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Vader Michiel en dochter (23) influencer Annemarie Lekkerkerker hebben het er eens goed over onder het genot van een niet nader gespecificeerd kopje koffie. Het is eigenlijk een beetje alsof je naar een gesprek tussen Marcel van Dam en Hannah Prins zit te luisteren, maar dan vanuit een laat-kapitalistische negende cirkel van de brand safety-hel. Enorm zin in de Pickwick Podcast over Ceuta wel.

The Trump administration’s ‘America first’ approach has contributed to the scale of the crisis now unfolding in one of the world’s poorest countries

For months health experts have warned that the scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could surpass the one that swept west Africa in 2014-16. This week, the authorities in the DRC announced that a grim milestone has already been passed: at least 2,325 people have died from the virus, making it the deadliest of the country’s 17 outbreaks and the fastest-growing in history.

There is no effective vaccine against Bundibugyo – a rare strain of the virus that spread fatally undetected during the spring, often being misdiagnosed as malaria or typhoid. In contrast to neighbouring Uganda, which succeeded in eliminating an outbreak, multiple factors are combining to let the disease rip through the DRC. The worst-affected region is contested by armed groups, and a context of population displacement and chronic insecurity has made monitoring and surveillance more difficult. Ebola treatment centres have been attacked as a result of misinformation and community distrust.

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Victims received less compensation than shareholders in the company behind its flammable cladding. Parliament must make corporations pay for harm caused

There is something profoundly wrong when the company behind Grenfell Tower’s flammable cladding paid more compensation to its shareholders than to victims of the disaster. Of Arconic’s £86m in Grenfell-related settlements, all but £1.5m was covered by insurers. Hardly enough to make a multinational think again. The company whose product the inquiry found was the “primary cause” of the fire’s rapid spread has ended up paying only a fraction of the wider social cost, while the multibillion-pound bill for making hundreds of buildings safe falls largely on the state. In June 2017, 72 people – including 18 children – died in London’s Grenfell Tower fire. Almost a decade later, nobody has been criminally charged over its causes. It’s hard to conclude anything but that Britain’s system of corporate accountability is rotten.

A new report by the thinktank Common Wealth and the financial investigations group FIND suggests putting right this state of affairs in England and Wales by adopting two changes that parliament could enact quickly. The first is a “failure to prevent” law that would make companies responsible for having adequate systems to prevent foreseeable serious harm. The second is to adopt a “punitive damages” approach. Rather than compensating victims for their loss, punitive damages ask what a company should pay for its conduct. Such an award against Arconic could have been used to meet the costs of remediation, the report says, “at no public cost”.

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President says he plans to meet dictator this year but Kim Yo-jong says Washington remains Pyongyang’s enemy

Donald Trump has said he is planning to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un later this year, though the reclusive leader’s younger sister cast doubt on their communications and dampened hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough between them.

Trump, who also claimed North Korea had 57 nuclear weapons, had suggested he and Kim were holding secret negotiations on Tuesday after announcing the US would downgrade its participation in military exercises held by South Korea, a US ally. Asked whether Kim had responded to his request for a conversation, Trump said: “Yeah, he has.”

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Discovery marks latest grim finding in lake as water levels in crucial reservoir outside Las Vegas continue to decline

Human remains have once again been discovered at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, Nevada, marking the latest in a line of gruesome discoveries as water levels in the crucial reservoir continue to drop, authorities said.

These remains were discovered on 16 August, USA Today reported. The National Park Service (NPS) told the outlet there did not appear to be anything suspicious about the body.

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Image captured in early June shows animal foraging in the waterway in first since early 1900s, signaling its recovery

An otter has been spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in more than 100 years, in a further sign that New York’s previously befouled waterways are recovering some of their ecological health.

The North American river otter was photographed by a motion-activated camera foraging near some vegetation in the Bronx River, a waterway that flows through New York’s Bronx and empties into the East River.

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Military orders criminal investigation into deaths of five-year-old and six family members in Gaza in 2024

The Israeli military admitted on Wednesday its troops had opened fire on a car carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab and six family members in Gaza in 2024, saying it had ordered a criminal investigation into the killing.

The killing of Hind and her family was one of the most high profile of a series of incidents involving civilian casualties during the first months of the Gaza conflict which prompted international outrage.

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AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse hockeysters hebben de eerste groepsfase van het WK in eigen land afgesloten met een ruime zege op Japan. De titelverdediger van bondscoach Raoul Ehren versloeg de Japanse hockeysters in het Wagener Stadion in Amstelveen met 9-0.

