TUCSON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse tv-presentatrice Savannah Guthrie en haar familie lijken er steeds meer rekening mee te houden dat de verdwenen moeder van Guthrie niet meer in leven is. In een nieuwe verklaring zeggen ze dat ze geen rust zullen vinden tot ze gevonden is en dat "rouwen" tot die tijd moeilijk is.

"We kunnen niet rouwen; we kunnen alleen pijn voelen en ons afvragen", stelde de familie in een speciale uitzending van KVOA-TV News rond de vermissing van de 84-jarige Nancy Guthrie. "Onze focus ligt uitsluitend op haar vinden en haar thuisbrengen."

De familie vroeg de kijkers nogmaals om zich te melden als ze iets weten over de verdwijning van Nancy. "Geen enkel detail is te klein. Het kan de sleutel zijn."

Nancy Guthrie wordt sinds 1 februari vermist. De familie loofde eerder een beloning van 1 miljoen dollar uit voor informatie die leidt tot haar terugkeer. De beloning kwam bovenop de 100.000 dollar die de FBI heeft beloofd voor de gouden tip.

TEHERAN (ANP) - In Iran is al meer dan 500 uur sprake van een vrijwel totale internetblokkade. Volgens internetwaakhond Netblocks is de connectie met het buitenland volledig afgesneden en wordt de binnenlandse dienstverlening ernstig beperkt. De overheid treedt hard op tegen satellietverbindingen en VPN's.

Sinds de Amerikaanse en Israëlische aanvallen op Iran begonnen op 28 februari hebben de Iraanse autoriteiten het internet beperkt. Dat gebeurde ook tijdens de aanhoudende protesten in het land.

"Veel families zijn er niet toe in staat contact op te nemen met hun geliefden wanneer dat het hardst nodig is", aldus Netblocks. Iraanse inwoners vertellen aan Al Jazeera dat het "extreem moeilijk" is om contact te leggen met de buitenwereld.

DUBAI (ANP/AFP) - De Verenigde Arabische Emiraten hebben zondag gezegd dat hun luchtafweersystemen reageren op inkomende luchtaanvallen vanuit Iran. Eerder meldde ook het ministerie van Defensie van Saudi-Arabië al aanvallen van Iran met drie raketten. "Eén raket is onderschept, de andere twee zijn in een onbewoond gebied neergekomen," schreef een woordvoerder van het ministerie op sociale media.

Het ministerie van Defensie van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten liet op zijn beurt weten in een verklaring: "De luchtverdediging van de VAE reageert momenteel op inkomende raket- en dronebedreigingen vanuit Iran." Ook legde het uit dat "de geluiden die worden gehoord het gevolg zijn van luchtverdedigingssystemen die raketten en drones onderscheppen".

Een woordvoerder van het ministerie zei dat in het oostelijke deel van het land drie drones zijn onderschept en vernietigd.

Iran beschuldigt Golfstaten ervan dat zij Amerikaanse troepen toestaan vanaf hun grondgebied aanvallen uit te voeren. De Golfstaten hebben die beschuldigingen herhaaldelijk ontkend en al vóór de oorlog gezegd dat zij hun grondgebied en luchtruim niet zullen laten gebruiken voor aanvallen op Iran.

Zaterdag sloten de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten zich wel aan bij 21 andere landen die hebben afgesproken bij te zullen dragen aan inspanningen om de doorgang door de Straat van Hormuz weer veilig te stellen. Iran blokkeert momenteel die belangrijke vaarroute in de Golf voor schepen met onder meer vloeibaar gas en olie. De groep bestaat voornamelijk uit Europese landen, maar ook Bahrein heeft zich er bijvoorbeeld bij aangesloten.

Fraudsters exploit isolation and search for human contact to often devastating effect. These are steps you can take to avoid them

As you have got older, retirement has left you with more time on your hands. Loneliness has set in. Luckily, you have found a friend through one of the online motoring groups you are in, and a close bond has blossomed over your common interest in cars.

But your new friend has found themselves short when it comes to paying for their university textbooks, and has asked you for £50. It’s not much, and you get on so well that you agree to pay via bank transfer.

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Unpaid carers say they remain ‘in limbo’ as DWP continues to pursue discredited repayment bills

MPs have threatened to launch a fresh inquiry into the handling of the carers allowance scandal after unpaid carers spoke of being “stuck in limbo” by the government’s response.

The warning came amid concerns over delays in Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to offer redress to tens of thousands of carers who were unfairly issued with overpayment bills based on discredited official guidance.

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Our writer first hiked in the Lake District, Eryri and Dartmoor in the 1970s. Their beauty remains unrivalled, but they are more popular than ever. So, here’s how to avoid the crowds

Before we enter the clouds on snow-capped Helvellyn, I glance back down at Ullswater. The early morning sun is bursting around the dark corners of High Dodd and Sleet Fell, sending a flush of light across the golden bracken and on to the hammered silver of the lake.

