MOSKOU (ANP/RTR) - Het Russische olieconcern Tatneft beperkt de verkoop van benzine en diesel bij zijn tankstations, bericht Interfax. Volgens het Russische persbureau meldde het bedrijf via zijn hotline ook dat alleen contant kan worden afgerekend.
Tatneft heeft als op vier na grootste oliebedrijf van Rusland honderden tankstations in het land, met name in de regio rondom Moskou. Het bedrijf gaf geen officiële verklaring af.
Eerder op de dag meldde de burgemeester van Moskou dat een grote olieraffinaderij van Gazprom Neft beschadigd is geraakt bij een Oekraïense droneaanval.
ÉVIAN (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zegt later op dinsdag een ontmoeting te hebben met zijn Oekraïense ambtgenoot Volodymyr Zelensky. De twee leiders zijn in Frankrijk voor een G7-top.
Trump zei tijdens een persmoment dat hij zondag ook al met de Russische president Vladimir Poetin heeft gesproken en hem verteld heeft dat de twee landen een deal moeten sluiten. "Dit hele gebeuren is belachelijk", zei Trump over de vele doden die vallen in de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne. "Ik zal doen wat ik kan doen."
De Amerikaanse president gaf toe dat hij de laatste tijd minder aandacht heeft gehad voor de oorlog in Oekraïne. "We waren gefocust op Iran, dus dit speelde op de achtergrond."
Zelensky heeft de G7-leiders opgeroepen tot meer steun voor de luchtverdediging van Oekraïne.
Williams sisters have won six doubles titles at SW19
French Open finalist Chwalinksa awarded wildcard
Serena and Venus Williams will rekindle their doubles partnership at Wimbledon this month after receiving a wildcard into the women’s doubles draw. The All England Club announced the recipients on Tuesday morning in one of the most highly anticipated wildcard announcements in recent memory considering Serena’s return this month after four years of retirement.
Serena, a seven-times singles champion, did not request a singles wildcard and the 44-year-old has remained coy about whether she plans to return for singles. Venus, a five-time singles champion, has also not received a singles wildcard. Venus has competed on the tour since her debut in 1994, only stopping due to health-related issues. She turns 46 on Wednesday.
Continue reading...Head coach looked downwards in official Fifa photo
‘The picture was taken the way it was taken’
The Uruguay head coach Marcelo Bielsa has lived up to his maverick reputation by refusing to cooperate during a bizarre photoshoot for Fifa at the 2026 World Cup.
Bielsa – known as El Loco – stared down at the floor, hands in pockets, statuesque, during the obligatory media duty last Wednesday. The 70-year-old hit back at reporters when quizzed about the incident after Uruguay’s 1-1 draw with Saudi Arabia on Monday.
Continue reading...Our cartoonist offers up some observations after the tournament’s group games got under way in the US, Mexico and Canada
Continue reading...While taking the boat to Dunkirk, I stumbled upon a remarkable deal. I’ve barely been on dry land since
In February, my sister and I took the ferry from Dover to Dunkirk. On the way back, I noticed there was a deal: spend €150 (£130) in duty free and get a free day-trip ticket. If you love Toblerone and know anyone who smokes, you can spend that without even blinking – and so it came to pass that I was back on the ferry within a month.
This was when I started to perfect the art of the day trip, even though I didn’t yet realise this would be the beginning of a beautiful loop. You arrive and go to the coast, which looks like Saint-Tropez when the sun is out, because even though Dunkirk is not a famous holiday destination, it is still France. Then you go to Carrefour and spend ages saying: “How is this fizzy wine €4.68? I wonder if it’ll be nice. Only one way to find out – buy 24 bottles of it.” You get back on the boat to return to Britain, which is where things get weird, because the offer is still on. Well, I still love Toblerone and I still know someone who smokes.
Continue reading...A Liverpool fan and an influencer explain what it’s like to be hired for a Truman Show-style experiment
When Kevin Kotoko heard that he had been selected as one of Fox’s chief World Cup watchers he had no hesitation in accepting. What self-respecting football fan could turn down the opportunity to be paid $50,000 (£37,000) to take in all 104 games at this World Cup, after all?
The only issues were that he would have to watch every match in a custom-built viewing cube in the heart of Times Square and let his employers know that he wouldn’t be coming in for work the next day. “I quit my job,” admits Kotoko, a Liverpool fan who is from Florida and was working as a waiter in a restaurant. “I found out on Thursday that I had won the competition and so I told them on Friday that would be my last day!”
Continue reading...Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day
Explainer: Why is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing?
They had just settled down for breakfast when the noise came. Some paused in the eating of their slow-cooked beans – cambuulo – spooked by the haunting high-pitched hum. Others pressed their faces against windows, scanning skywards. Farmers in nearby maize fields watched the objects circling above Jamaame, a town in southern Somalia.
Shortly after 9am on 15 November 2025, Jamaame shuddered from a series of explosions.
Continue reading...Original works by 30 artists have been commissioned by the Obamas alongside vital pieces of memorabilia for visitors to appreciate
It is a tale of two presidents. On 14 June Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday by hosting a raucous crowd for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on the White House South Lawn. Four days later, on the eve of Juneteeth, Barack Obama will unveil a monument to his legacy that honours the audacity of art.
For the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago, Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned original works by 30 artists from diverse backgrounds, a bold move never seen at such scale at a presidential library. It also forms a quiet rebuke of Obama’s successor, who has filled the Oval Office with stiff presidential portraits while plotting the demise of cultural stalwarts such as the Kennedy Center and Smithsonian Institution.
Continue reading...There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
The stock market listing of SpaceX has led to an outpouring of celebration, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Yet those who rejoice in Elon Musk’s fortune surpassing the $1tn mark need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth: the mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time.
Simply put, there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. Extreme wealth is always an extreme power. It’s the power to stifle competition, the power to shape public discourse, the power to influence policymaking, the power to buy elections, the power to stall social progress.
Gabriel Zucman is a professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, a summer research professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and founding director of the International Tax Observatory. He is the author of We Need to Tax Billionaires.
Continue reading...Josh Hokit’s comment, made after the match at the White House, was condemned widely, but not by the president
Donald Trump is facing growing pressure to condemn an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competitor who used a White House appearance to push a sexist, racist and transphobic conspiracy theory about former first lady Michelle Obama.
At a UFC event on the south lawn on Sunday, the US president’s 80th birthday, Josh Hokit, a fighter, shouted into the microphone in front of Trump: “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?”
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Er komen steeds meer details naar buiten over het vredesakkoord van de Verenigde Staten en Iran. Duidelijk is dat president Trump veel heeft ingeleverd. De Oekraïense president Zelensky is dan ook uiterst kritisch over de deal. Zelensky: “Hij heeft de kaarten niet.”
Trump zou geen van zijn oorlogsdoelen gehaald hebben volgens Zelensky: “Geen toezeggingen over het kernwapenprogramma, de straat van Hormuz wordt gecontroleerd door Iran en er komen betalingen voor de wederopbouw. Hij doet stoer maar heeft niks te zeggen.”
“Heeft iemand vicepresident Vance ‘dank je wel’ horen zeggen over de opening van de Straat van Hormuz? Heeft hij één keer dank je wel gezegd? Ik dacht het niet”, aldus Zelensky.
Uit de Oekraïense regering klinken ook geluiden dat Trump zich niet passend zou hebben gekleed tijdens de onderhandelingen. Volgens insiders is de hoeveelheid make-up dat Trump draagt ook ‘respectloos’.
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