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US launches second round of airstrikes on Iran, and Tehran responds by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan
Kuwait has closed its airspace after Iran announced new attacks on the gulf country, with officials saying some flights were being diverted to alternative airports.
Flights had been circling outside Kuwait for some time before the announcement, after it said its air defences were firing at aerial targets.
It is Trump that is desperate for them to sign the agreement, as his statements reveal, and Iran that is dragging their feet.”
A deal that punts nuclear negotiations to a second phase and requires some sanctions relief is a lousy deal — and still the least bad available alternative.”
Continue reading...Fifa president has prostrated the organisation before Donald Trump and lost control of his own tournament as a result
Even the Nazis tried to tone things down a bit. Before the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, acutely conscious of how it might be perceived by foreign visitors, the Third Reich tried to soften some of its harder, more intolerant edges. Antisemitic signs and images were removed from shops and other public places. Der Stürmer was removed from newspaper kiosks. Paragraph 175, the country’s strict anti‑homosexuality law, was temporarily suspended.
By contrast, the 2026 men’s World Cup is being co-hosted in a country utterly indifferent to what a foreign visitor might think of it. In this respect, the US of Donald Trump is tonally different to any host of a major sporting event that has preceded it: a country that actively wants you to see the darkness in its heart, the inhumanity at its core, that gets off on your revulsion.
Continue reading...The UCL study also found physically punished children were more likely to struggle in school
Children smacked by their parents struggle to get good exam results and are more likely to bully others, causing a negative impact on society, according to new research calling for smacking to be banned.
The study by University College London (UCL) found that children in England who were physically punished at the ages of three, five and seven were significantly less likely to pass GCSE exams compared with other children, even after factors such as family background were taken into account.
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Op de Stadsbrug tussen Zwijndrecht en Dordrecht is woensdagavond laat een ongeluk gebeurd met een auto. De automobilist verloor de macht over het stuur en crashte. De bestuurder is door ambulancepersoneel gecontroleerd, maar zijn verwondingen vielen mee.
Het gebeurt al jaren, maar meestal buiten beeld: moord op Palestijnen door Israëlische soldaten
Maar meestal zijn er geen harde bewijzen, alleen lijken met kogelgaten.
Soms staat de moord op camera.
Beelden tonen hoe Israëlische soldaten afgelopen vrijdag een stilstaande gezinswagen in Hebron van vlakbij hebben beschoten. Daarbij viel één dode, een baby van zeven maanden, Sam Abu Haikal. De soldaten wandelden nadien weg.
LIMA (ANP/RTR) - De conservatieve kandidaat Keiko Fujimori heeft woensdag opnieuw de leiding genomen in de spannende Peruaanse presidentsverkiezingen. Volgens de Peruaanse kiesautoriteit ONPE staat Fujimori met 98,2 procent van de stemmen geteld op 50,001 procent, tegen 49,999 procent voor de linkse kandidaat Roberto Sánchez.
Dinsdag werd bekend dat Peru waarschijnlijk nog zo'n twee weken moet wachten op een definitieve uitslag van de stemming van afgelopen zondag. Vooral de stemmen van Peruanen in het buitenland moeten nog binnenkomen. Het is niet bekend hoeveel mensen daar gestemd hebben, maar het gaat vermoedelijk om zo'n 300.000 stemmen.
De presidentsverkiezingen in Peru waren in het recente verleden wel vaker spannend. Zo verloor Keiko Fujimori, dochter van voormalig president Alberto Fujimori, de verkiezingen in 2016 met een verschil van 41.000 stemmen.