BEEK EN DONK (ANP) - De 56-jarige man die ervan wordt verdacht een vrouw om het leven te hebben gebracht in Beek en Donk, had een relatie met haar. Dat bevestigt de politie desgevraagd.

In de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag werd het lichaam van de vrouw gevonden in het huis van de man aan De Els in de Noord-Brabantse plaats. De politie trof haar aan nadat zij een melding had gekregen van een "verdachte situatie". Wie de melding heeft gedaan, wil een politiewoordvoerder niet zeggen. De vrouw was 50 jaar en woonde in Tilburg.

De man wordt waarschijnlijk dinsdag voorgeleid, aldus de woordvoerder.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft het reisadvies voor Frankrijk aangepast. Het ministerie waarschuwt Nederlanders in Frankrijk voor gewelddadige demonstraties in het land. De kleur van het reisadvies blijft geel.

In de waarschuwing is te lezen dat bij de demonstraties in grote Franse steden sprake is van "geweld, brandstichting en ernstige vernielingen". Daarbij wordt aangegeven dat het mogelijk is dat er nog meer demonstraties zullen volgen. De Franse politie kan volgens het ministerie "hard optreden".

Nederlanders in Frankrijk wordt aangeraden altijd aanwijzingen van lokale autoriteiten op te volgen, demonstraties en mensenmassa's te mijden, op de hoogte te blijven van de situatie door het nieuws te volgen en rekening te houden met verstoringen in het verkeer en openbaar vervoer tijdens demonstraties.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Uitzendbureaus en de bedrijven waar uitzendkrachten werken, hebben vaak niet goed afgestemd wie verantwoordelijk is voor de veiligheid en gezondheid van uitzendmedewerkers op hun werkplek. De Arbeidsinspectie constateert dit na onderzoek en een inspectieproject bij uitzendbureaus en inleners. Het is volgens de inspectie lang niet altijd duidelijk wie verantwoordelijk is voor bijvoorbeeld persoonlijke beschermingsmiddelen, instructie, toezicht en toegang tot arbozorg.

De Arbeidsinspectie noemt deze bevinding "extra zorgelijk, omdat uitzendkrachten vaak in een kwetsbare positie werken". Dat komt volgens de inspectie door een korte inwerktijd, taalbarrières, onzeker werk met veel wisselingen van werkzaamheden en soms beperkte kennis van veiligheidsregels.

Daarnaast stelt de Arbeidsinspectie na 557 inspecties tussen 2023 en 2025 dat uitzendkrachten vaker een ongeval krijgen en dat ze ook vaker ongezonder en gevaarlijker werk blijken te doen dan medewerkers in vaste dienst.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Premier Rob Jetten en zijn partner Nicolás Keenan verwachten in 2027 een kind. De twee kondigden dat maandag aan op Instagram. Bij een foto waarop ze een echofoto vasthouden, schrijven ze dat ze hun eiceldonor, hun draagmoeder Lisa en hun gezinnen "super dankbaar" zijn.

PARIJS (ANP/AFP/RTR) - De Franse premier Sébastien Lecornu heeft een reeks maatregelen aangekondigd na de rellen van afgelopen weekend. Hij stelde avondklokken in het vooruitzicht en bedrijven kunnen steun tegemoetzien.

Lecornu sprak de pers toe na crisisoverleg over de grootschalige onrust van afgelopen weekend. Er vonden toen rellen en plunderingen plaats in steden als Parijs en Marseille.

De onrust leidde tot een ravage. Duizenden bedrijven liepen volgens de autoriteiten schade op. Lecornu zei dat ultralinkse groepen voor chaos willen zorgen in aanloop naar de presidentsverkiezingen.

Orde herstellen

De premier wil de openbare orde herstellen. Hij verklaarde dat hij regionale autoriteiten heeft gevraagd om maandagavond op sommige plekken avondklokken op te leggen.

"Avondklokken moeten lokaal en gedeeltelijk zijn", benadrukte hij. "Het is uitgesloten dat heel Parijs onder avondklok wordt geplaatst."

