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• Milwaukee one win from first World Series title

• Brewers lead series 3-0 after resounding win in Tampa

Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang sparked Milwaukee’s eight-run fifth inning, and the Brewers routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 on Monday night to move within one victory of their first World Series title.

Rookie left-hander Robert Gasser pitched one-hit ball and faced the minimum through six innings as Milwaukee rolled to a 3-0 lead in the World Series. Game 4 is Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, where many Brewers fans showed up Monday and cheered from behind the visitors’ dugout.

US military says the restrictions on the electric vehicles at Kadena airbase also apply to delivery drivers and taxis

One of America’s biggest overseas military bases has banned vehicles made by the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD over security concerns, the US military in Japan said on Tuesday.

The ban, which went into effect this week at Kadena airbase on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, has fueled speculation that similar measures could be taken at other US military facilities as part of Washington’s crackdown on Chinese technology it suspects of being used to collect sensitive information.

Rapper who has helped produce the Super Bowl show for years is stepping up to perform himself, at SoFi Stadium in California

After years of producing the Super Bowl half-time show, Jay-Z has announced that the 2027 headline act will be none other than himself.

After days of speculation, the NFL, Apple Music and Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation announced on Monday night that the rapper will be the featured performer for the half-time festivities at the Super Bowl LXI on 14 February at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

Zelenskyy says ballistic missiles hit crowded areas with no military facilities nearby; truce comes amid reports of growing humanitarian crisis. What we know on day 1,707

Russian strikes on Kyiv killed one person and wounded eight, with mayor Vitali Klitschko saying medical facilities and an intensive care unit had been damaged in the late Monday attack. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a ballistic missile attack had struck the grounds of a university campus in the Ukrainian capital. “The missiles hit very crowded areas, and there is not a single military facility nearby. This was a strike directly on the city, on its infrastructure,” he said on social media.

The strikes on Kyiv came hours before a truce in the ravaged Russian-occupied city of Oleshky was due to start, after months of reports that residents faced dire food, water and medicine shortages. The truce, aimed at allowing humanitarian aid into Oleshky, was to begin at 3am local time (0100 GMT). No end date for the truce has been provided. The city in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region has been caught in the crosshairs of fighting between the two sides since 2022, when it was seized by Russian forces. Neither Russia, Ukraine nor the US has said who would monitor the truce, or given details about the humanitarian operation set to accompany it. The Russian defence ministry said on Friday it would halt fire in the “Kherson sector” for the duration of the ceasefire. Ukraine has accused Russia of blocking residents from leaving, a charge Moscow has denied.

Before the latest strikes on Kyiv, Zelenskyy highlighted ​Ukraine was still waiting for US defence secretary Pete Hegseth to sign off on critical missile supplies. “We have been waiting for nearly a month for Mr Hegseth to sign off on missiles for Patriots and NASAMS. I instructed our team to raise this with the ⁠American side once again,” he said on X.

Romania said on Monday that a network “coordinated” from Russia was involved in starting a fire near an arms factory. The fire broke out on 14 September near an arms factory in the central city of Brasov and two Belarusians and a Ukrainian – residents in EU countries – were involved, authorities said. Two of them were “tracked down and remanded in custody in Germany while they were preparing to commit similar offences”, the office for organised crime said. The third is at large in Poland, it added. Russia’s embassy in Bucharest could not immediately be reached for comment but Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations.

The attack in Brasov is the latest in a string of similar incidents in Europe, with Nato and the EU grappling with what they say is a “hybrid” campaign of sabotage and interference by the Kremlin aimed at undercutting Western support for Kyiv. Over the past three weeks, at ​least eight cargo ​ships have been hit off the coast of Nato members Romania and Bulgaria. Some 34 sailors are reported dead or missing.

Ukraine’s military has begun using specialised aerial rescue drones to evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield, carrying two stranded troops to safety near the Russian border in the first such operations. The newly developed StarGate drone, a six-rotor aircraft fitted with an enclosed evacuation capsule, was used in two separate missions over the past week, the 475th Separate Assault Regiment, an elite unit, said on Monday. Developed by Ukrainian technology company SkyFall, the drone is intended to reduce rescue times from hours to minutes, reaching hard-to-access combat zones currently served by unmanned ground vehicles.

This is the latest sign of the administration’s attempts to challenge states with competitive midterm races that could determine control of Congress

The Trump administration on Monday asked Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it alleges are registered to vote without US citizenship, less than two weeks after making a similar demand in California.

The announcement is the latest sign of the administration’s attempts to sow doubts about the election or its outcome in states with races that will help determine control of the US Senate and House.

