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WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Iran heeft contact gezocht met de Verenigde Staten om een akkoord te sluiten. Dat zei de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump donderdag op een bijeenkomst met het voetbalteam Inter Miami in het Witte Huis. Trump zei dat zijn reactie was: "Jullie zijn een beetje laat."
De Iraanse missie bij de Verenigde Naties wilde niet reageren op deze opmerking van de Amerikaanse president.
De Amerikaanse strijdkrachten maakten bekend meer dan dertig Iraanse schepen tot zinken te hebben gebracht sinds de aanvallen van Israël en de VS zijn begonnen, afgelopen zaterdag. Een van de schepen, een droneschip, staat in brand.
Admiraal Brad Cooper, commandant van het Amerikaanse leger in het Midden-Oosten, zei dat de Iraanse aanvallen met ballistische raketten met 90 procent zijn afgenomen sinds de eerste dag van de oorlog.
Trump zei op de bijeenkomst in het Witte Huis ook dat hij eerst de oorlog in Iran wil voltooien en zich dan tot Cuba wil richten. Volgens hem is ook Cuba zeer bereid om een akkoord te sluiten.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Ook het Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden heeft een resolutie verworpen om de macht van president Donald Trump te beperken om oorlog te voeren tegen Iran. De Senaat deed dat woensdag al.
219 leden van het Huis verwierpen de resolutie, 212 waren voor. Grotendeels werd er volgens de partijrichtlijnen gestemd, maar vier Democraten stemden mee met de Republikeinen tegen de resolutie en twee Republikeinen stemden voor, aldus The New York Times.
Volgens de Republikeinen zou een aanname van de resolutie het gezag van Trump tijdens de militaire operatie tegen Iran hebben aangetast. "Het zou onze vijand hebben versterkt", aldus Mike Johnson, de Republikeinse voorzitter van het Huis.
President Trump zei donderdag dat Iran contact heeft gezocht met de Verenigde Staten om een akkoord te sluiten. De Iraanse missie bij de Verenigde Naties wilde niet reageren op deze opmerking.
De Amerikaanse strijdkrachten maakten bekend meer dan dertig Iraanse schepen tot zinken te hebben gebracht. Volgens het Amerikaanse leger zijn de Iraanse aanvallen met ballistische raketten met 90 procent afgenomen.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het kabinet heeft de "emotie die gepaard zou gaan met het doorbreken van een afspraak uit het pensioenakkoord" onderschat. Dat heeft minister Hans Vijlbrief (Sociale Zaken, D66) gezegd in Pauw & De Wit. "Dat hebben we niet helemaal goed ingeschat. En daar ben ik wel van geschrokken."
In het pensioenakkoord staat dat de AOW-leeftijd acht maanden meegroeit per jaar dat de gemiddelde levensverwachting stijgt, het kabinet wil daar twaalf maanden van maken. Dit coalitieplan stuitte op woede van vakbonden, die in 2019 na veel discussie met het pensioenakkoord hadden ingestemd.
Vijlbrief heeft vakbonden FNV, CNV en VCP maandag een "pas op de plaats" aangeboden, werd toen al bekend. Dat betekent dat hij voorlopig geen wetgeving over de AOW-leeftijd uitwerkt. Ook wil hij de Sociaal-Economische Raad vragen advies te geven over de pensioenplannen.
United Airlines has updated its contract of carriage to require passengers to use headphones when playing audio or video on personal devices during flights. Travelers who refuse could be removed from the plane or even permanently banned from flying with the airline, reports CBS News.
United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...
Further reading: Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...
Further reading: Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
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An anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that transferred TikTok's U.S. operations to a group of investors tied to the administration. The suit claims the arrangement violates a 2024 law requiring ByteDance to divest and alleges the deal financially benefited Trump allies while leaving the platform's algorithm under Chinese ownership. NBC News reports: The suit, filed by the Public Integrity Project, a law firm that seeks to raise the "reputational cost of corruption in America," argues the deal violates a law intended to prevent the spread of Chinese government propaganda and has enriched Trump's allies. That law, signed by then-President Joe Biden in 2024, said that TikTok couldn't be distributed in the United States unless the Chinese company ByteDance found an American-based corporate home by the day before Donald Trump returned to office. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court.
"The law was clear, but it was never enforced," says the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Shortly after the deadline to divest passed, President Trump issued an executive order purportedly granting an extension for TikTok to find a domestic owner and directed his Attorney General not to enforce the law." The plaintiffs in the suit are two software engineers from California: One is a shareholder in Alphabet Inc., YouTube's parent company; the other is a shareholder in Meta Platforms, Inc., which is Instagram's parent company. Both say they suffered financially due to the non-enforcement of the law. "The original motivation for this law was to prevent the Chinese government from pushing propaganda onto American audiences," said Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project and a former Justice Department prosecutor. "The deal that the president approved is the absolute worst of all possible worlds, because right now ByteDance continues to own the algorithm, which means that it can censor the content that it doesn't like, but at the same time Oracle controls the data and it can censor the information that it doesn't like. Really it's a situation that's going to be terrible for users, and terrible for free speech on the platform."