Microsoft has reportedly pulled out of plans for Britain's largest AI supercomputer, because the government-backed project is facing the rather inconvenient problem of having no electricity to run it. The tech giant has terminated its agreement with British AI infrastructure startup Nscale for a planned datacenter in Loughton, Essex, according to The Telegraph, which first reported the withdrawal on Sunday. The decision follows reports that the site, which was supposed to begin operating in 2027, might not receive enough electricity from the grid until the early to mid-2030s. Microsoft was expected to be the anchor customer at Loughton, which Nscale had pitched as the UK's largest sovereign AI datacenter. Its departure leaves Nscale without a publicly announced customer for the site, although the neocloud insists the project is still going ahead. When the deal was announced in September 2025, the plan was to pack 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs into a 50MW facility, with room to expand to 90MW. Microsoft would use the computing power for its Azure cloud services, with the first chips expected in early 2027. One important detail remained: how to power it. As The Guardian reported last month, UK Power Networks warned Nscale that the grid capacity needed might not be available until the 2030s. A UK Power Networks spokesperson told The Register it could not discuss individual connections due to obligations under Section 105 of the Utilities Act. "However, in general, many datacenters, whilst they can connect to our distribution network, are awaiting works on the national transmission network which we do not own," the spokesperson said. Nscale, meanwhile, isn't letting the small matter of losing its biggest customer dampen its enthusiasm. “We remain committed to both the Loughton project and the UK and we are exploring alternative power sources for the site, in addition to other expansion sites in the UK. Our relationship with Microsoft remains strong and long-term, and this unfortunate London-wide grid issue has no impact on our other contracts,” Nscale told The Register. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment. The project has already had its share of awkward moments. In March, it was revealed that the site earmarked for Britain's AI supercomputer was still being used as a scaffolding yard. Nscale has since cleared the land, but removing the scaffolding has proved easier than securing electricity. The government might be feeling a little red-faced too, having trumpeted the Loughton project as part of Microsoft's £22 billion UK investment announcement in September 2025. Just over a year later, Microsoft has walked away, and the site is still facing years of delays in getting the power it needs. The grid problems extend well beyond Essex. Ofgem proposed charging datacenter developers for connection requests earlier this year, hoping to discourage speculative projects from clogging up the queue. Demand for new connections had surged from 41GW to 125GW in less than a year, with datacenters accounting for at least 80GW. Some UK datacenter developers have turned to gas-powered generation rather than wait years for a grid connection, while others face growing resistance from the people living nearby. Residents near Google's Waltham Cross facility complained about noise, lighting and poor consultation at a public meeting in July. Britain isn’t alone in finding that the AI boom comes with substantial infrastructure demands. In the US, public enthusiasm for datacenters appears to be cooling, with concerns about electricity costs and environmental impacts increasingly souring attitudes towards new developments. For all the billions being thrown at AI infrastructure, the industry is discovering that building datacenters is the easy part. Getting them connected to the grid, and keeping the neighbors happy, is proving rather more difficult. ®

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Comedian, who is on trial at Southwark crown court, allegedly sexually assaulted woman within minute of meeting her

Russell Brand had a “weird maniacal” grin on his face like a clown when he grabbed a woman’s breasts before dragging her into a toilet and raping her, a court has heard.

The 51-year-old comedian is accused of orally raping the MTV worker as he told her: “You want to do this,” and: “Come on, don’t be a spoilsport.”

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Tasty, spicy fritters to dip into coconut sambol as a snack or treat, or serve with avocado or egg for a more substantial supper

These warmly spiced fritters are inspired by the tikki-chaat carts found all over India, which sizzle fresh chickpea, potato or lentil patties on hot-plates until crisp, then slather them with chutneys. The coconut sambol ushers forth the flavours of south India – coconut, mustard seeds and lime; add a teaspoon of tamarind paste to increase the tartness, if you like. A good dollop of yoghurt is a must, and a fried egg or avocado on the side turns these fritters into a satisfying supper.

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A local cinema becomes a refuge after Javier Milei’s election ushers in an era of far-right conservatism in Argentina

Cinema halls – or dream palaces, as they’re affectionately called – offer a retreat into the realm of make-believe, and everyday drudgery is left at the door. Though set within a single-screen theatre in the Argentinian city of Córdoba, Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas’s hypnotic film invokes a more porous relationship between the screen and its audience. Here, the messiness of life beguilingly sneaks into this domain of fantasies, blurring the borders between public and private spaces.

While the luminous black-and-white cinematography lends a dreamy fuzziness to the images, the narrative concerns are grounded in thorny economic realities. A film projectionist at his local cinema called Pelu (Octavio Bertone) is reassigned to the post of a night watchman due to budget cuts at the city hall. The cinema soon becomes his literal refuge: he moves out of his cramped rented flat and secretly takes up occupation at his workplace. He then welcomes a horde of other outsiders, including his unemployed roommate, an ageing drifter and a sex worker who livestreams her erotic shows from the cinema. Every night, they watch classic films from the old masters – Jean Renoir, Yasujiro Ozu and Robert Bresson to name a few – until the early hours.

