De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft gezegd dat er mogelijk een "vriendelijke overname" van Cuba komt. Hij verduidelijkte niet wat hij daarmee bedoelt, maar dat zou mogelijk betekenen dat de Cubaanse regering moet instemmen met een machtsoverdracht aan de Verenigde Staten.
"De Cubaanse regering is met ons in gesprek", zei Trump tegen journalisten. "En ze zitten in grote problemen. Ze hebben geen geld. Ze hebben helemaal niets meer, maar ze praten wel met ons en misschien krijgen we een vriendelijke overname." Volgens de president spreekt buitenlandminister Marco Rubio "op hoog niveau" met de regering in Havana.
De VS hebben de afgelopen weken de druk op Cuba flink opgevoerd. Trump heeft een blokkade ingesteld voor de olie-import van het eiland en hij sprak openlijk over een machtswisseling van het communistische regime.
MILAAN (ANP/DPA) - Een tramontsporing heeft in de Italiaanse stad Milaan twee mensen het leven gekost. Ook zijn 39 anderen gewond geraakt. Een van hen is volgens de brandweer in kritieke toestand.
Het is nog niet bekend waardoor de volle tram vrijdagmiddag ontspoorde op de Viale Vittorio Veneto, centraal in Milaan. Ooggetuigen zeggen dat de tram rechtdoor moest rijden, maar draaide, ontspoorde en vervolgens tegen een gebouw botste. De bestuurderscabine raakte daarbij zwaar beschadigd.
De Noord-Italiaanse stad stond eerder deze maand in het teken van de Olympische Spelen. Momenteel vindt in Milaan de beroemde Fashion Week plaats.
Mentaal sterke mensen laten zich minder gek maken door het perfecte plaatje op sociale media, juist omdat ze leren dealen met de werkelijkheid in plaats van ervoor weg te lopen.
Designer’s first catwalk for the brand in Milan flirts with bad taste with short, tight dresses and a diamante G-string
Demna is fashion’s dark lord of apocalyptic streetwear. Gucci is the glossy sex kitten of Milan. Put the two together, and what do you get? Sex appeal that flirts with bad taste.
At Demna’s first Gucci catwalk show, staged in Milan on Friday afternoon in front of an audience including Donatella Versace and Paris and Nicky Hilton, dresses were so short and tight that Emily Ratajkowski periodically yanked down a handful of disco-ball sequins to cover her bottom as she walked. There were lapdance-bar tinsel hair extensions, and Kate Moss in a diamante G-string. A certain sketchiness in the roll of the hips, a model who pulled his phone out of his bumbag and scrolled his way down the catwalk.
Continue reading...Plans to return humans to the moon will come in later mission as agency grapples with delays and glitches
Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.
The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency’s recently confirmed administrator, Jared Isaacman. Announcing the changes on Friday, he said that Nasa would introduce at least one new moon flight before attempting to put humans back on the lunar surface for the first time in more than half a century, in 2028.
Continue reading...Military reckoned ‘good’ Afghan insurgents were separate from ‘bad’ Pakistani insurgents but distinction has blurred
Days after the Taliban swept to power in 2021, Pakistan’s then spymaster appeared in Kabul on what looked to many like a victory lap. Sipping tea in the lobby of the Afghan capital’s fanciest hotel, Lt Gen Faiz Hameed told reporters: “Don’t worry, everything will be OK.”
This week it became clear just how badly Pakistan had miscalculated how it could rely on the Taliban, as Islamabad unleashed airstrikes in Afghanistan and troops from both countries fought each other on the border.
Continue reading...Hollywood actor for more than five decades best known for 1980s cult film Revenge of the Nerds and the teen comedy series Lizzie McGuire
Of the four sons who followed their father, John Carradine, into acting, Keith had the most prestigious career, David netted the largest audience thanks to his early-1970s TV series Kung Fu, and the little-known Bruce amassed a meagre handful of minor credits. The youngest, Robert Carradine, acted continuously without ever becoming a star. He has taken his own life aged 71, after suffering from bipolar disorder, which was exacerbated by David’s death in 2009.
He had small roles in Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973), where he was the long-haired gunman who shoots dead the drunk played by David, and as a tracker in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012). He also joined David and Keith as the three Younger brothers in Walter Hill’s western The Long Riders (1980), which populated its cast with other sets of real-life siblings, such as James and Stacy Keach playing Frank and Jesse James. Carradine’s aptitude with a gun led to him competing under the alias Bob Younger in quick-draw competitions organised by the Single Action Shooting Society.
Continue reading...Hannah Spencer’s win was more than protest. It signalled that Labour’s moral language and coalition are up for grabs in its safest terrain
The Greens have every reason to celebrate their victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection. From a standing start in a Manchester constituency, Zack Polanski’s team tripled his party’s vote to capture a seat that had effectively voted Labour in every election but one since 1906 – the year Labour was born. Labour coming third behind Reform UK is not routine midterm turbulence. A 20-point collapse in the party’s vote is extraordinary.
Sir Keir Starmer was abandoned by a coalition of young progressives, working-class former Labour voters and Muslims. May’s Scottish and Welsh parliamentary as well as English council elections will paint the map in many colours. Not a lot of it will be red if this result is anything to go by. Labour’s vaunted ground game can’t save it if the ground has shifted. The party can’t turn out voters who’ve already tuned out.
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Continue reading...In de zomer van 2019 maakte youtuber Bas Tietema met twee compagnons ludieke filmpjes in de Tour de France. Bijna zeven jaar later staat hij aan het hoofd van een eigen wielerploeg, die dit seizoen meedoet aan onder meer de Ronde van Vlaanderen en de Giro d’Italia. Het aantrekken van een aantal oud-Touretappewinnaars onderstreept de ambities.
Do people still worship the ancient Greek gods? “Hellenism – also called Hellenic ethnic religion, or Dodekatheism – which is the practice of worshipping ancient gods, has been growing in popularity since the 1990s.”
The US Army's attempt to turn Microsoft HoloLens headsets into battlefield kit may have failed, but the AR goggles aren't going into the garbage. Instead, they're being repurposed for remote cargo inspection support.…