"The law was clear, but it was never enforced," says the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Shortly after the deadline to divest passed, President Trump issued an executive order purportedly granting an extension for TikTok to find a domestic owner and directed his Attorney General not to enforce the law." The plaintiffs in the suit are two software engineers from California: One is a shareholder in Alphabet Inc., YouTube's parent company; the other is a shareholder in Meta Platforms, Inc., which is Instagram's parent company. Both say they suffered financially due to the non-enforcement of the law. "The original motivation for this law was to prevent the Chinese government from pushing propaganda onto American audiences," said Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project and a former Justice Department prosecutor. "The deal that the president approved is the absolute worst of all possible worlds, because right now ByteDance continues to own the algorithm, which means that it can censor the content that it doesn't like, but at the same time Oracle controls the data and it can censor the information that it doesn't like. Really it's a situation that's going to be terrible for users, and terrible for free speech on the platform."
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Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech
Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached an all-time high last year, with China-linked cyber-espionage groups remaining the most prolific state-backed users, according to Google.…
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Corymbia ptychocarpa, commonly known as swamp bloodwood or spring bloodwood, is a species of tree that is endemic to northwestern Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, broadly lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy yellow, pink or red flowers, and barrel-shaped, ribbed fruit.
Chinese world No 71 swears at heckler after breaking club
Lowry finishes with a bogey to compound weekend pain
“Snap another one!” You find brave people in hospitality areas at golf tournaments. The order came to Li Haotong, moments after his caddie had delivered a broken lob wedge to a bin at the back of the Bay Hill driving range. “Fuck off!” barked Li in immediate reply, with a gesticulation to match. What a scene.
Gaining entry to the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the last minute, as a reserve, was not sufficient to boost Li’s mood. He finished round one horribly, with a double bogey rounding off a 77. Li’s tugged approach to the last (a bad workman etc) was plugged in a greenside bunker, from where he opted to putt. The ball crawled out of the sand, which Li booted in anger. The ranting continued all the way to and on the practice area, much to the amusement of assembled guests. Li’s poor bag man was at the opposite end of a verbal tirade. It was pitiful, embarrassing petulance for which Li should be reprimanded by the PGA Tour.
Continue reading...Many will regard the ex-secretary of homeland security, Trump’s first fired cabinet member, as the worst yet seen
Kristi Noem once led a dog to a gravel pit and ended its life with the cold precision of a mafia hit. On Thursday, the homeland security secretary confronted the grim truth that she, too, was expendable.
Noem became the first cabinet member fired in Donald Trump’s second term, a striking contrast to the revolving-door chaos of his first. Like other members of Team Trump, she had assumed that ostentatious displays of fealty to the president would insulate her.
Continue reading...The problem here is not the interim manager, it’s the ad hoc interim ownership and the short-term sense of identity at this ghost town club
Tudor is to do. To do is to dur. Something like that anyway. With the clock reading 45+8 at the end of the first half the air inside the Tottenham Hotspur stadium had already begun to curdle and turn strange.
In the space of 18 minutes, 1-0 to Spurs had become 3-1 to Crystal Palace. The crowd had begun to turn in on itself. Boos were directed at the players. Boos were directed back at the booers. Birds flew backwards through the sky. The clock struck 13. Beer glasses filled from the bottom up. “You killed the club,” man in a quilted coat shouted at the directors’ box, with genuine feeling, as though this was not a figure of speech, the club actually was dead, before stamping off towards the thrillingly alive empanada and artisan pickle outlets of the vibrant new retail concourse.
Continue reading...Tottenham beaten 3-1 by Palace as Van de Ven sent off
Interim manager admits the situation is ‘very difficult’
Igor Tudor insisted that the “boat is going in the direction I want to go” despite a shambolic 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace, deepening Tottenham’s relegation fears.
Although the atmosphere was toxic on another grim night at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Tudor is confident that he can steer his new side to safety. Tottenham have lost each of their three games under their interim manager and are a point above the bottom three after Micky van de Ven’s red card kickstarted an implosion against Palace.
Continue reading...Forward says all that matters is they keep winning
Saka unconcerned by lower goals and assist tally
Bukayo Saka says he is untroubled by the rising tide of criticism against Arsenal and wants to do one thing and one thing alone – win. The winger marked his 300th appearance for the club with the only goal in Wednesday’s 1-0 victory at Brighton, which moved Arsenal seven points clear of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League. City have a game in hand.
It was an emotional night at the Amex Stadium. Fabian Hürzeler had complained about Arsenal’s timewasting beforehand, the Brighton manager raged about it during the match – as did the home crowd – and he signed off with another blast, saying Arsenal had again taken advantage of the inability of referees to combat delaying tactics.
Continue reading...Meta CEO, grilled about children’s safety, says in taped deposition a user pool of billions will include bad actors
Harms to children, such as sexual exploitation and detriments to mental health, are inevitable on Meta’s platforms, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram leader Adam Mosseri said in taped depositions played at a trial in New Mexico on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“I just think if you’re serving billions of people, the unfortunate reality is that some very small percent of them are going to be criminals, and we should work as hard as we can to stop that activity from happening,” said Zuckerberg. “I don’t think that the standard for our platforms would be that you should assume that it will ever be perfect.”
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