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Ahead of a busy second half of the Formula 1 season, how do the drivers recharge during their summer break?
At the halfway point of the 2026 season, we asked our writers to give us their take on how the campaign has unfolded so far – as well as sharing some bold predictions for the rest of the year.
Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month
Half of England and the whole of Wales are officially in drought and July is set to be the driest month on record as extreme heat intensified by the climate crisis continues to grip the UK and Europe this summer.
The announcements this week by England’s Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales mark the third such event over the past five years, and come in the wake of four record-breaking heatwaves since May which have fuelled huge wildfires and left farmers, wildlife and protected habitats running out of water.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
The family of a Haitian immigrant who froze to death in early March at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh after she was dropped off in the city by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is poised to file a lawsuit this month against the United States and “multiple other governmental and non-governmental entities”, the Guardian has learned.
Daphy Michel, 31, had been in county jail for six months after a reported mental health crisis and street incident, and then was arrested by ICE before being released with a ankle monitor.
Continue reading...Haitian immigrant with mental illness found dead after ICE released her in 20F weather wearing summer clothes
On the night of 26 February this year, the Michel family in Pennsylvania expected to see their loved one, Daphy, again very soon.
After she had spent six months in jail, a judge had dismissed criminal charges against her and one of her brothers was told she would be released soon, probably the next day.
Continue reading...Vivian and Thomas both left physically unfulfilling marriages and are rediscovering their sex drives in later life
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New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minors "will only be shown content from other accounts they follow or otherwise select in a set sequence, such as chronological order," rather than "the default algorithmically personalized feeds... unless they get parental consent for an addictive feed." (Social media companies "must offer at least one alternative method for age assurance besides providing a government-issued ID," the announcements points out, and any information used to determine age "must not be used for any other purpose and must be deleted or de-identified immediately after its intended use.")
But meanwhile, the EFF writes that a committee in the U.S. Senate is considering the SCREEN ACT, "a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users' ages before they can access any sexually explicit content. If this bill passes, it will force millions of adult internet users to give up their anonymity, privacy, and security before they access lawful speech."
Unlike many state-age verification laws — which have been harmful in their own right — the SCREEN Act has no requirement that a significant portion of the website consist of sexually explicit content that is harmful to minors. The bill requires nearly any service hosting even a single piece of sexually explicit content to verify the ages of its users. The result is that the bill would apply not only to adult content sites like PornHub or OnlyFans, but also streaming services like Netflix, and social media platforms like Reddit, Discord, or Bluesky, if they host any adult content...
Under the SCREEN Act, the "bouncer" will be a digital age-verification service that captures your personal information and saves it to a database for an unspecified amount of time. The consequences of the bill won't be limited to minors. If websites and apps are expected to reliably identify teenagers, adults will be asked to prove they are adults. Even worse, the SCREEN Act is a privacy and data security nightmare. One provision of the bill requires services to take reasonable steps to protect the data collected and to not maintain for longer than is necessary. But these are terribly weak protections that impose no meaningful collection, use, or retention limits on services collecting people's private information...
The SCREEN Act also targets virtual private network (VPN) users and providers. The bill requires covered websites to verify users' ages based on their IP addresses unless the service can determine that the user is outside the United States, and specifically requires age verification on traffic coming from known VPN addresses. In practice, this discourages the use of VPNs and proxy servers, which millions of people rely on for legitimate purposes such as protecting personal privacy, securing public Wi-Fi connections, safeguarding journalists and activists, and preventing data tracking...
The SCREEN Act creates onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize the data security and privacy of all internet users.
But meanwhile, the EFF writes that a committee in the U.S. Senate is considering the SCREEN ACT, "a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users' ages before they can access any sexually explicit content. If this bill passes, it will force millions of adult internet users to give up their anonymity, privacy, and security before they access lawful speech."
Unlike many state-age verification laws — which have been harmful in their own right — the SCREEN Act has no requirement that a significant portion of the website consist of sexually explicit content that is harmful to minors. The bill requires nearly any service hosting even a single piece of sexually explicit content to verify the ages of its users. The result is that the bill would apply not only to adult content sites like PornHub or OnlyFans, but also streaming services like Netflix, and social media platforms like Reddit, Discord, or Bluesky, if they host any adult content...
Under the SCREEN Act, the "bouncer" will be a digital age-verification service that captures your personal information and saves it to a database for an unspecified amount of time. The consequences of the bill won't be limited to minors. If websites and apps are expected to reliably identify teenagers, adults will be asked to prove they are adults. Even worse, the SCREEN Act is a privacy and data security nightmare. One provision of the bill requires services to take reasonable steps to protect the data collected and to not maintain for longer than is necessary. But these are terribly weak protections that impose no meaningful collection, use, or retention limits on services collecting people's private information...
The SCREEN Act also targets virtual private network (VPN) users and providers. The bill requires covered websites to verify users' ages based on their IP addresses unless the service can determine that the user is outside the United States, and specifically requires age verification on traffic coming from known VPN addresses. In practice, this discourages the use of VPNs and proxy servers, which millions of people rely on for legitimate purposes such as protecting personal privacy, securing public Wi-Fi connections, safeguarding journalists and activists, and preventing data tracking...
