DE BILT (ANP) - In Flevoland, Overijssel, Drenthe, Groningen, Friesland en het Waddengebied geldt zondagochtend code geel vanwege plaatselijk dichte mist. Het zicht kan daar minder zijn dan 200 meter en wegen en overig verkeer zijn minder goed zichtbaar, zegt het KNMI.
Code geel werd zaterdagavond al afgegeven voor Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe en de Waddeneilanden. Zondagochtend werd de waarschuwing uitgebreid naar Flevoland en Overijssel.
In de loop van de ochtend trekt de mist weer weg vanuit het zuiden, aldus het KNMI. "Maar vooral in het Waddengebied en in het westen van Friesland kan de dichte mist hardnekkig zijn."
PYONGYANG (ANP/AFP) - Het Noord-Koreaanse regime houdt later deze maand een partijcongres, het eerste grote partijberaad sinds 2021. Dat meldt het staatsnieuwsagentschap KCNA.
Het besluit werd zaterdag genomen tijdens een bijeenkomst van de top van de regerende Koreaanse Arbeiderspartij, waarbij ook leider Kim Jong-un aanwezig was. Volgens KCNA is unaniem besloten het negende partijcongres eind februari te houden in Pyongyang.
Het laatste, achtste congres vond plaats in januari 2021. Tijdens die bijeenkomst werd Kim benoemd tot partijsecretaris-generaal, een titel die eerder was voorbehouden aan zijn vader en voorganger Kim Jong-il.
Het partijcongres geldt als het belangrijkste politieke forum van het land en kan worden gebruikt om beleidswijzigingen of veranderingen binnen de elite aan te kondigen. Het congres van 2021 vond plaats kort voor de inauguratie van de Amerikaanse president Joe Biden. De toon werd toen door waarnemers omschreven als uitdagend richting de Verenigde Staten.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Nederland heeft steeds meer energiezuinige huizen. Meer dan 2,2 miljoen woningen hadden in 2025 energielabel A of hoger. Dit komt neer op vier op de tien woningen met een bekend energielabel. In 2024 hadden bijna 2 miljoen woningen het duurzaamste label. Dit blijkt uit een analyse door ANP van cijfers van de Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO).
Een energielabel geeft aan hoe energiezuinig een woning is. Label A staat voor een zeer zuinig huis met een laag energieverbruik, bijvoorbeeld door goede isolatie en duurzame technieken zoals een warmtepomp, zonnepanelen of dubbel glas. Het minst zuinig is het label G. Ongeveer 3 procent van de huizen met een energielabel valt in deze categorie.
Bestaande woningen kunnen een hoger label krijgen door een woning te verduurzamen. Nieuwe woningen hebben altijd label A of hoger. Om deze reden is het aandeel duurzame woningen hoog in gemeenten met veel nieuwbouw, zoals Almere, Pijnacker-Nootdorp en Lansingerland. Limburg en Zeeland hebben relatief de minste woningen met het duurzaamste energielabel. In beide provincies ligt het aandeel woningen met energielabel A of hoger op ongeveer een derde.
Sinds 2022 is het verplicht om bij de verkoop van een woning een definitief energielabel te vermelden. In 2025 had ongeveer tweederde van de woningen een geldig label.
Tientallen ouders hebben zich bij de tiplijn van RTL Nieuws gemeld, omdat zij denken dat hun baby ziek is geworden na het drinken van Nutrilon babyvoeding. Gisteren kwam de producent van Nutrilon met een grote terugroepactie, omdat er mogelijk een giftige stof in zit. "Er is niet echt direct reden tot paniek, maar wel waakzaamheid", zegt Wieke van der Vossen van het Voedingscentrum.
Volgens ouders die contact opnamen met RTL Nieuws kregen hun baby's klachten als braken, diarree, buikpijn en lusteloosheid. Ook zou er een baby onwel zijn geworden. In totaal gaat het om dertig ouders die zich hebben gemeld bij de tiptelefoon van RTL Nieuws. Enkele ouders zeggen dat hun kind met ernstigere klachten naar het ziekenhuis moest.
Het is niet met zekerheid te zeggen of de kinderen daadwerkelijk ziek zijn geworden van de voeding. Wel hadden ze het kort voor het ziek worden gedronken.
Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks
The email landed in Lizzie Johnson’s in-tray in Ukraine just before 4pm local time. It came at a tough time for the reporter: Russia had been repeatedly striking the country’s power grid, and just days before she had been forced to work out of her car without heat, power or running water, writing in pencil because pen ink freezes too readily.
“Difficult news,” was the subject line. The body text said: “Your position is eliminated as part of today’s organizational changes,” explaining that it was necessary to get rid of her to meet the “evolving needs of our business”.
