Nadat actievoerders inbraken op luchtmachtbasis Brize Norton van de Royal Air Force, in Oxfordshire, werd de activistengroep als terroristische organisatie bestempeld.
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We houden een gevaarlijke mythe in stand over geld volgens Thomas Bollen. „Ik had altijd het idee dat er een vaste hoeveelheid geld is die rondgaat,” zegt hij, maar zo werkt het…
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Kamagurka laat elke week zien hoe Bert Vanderslagmulders vordert met het schrijven van een boek.
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Prosecutors’ office says two museum workers, several tour guides and suspected mastermind among those detained
French police investigating a suspected €10m (£8.7m) ticket fraud scheme at the Louvre museum in Paris have detained nine people, including two members of staff.
“Based on the information available to the museum, we suspect the existence of a network organising large-scale fraud,” a museum spokesperson told Agence France-Presse.
Continue reading...The artist often swapped painting for etching as a way to rediscover his craft. Now a new exhibition shows these flashes of inspiration in all their intimate glory
At home one evening in 1951, Lucian Freud did three drawings of fellow artist Francis Bacon. The biographer William Feaver recounts the anecdote as Freud told it to him: Bacon had stood up, undone the buttons on his trousers, rolled up his sleeves and wiggled his hips a little, saying: “I think you ought to do this, because I think that’s rather important.”
By Freud’s own admission, the older painter was provocative in more ways than just this pose: “I got very impatient with the way I was working. It was limited and a limited vehicle for me,” Freud told Feaver. He felt his drawing stopped him from freeing himself, he said, “and I think my admiration for Francis came into this. I realised that by working in the way I did I couldn’t really evolve. The change wasn’t perhaps more than one of focus, but it did make it possible for me to approach the whole thing in another way.”
Continue reading...Brazil president to receive unprecedented honour at opening night of procession with a giant effigy of him
He is a giant of Brazilian politics and soon he will become a giant of Brazilian carnival too: a 22-metre metal figurine, to be precise.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who rose from rural poverty to become his country’s first working class president, is to receive an unprecedented tribute at the opening night of Rio’s annual carnival procession on Sunday.
Continue reading...Gus O’Donnell urges Starmer to ‘get a grip’ of ‘disastrous’ advisers as PM heads to Munich Security Conference
Yesterday the Labour party accused Nigel Farage of tolerating “flagrant racism” in Reform UK after Sarah Pochin claimed that she was right to complain about the number of black and Asian people in TV adverts.
Keir Starmer has now made the same point in his own words. Commenting on Sarah Pochin’s latest intervention, he told the Daily Mirror:
Yet again our country’s discourse is being poisoned and polluted by the racist rhetoric coming from Reform - pitting communities against one another and sowing division to suit their own ends. They should be apologising, not doubling down.
You only have to look at the toxicity flowing from their candidate for Gorton and Denton to know what they are about - dangerous ideas that pull at the fabric of who we are in Britain. They don’t have solutions to the challenges we face as a country. All they can offer is a smokescreen of hate and division.
Continue reading...SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE (ANP) - Rond de vulkaan de Teide op Tenerife zijn er al dagen seismische activiteiten, maar dat geschok wijst volgens minister Víctor Ángel Torres niet op een nabije uitbarsting van de vulkaan. De minister van Territoriaal Beleid erkende in een vraaggesprek dat de trillingen die ook vrijdagochtend zijn gevoeld, "niet normaal zijn". Ze zijn anders dan in de afgelopen jaren, aldus Torres.
Hij zei dat de bevolking zich wel goed moet voorbereiden. Torres waarschuwde dat niemand een lavastroom kan tegenhouden en vanwege de bevolkingsomvang kan een uitbarsting andere gevolgen hebben dan die in 2021 op La Palma. De Canarische Eilanden zijn vulkanische eilanden en in 2021 barstte het vulkanische complex Cumbre Vieja uit. Het leidde tot honderden miljoenen euro schade, maar tot slechts 7000 evacuaties.