After Meghan appeared on MasterChef Australia this year, co-host Poh Ling Yeow says being reunited with the Duchess on the children’s version ‘will be a real treat’

The Duchess of Sussex is set to co-host Junior MasterChef Australia, the children’s version of the popular televised cooking competition, in 2027.

Meghan made her debut appearance on the adult version of MasterChef Australia in July this year, which was filmed during a four-day visit to Australia with Prince Harry in April. Network 10 said the Duchess’s appearance on the show drew its “largest Sunday audience since 2023”.

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The father of an old friend of mine passed away peacefully last night. My thoughts are with their family.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Cryptomiljardair Jean-Louis van der Velde onttroont Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken als rijkste Nederlander. In de dinsdag verschenen nieuwe editie van rijkenlijst Quote 500 wordt het vermogen van de 62-jarige geschat op 26 miljard euro. Daarmee is hij twee keer zo rijk als de Heineken-erfgename, die jarenlang de eerste plaats innam.

Van der Velde is de oprichter van cryptobedrijf Tether, bekend van de gelijknamige zogenoemde stablecoin, en cryptohandelsplatform Bitfinex. Volgens zakenblad Quote dankt hij zijn vermogen vooral aan Tether, waarin hij naar verluidt een groot belang heeft.

Quote had Van der Velde al langer in het vizier, maar hij haalde de rijkenlijst nooit. Dat kwam niet door zijn vermogen, maar door de vraag of hij nog wel Nederlander is. Van der Velde emigreerde al in de jaren tachtig naar Taiwan en vergaarde zijn fortuin in Azië. Quote zegt inmiddels bevestigd te hebben gekregen dat Van der Velde nog steeds Nederlander is.

Van der Velde komt ook in andere rijkenlijsten voor. Zakentijdschrift Forbes schatte zijn vermogen eerder op 38 miljard dollar, persbureau Bloomberg op zo'n 16 miljard.

Het is voor het eerst sinds 2012 dat Quote De Carvalho-Heineken niet meer als rijkste Nederlander ziet. In dat jaar nam de dochter van biermagnaat Freddy Heineken voor het eerst de topplek in. Dat dankte zij toen aan een nieuwe samenstelling van de rijkenlijst. Quote had toen alle families uit de lijst verwijderd en op een aparte lijst gezet. Later heeft ze ook nog enkele jaren op een zelfstandige lijst voor rijkste Nederlanders in het buitenland gestaan.

De inmiddels 72-jarige De Carvalho-Heineken staat met 13 miljard euro nu op plek twee. Luxaflex-oprichter Ralph Sonnenberg (92) is derde met 6,9 miljard. De rijkste BN'er is John de Mol, op plek 23 met 2,1 miljard. De rijkste familie blijft C&A-familie Brenninkmeijer met 22,5 miljard euro.

De Quote 500 heeft dit jaar nog een opmerkelijke nieuwkomer. Pim de Witte, oprichter van AI-bedrijf General Intuition, is met 1,1 miljard binnengekomen op plek 49. Met 31 jaar is hij volgens Quote de jongste Nederlandse miljardair ooit. Het jongste Quote 500-lid blijft Max Verstappen, op plek 224 met 310 miljoen euro. Hij is nu 29 jaar.

Quote becijfert verder dat het gezamenlijk vermogen van de 500 rijkste Nederlanders dik 10 procent is gegroeid tot een record van ruim 300 miljard euro. Om in de lijst te staan moet je een vermogen hebben van minstens 140 miljoen euro. De ondergrens bleef even hoog als in 2025.

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WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Voormalig directeur van de FBI James Comey is voor de derde keer aangeklaagd door het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie. Volgens de aanklacht deelde hij in oktober 2016 geheime informatie over de nationale veiligheid met een verslaggever van The New York Times.

"Daar gaan we weer", zei Comey in een video op Instagram over de nieuwste aanklacht. "Ik ben nog altijd onschuldig", verklaarde hij. Advocaten van de oud-directeur van de FBI hebben de rechter verzocht de zaak te verwerpen, omdat deze juridisch onhoudbaar is.

De drie pagina's tellende aanklacht bevat weinig details, melden buitenlandse media. CNN schrijft dat de tien jaar oude beschuldiging nu boven water komt om te voorkomen dat deze verjaart.

Comey, een uitgesproken criticus van Trump, werd twee keer eerder aangeklaagd. Die zaken gingen over het afleggen van valse getuigenissen en het bedreigen van de Amerikaanse president. De eerste zaak werd door een rechter verworpen, de andere strafzaak is nog lopende.