Oranje had al met 2-0 gewonnen van Chili en met 4-2 van Australië en was eerder op de dag na het 4-4-gelijkspel van Australië tegen Chili helemaal zeker van het bereiken van de tweede groepsfase. Japan had nog een kleine kans door de 3-0-zege op Chili, maar moest dan stunten tegen Nederland. Dat zat er echter al snel niet in.

Nederland begint vrijdag aan de winnaarspoule met uit dezelfde groep Australië. Daardoor heeft Oranje al 3 punten door die eerdere zege. De hockeysters nemen het vrijdag om 18.00 uur op tegen de nummer 2 uit groep D, waarin het nog spannend is tussen India, China en Engeland.

FREDERICKTOWN (ANP) - In de Verenigde Staten zijn drie Nederlanders om het leven gekomen toen de Ford Transit waarin ze zaten werd geraakt door een vrachtwagen. Het gebeurde dinsdagmiddag (plaatselijke tijd) in Fredericktown, in de staat Ohio. Volgens de verkeerspolitie van Ohio verzuimde de Nederlandse bestuurder van het busje te stoppen bij een stopbord, waarna een vrachtwagen op het busje inreed.

Drie inzittenden, alle drie mannen van middelbare leeftijd, overleden ter plekke. Vier andere Nederlandse inzittenden, onder wie de bestuurder, zijn gewond geraakt en naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

Het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken in Den Haag bevestigt het noodlottige ongeval. Volgens een woordvoerder wordt er bijstand verleend door de honorair consul uit Cincinnati en een collega van het consulaat-generaal in Chicago.

De slachtoffers maakten deel uit van een reisgezelschap van zestien Nederlanders, verdeeld over twee busjes.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Supermarktketen Lidl waarschuwt voor een chocoladepudding met een bacterie die maag- en darmklachten kan veroorzaken. Het gaat om de Milbona High Protein Pudding Chocolate Flavour 200 gram met de houdbaarheidsdatum 14-09-2026. "Eet de pudding niet."

De pudding bevat de Bacillus cereus. Die kan ernstige gezondheidsrisico's vormen voor mensen met een lage weerstand, zoals zuigelingen, peuters, zwangere vrouwen, ouderen en mensen met een verzwakt immuunsysteem.

Klanten krijgen het volledige aankoopbedrag terug wanneer ze de pudding terugbrengen naar een Lidl-winkel.

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Kodak Ektar 100 with Mamiya RB67 and Sekor 50 mm

Het recht op demonstreren geeft boeren geen vrijbrief om met landbouwvoertuigen de snelweg op te gaan. Het Openbaar Ministerie dreigt landbouwers nu met strafrechtelijke vervolging wegens ‘gevaarzettend gedrag’.

Mona Keijzer werkt volgens bronnen aan de oprichting van een nieuwe rechtse beweging. Maar rechts is versnipperd, en de kans dat zij alle groepen kan verenigen is klein.

In de Laurenskerk in Rotterdam staat het grootste orgel van Nederland: de Rooie Reus. Maar al drie jaar is de reus niet meer te horen. Het orgel wordt volledig gemoderniseerd en daarbij voorzien van digitale techniek. De kerk krijgt daarnaast een gloednieuw 'hyperorgel' dat nieuwe composities moet opleveren.

From nearly 4,000 entries submitted by 1,338 photographers around the world, a striking selection has been shortlisted for the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026. The handpicked images represent some of the finest photographic portrait work being made today, from intimate settings in which figures meet the viewer’s eye to candid scenes on city streets and rural expanses alike.

Open to professionals and amateurs alike, the competition will select one winner to receives a £15,000 award plus a commission to be added to the collection of London’s National Portrait Gallery. An exhibition of the best entries will also be shown at the museum from November 5 to January 17, and The winner will be announced on November 3.