Tenerife is het dichtstbevolkte eiland van de groep met circa 970.000 inwoners. De 3700 meter hoge Teide ligt ongeveer 40 kilometer ten zuidwesten van Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
MILAAN (ANP) - Shorttrackster Arianna Fontana heeft donderdag met haar zilveren medaille op de 500 meter Ireen Wüst geëvenaard op de lijst van winterolympiërs met de meeste medailles. Achter Xandra Velzeboer haalde de Italiaanse haar dertiende medaille op haar zesde Winterspelen. Wel won Wüst vaker goud.
Alleen de Noren Marit Bjørgen (15 medailles in het langlaufen) en Ole Einar Bjørndalen (14 medailles bij de biatlon) wonnen meer medailles in de geschiedenis van de Winterspelen.
Met haar prestatie in eigen land evenaart Fontana ook de koppositie op de lijst van meest succesvolle Italiaanse olympiërs (zomer en winter). Die positie deelt ze met Edoardo Mangiarotti, de meest succesvolle schermer aller tijden.
Bovendien wist Fontana, tweevoudig olympisch kampioen en inmiddels vijfvoudig medaillewinnaar op de 500 meter, haar eigen snelste tijd ooit te verbeteren. In de slipstream van Velzeboer, die haar eigen wereldrecord verbeterde, verbrak Fontana twee keer haar eigen Italiaanse record.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Blijf thuis als je verkouden bent, roept demissionair minister Jan Anthonie Bruijn van Volksgezondheid op. "Ga in dat geval zelfs niet naar carnaval. Ik begrijp dat dit wel veel gevraagd is. Maar als je ziek bent, ga ook niet hossen op straat, want je maakt iedereen om je heen ziek."
De demissionaire VVD-bewindsman deed de oproep voorafgaand aan de ministerraad. "Hoest en nies in je elleboog, en als je toch in de buurt moet komen, bijvoorbeeld als je mantelzorg verleent aan een kwetsbaar persoon, gebruik dan een mondkapje."
Woensdag meldde het RIVM dat er een griepepidemie in Nederland is. In een week tijd gingen 59 op de 100.000 mensen langs bij de huisarts met griepklachten.
Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over
Opinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler leaves me a bit cold. It's little more than a clever demo. It is not the moment when software engineering as we know it flips over and dies. Not even close.…
Hier tekent Jean-Marc de cartoon voor Zotte Zaterdag:
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Policymakers said the economy “continues to return to a balanced growth path” despite an uptick in inflation in January.
Policymakers said the economy “continues to return to a balanced growth path” despite an uptick in inflation in January.
Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. From a report: In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. We therefore made the joint decision to cancel the integration and continue with our current partners ... The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety."
[...] Over the last few weeks, the company has faced significant public anger over its connection to Flock, with Ring users being encouraged to smash their cameras, and some announcing on social media that they are throwing away their Ring devices. The Flock partnership was announced last October, but following recent unrest across the country related to ICE activities, public pressure against the Amazon-owned Ring's involvement with the company started to mount. Flock has reportedly allowed ICE and other federal agencies to access its network of surveillance cameras, and influencers across social media have been claiming that Ring is providing a direct link to ICE.
[...] Over the last few weeks, the company has faced significant public anger over its connection to Flock, with Ring users being encouraged to smash their cameras, and some announcing on social media that they are throwing away their Ring devices. The Flock partnership was announced last October, but following recent unrest across the country related to ICE activities, public pressure against the Amazon-owned Ring's involvement with the company started to mount. Flock has reportedly allowed ICE and other federal agencies to access its network of surveillance cameras, and influencers across social media have been claiming that Ring is providing a direct link to ICE.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Raheem Sterling is vrijdagochtend geland op Rotterdam The Hague Airport. De 82-voudig Engels international werd donderdagavond door Feyenoord gepresenteerd als nieuwe aanwinst. Voor de voetbalwereld is de komst van de ervaren aanvaller een grote verrassing.
Raheem Sterling is vrijdagochtend geland op Rotterdam The Hague Airport. De 82-voudig Engels international werd donderdagavond door Feyenoord gepresenteerd als nieuwe aanwinst. De komst van de ervaren aanvaller is voor de voetbalwereld als een grote verrassing.
