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NEW YORK (ANP/AFP) - In het centrum van New York zijn twee mannen het slachtoffer geworden van steekincidenten. De politie onderzoekt of er sprake is van een haatmisdrijf, meldt NBC News. Hoewel de man niet bekend is bij de politie vanwege eerdere psychische problemen, wijzen de eerste bevindingen erop dat zijn mentale toestand mogelijk een rol heeft gespeeld, meldt de politie.
De twee slachtoffers werden bij afzonderlijke incidenten in Manhattan aangevallen. Het gaat om een man van Aziatische afkomst en een joodse man, verklaarde Jessica Tisch, hoofd van de New York Police Department aan NBC. Beide slachtoffers zijn naar het ziekenhuis gebracht en verkeren volgens de politie niet in levensgevaar.
Een 51-jarige man is opgepakt in verband met de steekpartijen. Rechercheurs onderzoeken momenteel wat zijn motief was. Volgens getuigen zou de verdachte tijdens de aanvallen "Allahu Akbar" hebben geroepen.
Volgens de politie bestaat er voorlopig geen aanwijzing dat de verdachte een persoonlijke band had met een van de slachtoffers. Ook lijken de twee slachtoffers elkaar niet te kennen.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP/BLOOMBERG) - De Verenigde Staten zullen beginnen met het gebruik van bevroren Iraanse tegoeden om schepen en lading te vergoeden die zijn beschadigd door aanvallen in en rond de Perzische Golf. Dat heeft president Donald Trump bekendgemaakt op Truth Social.
"Laat deze verklaring tot nader order gelden als de mededeling dat vanaf dit moment alle schade aan schepen, lading of al hetgeen daarmee verband houdt, zal worden betaald uit Iraans geld waarover de Verenigde Staten de beschikkings- en beheersmacht hebben," aldus Trump.
"De schade kan aanzienlijk zijn, maar desondanks is dit de eerlijke en rechtvaardige handelswijze", voegde Trump eraan toe.
De president heeft zijn dreigementen aan het adres van Iran de afgelopen dagen opgevoerd, nu beide partijen elkaar al bijna twee weken bestoken. Door Houthi-rebellen, die door Iran worden gesteund, zijn bovendien twee Saudische olietankers getroffen, waardoor het conflict nog verder is geëscaleerd.
PARIJS (ANP) - Frankrijk heeft om de activering van het mechanisme voor civiele bescherming van de Europese Unie (EU) gevraagd en zal "snel" Europese blusvliegtuigen ontvangen om de bosbranden te bestrijden, zo kondigde Emmanuel Macron in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag aan op X.
"We kunnen binnenkort rekenen op de versterking van twee Kroatische Canadairs, twee Portugese Air Tractors en twee zware Black Hawk-helikopters uit Tsjechië en Slowakije", aldus de Franse president. "Dank aan onze Europese partners voor hun solidariteit."
Frankrijk kampt met meerdere grote bosbranden. Nabij de Zuid-Franse stad Bordeaux zijn preventief ruim 20.000 mensen geëvacueerd en er is inmiddels 2400 hectare verbrand.
Ook nabij de gemeente Biscarrosse en Parentis-en-Born woedt een grote bosbrand. Daarbij is al meer dan 1000 hectare opgegaan in vlammen. Volgens de lokale overheid is de situatie "zeer ongunstig". Uit voorzorg zijn in dat gebied zo'n 9000 personen geëvacueerd.
MADRID (ANP/AFP) - Spanje heeft donderdag laat een nationale noodtoestand afgekondigd in de regio Madrid en in de provincie Ávila, vlak bij de hoofdstad, naar aanleiding van verschillende uitslaande bosbranden. De maatregel, die door het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken werd aangekondigd, is bedoeld om de inzet van middelen voor de bestrijding van de branden te versnellen.
In de regio Madrid hebben de vlammen al geleid tot de evacuatie van 10.000 mensen. Door de noodtoestand komt de coördinatie van de crisis in handen te liggen van een militaire noodeenheid.
Spanje is niet het enige Europese land dat wordt geteisterd door felle bosbranden. Door extreme hitte en harde wind woedden ook in delen van Italië en Frankrijk branden. Het totaal aan verwoeste landoppervlakte in EU-landen is tot nu toe dit jaar het op een na grootste ooit gemeten, zo blijkt uit satellietgegevens van het Europese informatiesysteem voor bosbranden (EFFIS).
EU unveils largest package in four years of measures against Russian individuals and interests; Laura Loomer shows up in Kyiv. What we know on day 1,612
Arkady Dvorkovich, the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said on Friday he was suspending his activity with the organisation after being placed on the EU list of sanctioned Russians. Dvorkovich, a former Russian deputy prime minister, complained that the designation was “unlawful and unfair”. A statement said Viswanathan Anand, an Indian world chess champion, would take over as the federation’s interim president.
It came as the EU has unveiled its largest sanctions package in four years against Russia, targeting 218 individuals and entities. The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the measures hit more than 100 banks and cryptocurrency operators, more than 40 vessels from Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, as well as several oil refineries. The package adds more than 50 military-industrial entities to the sanctions list, including key actors involved in producing Russia’s long-range drones. The Russian oil price cap is frozen at $44.10 per barrel for 12 months, preventing an automatic increase that would have raised it to about $58.50.
The new listings take the total number of designations to nearly 3,000. There is a full asset-freeze on 94 Russian financial institutions, nearly all banks, and disconnection of 33 Russian banks from the Swift international payments system. Moscow’s stock exchange is added to the sanctions. Internationally, banks or cryptocurrency platforms are hit in countries including Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Georgia, Panama, the Marshall Islands, Belarus, the United Arab Emirates and Africa.
