-programma De Gouden Kooi hield Jaap Amesz uit Brielle de bijnaam 'Terror Jaap' over. Twintig jaar later schaamt hij zich voor zijn negatieve imago. "Ik ben eigenlijk gewoon een lieve jongen, maar ik heb het helemaal verprutst."
Aan zijn grove gedrag in het reality tv-programma De Gouden Kooi hield Jaap Amesz uit Brielle de bijnaam 'Terror Jaap' over. Twintig jaar later schaamt hij zich voor zijn negatieve imago. "Ik ben eigenlijk gewoon een lieve jongen, maar ik heb het helemaal verprutst."
Aan zijn grove gedrag in het reality tv-programma De Gouden Kooi hield Jaap Amesz uit Brielle de bijnaam 'Terror Jaap' over. Twintig jaar later schaamt hij zich voor zijn negatieve imago. "Ik ben eigenlijk gewoon een lieve jongen, maar ik heb het helemaal verprutst."
Surge in interest in electric truck conversions amid fuel crisis. A Central Coast business is converting diesel trucks to electric, amid rising fuel prices across Australia, with the first end-to-end electric delivery from Sydney to Canberra highlighting the potential of battery-powered freight.