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HONGKONG (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Hongkongse luchtvaartmaatschappij Cathay Pacific heeft de nettowinst in de eerste helft van dit jaar met 71 procent omhoog zien schieten. De sterke vraag van reizigers die het Midden-Oosten meden, compenseerde de bijna verdubbelde brandstofkosten als gevolg van de Iranoorlog, werd woensdag bekend.

Door de onrust in het Midden-Oosten vlogen reizigers de afgelopen maanden vaker via Hongkong, waar Cathay Pacific van profiteerde. Ook de luchtvrachtdivisie, Cathay Cargo, deed goede zaken, zei voorzitter Guy Bradley bij de presentatie van de halfjaarcijfers.

De luchtvaartmaatschappij boekte in de eerste zes maanden van het jaar een nettowinst van 6,2 miljard Hongkongse dollar (690 miljoen euro). De omzet steeg met ruim een kwart tot 68 miljard Hongkongse dollar.

Sinds het uitbreken van de oorlog in februari heeft Cathay Pacific de brandstoftoeslag meerdere keren verhoogd.

OOSTRUM (ANP) - De brandweer krijgt bij het bestrijden van de grote natuurbrand in de buurt van het Limburgse Venray hulp uit België. Twee Belgische pelotons sluiten aan bij de Nederlandse brandweerlieden, meldt de veiligheidsregio. Woensdag worden ook speciale sproeisystemen geïnstalleerd om de grond nat te houden en de temperatuur in de bodem en vegetatie verder te verlagen.

In het gebied ligt munitie uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Normaal gesproken vormt dat geen gevaar, omdat het dichtbegroeide gebied niet toegankelijk is voor wandelaars. Maar voor de brandweerlieden kan het nu wel een risico vormen. Door de hitte van de grond zijn enkele ontploffingen geweest en daarom is de hulp van de Explosieven Opruimingsdienst Defensie (EOD) ingeschakeld. "Het gaat om heel klein kaliber dus het is niet heel gevaarlijk", zegt de woordvoerder van de veiligheidsregio. Volgens hem adviseert de EOD slechts, er worden geen explosieven opgeruimd.

De afgelopen dagen werden blushelikopters van Defensie ingezet om het vuur vanuit de lucht te blussen. Die zijn woensdag nog niet nodig geweest. Er is vooral sprake van grondvuur, waardoor inzet vanuit de lucht "beperkt effect" heeft.

Hotspots

Het getroffen gebied beslaat nog altijd een gebied van honderd hectare. Daarbinnen bevinden zich de zogenaamde hotspots van de brand. "Het is de vraag hoe zich dat vandaag gaat ontwikkelen." Volgens de woordvoerder zijn delen van het gebied aanzienlijk verwoest. "De natuur is daar behoorlijk weggebrand." Onduidelijk is nog hoe groot dat stuk is.

Over de oorzaak van de brand is nog niets te zeggen. Eerst moet de brand onder controle zijn, pas daarna kan een onderzoek beginnen.

BEIJING (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - China heeft meerdere Amerikaanse bedrijven sancties opgelegd. Zo heeft het onder meer de exportbeperkingen op drones naar de Verenigde Staten aangescherpt. De acties zijn een vergeldingsmaatregel nadat de VS de zwarte lijst heeft uitgebreid van bedrijven die dwangarbeid inzetten.

Onder de sancties vallen ook exportbeperkingen op belangrijke reserveonderdelen en technologieën die door grote Amerikaanse techbedrijven worden gebruikt.

De Amerikaanse autoriteiten zetten vorige week meer dan veertig Chinese bedrijven op de zwarte lijst. Die bedrijven gebruiken materialen uit de regio Xinjiang of nemen deel aan door de staat gerunde arbeidsprogramma's in de noordwestelijke Chinese regio waar veel Oeigoeren wonen.

Mensenrechtenorganisaties beschuldigen de autoriteiten al tijden van onderdrukking van de Oeigoeren. De instanties beschuldigen China ook van dwangarbeid, waarvoor mensen in de regio worden ingezet. Beijing ontkent dit.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Bijenkorf waarschuwt klanten voor een datalek bij een logistieke partner. Onbevoegden hebben mogelijk toegang gekregen tot persoonsgegevens van klanten. Of en hoeveel gegevens buitgemaakt zijn, wordt volgens de warenhuisketen nog onderzocht. Door het incident kampt de Bijenkorf nu sowieso met vertraging in de verwerking van bestellingen, retouren en terugbetalingen.

