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OLFEN (ANP/DPA) - Bij een aanval in een verzorgingshuis in het westen van Duitsland is een vrouw om het leven gekomen en zijn twee anderen zwaargewond geraakt. Dat meldde de politie vrijdagavond. Een van de gewonde vrouwen verkeert na de aanval in de stad Olfen, nabij Dortmund, in levensgevaar.

Volgens de politie was de dader een man en vormt die geen gevaar meer. Waarom de dader niet langer als gevaarlijk wordt beschouwd, werd niet verduidelijkt.

De krant Bild meldde dat een bewoner van het verzorgingshuis de slachtoffers met een mes had neergestoken. De aanval vond naar verluidt plaats in het verzorgingshuis St Vitus-Stift, waar 77 ouderen wonen die vanwege gezondheidsproblemen verpleging en ondersteuning nodig hebben.

BEND (ANP/AFP) - De tiener die ervan wordt verdacht de schutter te zijn geweest bij de schietpartij op een basisschool in Oregon was een voormalig leerling op de school. Dat heeft de politie bekendgemaakt tijdens een persconferentie.

Het gaat om de 16-jarige Griffin J. John II, die volgens de politie specifiek schoot in een klaslokaal "voor leerlingen met speciale onderwijsbehoeften, en de verdachte was een leerling met speciale onderwijsbehoeften op die school", aldus de politie.

Bij de schietpartij kwamen drie kinderen en een lerares om het leven. De schutter werd doodgeschoten door een omstander die hem de school in zag lopen.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 17-10-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 13.5°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 13.0°C / Max 18.3°C | Kans op neerslag 37%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 13.0°C, Max 18.3°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 5.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1027.0 hPa ↗️ +2.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.7 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: → 267°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 13.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 33%, 🧭 1024.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 343°
• 03:00: 12.7°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1024.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 336°
• 04:00: 12.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 50%, 🧭 1024.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 342°
• 05:00: 11.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 55%, 🧭 1025.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 302°
• 06:00: 11.4°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 54%, 🧭 1025.5 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↓ 353°
• 07:00: 11.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 50%, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 359°
• 08:00: 11.8°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1026.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 23°
• 09:00: 11.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 36%, 🧭 1027.0 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↓ 15°
• 10:00: 13.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 26%, 🧭 1027.6 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 16°
• 11:00: 13.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1028.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 14°
• 12:00: 14.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 42%, 🧭 1028.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 22°
• 13:00: 14.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 68%, 🧭 1028.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 21°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zondag 18 oktober: Min 9.6°C, Max 15.0°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 40%, 🧭 1026.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 0°
• maandag 19 oktober: Min 9.0°C, Max 12.6°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 5.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1026.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 43°
• dinsdag 20 oktober: Min 9.1°C, Max 14.4°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 20%, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ↘️ -11.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ← 84°
• woensdag 21 oktober: Min 7.3°C, Max 12.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1006.0 hPa ↘️ -9.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.1 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ← 92°
• donderdag 22 oktober: Min 10.3°C, Max 13.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 36%, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ↗️ +8.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.4 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 202°
• vrijdag 23 oktober: Min 9.8°C, Max 14.1°C (Matige buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 21.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 34%, 🧭 1018.5 hPa ↗️ +4.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 26.6 km/u (7.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 240°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 13.5°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 11.2°C (-2.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 342°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 26.3 km/h (7.3 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 72%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1024.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 08:08 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 18:46

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 40 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 4.3 μg/m³
• PM10: 9.7 μg/m³

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[...] Notably, there is no mention of AI, but it's inferred from a single use of the word "train" and references to automated scraping and crawling. Meta's spokesperson told Nieman Lab that Meta has no plans to use the terms as a legal basis to ignore robots.txt instructions that block scraping on news sites. The company still allows news organizations to opt out of scraping and provides instructions on how to block crawling. A spokesperson told Ars that "there is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false." However, should courts affirm that AI training non-news articles is fair use, news organizations question if Meta's stance might change, and the terms could be used to freely grab access to content by legally overriding robots.txt instructions.

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