BRUSSEL (ANP) - Belgische politici hebben afschuw, rouw en medeleven geuit om het dodelijke ongeluk tussen een trein en een schoolbusje in het Vlaamse Buggenhout. Daardoor kwamen tot nu toe vier mensen om het leven, onder wie twee tieners.
De Belgische premier Bart De Wever is "diep geraakt door het afschuwelijke ongeval in Buggenhout", schrijft hij op X. "Mijn gedachten gaan uit naar de getroffen families."
Gedeputeerde van de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen Kurt Moens (N-VA) spreekt tegen VRT over een "gitzwarte dag".
'Diepste medeleven'
Volgens VRT is Moens verantwoordelijk voor de school waar de tieners in het schoolbusje op zaten. "Het ongeval in Buggenhout raakt ons allemaal heel erg. Ik betuig mijn diepste medeleven aan de families van de slachtoffers en wens de gewonden veel sterkte toe. Met het crisisteam in Buggenhout volgen we de situatie nauw en ik kan alleen maar mijn respect betuigen voor de professionele manier van handelen van onze hulpverleners."
De Vlaamse minister-president Matthias Diependaele (N-VA) schrijft op X over "vreselijk nieuws uit Buggenhout". Hij bedankt ook "de hulpdiensten die ter plaatse alles op alles zetten".
'Hartverscheurend nieuws'
De Vlaamse minister van Mobiliteit Annick De Ridder (N-VA) stuurt "haar diepste medeleven" naar de naasten van de slachtoffers, schrijft ze op X. Vlaamse minister van Onderwijs Zuhal Demir (N-VA) heeft het via X over "hartverscheurend nieuws".
"Woorden schieten tekort bij het ongeval in Buggenhout", aldus de Belgische minister van Justitie Annelies Verlinden (CD&V) via X. "Ik wens iedereen veel warme nabijheid toe." De Belgische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Maxime Prévot (Les Engagés) bedankt via X zijn collega's uit andere landen "die al hun medeleven hebben betuigd".
Ook spoorwegbeheerder Infrabel en vervoerder NMBS hebben hun medeleven betuigd met de slachtoffers in Buggenhout. De diensten hebben zich naar eigen zeggen vanaf de eerste melding hardgemaakt voor een snelle evacuatie van de trein. Ze wensen "alle personen die door dit diepmenselijke drama zijn getroffen" sterkte.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Asielzoekers krijgen over tweeënhalve week te maken met strengere regels. Een meerderheid van de Eerste Kamer heeft namelijk dinsdagmiddag ingestemd met de Nederlandse uitwerking van het Europese migratiepact, dat op 12 juni van kracht wordt. Daardoor kunnen vluchtelingen onder andere geen onbeperkt houdbare verblijfsvergunning meer krijgen en wordt de maximale duur van een tijdelijke vergunning verkort van vijf naar drie jaar.
Het kabinet mocht op verschillende punten zelf kiezen hoe de Europese afspraken werden ingevuld en heeft daarbij vaak voor de strengere variant gekozen. Voorbeelden daarvan zijn het afschaffen van de onbeperkt houdbare verblijfsvergunning en strengere voorwaarden om gezinsleden van vluchtelingen te laten overkomen. Ook wordt de zogenoemde voornemenprocedure geschrapt. Deze regelt dat asielzoekers van tevoren te horen krijgen wat de Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) wil gaan besluiten over hun procedure.
As SpaceX and OpenAI race toward IPOs, a tiny circle of tech leaders tightens its grip on AI’s future
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Continue reading...Well, maybe not quite a thousand, but when life gives you bald lemons, make lemon ice cubes or indeed any of these super suggestions from our panel of lemonheads
I regularly use lemon zest, but the result is that I often have two or three bald lemons hanging around going mouldy. What can I do with them?
Bel, by email
“We use a lot of zest and peel in our cooking at the restaurant,” sympathises Chris Shaw of Toklas in London, “so we also end up with a load of peeled lemons.” Not that that’s a hardship, mind, because no matter what you’re making, you’re almost always going to need acid in some shape or form. As Jad Youssef, author of Lebnani, says: “If something’s flat, lemon juice is usually the fix. In Lebanon, we always have cut lemons on the table, ready to squeeze over pretty much every meal.”
To be a bit more specific, though, Bel’s first port of call might be dressings, particularly at prime salad time. “Whisk the juice with olive oil, a pinch of salt, maybe a bit of garlic, and a drizzle of pomegranate molasses,” Youssef says. That would then mingle nicely with all manner of things: tomatoes, radishes, cucumber, or grilled courgette or aubergine.
Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.com
Continue reading...Life is tough on the autonomous territory – not least for its footballers, as this documentary testifies
As the football-industrial complex churns out ever more eyeball-aimed product, precision engineered to trigger either triumphalism or nostalgia (or both), there’s occasionally room for stories like this about Greenland’s eight team championship playoff: scrappy chronicles of big-hearted underachievers in obscure corners of the football universe. (One of them, about perennial losers American Samoa, even got turned into a feature film directed by Taika Waititi.) Could Greenland’s strugglers and strivers end up as characters in a big-screen comedy? Stranger things have happened and, after the country’s surprise arrival in the geopolitical spotlight, this might yet be the best way for outsiders to get some understanding of the place.
As it is, one of the main virtues of this film is to convey just how tough life is in the world’s largest island (an “autonomous territory”, part of the kingdom of Denmark). We see the team captain, Patrick Frederiksen (a charismatic presence and one of the documentary’s main characters), moodily hunting for seals, giant icebergs floating yards away from the edge of a football pitch, and the non-appearance of half the team for the week-long playoffs due to cancelled flights (travelling by boat takes longer, but is more reliable). The team in question is the slightly unmemorably named B-67, who hail from Greenland’s capital Nuuk; they appear to have an Old Firm-ish sort of rivalry with Nagdlunguak, from the island’s third largest town, Ilulissat. The shortness of the playing season, it is regularly pointed out, is one of the main factors hampering Greenland’s football, as there are only a few short summer weeks where the place thaws enough for outdoor matches. The aforementioned travel issues mean, moreover, it’s almost impossible to arrange games against anyone other than local sides.
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The stealth masters behind Hitman go loud for this game about Bond’s brilliant beginnings
Given that we’ve not had a great James Bond video game in decades – or any Bond film at all in five years – there’s a lot of pressure on 007 First Light to reinvigorate a British cinematic hero. But developer IO Interactive has been auditioning for this role for some time. It’s there in the globetrotting nature of its Hitman assassination games, starring a besuited hero who knows how to turn a soiree to his deadly purpose; then there’s the developer’s evident eye for corporate opulence and brutalist architecture. Even their in-house game engine, Glacier, sounds like a secret codename cooked up in a Bond villain’s lair. All it would take is a slight shift in Hitman’s moral compass – more old boys club, fewer old boys clubbed – to turn IO’s familiar series into a Bond game with minimal fuss.
007 First Light refuses that easy route. We join young Bond in his pre-00 days, as a petulant, belligerent rule-breaking trainee. Actor Patrick Gibson begins as a cookie-cutter insubordinate, but warms to the role once he’s bouncing off M (herself a green leader looking to make her mark), and an enjoyably urbane Q who drops the frustrated quartermaster routine and introduces Bond to the wonders of vinyl. A scene where he teaches our agent to tie a bow tie is a perfect bit of prequelcraft: arriving at an iconic look through a lovely character touch.
Continue reading...Critics of platform’s proposed new feature say it could accelerate the spread of machine-generated music
Spotify’s chief executive has said the company’s move into AI-generated music offers users and creators a better alternative to unregulated AI slop.
Last week, the platform announced a new feature in which premium users will be allowed to create their own, AI-generated remixes and song covers using music from participating artists.
Continue reading...Oil company is FTSE’s biggest faller as chair departs immediately after only eight months in the role
BP has removed its chair, Albert Manifold, with the oil company’s board saying it had “serious concerns about “important governance standards, oversight and conduct”.
The FTSE 100 company announced Manifold’s departure with immediate effect on Tuesday, without giving further details. He lasted only eight months in the role.
Continue reading...Investigation finds number of dairy farms where cows cannot go outside has more than doubled since 2015
There has been a huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of “battery cows” in the UK as farmers struggle with increasing costs and face selling milk at a loss.
The number of intensive dairy farms that permanently confine some of their cattle indoors has more than doubled in the past 10 years, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) has found. Data suggests there are now at least 180 dairy farms where cows have no access to the outdoors, up from about 70 in 2015.
Continue reading...US president, who turns 80 next month, frequently casts himself as fit but recent photos have added to questions about his health
Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, will undergo his routine annual physical on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after a year of public attention on apparently minor health issues.
The US president frequently casts himself as more energetic and fitter than Joe Biden, his Democratic predecessor who left office last year at age 82 after facing questions about his fitness for the job.
Continue reading...Billionaire investor uses her wealth to pursue glory but the Women’s Champions League winners cannot take the moral high ground
It has been a bad week for Michele Kang, the billionaire women’s football investor. On Wednesday the Uefa director of women’s football, Nadine Kessler, was firm on the enforcement of rules prohibiting clubs with the same owner from playing each other in European competitions, dealing a blow to Kang, who has ambitions of taking London City Lionesses into Europe’s premier competition, but also owns the tournament’s most decorated side, OL Lyonnes.
Then, across the weekend, Kang teams suffered two continental final defeats, with Lyonnes losing 4-0 to Barcelona in the Champions League final before her US outfit, Washington Spirit, fell short in the Concacaf W Champions Cup with a 5-3 reverse to the Mexican side Club América.
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