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GENÈVE (ANP/AFP) - De gezondheidssituatie in Cuba is "diep verontrustend", schreef directeur-generaal Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) woensdag op X.
Het Caribische eiland kampt al maanden met een diepe energiecrisis, onder meer door een de facto olie-embargo van de Verenigde Staten en de verouderde energie-infrastructuur in het land. De bevolking kreeg de afgelopen weken meermaals met stroomuitval te maken.
De ziekenhuizen in Cuba hebben moeite dringende en intensieve zorg draaiende te houden, aldus Tedros. "De voorbije maand zijn duizenden operaties uitgesteld. Mensen die verzorging nodig hebben, van kankerpatiënten tot zwangere vrouwen, worden in gevaar gebracht, omdat er onvoldoende elektriciteit is om medische apparatuur te bedienen of vaccins koel te houden."
Tot voor kort kon Cuba op hulp van bondgenoot Venezuela rekenen, maar sinds de ontvoering van de Venezolaanse president Nicolás Maduro door het Amerikaanse leger begin januari krijgt het land ook uit die hoek geen hulp meer.
GAVIÃO PEIXOTO (ANP/RTR) - Brazilië is het eerste Latijns-Amerikaanse land geworden dat een supersonische straaljager bouwt. Woensdag onthulde Brasília namelijk de eerste Gripen die in eigen land is geassembleerd. De Gripen is een door het Zweedse Saab ontworpen toestel. "Dit is de eerste keer sinds de oprichting van Saab dat een straaljager buiten Zweden wordt geproduceerd", aldus Saab-CEO Micael Johansson.
Met de bouw van een supersonische straaljager schaart Brazilië zich bij westerse grootmachten zoals de Verenigde Staten en Frankrijk, evenals bij Rusland, India en China.
Brazilië tekende in 2014 een contract voor de aanschaf van 15 tot 36 Gripens, die door de Braziliaanse vliegtuigbouwer Embraer worden geproduceerd. Daarmee gaf het land de toestellen van Saab de voorkeur boven de F-18 Super Hornet van Boeing en de Rafale van het Franse Dassault, ter vervanging van zijn verouderde vloot straaljagers.
Vorig jaar besloot ook buurland Colombia Gripen-straaljagers aan te schaffen.
DEN BOSCH (ANP) - De politie onderzoekt een schietincident dat in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag zou hebben plaatsgevonden op de Breeakkers in de wijk Empel in Den Bosch. Dat zei de politie op X.
Uit een eerste verkenning blijkt dat op een woning is geschoten. Er zijn volgens de politie geen gewonden. De verdachten zijn met de auto gevlucht.
Het schietincident werd mogelijk voorafgegaan door een explosie met zwaar vuurwerk. Een ruit aan de voorkant van de woning is zwaar beschadigd. De politie doet ook daar onderzoek naar, met hulp van specialistische eenheden.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De hypotheekrentes in Nederland zijn gestegen door de Iranoorlog. Vooral starters en kopers in de grote steden en op de nieuwbouwmarkt kunnen dat merken, meldt ING Research.
Dat hypotheekverstrekkers de rentetarieven hebben verhoogd sinds het begin van de oorlog eind februari, komt volgens de bank door de hogere rentes op de geld- en kapitaalmarkt. De belangrijkste kapitaalmarktrente voor hypotheken ligt inmiddels zo'n 0,35 procent hoger dan voor het conflict.
De energieprijzen zijn de afgelopen weken flink gestegen en beleggers verwachten dat dit leidt tot hogere inflatie en rentes van centrale banken. Momenteel rekenen beleggers op twee renteverhogingen door de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) dit jaar. Dat zorgt ook voor een hogere langetermijnrente, die belangrijk is voor de aangeboden hypotheekrentes, verklaart ING.
Vooral starters worden volgens de bank geraakt door de hogere hypotheekrentes. Daardoor kunnen zij een zo'n 3 procent lagere hypotheek aanvragen. Wel vindt ING dat de impact meevalt omdat het om licht hogere rentes gaat. Doorstromers kunnen hun oudere en vaak lagere rente meenemen als ze een ander huis kopen.
Dat de stijgingen ook te voelen zijn in de grote steden en in de nieuwbouw, komt omdat daar veel starters zijn en het aanbod er toeneemt. De nieuwbouwmarkt is gevoeliger voor renteveranderingen omdat de periode tussen koop en oplevering langer is.
Wat de rentemarkt de komende tijd gaat doen, hangt af van de oorlog en of de energietoevoer weer opstart, aldus ING. De belangrijke Straat van Hormuz voor het vervoeren van olie is sinds de oorlog vrijwel afgesloten. Als het conflict blijft aanhouden, kan de rente volgens de bank verder oplopen.
