ANKARA (ANP/AFP) - De Turkse politie heeft arrestatiebevelen voor 83 personen uitgevaardigd, omdat zij zich op sociale media op de verkeerde manier zouden hebben uitgelaten over twee dodelijke schietpartijen in het land. Het geweld vond dinsdag en woensdag plaats op scholen.

De 83 personen zijn volgens de politie "betrapt op berichten en activiteiten die criminaliteit en criminelen prijzen en de openbare orde negatief beïnvloedden".

Bij de schietpartij van dinsdag verwondde een oud-leerling zestien personen, waarna hij zelfmoord pleegde. Woensdag vielen negen doden en dertien gewonden. Ook hier schoot de dader, een leerling van de school, zichzelf dood.

De schietpartijen hebben Turkije geschokt. In het land, waar strenge wapenwetten gelden, komen schietpartijen op scholen doorgaans nauwelijks voor.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op het Damrak is donderdag hoger geopend. Beleggers trokken zich op aan de positieve stemming in New York en Tokio, waar nieuwe recordniveaus werden bereikt door de hoop op een spoedig einde aan de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Ook lijken de kwartaalresultaten van bedrijven aan het begin van het cijferseizoen over het algemeen mee te vallen.

De Amsterdamse hoofdindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,5 procent hoger op 1021,09 punten. De AEX nadert daarmee weer het niveau van voor de oorlog. Op 27 februari, een dag voor de Amerikaans-Israëlische aanvallen op Iran, sloot de index op iets meer dan 1027 punten. Op 25 februari tikte de AEX op bijna 1032 punten de hoogste tussentijdse koers ooit aan.

De MidKap klom 0,6 procent tot 1022,64 punten. De beurzen in Frankfurt en Parijs stegen 0,1 procent. Londen won 0,2 procent na een sterker dan verwachte groei van de Britse economie in februari.

VEGHEL (ANP) - Groothandelsbedrijf Sligro verwacht tussen de 500.000 en 1 miljoen euro per maand extra kwijt te zijn door de hoge energieprijzen. Sinds het begin van de oorlog in Iran zijn onder andere benzine en diesel fors duurder geworden en dat merkt de leverancier van eten en drinken aan winkeliers en restaurants.

In een kwartaalupdate meldt Sligro de hogere kosten naar verwachting deels te kunnen doorberekenen in de prijzen voor zijn klanten. "Daarnaast zien we de eerste prijsverhogingen van onze leveranciers, wat naar verwachting de inflatie versnelt", schrijft het Veghelse bedrijf.

Sligro boekte een licht hogere omzet van 578 miljoen euro in het eerste kwartaal. De hoeveelheid verkochte drank en levensmiddelen daalde, terwijl de prijzen licht stegen. Over de winst gaf het bedrijf geen informatie in het kwartaalbericht. Volgens het bedrijf staat een deel van Sligro's klanten, vooral kleinere ondernemers in de catering- en restaurantbranche, onder druk.

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UK economy smashes forecasts with 0.5% growth in February, but economists fear growth will now slow sharply due to Iran war

The UK’s growth acceleration in February is likely to be “short-lived”, due to the Iran war, warns Andrew Hunter, associate director and senior economist at Moody’s Analytics:

“The 0.5% month-over-month jump in U.K. GDP in February, and slight upward revision to January’s data, echoes the earlier improvement in the surveys and suggests the economy had more momentum at the start of this year than previously thought.

However, with those surveys weakening quite sharply in March as the Middle East conflict sent energy prices soaring, this upturn is likely to prove short lived.

British designer aims to bring eco-friendly awareness to the high street in second collection with retailer

Stella McCartney, the luxury fashion designer who refuses to use leather, fur or feathers, is returning to the high street for a sustainable collection with H&M.

The collaboration between the British designer and the Swedish retail company will go on sale in May.

The $95 bus trip to Foxborough highlights a tournament unique in modern times – one that ultimately makes no secret of its disdain for the paying public

Like any journalist with an unerring nose for an offbeat feature, my interest was sharply piqued by this week’s announcement of the $95 bus ride. What magnificent accoutrements might conceivably justify the £70 fare for a half-hour journey from south Boston to Foxborough? An at-seat shiatsu? A pool deck? A five-course dining experience? A brief but moving Céline Dion set in the aisles? At the very least, I felt I owed it to my profession to find out for sure.

Alas upon closer investigation, the Boston Stadium Express being launched for this summer’s World Cup appears to be an entirely regular bus journey on an entirely regular bus with entirely regular bus seats. Your non-refundable ticket – no child concessions – entitles you simply to be dropped off a 15-minute walk from the ground, and picked up again from the same place. There is, in short, no more complex rationale for the Boston organising committee to charge £70 than the fact that they can, and the World Cup only comes once, and if you don’t want to pay then some other rube will.

Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac are a miserable couple who run a country club and get blackmailed in a rich v poor potboiler that has been done so much better before – not least in the stunning first series. What a shame

We may have to start calling it White Lotus Derangement Syndrome. This is a condition spreading through the television commissioning system since Mike White debuted his brilliant anthology series five years ago, whereby drama is produced by setting poorer Americans alongside richer Americans in a location the latter choose to come to and the former can’t escape. In The White Lotus, they are the staff and guests at a variety of luxury resorts. In Sirens, the personal assistants of kabillionaires. In whatever Nicole Kidman is in they can be single mothers with children at assisted places at schools with the cashmere-clad elite, servants to expats nursing secret sadnesses in luxurious apartments, masseuses and other service providers at exclusive spa retreats, or exploited or sexually harassed nannies to people who think nothing of exploiting or harassing their nannies. In non-Kidman derivatives, the dogged blue collar viewer-avatars can also include cops, struggling novelists or academics. Unless the academic is a tenured professor, in which case the underdog becomes a sexually harassed student, who should probably unionise with the nannies.

Now we have the second season of Beef to join the throng. The first, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong both doing career-best work, played out to near-universal acclaim as the story of a minor altercation in a car park between their two characters that gradually transformed credible pettiness into a credible psychodrama that built to an operatic climax. The new one stars Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac as a married couple who oversee the running of a luxury country club. Josh is the general manager (with a penchant for gambling and camgirls), Lindsay is the interior designer-cum-hostess (with a penchant for restoring the social status she had as a posho in her native England and an icily ruthless streak). They are both frustrated with where life has led them – so close to real money, but so far from having it themselves.

Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late

The beating heart of Sugar was always the sound of Bob Mould’s guitar: a colossal, metallic, thunderous thing, like a sonic boom you could whistle. “It was incredible, being engulfed by that wall of sound,” remembers bassist David Barbe from his office at the University of Georgia, weeks before the group are due to play their first shows in more than three decades. “Bob was so loud, there were times on stage when I could see Malcolm drumming, but I couldn’t actually hear him.”

“I didn’t wear earplugs when I started playing with Bob,” adds Malcolm Travis, the aforementioned drummer, from his home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. “But soon afterwards, I did. It was just deafening.” And while everyone involved is 30 years older than the last time they played together, age has not withered them; anyone who’s caught Mould playing solo in recent years will attest that his guitar is still fearsomely loud.

Redevelopment of the National Sports Centre would be a boost to locals and those who have fought for its return

“There were trees growing out of the main stand and on the indoor track and no one was doing anything about it,” says Jim Powell of the groundswell of despair at a crumbling Crystal Palace barely a couple of years after the Olympics were hosted to acclaim across the other side of London.

A month before Sir Mo Farah secured his second gold of London 2012 on Super Saturday, he had swept to victory in the 5,000m when Crystal Palace hosted its final London Grand Prix. But that summer’s Games appeared to signal the beginning of the end for the venue that had been the home of British athletics for the previous two decades.

Sid Lowe is our Spanish football correspondent, based in Madrid, and has been covering a very busy beat for years. He will be answering your questions from 12pm BST

Sid Lowe is the Guardian’s Spanish football correspondent, based in Madrid, and has been covering an increasingly busy beat for years. And after a busy week of action in the Champions League, La Liga and beyond, post your questions below the line; he’ll answer as many as he can from 12pm BST.

In the meantime, here’s his report from Madrid, where Atlético knocked Barcelona out of the quarter-finals, plus Andy Hunter’s dispatch from PSG’s win over Liverpool.

Dougie and Teresa don’t see eye to eye when it comes to supermarket packing. You decide whose argument checks out

• Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror

She says if you’re bagging stuff at the checkout, you’re holding up the people behind you

He just doesn’t understand the system. The packing shelves at the back are there to help customers

Reports that Lebanese officials were not aware of plans for talks revealed by US president in social media post

• US and Iran in indirect talks to extend two-week ceasefire

Some news outlets have reported Lebanese officials as saying they were unaware of any contact or meeting with Israel, after Donald Trump said on social media that Israeli and Lebanese leaders would speak to each other today.

AFP news agency reported an official source in Lebanon saying: “We are not aware of any planned contact with the Israeli side, and we have not been informed of any through official channels.”

Het aantal stalbranden in Nederland vermindert nauwelijks. In 2025 vatten 41 stallen vlam, zo blijkt uit cijfers van het Verbond van Verzekeraars. Afgelopen tien jaar overleden ruim een miljoen dieren door stalbranden. Verplichte veiligheidsmaatregelen bleven vooralsnog uit.