Further away to the south, ragged patches of snow cling to the high gullies. The nearest village, Glenridding, can barely be seen behind the leafless trees and all I can hear is the gurgle of the stream. It is the quintessential Lakeland scene: the steep slopes above the water, the soft colours and hard rock, all combining into something inimitable. And judging by the photographic and artistic record, it is one that has hardly changed since the Cumbrian wind first ruffled a Romantic poet’s curls.

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Electoral alliances expected to play vital role in number of contests including Paris and Marseille

Voting is under way in France in the second round of local elections – seenas a bellwether for next year’s presidential race – with cities including Paris and Marseille in the balance and both the radical left and far right hoping for gains.

Most of France’s 35,000-odd communes elected their councils in the first round last Sunday, but in municipalities where the contest is tighter, including most large urban areas, the second round will be decisive, with electoral alliances playing a key role.

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Some people are better at organising, and it sounds as if you all have fun when you do get together, so try not to take it personally

My friends seem genuinely happy to see me when we’re together and usually accept when I suggest meeting up. But if I don’t initiate, I rarely hear from them. Not even a “Hi, how’s the new job?” or a “How are you?” Months can go by.

This makes me wonder if these people are real friends and question whether I’m doing something wrong. When we do get together, we share things about our lives, laugh a lot and do activities we all like, so time together makes me feel connected. But once we say goodbye, I don’t hear from them. It’s all very confusing and discouraging.

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The cooking is precise, proud and purposeful

Osteria Vibrato appeared last month on Greek Street, Soho, feeling to any passerby just like any other neutral-fronted Italian restaurant in this pasta-swamped part of the capital. Not much to see here. Pushing your face against the window wouldn’t achieve much, either, apart from an unsightly smear.

Meanwhile, all the in-the-know people – that bunch of infuriating, generously paunched “foodies” who keep London restaurant gossip alive – understood that this particular osteria is the latest opening by Charlie Mellor, former proprietor of the Laughing Heart in Hackney, which opened in 2016 and very quickly became favoured by chefs and industry media types alike, because it took food very seriously, stayed open late and danced a dainty line between debauched and old-school cosseting. It sold pumpkin cappelletti with sage, and chicken liver paté with crisp chicken skin and jellied walnut liqueur. The room was furnished with quirky tables complete with cutlery drawers, and there seemed to be a never-ending party going on in the ground-floor bar. Mellor, the star of the show, led the charge: warm, serious yet with a great capacity for silliness, though weirdly omniscient as to who needed what and when.

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Donald Trump’s ‘little excursion’ is likely to have long-term effects, from oil prices to inflation to growth, say experts

In the days after the US and Israel first bombed Iran, financial markets bet the economic fallout from Donald Trump’s “little excursion” in the Middle East would be short-lived.

“There are risks from higher oil prices longer term. But this is a tail risk,” one US-based fund manger said after the airstrike killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “History has shown time and time again that geopolitical flare-ups like this tend to be short-lived. This one should prove to be no exception.’’

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‘Problem-solving’, child-focused courts to replace adversarial hearings, with earlier intervention to cut delays

Family courts are “not good enough” and have treated women and children unfairly for decades, a government minister has said.

Announcing a major overhaul of the family justice system in England and Wales that will play a central role in “rebalancing” the family courts, Alison Levitt said often brutal legal showdowns will be replaced with a “problem-solving”, child-focused model.

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Cyber experts say influence operations in ‘asymmetric’ campaign to intensify moral pressure on US and Israel

Iran has radically overhauled its social media strategy in an all-out information war launched by the country’s Islamic rulers in response to US and Israeli military attacks.

Cyber experts say Iranian foreign influence operations have gone into overdrive as part of an “asymmetric” campaign designed to complement its military retaliation and intensify moral pressure on the US and Israel into curtailing their war efforts.

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At the very moment Trump’s rambling speeches and meme–fied inanity threaten to overwhelm us, fashion, music and film are moving in the opposite direction

Put down your negroni, hang up your Prada handbag and pick up a paperback. Next time someone whips out their phone to take your picture, grab your reading specs, not your lipstick. Smart is the new hot.

Pop stars are launching book clubs – the 1970s had Studio 54, this decade has Dua Lipa’s online literary salon Service95 – or joining Substack, where Charli xcx recently published a 1,800-word essay interrogating why it is that as a pop star “you cannot avoid the fact that some people are simply determined to prove that you are stupid”. The supermodel Kaia Gerber (who is fashion royalty – her mum is Cindy Crawford) passes the time backstage at fashion week reading Didion, Duras and Camus, not Vogue.

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Deze zondag doet zijn naam eer aan: het wordt een zonovergoten dag. Daarbij blijft het droog en is het aan de zachte kant voor maart. De maximumtemperatuur komt vanmiddag uit op 15 graden, een heerlijke waarde als men bedenkt dat het normaal gesproken rond de 11 graden is. Verder is het uitermate rustig weer en waait de wind zwak tot hooguit matig langs de kust, uit het oosten.

