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BOGOTÁ (ANP/RTR/AFP) - In Colombia is een militair vliegtuig neergestort, kort na het opstijgen. Dat heeft het ministerie van Defensie bekendgemaakt. Een bron bij het leger zegt tegen persbureau AFP dat waarschijnlijk tachtig soldaten zijn omgekomen. Het lokale medium Blu Radio schrijft dat er 110 militairen aan boord waren en er vooralsnog twintig zijn gered.
Het ongeluk gebeurde in Puerto Leguízamo, diep in de zuidelijke Amazoneregio op de grens met Peru. "Het precieze aantal slachtoffers en de oorzaak van de crash zijn nog niet vastgesteld", zei minister van Defensie Pedro Sanchez op X. Volgens Blu Radio stortte het vliegtuig neer op zo'n 3 kilometer van een stadscentrum.
Het vliegtuig was een Hercules C-130 van Lockheed Martin. Eind februari stortte een dergelijk toestel neer van de Boliviaanse luchtmacht in een stad. Twintig mensen kwamen toen om het leven.
HAARLEM (ANP) - De jongens van 14 en 17 jaar die in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag werden opgepakt in Heemstede worden verdacht van het voorbereiden van een explosie met een terroristisch oogmerk. Dat meldt het Openbaar Ministerie.
De politie en het OM houden er rekening mee dat een synagoge in de buurt van de Adriaan Pauwlaan, waar de twee werden aangehouden, doelwit was van een aanstaande explosie.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Europese aandelenbeurzen gingen maandag halverwege de dag plots omhoog en sloten in de plus. Beleggers reageerden op opmerkingen van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. Hij meldde dat de Verenigde Staten de aanvallen op Iraanse energiefaciliteiten de komende vijf dagen zullen pauzeren in afwachting van de lopende gesprekken met Iran. De feestvreugde op de beurs werd echter aan het einde van de handel getemperd toen de Iraanse parlementsvoorzitter Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf de gesprekken ontkende en Trumps bewering bestempelde als nepnieuws.
De koersverliezen van eerder op de dag werden wel weggepoetst. De AEX, de index van de dertig meest verhandelde fondsen op de beurs in Amsterdam, eindigde 0,5 procent hoger op 966,72 punten. Bij opening daalde de hoofdgraadmeter nog fors tot een laagste stand van 940,50, waarmee een vervolg werd gegeven aan de verliezen van vorige week. De MidKap steeg met 0,8 procent tot 952,94 punten. De beurzen in Frankfurt en Parijs wonnen tot 1,3 procent. Londen eindigde wel licht lager.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Op het ministerie van Financiën is vorige week een digitale inbraak ontdekt in "systemen voor een aantal primaire processen" op het departement. De toegang tot deze systemen is maandag geblokkeerd, waardoor een deel van de medewerkers niet meer kan inloggen.
Om wat voor systemen het gaat, wil een woordvoerder desgevraagd niet zeggen. Wel meldt zij dat de overheid gewoon geld kan uitgeven en ontvangen. "De dienstverlening aan burgers en bedrijven door de Belastingdienst, Douane en Toeslagen is niet geraakt", laat het ministerie weten.
Referendum result could tarnish PM’s reputation and make winning next year’s general election challenging
Italian voters have rejected an overhaul of the country’s judiciary pushed by the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni,, an outcome expected to tarnish her reputation and make winning next year’s general election more challenging.
In a two-day referendum, 54.63% of voters said “No” to the reforms to reorganise the judiciary compared with 45.37% for the “Yes” camp.
Continue reading...CEO of asset manager says only a few firms and investors may reap rewards from growth in the technology
The boom in artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, with only a handful of companies and investors likely to reap its financial rewards, the BlackRock chief executive, Larry Fink, has said.
The boss of the $14tn (£10.4tn) asset manager used his annual letter to investors on Monday to highlight potential hazards around the exponential growth in AI, which has attracted rapid investment and become, he said, “central to strategic competition” between global powers such as the US and China.
