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Russian Drone Strike Kills 3 Children and Their Father in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Region

The children’s mother, who is eight months pregnant, survived but was hospitalized with multiple injuries.

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Tennisser Boogaard verliest in Ahoy van 23 jaar oudere Wawrinka

ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Tennistalent Thijs Boogaard is er niet in geslaagd de tweede ronde van het ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam te bereiken. De 17-jarige debutant verloor in Ahoy met 3-6 4-6 van de 23 jaar oudere Zwitser Stan Wawrinka.

Boogaard verving als lucky loser Aleksandar Vukic uit Australië, die zich geblesseerd afmeldde. De Nederlander verloor zondag in de tweede ronde van het kwalificatietoernooi van de Fransman Hugo Grenier (6-2 6-7 (3) 4-6).

Boogaard begon sterk en creëerde in de eerste set twee breakpoints op de opslag van Wawrinka. De drievoudig grandslamwinnaar uit Zwitserland behield zijn service en sloeg zelf toe op 3-2, waarna hij zijn voorsprong niet meer uit handen gaf. Boogaard leverde in de eerste game van de tweede set meteen zijn opslag in en wist de schade niet meer te herstellen.

De 40-jarige Wawrinka, de winnaar van het toernooi in 2015, treft in de tweede ronde de als eerste geplaatste Australiër Alex de Minaur.


Verstappen productief en snel in eerste testsessie Formule 1

SAKHIR (ANP) - Max Verstappen heeft woensdagochtend 65 rondes voltooid in de eerste testsessie van het voorseizoen van de Formule 1. Op het circuit van Bahrein zette de nummer 2 van vorig seizoen de snelste ronde neer in 1.35,43. Oscar Piastri, vorig jaar derde in het wereldkampioenschap, volgde in zijn McLaren op 0,17 seconden. George Russell (Mercedes) zette de derde tijd neer.

De Nederlandse viervoudig wereldkampioen van Red Bull reed met zijn 65 rondes niet het hoogste aantal van het veld, maar wel meer dan zijn concurrenten Piastri, Russell en Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari). Op de testdagen in Bahrein komt namens elk team één coureur per sessie op de baan. Wereldkampioen Lando Norris (McLaren) en Verstappens teamgenoot Isack Hadjar komen dus pas later in actie.


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Netanyahu to push Trump to take tough Iran stance during White House visit – US politics live

Israeli PM is expected to press the president to take a harder line over Iran’s nuclear program

Attorney general Pam Bondi will appear before a House of Representatives panel on Wednesday, where lawmakers are expected to press her on the Justice Department’s handling of files involving the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Bondi’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee comes as lawmakers, including some Republicans, have expressed frustration with the amount of Epstein material the department has redacted and withheld despite a federal law requiring the release of nearly all files.

Federal prosecutors reportedly tried, and failed, to convince a grand jury to indict six Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday over a social media video they recorded to remind service members in the military and intelligence community that they are not required to follow illegal orders.

Donald Trump’s sudden turn against a new, publicly owned bridge being constructed to connect Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario came right after a Republican donor who owns a private, rival bridge met with Trump’s commerce secretary, the New York Times reports.

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, and the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, have taken on the daunting task of trying to explain to Trump that the reasons he cited for threatening to block the opening of the new bridge are entirely untrue. Carney told Trump that Canada paid for the bridge and the US shares ownership.

In an appearance on the rightwing channel Real America’s Voice, a Republican congressman from Missouri, Mark Alford, said “we are still investigating” the lyrics of a song performed in Spanish by the Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny during his Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.

As the US supreme court prepares to rule on whether Trump does have the power to impose tariffs on foreign imports, to address a self-declared economic emergency, the president confirmed in an interview that he sets tariff rates based, in part, on his own feelings about the leaders of other nations.

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