Continue reading...You need to check where you stand legally, but I fear you’re being taken advantage of and will have to ask her to leave
In spring 2022, my husband and I were lucky enough to sell our house for a profit and, with help from my parents, bought a much bigger home. At the time, my friend was going through a tough time, so I asked if she would like to move in with us and our two children. There was no written agreement, but the plan was that she would either quit her job and retrain, or save for her own place and move out in six months to a year. She pays us £350 a month, which goes towards energy bills, bar a three-month period when she wasn’t working. I also gave her money towards taking a course.
She hasn’t retrained, got a new job or saved for a new place. And she doesn’t have the money to move out. I feel trapped and resent all I have to do as a working mum while she’s here, but that’s compounded by guilt as I know I’m very privileged to have a big house and a well-paid job. I hate that she sees me at my worst (rowing with my husband/sorting out arguments between the kids) and I feel as if I’m constantly keeping my emotions in check around her. Our friendship feels warped into a parent-child dynamic.
Continue reading...Punchy cocktails and roaringly traditional Greek food in the heart of Birmingham
Cylla, a classy Greek restaurant on Newhall Street, Birmingham, draws inspiration, it says, from Scylla, the legendary Greek man-eating sea monster that lives close to the whirlpools of Charybdis. She’s a beautiful woman, but has six dog heads, all grumpy and snarling, as well as a serpent’s tail.
If Scylla herself were ever to turn up at Cylla, dogs’ heads barking and tail flapping, they’d have to seat her in one of the gorgeous private booths at the front as you enter the room. These are the spots to grab if you want a little privacy, which is why we eschewed the long, prettily lit cocktail bar and headed straight to this cosy hidey-hole for a round of Poseidon’s Wrath. “It’s a bit like a dirty martini,” explained our server, who was one of those warm, bright, commanding, knowledgable souls who, in a hospitality setting, is worth her weight in drachma. This invigorating, mega-bitter tipple of vodka and vermouth laced with piney, herbaceous mastiha, seaweed and kalamata olive brine is the cocktail equivalent of being rescued by the RNLI: salty, breathtaking and head-spinning. Fret not, sweetness seekers, because they also offer a dozen other honey-, peach- and even meringue-based cocktails, if those are your thing, and all with equally dramatic, Greek myth-related names. Aphrodite’s Bloom, anyone? It’s a sensuous ode to the golden hour, the menu says.
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The government’s failure to respond to calls for a compensation scheme for women harmed by pelvic mesh has been described as “morally unacceptable” by campaigners.
Thousands of women were left with life-changing complications after receiving transvaginal mesh implants, with some unable to walk or work again.
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Janine di Giovanni is a war correspondent and the executive director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza
In Syria, where I worked during the years of Bashar al-Assad’s terror, people were often taken away to torture cells before dawn by masked men. The timing was deliberate. It disoriented them at their most vulnerable, ensuring the torture to come would be even more agonising. The testimonies I recorded from survivors almost always contained the same phrase: “The morning they came for me.” One young woman, shattered by rape and violence, later told me that her life had split in two – before and after the masked men came for her.
In Iraq, those who spoke against Saddam Hussein – even abroad, even casually – were punished in cruel ways by a vengeful leader determined to crush any hint of dissent.
Janine di Giovanni is a war correspondent and the executive director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza. She is the author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria.
Continue reading...Black Panther made him a megastar, but in private the actor and his wife Simone Ledward Boseman were dealing with his terminal cancer diagnosis. In a rare interview, she talks about the shock of losing him, and how a revival of one of his plays has helped her heal
Simone Ledward Boseman is reflecting on the five years that have passed since the death of her husband, actor and writer Chadwick Boseman. “The edges of grief get less sharp over time,” she says. “Five years definitely feels like a marker. I’ve had to gradually figure out how I talk about Chad. What do I want to share, and what do I feel comfortable sharing? Can I find something that I might want to share in the midst of something I don’t want to share?” We meet on a video call across time zones – it’s 9am in California, where she lives. “Except for my mom, I’m not talking to anybody before 10am,” she laughs. She’s made an exception to give a rare interview ahead of the UK premiere of her late husband’s play Deep Azure, which is currently in previews in London at Shakespeare’s Globe.
When Boseman’s death was announced at the end of August 2020, the shock reverberated across the globe. He was devastatingly young – only 43 – and the world was just getting to know him. The release of the movie Black Panther two years earlier, in which he played the eponymous character also known as T’Challa, had skyrocketed his fame. Before then, he had been a successful Hollywood actor. Now? He was a global megastar – the first Black superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The news was doubly shocking because the family had not previously revealed that he had been suffering with colorectal cancer.
Continue reading...Propping up operations at Scunthorpe site, still legally owned by Jingye, now costs over £1.2m a day – so what are the options?
British Steel was losing £700,000 a day last year when its Chinese owner announced plans to shut the steelworks at Scunthorpe. After Jingye rejected support to buy raw materials, the UK government stepped in with emergency legislation to take control of the plant.
But that was not the end of the crisis. The cost to the government of propping up British Steel is now more than £1.2m a day. Yet the £359m bill, the latest disclosed to parliament last month, may only be the start.
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