​Naast Iran gaan ook de Verenigde Staten vanaf 16.00 uur vanmiddag de Straat van Hormuz blokkeren. Dat maakte president Trump gister bekend na de vastgelopen onderhandelingen in Pakistan. Veel mensen maken zich zorgen over de dubbele wegversperring, zo niet Amsterdammers. Zij laten weten niet onder de indruk te zijn.

“Twee blokkades maar? Dat valt dus wat mij betreft echt mee”, zegt de 59-jarige Amsterdammer Leontien. “Ik heb een tijdje terug maanden moeten rijden via dertien verschillende straten om vijf wegversperringen op de Wibautstraat te vermijden. En dan was je er vaak nog niet. Ik zeg geen probleem, varen maar.”

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This schmaltzy film about a choir of inmates might make you cry – but in exasperation, frustration and disbelief rather than heartfelt emotion

Everyone involved with this feelgood/feelbad prison musical/weepie, and Taiwan’s biggest local box office hit ever, should be put on immediate cinematic probation and banned from film-making until it’s clear they are no longer a danger to the public. Starting out as merely heavy schmaltz, it resorts to increasingly manipulative tactics to wring out every drop of available emotion from the audience, like some merciless warden during exercise hour. There’s so much theatrical crying in the final stages that the inmates could have floated over the prison walls on the rising tide of their own tears.

In a story adapted from 2010 Korean film Harmony, Hui-Zhen (Ivy Chen) has to raise her infant daughter Yun-shi behind bars after murdering her abusive husband. Either this is movie jail or Taiwanese correction facilities are ridiculously plush, as her cell comes with soft-play fittings and supportive cellmates, including former stage diva Yu-ying (veteran singer Judy Ongg, who appeared in Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book). Already under pressure from hardass warden Chief Fang (Miao Ke-li) to give up Yun-shi for adoption, Hui-Zhen’s hand is forced when the youngster develops a vision-threatening cataract she can’t afford to treat.

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A hearty dish that makes a great get-ahead breakfast for busy mornings

My go-to cheat ingredient for a dash of heat is White Mausu’s peanut rāyu – it has a gentler flavour profile than, say, Lao Gan Ma crispy chilli in oil, and works perfectly in this dish of creamy, lemon-spiked beans and eggs. I recommend using jarred white beans for the speediest cook time. For an easy, get-ahead breakfast, make and chill the spinach and beans the night before, then reheat the next morning and crack in the eggs when the beans are piping hot.

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Midfielder has again been Napoli’s star but ageing squad has taken club backwards and Conte’s future is uncertain

Was this the end of the Serie A title race? On a weekend when the last two teams pursuing them both slipped up, Inter delivered another statement victory, recovering from two goals down to win 4-3 away to a Como side who had been playing some of the best football in the division.

When the final whistle went, manager Christian Chivu celebrated like a man who knew exactly what it meant, hugging an assistant so hard he lifted them off the floor. Inter were nine points clear now in first place, with six games to go. But when the cameras arrived for post-game interviews, he played coy.

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Reader and Acrobat flaw let booby-trapped documents profile targets and hijack machines

Adobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.…

Amsterdam was in de 17de eeuw de internationale hoofdstad van vrijdenkers. Een expositie in Museum Embassy of the Free Mind toont nu hun boeken. Daarin lees je dwarse, soms verboden opvattingen over de mens, God en de wereld.

Uit straatboekenkastjes in heel Nederland haalt Arjen Fortuin steeds een boek, bespreekt het en geeft het door. Deze week duikt het debuut van David Grossman op in de mooiste boekenkast van Nederland in buurtschap De Bruil.

Bij een ruzie op straat in 's-Gravendeel is maandagochtend een 64-jarige man gewond geraakt. Hij had het aan de stok met een man van 50 jaar. Waarover het ging is niet bekend, maar over en weer vielen klappen.