DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het klimaatbeleid van het vorige kabinet wordt voortgezet door de huidige coalitie van D66, VVD en CDA. De grootste prioriteit ligt wat de partijen betreft bij het oplossen van het overvolle stroomnet. De opslag van CO2 onder de grond moet doorgaan.

Het klimaatbeleid komt uit het bestaande klimaatfonds. De partijen willen door met een bestaande compensatie voor verduurzamende bedrijven tot 2030. Dat kost de staat tot wel een half miljard euro per jaar. Daarbovenop komt een extra pot om de kosten voor elektriciteit bij bedrijven te drukken. Daarin staan vanaf 2028 honderden miljoenen per jaar. Ook de bestaande subsidie voor het opwekken van duurzame energie blijft bestaan; er komen zes nieuwe rondes tot en met 2032. Ook is er extra geld voor windmolens op zee.

MOSKOU (ANP/RTR) - De Russische president Vladimir Poetin heeft besloten tot en met zondag geen aanvallen op Kyiv uit te voeren, na een verzoek hierover van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. Dat heeft het Kremlin vrijdag bekendgemaakt. Dit zou bedoeld zijn om gunstige omstandigheden te creëren voor onderhandelingen.

"President Trump heeft president Poetin inderdaad persoonlijk gevraagd om Kyiv een week lang niet aan te vallen tot en met 1 februari, om gunstige voorwaarden voor onderhandelingen te creëren", zei een woordvoerder van het Kremlin. Op de vraag of Poetin hiermee had ingestemd, antwoordde hij: "Ja natuurlijk, er was een persoonlijk verzoek van president Trump."

Het is niet duidelijk of Peskov met "Kyiv" alleen de Oekraïense hoofdstad bedoelde of dat hij het hele land bedoelde. Hij noemde de vrieskou in Oekraïne niet als reden voor het stoppen van de aanvallen. Trump zei donderdag dat Poetin ermee had ingestemd Kyiv en andere plaatsen in Oekraïne een week lang niet aan te vallen wegens de lage temperaturen.

Aanval passagierstrein

De afgelopen week vonden wel aanvallen plaats, ook met doden tot gevolg. Zo kwamen volgens Oekraïne vijf mensen om het leven bij een aanval op een passagierstrein. De Oekraïense luchtmacht verklaarde vrijdag dat Rusland de voorgaande nacht een raket en meer dan honderd drones had ingezet. Volgens president Volodymyr Zelensky werden de Oekraïense energievoorzieningen in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag niet aangevallen.

Delegaties van Oekraïne en Rusland kwamen vorige week in Abu Dhabi samen voor zeldzaam overleg over het stoppen van de oorlog, onder bemiddeling van de Verenigde Staten. Ze praten zondag 1 februari verder. De locatie en datum kunnen volgens Zelensky nog wel veranderen.

D66 en CDA waren allebei voor het afbouwen van deze hypotheekrenteaftrek, maar doen een concessie aan de VVD.

Als Trump dreigt Groenland te pakken, is er meer klandizie, weten inkopers van goud en zilver. Zo ook in Hengelo, waar taxateur en klant geduldig bekijken of het bestek van oma écht van edelmetaal is. „Als het koningswater bloedrood kleurt, is het zilver.”

Ukraine president says he will wait to see if Putin complies with Trump request to halt strikes on energy infrastructure

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he was waiting to see whether Russia would observe a proposed pause in strikes on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure, as Kyiv endures a spell of bitter winter cold.

Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that Vladimir Putin had agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for a week after he issued a personal appeal to the Russian leader due to the extreme weather in Ukraine.

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I played out a torturous, all-too-familar dance after the Gunners’ title-race stumble. But if we’re suffering like this in January, how will we feel in May?

I sometimes joke that I’m not sure I actually like football, just Arsenal. Hate-watching rivals aside, if a game doesn’t concern the Gunners it probably doesn’t concern me, such is my one-club tunnel vision. Even then, there are occasions where my love of Arsenal appears debatable. As a friend recently put it to me: “I’ve watched Arsenal games with you. I’m not sure you like Arsenal and yet you’re possibly the most fervent Gooner I know.”