De getroffen partner heeft direct ingegrepen, de toegang geblokkeerd en aanvullende beveiligingsmaatregelen genomen. Dat is volgens de Bijenkorf de reden dat er nu processen vertraagd zijn. De winkels van de Bijenkorf blijven wel geopend, evenals de webshop.

De Bijenkorf sluit niet uit dat er namen, contactgegevens en data over onlinebestellingen in verkeerde handen zijn gekomen. "Uit voorzorg hebben wij onze klanten geïnformeerd en hebben wij melding gedaan bij de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens", aldus de Bijenkorf, die benadrukt dat er geen betaalgegevens, bankrekeningnummers en wachtwoorden betrokken zijn bij het incident.

DELFT (ANP) - Het openbaar groen in gemeenten als Den Haag, Delft, Schiedam, Vlaardingen en Westland krijgt voorlopig geen water. De bomen, planten en struiken van gemeenten vallen ook onder het sproeiverbod dat sinds woensdag van kracht is in het werkgebied van het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland. Een uitzondering geldt voor monumentale bomen; die mogen nog wel gevoed worden met water uit sloten, grachten en vijvers.

"Want als deze bomen er niet meer zijn, ontstaat onomkeerbare schade aan de natuur", aldus een woordvoerster van Delfland. Gemeenten hebben verschillende criteria voor wat een monumentale boom is. Zo hanteert Delft een leeftijdsgrens van vijftig jaar, andere gemeenten van tachtig of honderd jaar.

De gemeenten in het westelijk kustgebied vrezen voor schade aan hun groen. "Sommige planten zullen verwelken of zelfs niet overleven", aldus Maassluis. "We begrijpen dat dit voor veel inwoners jammer is. Ook wij vinden het verdrietig om groen achteruit te zien gaan."

ARCHAEOLOGIC Repairing and restoring vintage computer hardware has grown increasingly popular, but keeping decades-old machines alive presents different challenges from fixing modern kit. Earie Salmon, of the YouTube channel Earie's 8-Bit Workshop, is one of many tinkerers documenting the process of keeping retro computers ticking over and building new examples of obsolete or never-released kit. Based in Australia, Salmon's entry point into the hobby is all too familiar – a bit of nostalgia mixed with "what would I like to have had if given the chance". In the early 1980s, his brother had a ZX81 and Commodore VIC 20. "I was somewhat jealous and he rationed my access," recalled Salmon. The experience clearly stayed with him. "I bought the system I would like to have had at the same time he had his ZX81, an Acorn Atom, then on into the realms of C64 and Amiga." "However, the personal connection, or at least tenuous link, to the computers after that point disappeared when I realized I had the makings of a collection." The collecting bug bites plenty of people in the tech industry, and Salmon reckons he currently has between 35 and 40 systems "in various states of disrepair." These days, Salmon is an IT professional and refreshingly agnostic about retro hardware. "Repairing half a dozen BBCs or Spectrums in one hit gets a little dull," he said, preferring to plug holes in his collection, or even build computers from scratch. "Last year, I built a notional successor to the TI‑99/4A, the TI‑99/22 designed by Dan Werner, and an Acorn Atom replica designed by Hackjunk." Skills-wise, readers will be unsurprised to learn that knowing your way around soldering and desoldering equipment is a prerequisite, although Salmon cautioned against grabbing some vintage hardware and "cracking on." Better to practice on a Vero board with some disposable components before hitting something decades old with components that might be decidedly difficult to track down. "Finding parts is definitely the biggest challenge… Anything custom, any custom IC such as a ULA that hasn't been built since the production stopped on the original computer. "Getting hold of some of these parts isn't too bad but a lot of them are now only available from 'dead' systems. It just seems wrong to harvest parts but it's unavoidable now." Salmon acknowledged that there were modern replicas of some devices, but many rarer computers lacked the same support. "My biggest frustration with sourcing parts are counterfeit chips. You will confidently order a big bag of 74LS logic ICs to find they are in fact not 74LS. Worse, most IC testers will say 'oh yes it's a 00 IC and works fine' but it's had the label sanded off and re‑etched, it's a different family of logic chips and won't work in your computer. I learnt that one the hard way." Then there are the schematics. Learning to read them and see what should go where is another core skill Salmon recommends, assuming the documents can be found in a language the repairer understands. "A lot of the Japanese computers, NEC or MSX, say, not only were the designs never published but the documentation isn't even googlable unless you know Japanese as it's not been translated." Salmon's most rewarding work involved a BBC Model B. "Had I known what I was letting myself in for, I might not have started it, but once you get the cover off you feel sort of obliged to get it running again," he said. The repair involved undoing somebody else's efforts: bodge wires running to the wrong places, blown ICs, broken traces, and more. Salmon reckons that some of the soldering had been done with a hot spoon. "I don't want to talk anyone down," he said, "but… their confidence exceeded their skills." Best not to look at some of the Raspberry Pi computers this writer has destroyed over the years after experience took a back seat to enthusiasm. Salmon has strong feelings about the repairability of modern hardware, which makes the '70s, '80s, and '90s seem like a golden age. "Equipment designed from the mid-noughties adopted the 'look how small we got it' approach which coincidentally, and almost certainly with no intent, also results in 'look how unrepairable we made it, this is fantastic, now we can force everyone to buy a brand new phone/laptop/tablet every couple of years.'" "In the Nineties and early Noughties, computers were really quite modular so if a bit broke then you only needed to replace that part where previously you could replace the component. "Then from mid-Noughties, the replacement part was suddenly the whole unit. Where previously electronics would be built to last say ten years because you wanted as few returned in the first three as you could get away with, now you want it to last only for the warranty period plus one day. The science behind that to calculate just the right life span of components must be crazy!" Salmon is, unsurprisingly, a huge supporter of the right-to-repair movement. Finally, Salmon's biggest "don't" for budding repairers concerns plugging in the hardware. "Don't work with mains voltage until you know what you are doing and always keep the mains voltage covered to prevent you accidentally touching it." "It's probably happened to everyone who has worked with electronics where you concentrate on placing a probe and your hand accidentally touched a high‑side power component, so get it out of the way or cover it! It might be the only mistake you ever make." ®

