Een zomer in Renesse, dat was ooit: negen discotheken, duizenden jongeren, vechten om binnen te komen. Maar volgende week sluit een van de laatste clubs de deuren.
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De Verenigde Staten hebben een akkoord bereikt met Venezuela en krijgen een meerderheidsbelang in 17 olievelden. Waar president Trump spreekt van een „historische deal”, zijn er vragen over de uitwerking.
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Nepal and China continue arduous search and rescue operations in flood-hit Himalayas
A Chinese rescue team has reached the all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex for the first time and found “nothing but ruins” as Nepal and China continue their arduous rescue operations in the flood-hit Himalayas.
Surveillance camera footage from the worst-hit Gyirong border crossing complex showed huge torrents of water and debris on Wednesday engulfing buildings and people trying to flee. Only on Friday were rescuers able to reach that area.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has ordered his military to increase its long-range drone strikes against Russia to 1,000 per day, up from about 300 currently. “There needs to be more: there is a concrete goal, and we will fulfil this task,” the Ukrainian president declared on Friday in his evening address.
Russia’s gasoline production fell to about 70% of domestic consumption levels by the end of August after a series of drone attacks forced major refineries to suspend operations, according to two industry sources who spoke to Reuters. After a brief respite at the end of July, when some local authorities began easing or lifting restrictions on fuel sales, shortages returned to Russian regions in August. Over the past week, drones struck and halted operations at several major refineries, including plants in Perm, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl, all significant producers of motor gasoline.
Russia is losing about 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit, western officials have said. While Russia is still acquiring new battlefield recruits at speed, with an estimated rate of 1,000 a day, in the past two months even this has not been sufficient to replace those killed or injured, Peter Walker writes.
Recent Russian air attacks have destroyed about 90% of retailers’ food logistics in Ukraine, Kyiv’s agricultural minister said on Friday. Both countries have stepped up strikes in recent weeks on economic targets such as major retailers, with Russia targeting warehouses for Ukraine’s premier supermarket chains, top postal service and home-goods stores. “As of today, roughly speaking, 90% of food logistics operated by retail chains have been destroyed, but that doesn’t mean Ukrainians will be left without food,” farm minister Taras Vysotskyi was cited by the Ukrinform agency as saying. His comments to reporters in Kyiv are the most frank official assessment of the damage Russia’s escalating strikes have brought on Ukraine’s increasingly fragile economy in the fifth year of war.
Ukraine has stored 14.6bn cubic metres of gas in underground storage, enough for the upcoming winter season, the country’s energy minister said. “Ukraine has stockpiled natural gas for the baseline scenario for getting through the winter,” Denys Shmyhal said on Friday.
Authorities in Russia’s Rostov region declared a state of emergency on Friday, saying port closures and disruptions to navigation in the Azov-Black Sea basin had led to a significant accumulation of agricultural products at farms. The regional government said on Telegram an emergency response had been introduced across the region, without going into more detail.
Ukraine’s former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has accepted a role as innovation adviser at Italy’s Defence Ministry, officials said on Friday. Italy’s defence minister Guido Crosetto had disclosed the offer shortly after Fedorov was dismissed in July. Fedorov, 35, was fired six months after his appointment, having initiated reforms around procurement and mobilisation that put him on a collision course with the military establishment and political rivals.
The UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday it had been informed of three drone incidents at Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in south-eastern Ukraine earlier this week. The International Atomic Energy Agency said a drone attack on 25 August reportedly occurred near the plant’s cooling pond, injuring two plant employees, while two other drones on 26 August reportedly struck the site’s dry spent nuclear fuel storage area and the sprinkling device of the power units system. Radiation levels at the Zaporizhzhia plant remained normal, the watchdog added.
Russian forces on Friday resumed their drone barrage of Ukraine’s Kyiv region, hitting more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots in a second straight day of aerial attacks, officials said. Russian strikes in the Kyiv region damaged 14 warehouses, 16 private houses, three apartment buildings and 16 vehicles, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, said Friday.
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There’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore
“Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said, accurately foreshadowing Charli xcx’s only UK festival appearance this summer. Like her performance on Glastonbury’s Other Stage last year – a pyrotechnic farewell to the puke-green reign of Brat – Charli’s Reading and Leeds appearance is a not-quite-headline slot that also follows a rowdy set from grime don Skepta. As before, her sunglasses remain glued on throughout.
Yet in the past 14 months, everything else in Charli’s pop factory has undergone a hard reset. She’s released two albums – a grandiose, gothic soundtrack to Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and last month’s high-concept Music, Fashion, Film, an album of raw, glitching micro-rock, with guitars shredded into Tetris-like pieces, and fitted with lacerating lyrics about shopping, egotism and mortality. She’s also launched an acting career, thrown a big fat celebrity wedding and, somewhere along the way, found time to rehearse her biggest, most vertiginous show to date.
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This striking white structure in Fukuoka, Japan, is a famous example of postmodern architecture that playfully resembles a giant stylized cat or Hello Kitty-like face.
The design charmingly incorporates features that look like a feline face:
A circular window forming a wide eye.
Horizontal black slats creating whiskers.
Sharp geometric lines mimicking pointed ears at the roofline.
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TEHERAN (ANP/RTR/DPA) - De zeestrijdkrachten van de Iraanse Islamitische Revolutionaire Garde (IRG) zeggen de volledige controle te hebben over de Straat van Hormuz. Dat meldde de IRG vrijdag op Telegram.
De IRG verwerpt de beweringen van de VS dat de Straat van Hormuz open is voor de internationale scheepvaart. Die zouden een "regelrechte leugen" zijn om de olieprijzen te beïnvloeden en een Amerikaanse nederlaag te verdoezelen, aldus het IRG.
Schepen die de zeestraat zonder voorafgaande afstemming met Iran willen passeren, krijgen daarvoor volgens de IRG geen toestemming. "De controle die de strijdkrachten van de Islamitische Republiek uitoefenen over de strategische Straat van Hormuz is volledig en doorslaggevend", aldus de verklaring.
Eerder verklaarden de VS nog dat ze de afgelopen maanden mijnen hadden geruimd in en rond de Straat van Hormuz en dat deze onder Amerikaanse controle staat.
De vraag wie nu de controle heeft over deze belangrijke vaarroute staat vrede vooralsnog in de weg.
Longtime Slashdot reader belmolis writes: Part of New York City's 911 emergency system was offline from about 3:13 a.m. to 10 a.m. on August 18th due to a software update, according to Medical Daily. Of 5,659 calls to the Bronx call center during that period, about 1,700 calls connected but could not be heard by emergency operators. Some were rerouted to other call centers, but an estimated 400 human callers never got through. The potentially serious consequences of delayed response to emergencies are not yet known. The city did not notify the public and only released information when journalists inquired. How buggy software came to be installed on a running system is not yet known. The early-morning software update was pushed by Motorola, though exactly what it changed or why it caused the failure remains unknown. The city is still investigating whether the update was adequately tested and whether the same software release was deployed elsewhere.
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