The SCREEN Act creates onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize the data security and privacy of all internet users.
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BLANKENBERGE (ANP) - Een Nederlandse toerist heeft zich zondagochtend met zijn auto klemgereden op een trap in het centrum van de Belgische badplaats Blankenberge, dat meldt de VRT. De 74-jarige man zou genavigeerd hebben met zijn Waze-app, volgens de omroep.
De bestuurder was niet onder invloed. "Hij was gewoon verstrooid", aldus een commissaris van de lokale politie tegen de VRT. De auto is inmiddels weggetakeld. Daarna wordt bekeken of de "iconische" trap in de Kerkstraat schade heeft opgelopen.
Het incident valt samen met werkzaamheden aan de trap. Die zouden in september klaar moeten zijn. De kosten hiervoor bedroegen 660.000 euro.
LONDEN (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De olieproducerende landen van OPEC+ hebben ingestemd met een nieuwe verhoging van de productiequota vanaf september. Dat zeggen bronnen bij het oliekartel tegen persbureau Bloomberg.
Saudi-Arabië, Rusland, Irak, Koeweit, Algerije, Kazachstan en Oman verhogen hun productiedoelstelling voor september met ongeveer 188.000 vaten (van 159 liter) per dag, aldus de ingewijden. Eerder kwamen de landen van het oliekartel overeen om de productie in juni, juli en augustus met een vergelijkbare hoeveelheid op te voeren.
De daadwerkelijke olieproductie van OPEC+ ligt op dit moment ver onder de quota, omdat door de Iranoorlog en de blokkade van de Straat van Hormuz de export van de Golfstaten verstoord is. Uit cijfers van de organisatie kwam eerder naar voren dat de landen in juni ruim 36 miljoen vaten per dag hebben opgepompt. Dat is een flinke daling vergeleken met de bijna 43 miljoen vaten per dag die in februari werden geproduceerd. De oorlog begon aan het einde van die maand.
SURABAYA (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Bij een brand op een veerboot in de buurt van het Indonesische eiland Madura zijn vijf mensen omgekomen, melden de autoriteiten. Minstens 41 mensen worden nog vermist.
Volgens de reddingsdiensten waren er 271 mensen aan boord van de veerboot, die onderweg was van Surabaya naar Makassar. Waardoor de brand uitbrak, is niet duidelijk.
CALGARY (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Het cabinepersoneel van de Canadese luchtvaartmaatschappij WestJet is zondag begonnen met een staking in een geschil over lonen. WestJet is de op een na grootste vliegmaatschappij van Canada. Door de staking zijn honderden vluchten geschrapt.
Meer dan 4000 cabinewerknemers doen mee aan de staking. De vakbond Canadian Union of Public Employees had eerder al gewaarschuwd dat er een staking aan zou komen omdat WestJet niet inging op de eisen. Daarop had WestJet al tientallen vluchten uit het schema gehaald. Het conflict draait vooral om geschillen in beloning voor cabinepersoneel bij werken tijdens vluchten en werk op de grond.
Door de actie zijn veel reizigers gestrand. De vakbond zegt bereid te zijn om weer met WestJet te gaan praten. De maatschappij zegt de actie te betreuren. Vorig jaar was er ook een staking van cabinepersoneel bij Air Canada om vergelijkbare redenen.
"Twenty years of my life, or a version of it. Messages sent at hours that don't belong to anyone sober. Photographs I would never have taken in daylight,. "It is accumulation, the slow daily work of an addict doing the thing that is killing him because the alternative feels like dying faster."
Een meevaller voor Jannie (73) en Theo (79): op hun camping aan de Costa Brava staat een fantastisch reanimatieteam klaar om de ouderen de tijd van hun leven te geven.
"Ze zorgen voor een enorm levendige sfeer, heel anders dan op de ouderencamping waar we vorig jaar stonden", prijst Jannie. "Vanochtend was er bijvoorbeeld een hele leuke activiteit, toen begon Theo de dag met een spannende hartmassage, terwijl hij normaalgesproken alleen maar zwijgend de krant leest en op zijn schermpje zit. Ik en de rest van het publiek konden er geen genoeg van krijgen!"
Het contrast is groot met de camping van vorig jaar: "Daar kreeg onze buurman een hartaanval die al snel fataal bleek, want er was geen reanimatieteam. Je hebt toch een leukere vakantie samen als de ander een hartslag heeft", weet Jannie.
Haar man Theo is ook te spreken over het reanimatieteam, maar ziet ook ruimte voor verbetering: "Het is wel jammer dat ze alleen Spaans en Engels spreken. Bij een levensreddende activiteit vind ik het wel fijn als ik begrijp wat er om me heen gebeurt. Ik had vanochtend pas door wat we aan het doen waren toen ik weer bijkwam. Daarom heb ik het reanimatieteam drie sterren gegeven in de review. Een ster aftrek, hopelijk doen ze wat met dit signaal."
Het reanimatieteam staat nog tot eind augustus op de camping. Voor vakantiegangers die daarna komen camperen, is er een reïncarnatieteam. Die organiseert minder levensreddende activiteiten, maar belooft alsnog dat je je na de vakantie een compleet ander mens voelt."
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