Donald Trump heeft op zijn eigen platform Truth Social fel uitgehaald naar Joe Biden, nadat er volgens hem "PLOTSELING" poep in zijn luier bleek te zitten.

Trump schrijft dat er maar één dader kan zijn. "SLEEPY JOE HEEFT IN MIJN LUIER GEPOEPT. Iedereen zegt het. Ik had een PERFECTE, SCHONE luier en vijf minuten later was het een TOTALE RAMP. HEEL VIES! Joe Biden is verantwoordelijk!!!", beweert de president.

Volgens ingewijden is er vooralsnog geen bewijs dat Biden betrokken was bij het incident, maar Trump blijft bij zijn beschuldiging. "DE RADICAAL-LINKSE MEDIA willen jullie doen geloven dat IK het was. ONMOGELIJK! Ik doe zulke dingen NOOIT. Dit is de GROOTSTE LUIERFRAUDE uit de geschiedenis van ons land. Biden moet zich VERANTWOORDEN!!!", aldus Trump, die aankondigde het 'grootste en beste onderzoek' ooit te starten.

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One hunger striker in an immigration detention center was force-fed for almost six months.

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Shouldn’t the health secretary have his hands full with the cyclosporiasis outbreak, measles or rabbit fever? Not when there are crispy salmon cakes to prepare …

The US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has got his work cut out for him. A cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce has the entire country playing salad roulette: one bad leaf and you could become very unwell. The condition isn’t normally deadly, but, on Monday, officials in Michigan confirmed the first two fatalities. Meanwhile, it’s the worst year for measles in the US since 1991. A disease that was once eliminated now looks as though it’s back with a vengeance – thanks in part, according to experts, to anti-vaxxers such as Kennedy himself. And this week New York officials are warning about a rare tick-borne illness called rabbit fever (tularemia).

Still, despite having rather a lot on his plate, Kennedy has found the time to front a new cooking show, hosted on YouTube. It’s called The Real Food Show and it’s supposed to help Americans prepare healthy, affordable meals at home. The first episode features the chef and TV personality Andrew Gruel (perfect name) teaching the US to prepare crispy salmon cakes with … salad. Which is certainly a bold way to kick things off.

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Set on an idyllic Canadian island, this coming-of-age series is juicy stuff. It swaps the darkness of recent YA TV for warmth, humour and a surprisingly compelling mystery

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