Ah, the torturous dance between joy and torment. I relived it again last Sunday evening, when Arsenal lost to Manchester United. On paper, it should have been simple enough to compartmentalise: you can’t win them all and we’re still four points clear at the top of the league table and looking strong in all three cups. And yet, for the first time this season, I succumbed to true result-induced head loss.

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Theo Zhykharyev, the Ukrainian wizard working low-profile under this brand since 2017 has pivoted to a new realm which blends ferocious energy with freewheeling fun

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Up next New album Bridge of Sacrifice released 13 March

Theo Zhykharyev is one of those brilliant weirdos capable of turning wild ideas into reality. Since starting Powerplant as a bedroom recording project in 2017, a couple of years after he left Ukraine to study in London, he has released records built around fizzing electro-punk, dungeon synth and treble-heavy hardcore, concocting Dungeons & Dragons-inspired role-playing adventures to accompany some of them, while slinging visually arresting DIY merch through his Arcane Dynamics label. Yet even coming amid an output this freewheeling, his upcoming new record is full of surprises.

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The prediction market’s disciples and CEO believe its an unbiased way of knowing the future. But experts warn users could reshape the world to win big

In the early hours of 13 June, more than 200 Israeli fighter jets began pummeling Iran with bombs, lighting up the Tehran skyline and initiating a 12-day war that would leave hundreds dead.

But for one user of the prediction market Polymarket, it was their lucky day. In the 24 hours before the strike occurred, they had bet tens of thousands of dollars on “yes” on the market “Israel military action against Iran by Friday?” when the prospect still seemed unlikely and odds were hovering at about 10%. After the strike, Polymarket declared that military action had been taken, and paid the user $128,000 for their lucky wager.

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Raid on Fulton county election office is part of the Trump administration’s wider US push to fuel false claims of fraud

The FBI raid on the Fulton county election office Wednesday was an aggressive new front in Donald Trump’s effort to use his 2020 election loss to continue to sow doubt about American elections ahead of the 2026 midterms.

As Trump sought to overturn the 2020 election, false claims of malfeasance during ballot-counting in Atlanta became a key part of the big lie about a stolen election. Misleading surveillance video showing ballots being retrieved from suitcases became the basis for a myth that fraudulent ballots were included in the tally. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer and a close ally at the time, was ordered to pay $148.1m to the election workers as part of a libel suit for spreading lies about them. He later settled.

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The network’s editor-in-chief unveiled a curious list of 19 people to be paid contributors across different platforms

A focus on wellness, nutrition, longevity and cosmology, mixed with more than a sprinkling of conservative ideology, appears to represent Bari Weiss’s vision to revitalize CBS News, and regain the trust of the network’s lost viewers and employees.

Editor-in-chief Weiss on Tuesday unveiled a curious list of 19 individuals – including podcasters, influencers, restaurateurs, climate deniers and a number of other opinionated writers – who will be paid contributors offering their wealth of wisdom and insight that will help CBS become, in her words, “fit for purpose in the 21st century”.

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London-based satirist hails ‘amazing’ ruling that found Gulf state targeted and attacked him for his criticism

A London-based Saudi dissident who a judge decided should receive more than £3m in damages from the kingdom for assault and the hacking of his phone has insisted that it must pay up or face enforcement action.

Mr Justice Saini ruled that the Saudi government infected the phone of Ghanem al-Masarir with Pegasus spyware and, while surveillance was continuing, in 2018, its agents attacked him outside Harrods in central London.

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Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say

Israel’s army has become a vehicle for violent settlers to escalate their campaign against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, with reserve units drawn from settlements functioning as vigilante militias, according to Israeli soldiers and activists, and the United Nations.

Hagmar, or regional defence units, were set up across the West Bank from October 2023, as conscripts and the standing army deployed there prepared to move to Gaza.

