AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Tussen de twee- en driehonderd mensen demonstreren zondagmiddag op de Dam in Amsterdam tegen de oorlog in Iran. Het land wordt sinds eind vorige maand aangevallen door Israël en de Verenigde Staten. De protestactie is georganiseerd door de Internationale Stichting voor Iraanse Vrouwen. De demonstranten zijn aanhangers van Maryam Rajavi, de voorzitster van de Nationale Raad van het Iraanse verzet.

De deelnemers zwaaien met vlaggen en roepen de leus "no shah no mullah". De sfeer is rustig, ziet een ANP-verslaggever. De politie is aanwezig en houdt toezicht.

De organisatie is tegen het heersende regime van ayatollah Khamenei, die zijn omgebrachte vader heeft opgevolgd. Ook willen de demonstranten niet dat Reza Pahlavi, de zoon van de oude sjah en dus officieel de kroonprins, het land gaat leiden mocht het islamitische regime vallen.

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"Ik ben gearresteerd door de sjah, gemarteld. Na de revolutie zijn familieleden geëxecuteerd door het regime", sprak een van de organisatoren. "Slachtoffers van de oorlog zijn de bevolking. We zijn voor een democratie en steunen het verzet van het Iraanse volk."

Een enkeling zwaait met een Israëlische vlag. Deze demonstranten worden apart gehouden van de rest. Ook is een aantal Koerdische vlaggen te zien. Rajavi is ook voor een onafhankelijk Koerdistan.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - Vanaf maandag gaan agenten van immigratiedienst ICE de beveiliging op vliegvelden helpen, meldt de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump op zijn Truth Social. Dat is vanwege de discussie in het parlement over de financiering van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid (DHS), waar zowel ICE als luchthavenbeveiliging onder vallen.

Trump opperde het plan zaterdag al en dreigde dat ICE-agenten illegale migranten ook hard zullen aanpakken als ze op luchthavens werken.

Volgens Trump zijn de democraten "alleen gefocust op het beschermen van zware criminelen die illegaal ons land zijn binnengekomen", door het geld dat voor het ministerie bestemd is tegen te houden.

Democratische parlementariërs blokkeren de begroting juist vanwege ICE. Ze willen dat er eerst maatregelen worden genomen om de macht van de immigratiedienst in te perken, na de onrust in Minnesota de afgelopen maanden. Bij grootschalige ICE-acties en protesten daartegen werden twee Amerikaanse burgers gedood door agenten van de DHS.

TORUN (ANP) - Nadine Visser is op de WK indooratletiek in het Poolse Torun met gemak doorgedrongen tot de halve finales van de 60 meter horden. De Nederlandse troef voor een medaille won haar heat in een tijd van 7,82 seconden.

Visser jaagt in Torun op nieuw succes. Ze is al in het bezit van vijf indoormedailles. De 31-jarige Hoogkarspelse begon in 2018 met brons op de WK en haalde in de jaren erna twee keer goud en twee keer zilver op de EK indoor.

Ze behoort ook in Torun weer tot de favorieten, gezien haar beste seizoenstijd van 7,78. Maar de concurrentie is groot, met onder anderen titelverdediger Devynne Charlton, de Zwitserse wereldkampioene 100 meter horden Ditaji Kambundji en de Poolse Pia Skrzyszowska.

Maayke Tjin A-Lim, de tweede Nederlandse in het deelnemersveld, werd uitgeschakeld in de series. Ze eindigde als vierde in haar heat in 8,04. Die klassering was niet toereikend en haar tijd evenmin om een plek in de halve finales af te dwingen. De halve finales van de 60 meter horden zijn zondagavond om 18.50 uur, de finale is om 20.13 uur.

TORUN (ANP) - Sofie Dokter bezet ook na het derde onderdeel de eerste plek op de vijfkamp bij de WK indooratletiek in het Poolse Torun. De Groningse meerkampster stootte de kogel naar 13,92 meter en die afstand was net voldoende om de Amerikaanse Anna Hall en de Ierse Kate O'Connor voor te blijven in de tussenstand. Het verschil in punten is klein.

De meerkampers vervolgen de vijfkamp zondagavond met eerst het verspringen en daarna de 800 meter. Een medaille lonkt nadrukkelijk voor de 23-jarige Dokter, die de wedstrijd in Torun opende met een dik persoonlijk record van 8,19 seconden op de 60 meter horden en daarna het hoogspringen won met 1,87.

Dokter verzamelde al eremetaal in haar carrière. Ze won vorig jaar zilver op de vijfkamp bij de EK indoor in Apeldoorn. Twee jaar geleden behaalde ze brons op de WK indoor in Glasgow. Afgelopen zomer werd ze zesde op de zevenkamp bij de WK outdoor in Tokio.

Energy and oil sites across region would become ‘legitimate targets’, Tehran says

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Iran has said it will “irreversibly destroy” essential infrastructure across the Middle East if the US attacks its energy sites, hours after Donald Trump threatened to “obliterate” the country’s power plants if the strait of Hormuz was not opened within two days.

As Iranian missiles struck two southern Israeli cities overnight, injuring dozens and shattering apartment buildings, the developments signalled a dangerous potential escalation of the war in the Middle East, which is now in its fourth week.

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As recently as Friday morning Eddie Howe talked about some results having “bigger consequences than others”. This was most definitely one of them.

In completing a Premier League double against Newcastle, Régis Le Bris’s promoted Sunderland surely consigned Howe and his players to one of their most chastening afternoon’s at St James’ Park.