The four shortlisted images include Max Pattenden’s tender “Havannah, Lee Moor,” James Clifford Kent’s “Neisser, Pinar del Río, Cuba,” Marcie Docherty’s “PE,” and Katie Hitchcock-Smith’s dusky “Moroccan (Amazigh) Cowboys.” Learn more and plan your visit on the museum’s website.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Four Shortlisted Artists Stand to Win the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026 appeared first on Colossal.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 19-08-2026 19:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 18.3°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 17.4°C / Max 19.8°C | Kans op neerslag 52%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 17.4°C, Max 19.8°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 52%, 🧭 1003.5 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 228°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1002.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.1 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 196°
• 21:00: 17.9°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1003.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 213°
• 22:00: 17.7°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1003.8 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• 23:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1004.3 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.8 km/u (1.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• 00:00: 17.7°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1004.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.5 km/u (1.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
• 01:00: 17.4°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 19%, 🧭 1004.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 198°
• 02:00: 17.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 29%, 🧭 1004.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• 03:00: 17.1°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 38%, 🧭 1004.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 208°
• 04:00: 16.9°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1004.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
• 05:00: 16.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 49%, 🧭 1003.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
• 06:00: 17.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 43%, 🧭 1003.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 210°
• 07:00: 16.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1003.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 194°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 20 augustus: Min 16.3°C, Max 20.9°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 18.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 75%, 🧭 1004.7 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• vrijdag 21 augustus: Min 16.2°C, Max 19.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1009.1 hPa ↗️ +4.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 300°
• zaterdag 22 augustus: Min 13.3°C, Max 18.5°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1017.6 hPa ↗️ +8.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.2 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 320°
• zondag 23 augustus: Min 13.0°C, Max 20.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1023.0 hPa ↗️ +5.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.3 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 273°
• maandag 24 augustus: Min 12.4°C, Max 20.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1020.0 hPa ↘️ -3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.0 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ← 71°
• dinsdag 25 augustus: Min 13.7°C, Max 21.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1013.4 hPa ↘️ -6.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 48°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 18.3°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 19.2°C (+0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 6.5 km/u (1.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 210°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 11.2 km/h (3.1 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 86%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1002.8 hPa ↗️ +1.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 11.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.7
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:33 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:58

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 39 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.3 μg/m³
• PM10: 8.5 μg/m³

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Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set of a TV show. "I mean, I saw a shiny thing, teasing and all that," the cop said in the footage. "I knew that when I put that [into the system], I was like ‘Fuck.’

404 Media obtained more than an hour of body camera footage that shows the investigation into Florida cop Lamar Roman, who met a woman on the set of the Apple TV show Bad Monkey, then illegally researched her using government department of motor vehicles databases, put her license plate on a police “hot list” that would notify him when she drove past an automated license plate reader camera, nearly caused a head-on collision while speeding to track her down, and illegally pulled her over after stalking her. We previously published footage from Roman’s police cruiser; the new footage shows police station interviews with Roman about why he did what he did, an anonymized police station interview with the victim about his actions, and the eventual arrest of Roman in front of his home. 

The detective investigating Roman told the man “you’ll get past this bro” during his arrest, and later told the victim that he was "remorseful" and urged her not to post about the incident on social media, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media.

The footage also shows that the investigator told the victim that “we’ve had deputies misuse databases, we’ve told them over and over again ‘that’s not what it’s for. You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for.’”

The footage gives unprecedented insight into how and why abusive police use government spy tools including license plate reader cameras to surveil and stalk victims, how victims are informed of this surveillance, and how cops are treated when they are ultimately arrested for this crime. The footage is particularly notable as dozens of cops around the country have been caught abusing Flock and other ALPR systems to stalk ex wives, ex partners, and random people. When 404 Media wrote about this issue in early July, Flock claimed it was “aware of 15 incidents of abuse,” though we, local media, and a report by the Institute for Justice had found far more than that. The Washington Post then found “at least 50” incidents and, now, Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley is saying that its system has “caught a lot of bad cops. It’s a ton. It’s more than I ever would have hoped.” (Roman used an ALPR system called Guardian made by a company called Turing.)  

'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for'

The most striking footage comes from an interview with the victim by detective Jenna Moeller, who investigated, questioned, and arrested Roman. Moeller is the one who informed the victim of the extent of the stalking. 404 Media is not naming the victim and changed her voice in the videos we've uploaded to protect her identity.

Moeller begins by telling the victim "I'm going to tell you some information. It may be upsetting."

Moeller tells the victim how, exactly, Roman found her, and said that this is not the first time she has investigated a case involving the police misuse of a database. 

“He met you on the Bad Monkey set, he was flirting with you. He did use our databases to look you up. He looked you up multiple times to see who you were, where you live. Accessed your information, unfortunately. We have a system called DAVID, Department of Motor Vehicles,” Moeller says. “So it’s your driver’s license information, he looked at your signature, the vehicles you have, and your photo. I can tell he looked at vehicles and photos of each one to see if it was you. He then used a different system we have to run your name, your license plate number. Your address, date of birth. He accessed that the day of the filming.” 

“The most concerning part to me, listen, we’ve had deputies misuse databases, we’ve told them over and over again, ‘That’s not what it’s for. You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for,’” she says. “The more concerning part to me is we have what’s called license plate readers, LPR system, which is the camera’s positioned up and down the highway, and we use that for law enforcement. We have one highway, so if we’re looking for somebody, it makes it very easy to locate their vehicle. He put your tag in that, so he would be alerted when your vehicle was going one way or another.”

“Stop it,” the victim says, incredulously. 