Aan de Hillelaan in Rotterdam-Zuid is op zondagochtend rond 4.30 uur en schietpartij geweest waarbij een man gewond is geraakt. Het slachtoffer meldde zich bij het politiebureau aan de Maashaven Noordzijde. Hij is naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☀️ - 22-03-2026 07:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 4.8°C · Zonnig ☀️ | Min 4.7°C / Max 15.4°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 4.7°C, Max 15.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1016.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ← 73°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 08:00: 5.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 90°
• 09:00: 6.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ← 84°
• 10:00: 8.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ← 102°
• 11:00: 10.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1017.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 97°
• 12:00: 12.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ← 97°
• 13:00: 13.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1016.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ← 100°
• 14:00: 14.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.9 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 108°
• 15:00: 15.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ← 97°
• 16:00: 15.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ← 87°
• 17:00: 15.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 81°
• 18:00: 14.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ← 74°
• 19:00: 13.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 65°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• maandag 23 maart: Min 7.8°C, Max 15.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1019.8 hPa ↗️ +3.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 346°
• dinsdag 24 maart: Min 6.4°C, Max 13.5°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1015.9 hPa ↘️ -3.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 26.9 km/u (7.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 227°
• woensdag 25 maart: Min 4.1°C, Max 9.6°C (Matige sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 12.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 75%, 🧭 1005.5 hPa ↘️ -10.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 29.6 km/u (8.2 m/s), richting: → 281°
• donderdag 26 maart: Min 3.1°C, Max 6.6°C (Matige sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 3.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 66%, 🧭 1013.4 hPa ↗️ +7.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 27.2 km/u (7.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 329°
• vrijdag 27 maart: Min 3.0°C, Max 8.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ↗️ +3.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: → 257°
• zaterdag 28 maart: Min 4.5°C, Max 9.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 33%, 🧭 1023.6 hPa ↗️ +6.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 337°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 07:15): 4.8°C (Zonnig)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 2.2°C (-2.6°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ← 86°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 21.2 km/h (5.9 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 84%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1017.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 12.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.3
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:39 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 18:58

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 53 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 19.0 μg/m³
• PM10: 20.8 μg/m³

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Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Saturday that it would collaborate with Italian group Eni to fetch the wrecked vessel.

Jon Siegel has added a photo to the pool:

I rode these trains for years when I worked in Tokyo. I can't really say I miss being jammed in tightly with a huge crowd of other people. But I do miss being able to get onto a train, ride for an hour, and be in an entirely new place to explore on a weekend.

Always funny how the LED lights on these trains get funky when I shoot with my D850.

Patricia Woods has added a photo to the pool:

Urban Sketchers Brisbane sketched this morning at the new Glasshouse Theatre at Southbank, Brisbane, Australia.

"After nearly a decade of delays and industry skepticism, Tesla's electric big rig is finally rolling out of Nevada's Gigafactory for mass production starting summer 2026," writes Gadget Review. And some truckers who tested the vehicles already love them (as reported by the Wall Street Journal):

Dakota Shearer and Angel Rodriguez, among other pilot drivers, rave about the centered cab that eliminates blind spots during tight maneuvers. The automatic transmission means no more wrestling with 13-gear diesels, reducing physical stress on long hauls. Most surprisingly, the Semi maintains highway speeds on grades where diesel trucks typically crawl at 30 mph. The 500-mile range enables multiple daily round-trips — think Long Beach to Vegas or Inland Empire runs — without range anxiety...
Sure, the Semi costs under $300,000 — roughly double a diesel equivalent — but the math gets interesting quickly. Energy costs drop to $0.17 per mile compared to $0.50-0.70 for diesel fuel. Maintenance requirements shrink dramatically; one fleet reports needing just one mechanic for their electric trucks versus five for 40 diesels... Tesla offers Standard Range (325 miles) and Long Range (500 miles) versions, both handling 82,000-pound gross combined weight at 1.7 kWh per mile efficiency.

The tri-motor setup delivers 800 kW — over 1,000 horsepower equivalent — enabling loaded 0-60 mph acceleration in 20 seconds versus 45-60 for diesel. Fast charging hits 60% capacity in 30 minutes [which Tesla says is 4x faster than other battery-electric trucks] using the new MCS 3.2 standard, while 25 kW ePTO power runs refrigerated trailers without diesel auxiliaries. Charging networks remain the biggest hurdle for widespread adoption. Public charging stations lack the Semi's massive power requirements, limiting long-haul routes. Tesla plans dedicated fast-charging corridors starting this summer, but coverage remains spotty. The lack of sleeper cabs also restricts the Semi to regional freight rather than cross-country hauling.

Production scales to 5,000-15,000 units by 2026, then 50,000 annually — assuming charging infrastructure keeps pace with demand.

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the article.

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