The package also targets actors linked to Russia’s satellite communications system being developed as an alternative to Starlink. There are 56 entities and persons added to the sanctions list for involvement in Russia’s military industrial complex – most of them linked to long-range Garpiya drones. There are 51 entities added to list of companies that face export restrictions on dual-use goods and technology. Some are in third countries: China, including Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and the UAE.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy remained under pressure to restore the ousted defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, to his post after Fedorov said he would not accept alternative roles in government put forward by the president.
The Maga influencer Laura Loomer has turned up in Ukraine where she met with the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after recently reversing her stance on the war. It was unclear what had prompted Loomer’s trip or how she had arranged the meeting with Zelenskyy. Loomer spent years minimising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, amplifying Russian propaganda and abusing Ukraine as “a country full of Nazi apologists … led by a jihadi apologist”.
During her Ukraine visit, Loomer posted: “Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrainian. I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say … We need to have moral clarity.” Loomer appeared to reverse her stance on Ukraine in June after her podcast editor visited Kyiv and Odesa just as they came under heavy attack, and after rival far-right influencer Candace Owens visited and praised Russia. Trump’s supposed Russia-Ukraine war peace broker, Steve Witkoff, has repeatedly visited Russia but has yet to go to Ukraine.
A Russian attack on a food business in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad killed three and injured at least 10 people, the regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. The attack caused a fire. Ukrainian strikes killed three people, including a child, and wounded eight in Russia and in Moscow-annexed Crimea on Thursday, local authorities said.
Continue reading...The overexposed actor falls flat in another disappointing vehicle that fails to make the most of its neat bachelor-party-with-a-twist concept
72 Hours is Kevin Hart’s midlife crisis comedy. He stars as Joe, a 40-year-old New York marketing executive whose once-reliable Midas touch has worn off. He’s no longer the office’s go-to translator of youth culture, yet he remains on the verge of a promotion – the final hurdle standing between him and happily-ever-after with his longtime girlfriend (Teyana Taylor), a doctor weighing an opportunity that could pull her away from the life they’ve built together in the city.
All the while, crude texts and memes flood his phone from a random group chat populated by a pack of twentysomething guys planning a bachelor party in Miami – an annoyance that quickly becomes his ticket back to relevance. Joe not only drops everything to join these perfect strangers for the weekend; he upgrades the whole affair, picks up the tab and supplies the booze in hopes of harvesting content for his struggling campaign. It would be a fine set-up if it weren’t such an obvious metaphor for Hart’s own showbiz career.
Continue reading...Airbus A350–1000ULR becomes most watched plane on flight tracking websites as Qantas tests new aircraft for its Project Sunrise
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Qantas’s new ultra long-distance aircraft has landed on Australian soil for the first time on Friday after a 19-hour test flight from France.
The Airbus A350-1000ULR, designed for Qantas to complete some of the longest commercial flights in the world, set off on a nonstop journey from Airbus’ manufacturing facility Toulouse, France on Thursday, destined for Melbourne.
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Azure users who use resources in Microsoft’s West US region endured an uncomfortable day after the tech giant cut off access to its Californian cloud outpost. As Microsoft explains in its preliminary post incident review, at 14:44 UTC on July 23rd (07:44 AM Pacific Time), the company started “routine device maintenance.” That effort immediately produced problems. “Multiple Azure services began to detect and correlate service degradation,” Microsoft’s review reads. A minute later, Microsoft says folks from its networking and services teams, plus people it describes as “incident responders” began “reviewing traffic anomalies, routing behavior, packet loss signals, and recent changes.” Microsoft says this sort of maintenance job requires isolating specific network paths, and that it uses a process that “converts these requests into system-readable requests and verifies that at least one of the two redundant paths remains healthy.” We’re told the company makes “safety checks to confirm the work will be impact-less.” The mere fact you are reading this story shows that process instead delivered an unintended impact. “In this case, a bug in the request conversion system incorrectly marked additional devices as a part of the maintenance event and caused a set of IP routes to be removed from more devices than intended,” Microsoft confessed. “The routes were removed between our datacenter and wide-area network, impacting traffic entering or exiting the region.” Microsoft’s incident report says the issue “initially presented as large-scale route churn in our Wide-Area Network” and that its investigations “later found that route removal was from a datacenter in the West US region.” Some time between 16:00 UTC and 17:45 UTC Microsoft identified “recent fiber maintenance activity, which we correlated to the identified routing behavior.” At 17:45 the company started rolling back changes, and by 18:26 Microsoft’s WAN was back to its best. By 19:41 UTC, all impacted services had fully recovered – and Microsoft joined AWS and Google in offering recent examples of how clouds can be rather more fragile than advertised. ®
Oracle has signed a 10-year Pentagon contract worth up to $7 billion to provide on-premises software, licenses, maintenance, and consulting for branches of the military. CNBC reports: The contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for branches of the military, the U.S. intelligence community and the Coast Guard, according to a statement. The Central Intelligence Agency was Oracle's first customer. A five-year base period for the contract includes perpetual and subscription-based software licenses, maintenance and consulting, according to one description.
Kirsten Davies, the Department of Defense's chief information officer, said in the release that the agency is saving at least $441 million for taxpayers "by fundamentally improving how we procure on-premises Oracle capabilities."
Kirsten Davies, the Department of Defense's chief information officer, said in the release that the agency is saving at least $441 million for taxpayers "by fundamentally improving how we procure on-premises Oracle capabilities."
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