“So that, obviously, is very concerning to me. In my interview, he stated that’s how he knew your vehicle was moving that day. And he knew you were going to be headed south,” Moeller says. “He was looking for your vehicle to pull you over. Our in-car cameras do click on when you go over 70 [mph]. To catch up to your vehicle, he passed multiple cars to get behind you and initiate that stop.” 

“It’s probably a lot to take in. But I will say he was very remorseful, he acknowledged it was dumb, acknowledged it was not the right thing to do,” she adds.

During the interview, the victim described her experience with Roman. She repeatedly told Moeller she felt uncomfortable throughout every interaction she had with him and that his advances were unwanted on set (a longer description of what happened and what Roman did is available in our earlier story).

“All the sudden, I’m driving, there’s steady traffic. And he cuts off a truck behind me, and immediately I’m like ‘This is him. I know it’s him.’ I could see him in my rear view mirror, and I’m like ‘He better not pull me over,’ and he pulled me over,” the victim tells Moeller in the footage.

“He came up to my passenger window, and I had my window rolled down and I’m like ‘I knew it was you, does all my information pop up on your screen?’ And he was like ‘I told you I would find you and pull you over,” she says. “And I was hoping your boyfriend was with you so I could pull him out and give him a hard time.’”

“And he was like ‘Why aren’t you following me on Instagram?’ and I was like ‘I’m late,’” she said. “He kept looking around my car and I was like ‘Can I please go?,’ and then he finally let me go […]I had this moment where I had my phone in my hand, and I could have started recording, or I could have popped off, but then it’s like, it’s my word against a police officer. And I just felt like I wasn’t in power in that situation.”

Moeller and the victim then discuss what it would mean to press charges, the fact that Roman’s body camera was not on when he pulled her over, and what it might be like to testify at a trial. Moeller tells her that he had been fired and that he lost access to police databases; the victim wonders if that might make him upset or if she’d be blamed. At the end of the interview, Moeller asks the victim not to post about the incident on social media until her investigation is over.

“It’s unsettling to all of us. I am glad that our agency found out about it relatively quickly, took action. Those are in my opinion, all positives. This is not something that’s getting swept under the rug,” Moeller says. “Other than that, I know you have a big social media following. I can’t tell you what to post or not post, but if you could refrain from posting anything until my investigation is over, I would appreciate it. Just so it doesn’t hinder anything else. I don’t think it would, but it just makes my life a little easier.” The two agree it would be a good “story time” on social media but the victim says she won’t post anything.

'I Saw a Shiny Thing'

In Moeller’s police station interview with Roman, he admits to “hitting on” and “flirting” with the victim on the Bad Monkey set—“she was kind of teasing,” he said. (The victim told Moeller that she was deeply uncomfortable the whole time, and that he was harassing her.) Roman says after he met her he looked her up in DAVID and MNI, another police database, which he knew was illegal: “Right when I did that, I was like, ‘fuck, what did I do?,’” he says. 

“When you pulled her over, did you know it was her?,” Moeller asks him. 

“Yes,” he says.

“Did you have a legal reason to pull her over?” Moeller says. 

“No,” he says.

When asked what his “goal” with the hotlist was, Roman says “I think just meeting someone like that, getting the high from it. She was leading on. It was one of those things where, she was kind of pushing it.”

Later in the interview, another cop walks into the room and sits out of camera shot and tells Roman to “not let it get to you,” and said “of all the people I expected to be sitting down with here, it wasn’t you. I thought you were pretty good out there, so I wasn’t expecting this. It caught me off guard by a long shot. Nobody’s perfect. Everyone has their own issues no matter who they are.” 

Before the interview ends, Roman says to Moeller and the other officer, “I just apologize for you guys having to do this. I mean, I saw a shiny thing, teasing and all that. I knew that when I put that [into the system], I was like ‘Fuck,’ and I stopped right after and nothing else.” 

“Oh, I get it man. Life’s full of decisions. Some are good, some are bad, what I can tell you from 10 years of doing this job and doing a bunch of things in my life is that, regardless of what it is, you can always move past things,” Moeller says. “In life, time is relative, and you know, this will be a speed bump in a few years.”  

'You'll Get Past This Bro'

404 Media also obtained footage from when Roman was arrested several days later at his home. The footage shows that Roman was allowed to make several phone calls before being arrested as he loiters on the sidewalk. Eventually, he is handcuffed and put in the back of a police SUV. Moeller tells him “Roman, I’m sorry man, it is what it is, we’re here now. But remember what I said. It’s a speed bump, OK? In the scheme of things, you’ll get past this bro. Alright, I wish you the best of luck. Keep your head up man.” 

Roman was eventually charged with counts of stalking and improperly accessing government databases. He avoided jail time as part of a plea deal.