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Ukrainian president says peace deal proposed by US included ceding land to Russia. What we know on day 1,492
The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country’s eastern region of Donbas to Russia, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters in an interview. With the US focused on its own conflict with Iran, president Donald Trump is applying pressure to Ukraine in an effort to bring a quick end to the four-year war triggered by Russia’s 2022 invasion, Zelenskyy said. “The Middle East definitely has an impact on President Trump, and I think on his next steps. President Trump, unfortunately, in my opinion, still chooses a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side,” he told Reuters. “I would very much like the American side to understand that the eastern part of our country is part of our security guarantees,” he said.
Russia sought to blackmail the US by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran if, in return, Washington would cut off Ukraine from its intelligence data, Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. Zelenskyy, who said on Monday that Ukraine’s military intelligence has “irrefutable” evidence that Russia was continuing to provide intelligence to Iran, told Reuters he had seen the data but provided no further details. “I have reports from our intelligence services showing that Russia is doing this and saying: ‘I will not pass on intelligence to Iran if America stops passing intelligence to Ukraine.’ Isn’t that blackmail? Absolutely,” Zelenskyy said.
Russian attacks killed two people in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv and the region around it and a strike on the Danube port of Izamil damaged port facilities and energy infrastructure, officials said. Prosecutors in Kharkiv region, in a statement on Telegram early on Thursday, said a woman injured in an attack on the city of Kharkiv had died of her injuries in hospital. They said nine people were injured in strikes on two districts of the city, a frequent target of Russian forces, 30 km (18 km) from the border. Prosecutors also said a Russian drone killed a man in his car in a district closer to the border.
Ukrainian drone strikes killed two people on Wednesday in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, the regional governor said. Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on Telegram, said drones killed an 18-year-old man aboard a motorcycle in a village near the border and a woman in her car in the town of Graivoron, also near the border. Belgorod has been a frequent target of Ukrainian forces during the four-year war pitting Kyiv against Moscow. Ukrainian shelling of a public building in the city of Belgorod killed four people last week.
Zimbabwe said on Wednesday that 15 of its citizens had been killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the latest African country to report recruits dying on the frontlines. Information minister Zhemu Soda told a press conference that the 15 had been deceived into enlisting, referring to it as human trafficking. He said one recruitment method used by traffickers targeting Zimbabweans was social media. An official at Russia’s embassy in Harare declined to comment.
British prime minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday he has given the military permission to board and detain Russian ships his government alleges are part of a network of vessels that enables Moscow to export oil despite western sanctions. The decision comes as other European nations have stepped up efforts to disrupt Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of tankers used by Moscow to fund its four-year war against Ukraine. Starmer said he approved more aggressive action against the vessels because Russian President Vladimir Putin was likely “rubbing his hands” at the sharp rise in oil prices driven by the US-Israel war against Iran.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a Putin ally, was greeted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as he arrived on his first visit to the reclusive nation, the Korean Central news agency reported on Thursday. A ceremony welcoming Lukashenko took place on Kim Il Sung Square on 25 March, with Kim “gladly” meeting and “warmly” welcoming the Belarus leader, the report said. Lukashenko visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun – where the embalmed bodies of Kim’s father and grandfather lie in state – to pay his respects, flanked by top North Korean officials, the report said. Lukashenko laid a bouquet on behalf of Putin, it added.
Continue reading...Teen sensation has finished school and now trains as full-time athlete
18-year-old to renew rivalry with Lachlan Kennedy at Maurie Plant
Dazzling in his sponsor’s tracksuit, and sparkling with an earring and two glimmering chains, sprint sensation Gout Gout told his first press conference in Melbourne his confidence is growing.
The teenager spoke to a swarm of cameras on Thursday, ahead of the Maurie Plant Meet on Saturday. The major attraction of the marquee night in Australian athletics is a rematch of the 200m race against Lachie Kennedy last year, when Gout was upstaged.
Continue reading...US president says he will host Chinese leader in a reciprocal visit later this year
Donald Trump will meet Xi Jinping in May during the US president’s first visit to China in eight years, a closely watched trip that had been postponed due to the Iran war.
Trump was initially slated to travel next week, but will now visit Beijing on 14 and 15 May, he wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday. Trump said he would host the Chinese leader in a reciprocal visit in Washington later this year.
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Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads
Major memory makers have already sold all the kit they can make this year, creating shortages and price increases. Datacenter infrastructure buyers may soon face the same issues when trying to get their hands on backup batteries.…
The U.S. Postal Service plans to impose its first-ever fuel surcharge on packages (source paywalled; alternative source), adding an 8% fee starting in April as it struggles with rising fuel costs and ongoing financial pressure. The surcharge will not apply to letter mail and is currently expected to remain in place until January 2027. The Wall Street Journal reports: Other parcel carriers, including FedEx and United Parcel Service, have imposed fuel surcharges, as well as a basket of other surcharges and fees, for years. Both FedEx and UPS have dramatically raised their fuel surcharges in recent weeks as the price of oil has increased amid the turmoil in the Middle East. [...] The post office has been trying to increase the volume of packages it delivers. It previously differentiated itself from commercial carriers by saying that it doesn't apply residential, Saturday delivery or fuel or remote-delivery surcharges.
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