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A biographer’s affecting account of prominent critics of Zionism from Hannah Arendt to Nan Goldin

“Everyone in America – at least as far as I knew – was a Zionist,” recalls Benjamin Moser, “especially but not only if you were Jewish.” A Pulitzer-winning biographer of Susan Sontag, he remembers being brought up short in his 20s, when a friend described Israel as “a bunch of foreigners who had no business in the Middle East” and Zionism as a “terrible mistake”. Moser, who recently turned 50, admits: “I was not even aware that Zionism was controversial.” The shift in perspective culminated in a visit to the occupied territories in 2016, during which he found “the reality of the occupation of Palestine … deranging”.

His new book includes 12 portraits of Jewish figures who have opposed Zionism, a movement formed in the late 19th century to advocate for the creation of a homeland for Jewish people in Palestine. It is contentious to oppose Zionism today, but Moser wants contemporary Jewish activists to “feel less alone” by showing that debates about Zionism were once mainstream in Jewish communal life. While around 90% of American Jews now support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state (although fewer identify as Zionists), fewer than 1% belonged to the largest American Zionist organisation in 1914. The first character study is of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamares, who thought that Judaism offered a vision of a world beyond the devastating nationalism of the first world war. The book closes with a moving account of the photographer Nan Goldin, who spoke out, at considerable cost, as the assault on Gaza began in 2023 following the October 7th attacks.

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He gave Jimi Hendrix his gear, freaked out Frank Sinatra, inspired Norman Mailer – and tried to topple the American war machine. As a documentary about his band the Fugs comes out, the 87-year-old gives a rare interview

“Charles Manson once wrote me a letter saying, ‘If I was as powerful as you claim then you wouldn’t be here,’” Ed Sanders tells me over a video call, savouring the menace in that sentence.

Sanders is an American maverick; a musician, poet, activist, journalist and author whose greatest hit remains his bestselling 1971 book The Family, in which he chronicled the lives, crimes and trials of Manson and his followers. Sanders was well placed to report on crazed hippies, having played a pivotal role in launching the US counterculture – though he very much espoused peace, love and consciousness-raising, rather than Manson’s apocalyptic worldview.

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Opposition to US-led quarantine center in Kenya follows sweeping funding cuts and withdrawal from WHO

A third person in Kenya has tested positive for Bundibugyo ebolavirus in the country’s first-ever cluster of Ebola cases, as the second-largest outbreak in history kills more than 4,300 and sickens more than 9,000 people in the region.

It highlights the diminished role the US has played in the worsening Ebola outbreak by building a controversial quarantine center in Kenya, pulling back health support globally, and banning travelers from certain countries. All of this has also reduced the ability to identify and respond to the outbreak and exacerbated mistrust.

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Terwijl zondag ruim 45.000 sportievelingen 42.2 kilometer door Amsterdam liepen, legde niet-loper Denise (27) een minstens zo zware route af: van haar huis naar de supermarkt.

“Ik wilde alleen even naar de Albert Heijn, maar de hele Stadionweg was afgezet”, vertelt Denise vanaf de bank, met een zak diepvrieserwten op haar knie.

Ter hoogte van het Olympisch Stadion werd Denise door een EHBO’er staande gehouden. Die deed haar een thermofolie om en controleerde haar hartslag. Die was volgens haar “keurig voor iemand die dertig kilometer in de benen heeft”.

“Uiteindelijk heb ik ruim negen kilometer gelopen voor een pak havermelk”, verzucht Denise. “Die bleek niet op voorraad. Toen ben ik toch maar naar de Dirk gegaan. Die zit naast mijn huis.”

Sportarts Jeroen Huizen ziet elk jaar steeds meer niet-lopers met kuit- en knieklachten na de marathon. “Mensen onderschatten het. Zo’n marathon vereist echt voorbereiding. Begin in de zomer alvast met kleine stukjes om bouwhekken heen lopen en bouw dat langzaam op.”

Denise overweegt om volgend jaar de marathon zelf te gaan rennen. “Het parcours komt precies langs de Albert Heijn. Dan ga ik na de finish gelijk door.”