BOGOTÁ (ANP/AFP) - De nieuwe president van Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, heeft gezegd dat zondag zes leden van gewapende groeperingen zijn gedood tijdens botsingen met Colombiaanse veiligheidsdiensten. Die vonden plaats vlak na de inauguratie van De la Espriella, die zaterdag zijn eerste werkdag had.

In zijn verkiezingscampagne had De la Espriella al beloofd hard op te treden tegen drugskartels en gewapende groepen. De militaire operaties van zondag geven volgens de nieuwe uiterst rechtse president "een duidelijk en sterk signaal af aan alle bandieten. Ze kunnen zich nergens verstoppen,"

Zaterdag werden in Colombia een aanval op een politiebureau en een aanslag op een tolstation gepleegd. Op sociale media liet de president weten dat hij de daders niet onbestraft zou laten.

VENRAY (ANP) - Tussen Boxmeer en Venray rijden maandagochtend weer treinen. Dat blijkt uit de reisplanner en reisinformatie van Arriva. Het treinverkeer op het traject lag sinds donderdag opnieuw stil vanwege de brand in natuurgebied Boschhuizerbergen, ten oosten van Venray.

De treinen reden eerder vorige week al niet door de natuurbrand. Donderdagochtend werd het treinverkeer hervat, maar in de loop van de dag laaide het vuur weer op. Arriva legde daarop het treinverkeer opnieuw stil door de vele bluswerkzaamheden in het gebied.

De vervoerder meldde eerder dat tot en met zondag geen treinen zouden rijden tussen Boxmeer en Venray. De voorbije dagen werden bussen ingezet.

SUMMERLAND (ANP/AFP) - Een 80-jarige vrouw is om het leven gekomen toen ze haar huis probeerde te ontvluchten voor een grote natuurbrand in de West-Canadese provincie British Columbia. Dat meldde de Canadese politie zondag.

De bosbrand bij Summerland brak vrijdag uit vlak bij het Okanagan Lake. Het vuur verspreidt zich snel en de provincie British Columbia heeft de noodtoestand uitgeroepen. Er zijn al meer dan 20.000 mensen geëvacueerd.

The former professional footballer has struggled with his mental health for most of his life. But it took five suicide attempts for him to admit how badly he wanted to end it. He talks about how he turned the corner – and his hopes for his new post with the charity Mind

‘How are you?” I ask Clarke Carlisle. Usually when you meet people it’s a nicety. Not with Carlisle. He smiles ecstatically. “I’m incredibly well, thank you. Yeah, really, really good,” says the former footballer and incoming chair of the mental health charity Mind. “I have been consistently well – not just stable, but well – for three or four years now.”

Few people understand what it is to be mentally unwell quite like Carlisle does. And few understand what recovery means like he does. “It doesn’t happen by accident. Once you get stable that’s not the end of the journey. And that seems to be the MO of our society these days. You do something, you go into hospital and they patch you up, then send you on your way. And that’s the same with mental health. You might get some pills, have a counselling session, you might have a hug and a chat with someone, and they think that’s the end of the journey. And it’s not.”

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Concerns about feeling pressure to have caesarean section, or paying for hotel in Exeter after hospital in Barnstaple suspends birthing services

For mother-to-be Harriet Knight, the suspension of maternity services at one of England’s most remote hospitals means having to face horribly stark choices.

“The next closest maternity unit is a full two hours away and we have a family history of labour taking under two hours from start to finish,” said Knight.

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Authorities say application to stay was made too late, as UK officials say Sweden takes ‘stricter approach’ than other EU countries

A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting deportation from the country after authorities told her a post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late.

Her case is the latest of 2,500 British people ordered to leave the country after Brexit in what campaigners and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) have said is an inexplicably hardline approach taken by the Swedish authorities. It comes two years after Sweden threatened to deport a British woman with dementia in a care home shortly before she died.

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How does it feel to be locked into a venue notorious for its unpadded seating to experience a full-throttle Ring cycle and more? Our critic found out at the 150th anniversary of the mighty Bayreuth festival

Liszt and Bruckner were there from the start. Debussy, Mahler and Puccini all subsequently made the journey. So did writers from Virginia Woolf and Thomas Mann to WEB Du Bois, not to mention choreographer Sergei Diaghilev, anarchist Emma Goldman, British fascist Diana Mosley (wife of Oswald) and – most notoriously and fanatically – Adolf Hitler.