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Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in June 2025, the image shows the Mackenzie River in Canada. It is Canada’s largest river basin, covering about 1.8 million square kilometres or about 20% of the landmass of Canada. It was one of the rivers used in an ESA-funded study, which used satellite data to reconstruct two decades of river discharge and runoff. The research revealed a striking mosaic of regional change as warming temperatures and shifting precipitation reshape the Arctic’s hydrological system in uneven ways.
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Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2025), processed by ESAñ CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a brilliant new star blazing in the sky — a supernova so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks. Today, its expanding remnant, the Crab Nebula, continues to evolve 6,500 light-years away. First linked to historical records by Edwin Hubble, the nebula has since been studied in exquisite detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has now revisited this ancient explosion to trace its ongoing expansion and transformation.
A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The Crab Nebula is the aftermath of SN 1054, located 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.
The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a supernova and how it has evolved over Hubble’s long lifetime. A paper detailing the new Hubble observation is published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The supernova remnant was discovered in the mid-18th century, and in the 1950s Edwin Hubble was among several astronomers who noted the close correlation between Chinese astronomical records of a supernova and the position of the Crab Nebula. The discovery that the heart of the Crab contained a pulsar — a rapidly rotating neutron star — that was powering the nebula’s expansion finally aligned modern observations and ancient records.
In its new image of the nebula, Hubble has captured extraordinary details of its filamentary structure, as well as the considerable outward movement of those filaments over 25 years, at a pace of 5.5 million kilometres per hour. Hubble is the only telescope with the combination of longevity and resolution capable of capturing these detailed changes.
For better comparison with the new image, Hubble’s 1999 image of the Crab was re-processed. The variation of colors in both of the Hubble images shows a combination of changes in local temperature and density of the gas as well as its chemical composition.
The science team has noted that the filaments around the periphery of the nebula appear to have moved more compared to those in the centre and that rather than stretching out over time, they appear to have simply moved outward. This is due to the nature of the Crab as a pulsar wind nebula powered by synchrotron radiation, which is created by the interaction between the pulsar’s magnetic field and the nebula’s material. In other well-known supernova remnants, the expansion is instead driven by shockwaves from the initial explosion, eroding surrounding shells of gas that the dying star previously cast off.
The new, higher-resolution Hubble observations are also providing additional insights into the 3D structure of the Crab Nebula, which can be difficult to determine from a 2D image. Shadows of some of the filaments can be seen cast onto the haze of synchrotron radiation in the nebula’s interior. Counterintuitively, some of the brighter filaments in the latest Hubble images show no shadows, indicating they must be located on the far side of the nebula.
According to the science team, the real value of Hubble’s Crab Nebula observations is still to come. The Hubble data can be paired with recent data from other telescopes that are observing the Crab in different wavelengths of light. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope released its infrared-light observations of the Crab Nebula in 2024. Comparison of the Hubble image with other contemporary multiwavelength observations will help scientists put together a more complete picture of the supernova’s continuing aftermath, centuries after astronomers first wondered at a new little star twinkling in the sky.
[Image description: A detailed astronomical image of a bright, cloud‑like nebula set against a black background of space. The nebula is formed by intricate, web‑like filaments of gas and dust in shades of blue, red, pink, yellow, and white. A luminous central region glows pale blue, surrounded by swirling, branching structures that extend outward in all directions. Scattered stars appear as small white points across the scene.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, W. Blair (JHU). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)
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Arctic rivers and runoff from the land pour vast volumes of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean, influencing seawater salinity, sea-ice formation and ocean circulation, thereby playing an important role in regulating Earth’s heat balance.
As northern monitoring networks decline, scientists have turned to satellite data to reconstruct two decades of river discharge and runoff, revealing a striking mosaic of regional change as warming temperatures and shifting precipitation reshape the Arctic’s hydrological system in uneven and unexpected ways.
The map shows variations in runoff across the Arctic during 2003–2022 along and indicates 15 river basins used in the study.
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Credits: ESA (adapted from Leopardi F. et al., 2026); CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO