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ANWB en Rijkswaterstaat zien normale vrijdagochtendspits

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Zowel de ANWB als Rijkswaterstaat ziet vrijdagochtend een normale ochtendspits. Rond 08.30 uur staan er nergens files in Nederland. Vanwege de extreme hitte adviseert Rijkswaterstaat alleen de weg op te gaan als dat nodig is. Het KNMI heeft voor het grootste deel van het land code rood afgegeven vanwege extreme hitte.

Wie toch de snelweg op gaat, moet zich goed voorbereiden door bijvoorbeeld voldoende water en een paraplu of parasol mee te nemen, aldus Rijkswaterstaat.

De spits op vrijdagochtend is anders dan op andere doordeweekse dagen, meldt een woordvoerder van de ANWB. De spits van vrijdag wijkt daarbij niet af van het gebruikelijke beeld. Rond 09.30 uur ligt het zwaartepunt.

Rijkswaterstaat werkt al enkele dagen met het hitteprotocol, wat inhoudt dat gestrande weggebruikers op de wegen die Rijkswaterstaat beheert zo snel mogelijk naar "een veilige locatie met voorzieningen" worden gebracht, zoals een tankstation of parkeerplaats. Ook worden de roosters van weginspecteurs aangepast, zodat zij sneller afgewisseld worden.

2026-06-26 07:00:21

The Guardian

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

Chess: Carlsen’s four defeats in a row – just a blip or the start of a career downturn?

The word No 1 has had difficult periods previously, but at 35 and a wealthy family man, could he now be tempted towards a more relaxed lifestyle?

Magnus Carlsen’s four defeats in a row during the World Team Rapid in Hong Kong last week, coupled with his disappointing fourth place among six grandmasters in Oslo last month, have sparked discussion about whether the Norwegian, now a wealthy 35-year-old with a baby son, might be tempted towards a further reduction in his chess activities and a more relaxed lifestyle.

Carlsen had not previously lost four games in succession since Gausdal 2002, when he was 11 years old. The four defeats came after Carlsen had begun well, with a draw and then two victories, one against a historic rival, the Ukrainian veteran Vasyl Ivanchuk. That win was achieved in a classic example of a style and technique which Carlsen has made his own, a prolonged squeeze and grind maintained despite acute time pressure, as was his next victory against China’s Xu Xiangyu.

2026-06-26 07:00:14

How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes

Two chefs lift the lid on the expensive business of creating menus they love

You pay: £21
Restaurant profit: £1.65

2026-06-26 07:00:14

Thirty years of hurt: memories of England’s loss to Germany at Euro 96

Exactly three decades have passed since one of the most unforgettable nights in English tournament history

Des Lynam ended the BBC’s coverage of that European Championship semi-final between England and Germany on Wednesday 26 June 1996 by telling viewers that they “better remember where you were watching this tonight because in 30 years’ time somebody will probably ask you”. So, 30 years on, the Guardian asked six writers if they indeed remember where, and how, they watched the game. Fair to say it was an emotional trip down memory lane …

2026-06-26 07:00:13

Child malnutrition in Nepal has reached ‘alarming’ levels since aid cuts, survey finds

Fears hard-won gains in reducing child mortality over 20 years are at risk after end of USAID funding for nutrition programmes

Child malnutrition in Nepal has reached “alarming” levels, according to the largest ever survey of under-fives in the country.

The new figures came just over a year after USAID, the former US flagship agency closed by the Trump administration in 2025, stopped funding work on child nutrition in Nepal.

2026-06-26 07:00:13

Wanted: a new PM, a new James Bond, a new Doctor – and a UK that can agree on its leading characters | Nadia Khomami

Britain has found itself looking for all three protagonists at once. Who gets to stand at the centre of the national story?

It’s been the refrain of the week. Why can’t the country hold on to a prime minister – and how can it be that Larry, the Downing Street cat, has managed to outlast six of them? Have we become ungovernable? Is it because one government after another has failed to halt the slide in living standards – or have online attention spans eroded our patience for change?

But Westminster isn’t the only dramatic platform casting for a new lead at the moment. Amid the political chaos this week, I was struck by a social media comment that this is the first time the UK has found itself looking for a new PM, a new James Bond and a new lead for Doctor Who, all at the same time.

2026-06-26 07:00:12

‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering

Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C

The community living next to the largest datacentre park in Europe say the scorching summer heat has grown unbearable.

On days like Wednesday, said Nabeel Nawaz, the store manager of a Chaiiwala franchise in the centre of Slough, the heat is like something “pinching your body and burning your skin”.