Culturally and politically, Germany’s Bayreuth festival doesn’t so much have baggage as its own industrial-scale luggage hangar. But it’s also prized as the ultimate place to hear Richard Wagner’s operas. One hundred and fifty years after the composer launched the festival with the premiere of his epic Ring cycle, tickets for this summer’s edition sold out within 90 minutes. No mean feat for a theatre with famously uncomfortable seats, no air conditioning and only one man’s music on the menu. The shortest work lasts two-and-a-half hours without a break.

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EU’s smallest country has played ancient Rome, the Land of Spells and Bay of Pentos and draws more than 30 productions annually

What links the Caribbean, ancient Rome, Enid Blyton’s Land of Spells, the south of France and the Bay of Pentos from Game of Thrones? They are all places that have been portrayed in recent and forthcoming films by a sunny archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, no bigger in size than Sheffield.

Malta has over the last decade risen to become one of the most popular places in Europe for American and British film-makers to set their works in, taking a lead in what has been described as an “arms race” to lure big movie productions with tax incentives.

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Authorities warn that days of intense rain could trigger widespread flooding and landslides as storm moves north and further inland

More than a million people were moved to safety across eastern China by Sunday evening as powerful Typhoon Dolphin made landfall amid fears torrential rain would cause flooding and landslides.

Wenzhou, a coastal city in Zhejiang province, said it relocated more than 900,000 people and opened more than 1,500 emergency shelters. In neighbouring Fujian, 98,900 people were moved from high-risk areas.

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Millions of tiny engineers help to restore health of marine ecosystem in Western Australia. A restorative mussel farm could improve water quality and biodiversity in Cockburn Sound and the project leaders say there's no need to stop there.

Vandaag een iets minder zomerse dag met meer bewolking. Lokaal kan er een druppel regen vallen. Later in de middag komt de zon er weer vaker bij. De temperatuur komt duidelijk minder hoog uit dan tijdens de tropische dag van gisteren. Vanmiddag wordt het ongeveer 24 graden. De wind waait matig en komt uit het noordwesten, windkracht 3 of 4.

Praktisch en theoretisch geschoolden beleven het klimaatbeleid totáál anders: waar de een zijn waarden bevestigd ziet, voelt de ander zich betutteld. Wat de overheid kan doen om iedereen mee te krijgen: beleid maken dat met kleine stappen concrete voordelen oplevert.

"Adventure before dementia" has added a photo to the pool:

Here it is, the middle of winter in Australia, and we're still waiting for some cold weather. Memories of summers past is my theme for today, with shots from three local beaches.

"Adventure before dementia" has added a photo to the pool:

Here it is, the middle of winter in Australia, and we're still waiting for some cold weather. Memories of summers past is my theme for today, with shots from three local beaches.

"Adventure before dementia" has added a photo to the pool:

Here it is, the middle of winter in Australia, and we're still waiting for some cold weather. Memories of summers past is my theme for today, with shots from three local beaches.

Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really bad
pops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release candidate.

But there's something interesting about Linux 7.2-rc7, writes Phoronix. "By the time the Linux kernel typically hits a -rc7 release things have usually settled quite well. But in today's world of AI/LLM coding/review agents, the kernel activity continues at an all-time high."



Tons of bug fixes continued to trickle in across the kernel spectrum for all sorts of issues. The HWMON hardware monitoring subsystem saw several critical and high severity bug fixes, on the memory management side was a nasty race condition leading to a use-after-free in the kernel for the past eight years, Btrfs restored its fixup worker infrastructure to deal with silent data loss, lots of AI patches in the networking realm, and the kernel was patched for the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability.





Linus Torvalds wrote in the 7.2-rc7 announcement:

"Another week, another -rc.

I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but
it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due
to review by various AI tools.

And nothing looks particularly scary per se — it's just that there's a
lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of
larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does
btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some
netfilter ipset fixes.

But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of
tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over — drivers (gpu, sound,
networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code...

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