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White Moss by Anna Nerkagi; The Old Fire by Elisa Shua Dusapin; The Roof Beneath Their Feet by Geetanjali Shree; Berlin Shuffle by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

White Moss by Anna Nerkagi, translated by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin, £12.99)
“You, too, need a woman!” Alyoshka’s mother tells him. “Even a plain one, as long as her hands and legs aren’t crooked.” And Alyoshka, part of the nomadic Nenets people in the Russian Arctic, does find a wife, but can’t consummate their marriage: he’s still in love with a girl who left for the city years ago. This novel takes us around the camp, from Alyoshka’s family to Petko and his friend Vanu discussing old age to a new arrival who shares his tragic story of alcohol addiction: “The devil had entered my soul, and it was fun to be with him.” Meanwhile, Soviet representatives, intended to support the Nenets people, come and go: “They didn’t stick, because strictly speaking there was nothing to stick to.” This story of a solid community where people stick instead with one another is a perfect warming tale for winter.

The Old Fire by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Daunt, £14.99)
Agathe, a 30-year-old French woman living in New York, is so estranged from her sister Véra that when she receives a text message saying “Papa’s dead”, she replies: “Who is this?” Now she returns to the family home in the Dordogne to help clear out his things. “If we set fire to the books, there’d be nothing left.” Relations remain difficult: Véra communicates only by text message; she hasn’t spoken since the age of six. This is a book of absence and silence – village shops are closed, streets deserted, Agathe’s husband in the US doesn’t reply to her – and written with apt spareness. “I’m following the advice of decluttering influencers,” Agathe tells us, but it’s her past that she needs to offload, and slowly we learn the history of the family breakup. The balance between revelation and continued mystery makes this book both tantalising and satisfying.

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Pick of former Fed governor to replace Jerome Powell comes as White House seeks to tighten grip on central bank

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Donald Trump has announced Kevin Warsh as his nomination for the next chair of the Federal Reserve, selecting a candidate who has been an outspoken critic of the US central bank.

The move ends months of speculation about who the president would pick to replace Jerome Powell , as he waged an extraordinary campaign to influence policymaking at the Fed by repeatedly calling for rate cuts.

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Seeing large men dressed in goggles and trenchcoats echoes the camp fascism of musical comedies

An aspect of ICE’s deadly performance in Minneapolis that goes hand-in-hand with its mission to intimidate is the absolutely farcical tone of the ICE aesthetic. Broadway numbers like Springtime for Hitler in The Producers and, more recently, Das Übermensch in Operation Mincemeat, a showstopper performed with a German techno beat and Nazi boyband – “Third Reich on the mic” – vocals, present fascism as an essentially camp enterprise and we’re reminded this week that ICE fits the mould entirely.

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Donald Trump said he had asked Vladimir Putin to "not fire into Kyiv and the various towns for a week" due to the "extreme cold."

Donald Trump said he had asked Vladimir Putin to “not fire into Kyiv and the various towns for a week” due to the “extreme cold.”

Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

Opinion  I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy.…

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CBS News: A former Google engineer has been found guilty on multiple federal charges for stealing the tech giant's trade secrets on artificial intelligence to benefit Chinese companies he secretly worked for, federal prosecutors said. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, a jury on Thursday convicted Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets, following an 11-day trial. The 38-year-old, also known as Leon Ding, was hired by Google in 2019 and was a resident of Newark.

According to evidence presented at trial, Ding stole more than 2,000 pages of confidential information containing Google AI trade secrets between May 2022 and April 2023. He uploaded the information to his personal Google Cloud account. Around the same time, Ding secretly affiliated himself with two Chinese-based technology companies. Around June 2022, prosecutors said Ding was in discussions to be the chief technology officer for an early-stage tech company. Several months later, he was in the process of founding his own AI and machine learning company in China, acting as the company's CEO. Prosecutors said Ding told investors that he could build an AI supercomputer by copying and modifying Google's technology.

In late 2023, prosecutors said Ding downloaded the trade secrets to his own personal computer before resigning from Google. According to the superseding indictment, Google uncovered the uploads after finding out that Ding presented himself as CEO of one of the companies during an Beijing investor conference. Around the same time, Ding told his manager he was leaving the company and booked a one-way flight to Beijing. "Silicon Valley is at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation, pioneering transformative work that drives economic growth and strengthens our national security. The jury delivered a clear message today that the theft of this valuable technology will not go unpunished," U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian said in a statement.

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