2026-06-26 07:00:12

Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry

There are flashes of low-rent fun to be had here but a busy script makes it feel like a limited series inelegantly cut down to movie length

Strung is a cautionary tale about following your gut. Directed by Malcolm D Lee – the under-heralded virtuoso behind Girls Trip, Barbershop and other fine franchises – the Peacock suspense thriller stars Chloe Bailey as Laila, a classical violinist with her sights set on a seat in the city philharmonic. A substitute music teaching gig leaves that dream feeling farther away than ever until Laila meets Lynn Whitfield’s Audra – who not only offers more stable and lucrative work as a private music tutor for her granddaughter, but also an inside track to the philharmonic.

Of course, Laila is too bright-eyed, too bubbly and too overwhelmed by the opulence she’s suddenly crossed into to see that it’s all too good to be true. Audra’s daughter, Imani (DC Titans’ Anna Diop), is icy and unmoved by this childcare lifeline, even as she’s well into her third trimester. The prized pupil, Zuri (Romy Woods), is a modern problem child: hyper-allergic, emotionally withdrawn and forever hiding behind a Dahomey warrior mask. The pupil’s antisocial behavior, and its eerie echoes of another young Black girl who looms large in Laila’s imagination (her sister, we later learn), is supposed to set Zuri up for the classic killer kid role. But Lee abandons that tension fairly quickly, and instead traces the girl’s quirks back to the murder of her rapper father. It isn’t until Imani’s husband, Marcus (Emily in Paris’s Lucien Laviscount), re-enters the picture – he and Laila hooked up before she was hired to tutor his stepchild in another coincidence, more inconvenient this time – that Strung really starts to get wooly.

2026-06-26 07:00:11

Week in wildlife: paddling deer, a spring-loaded penguin and a rare sand cat

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

2026-06-26 07:00:11

‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield

Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songs

You were part of perhaps the richest and most exciting era of music since the German and Italian classics of the 19th century. How was it for you and what made it all tick? eamonmcc
William Stevenson discovered me after I had won an amateur contest. It was like a dream come true that a producer would come and approach me and say, “You have talent, come to Hitsville, USA.” I took his advice and showed up the next day unannounced and was immediately placed in a position as secretary [at Motown Records]. It felt real good that I was at the right place at the right time. It was magical to me and it’s all been just a glorious ride.

The Motown production line is sometimes compared to the production line of cars in Detroit. Is there anything to that, do you think? mesm
Motown and Ford are synonymous. My dad worked for Ford and [Motown founder] Berry Gordy worked there as an employee. It taught Berry Gordy the way to represent and how to manage and how to give people assignments. He called it Motown or Motortown. So, it’s all combined: Motor City, Detroit, manufacturing, making music as an assembly line.

2026-06-26 07:00:11

A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures

A scientist who decoded the dictionary that a bird uses to communicate has won a $100,000 prize for making progress towards a world in which humans can talk to the animals – without being met with a blank response.

Dr Julie Elie at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2026 Coller-Dolittle prize for two-way interspecies communication after working out the 11 core calls in the zebra finch vocabulary and their meanings.

2026-06-26 06:53:54

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Volkskrant.nl biedt het laatste nieuws, opinie en achtergronden

Depressie blijft veel te onzichtbaar in het publieke debat

2026-06-26 07:00:07

Rijnmond - Nieuws

Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

Terwijl de cheesecake de oven ingaat, laait de discussie over stemfraude weer op

Met zes aanhoudingen in Gorinchem draait de geruchtenmachine over de verkiezingsfraude weer op volle toeren. En daar zitten sommige inwoners helemaal niet op te wachten. “Ik zou willen dat het nu eens niet over politiek gaat, maar over ons jubileum", zeggen ze bij de Süleyman Celebi Camii Moskee.

2026-06-26 06:52:25

Terwijl de cheesecake de oven ingaan, laait de discussie over stemfraude weer op

Met zes aanhoudingen in Gorinchem draait de geruchtenmachine over de verkiezingsfraude weer op volle toeren. En daar zitten sommige inwoners helemaal niet op te wachten. “Ik zou willen dat het nu eens niet over politiek gaat, maar over ons jubileum", zeggen ze bij de Süleyman Celebi Camii Moskee.

2026-06-26 06:52:25

Naar buiten met code rood: 'Pa, je bent niet goed bij je hoofd'

De zon vermijden en verkoeling zoeken, dat is het advies bij code rood. Toch zijn er in onze regio mensen die naar buiten gaan, of zelfs moeten. Voor de een is het een loodzware dag, terwijl de ander het ziet als een avontuur. Rijnmond ging ook de straat op om te kijken waarom mensen toch de straat op gaan met dit weer.