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Martial arts champion who became a star of 1980s action movies and played the wholesome hero of Walker, Texas Ranger on TV

Action cinema of the 1980s was a podium where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone fought over gold and silver position. Bronze belonged indisputably to Chuck Norris, who has died aged 86.

The premature death of Bruce Lee in 1973 had left a vacancy for a martial arts movie superstar that was eventually filled to some extent by Norris, Lee’s friend and colleague. He had made an early screen appearance battling Lee in high-kicking combat sequences, which the pair choreographed together, in The Way of the Dragon (1972). Both men were trained fighters, so there was no call for stunt doubles or the obfuscating frenzy of quick cuts; their face-offs were filmed in medium and wide shots to preserve the sense of integrity.

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

• This week’s question: American football takes for ever. In which other sports do you spend most of your time not playing the game?

From what I can see, travelling in many cases has zero effect on a person’s outlook and prejudices. If that were not so, then high-flying politicians of all stripes would be among the most broad-minded people on the planet as they constantly jet from city to city. I can think of several proverbs that are extremely true, or at least seem so, such as “A stitch in time saves nine”, or “Many a mickle makes a muckle”, which it patently does – or especially the universally true, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. But what other proverbs or quotes or apparently clever soundbites are untrue, for at least some of the time? “Fine words butter no parsnips”? And how do questionable assertions become sayings in the first place? Neil Ashby, Powys

Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.

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For gen Z, the pull of a time before smartphones is strong. For those of us who lived through it, the reality is somewhat different

‘People have to start going 90s,” according to the content creator Mike Sheffer. In other words: leave your phone at home. “In the 90s no one had cellphones,” Sheffer explains, helpfully, on a reel I saw on Instagram, in which he describes how he and his friends do this, using it as a challenge to be in the moment and invite serendipity. “Things just happen,” he says. “There’s a different energy.”

Ah yes, the serendipitous 90s energy of arranging to meet someone “under the clock at M&S” and hanging around for 40 minutes when they didn’t show, of trudging dangerous miles home late at night thanks to transport fails (several comments on Sheffer’s reel highlighted the safety angle), or of forgetting your keys and spending hours locked out (I think I spent most of 1990-1994 sitting, bored witless, on the doorstep).

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University polling and focus groups found sharpest increase in those worried about national security was cohort aged 18 to 24

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Nearly half of Australians believe a foreign military will attack the country within five years, as anxiety over national security issues rises sharply, a new study suggests.

The Australian National University’s National Security College report found that two-thirds of those polled in 2026, including an increasing number of teenagers and young adults, were worried about national security issues.

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Tim and Christen Bass are barred from working and facing homelessness after indefinite leave application rejected by Home Office

An American family who have brought their children up in the UK are facing the threat of homelessness and detention due to confusion over a Home Office application form.

Tim Bass, a data and technology consultant, and his wife, Christen, an autism specialist, have lived in the UK since arriving on a skilled worker visa in 2019. The couple have lived with their two children, aged 10 and eight, in south London since then.

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Humans are hard-wired to care for and protect each other. Becoming kinder is just like riding a bike

As a species, homo sapiens have a bad reputation. War, environmental pillage, weapons of mass destruction – if the human race was applying for the job as planetary custodian, we wouldn’t even make it through to the interview stage.

But maybe we are not as bad as we think. According to the author and psychologist Steven Pinker, human society has become kinder over the course of recorded history, perhaps not in a linear fashion, but in absolute terms. He argues in The Better Angels of Our Nature that over the long arc of history, violence – including murder, cruelty and war deaths – have declined.

Jackie Bailey is an award-winning author whose nonfiction book about spirituality, ‘The Outrageous Good Fortune of Living’ (HarperCollins), will be released in 2026. Jackie works as a funeral celebrant and pastoral care practitioner, supporting people to navigate death and dying

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Perfume obsessives are making online fragrance mood boards for everything from ‘having a fight with your parents’ to ‘looking at old photos’. It’s both nostalgic and comforting

I was bestowed with a nickname throughout my younger years: Smellanor. When I decided to go by Elle, the nickname evolved with it: Smell. I’m always a sucker for a fun rhyme. But it did make me hypervigilant about maintaining what I actually smelled like, vowing that this moniker would never manifest itself into reality. Thus began my ongoing journey into the wild world of fragrances.

Years later, during one of my many late night TikTok binges, I stumbled across my first set of perfume-inspired image carousels that assigned scent profiles to abstract concepts, almost each one accompanied with a slowed-down version of Robert Miles’s Eurodance hit, Children. The age of 18, for example, has a scent profile of sweat, vodka, lip gloss, musk and lace. Looking at old photos too long smells like paper, iris, amber, musk and cedar. The first time passing a joint includes grass, fog, smoke, lip gloss and (obviously) cannabis.

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I was all alone in a Washington DC hotel on my birthday – and someone else had received my children’s message by mistake

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In the 1990s I travelled extensively for work, leaving behind my young family. It was tough on us all. One trip took me to Washington DC on my birthday. I was sitting in my hotel room, alone and feeling sorry for myself, when there was a knock at the door.

On the other side was a bellboy holding a birthday cake, complete with lit candles on top. “Happy birthday!” he said, handing me the cake and a fax. My two very young daughters had handwritten a lovely happy birthday message and sent it to the other side of the world.

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The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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In de musical over vrouwenrechtenstrijdster Aletta Jacobs vallen de schrijnende overeenkomsten op tussen haar streven naar gelijkheid en de huidige genderbiasstrijd. Met veel humor, stevige muziek en af en toe een kwetsbare stilte overtuigen Desi van Doeveren als Jacobs en de rest van de cast.