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Still water, photographed near Creswick, Victoria, Australia.
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BANGKOK (ANP/AFP) - De overstromingen in de Thaise hoofdstad Bangkok zijn gestabiliseerd. Dat meldt de lokale gouverneur. Autoriteiten riepen zaterdag een officiële overstromingsramp uit, vanwege aanhoudende regen.
"Als er geen regen meer valt in het gebied, zal de situatie worden opgelost", aldus de gouverneur. Al duurt het volgens hem wel nog tot drie dagen voordat het water weg is. Sinds donderdag is er bijna 300 millimeter regen gevallen. Veel huizen en gebouwen zijn onder water komen te staan, meldden AFP-verslaggevers.
De Thaise regering heeft tot en met zondag gewaarschuwd voor een lagedrukgebied in grote delen van Thailand. Premier Anutin Charnvirakul brak vanwege de overstromingen een bezoek aan Londen vroegtijdig af.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - China en de Verenigde Staten zijn overeengekomen om een "communicatiekanaal" op te zetten voor incidenten met kunstmatige intelligentie (AI). Dat heeft het Witte Huis bekendgemaakt in een persbericht na het bezoek van de Chinese president Xi Jinping aan de VS.
Het Witte Huis maakte ook melding van enkele andere afspraken die tijdens het bezoek werden gemaakt, waaronder de toezegging van China om in 2027 en 2028 minstens 10 miljoen ton steenkool uit de VS te importeren.
Donald Trump en Xi bespraken allerlei onderwerpen, uiteenlopend van AI en handel tot het vastgelopen conflict met Iran. Ze bevestigden dat ze elkaar dit jaar opnieuw treffen tijdens internationale toppen. Volgens Trump was het driedaagse bezoek "een ontmoeting van vriendschap, kracht en succes".
Xi benadrukte eerder deze week dat mensen de controle houden over de ontwikkeling van AI. Ook delen China en de VS volgens hem de verantwoordelijkheid om de ontwikkeling van de technologie in goede banen te leiden.
TER APEL (ANP) - In de nachtopvanglocaties voor asielzoekers in het Groningse Warffum en het Drentse Zuidwolde was het in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag minder druk dan voorgaande nachten. Volgens het Rode Kruis sliepen er in totaal 113 mensen; 43 in Warffum en 70 in Zuidwolde.
De nachtopvanglocaties bieden een slaapplek aan asielzoekers die niet terecht kunnen in de opvang bij het aanmeldcentrum in Ter Apel. Ze worden 's avonds naar die slaapplaats gebracht en keren in de ochtend terug naar Ter Apel.
Zowel in Warffum als Zuidwolde kunnen honderd mensen overnachten. In de nacht van woensdag op donderdag en van donderdag op vrijdag zaten de locaties zo goed als vol.
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Lachie Neale is one Brisbane player who should be arriving at the MCG with a huge smile on his face after the dual Brownlow medallist had a one-match ban overturned on appeal on Thursday night.
The former Dockers midfielder is thought to be playing his 186th and final game for the Lions today, with a move to the Magpies reportedly on the cards. But some of our From the Pocket subscribers were keen to question whether he should be playing at all today.
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Continue reading...She left her Indian Ocean island home at the urging of Chelsea’s now-manager – now they’re working together again in pursuit of a Stamford Bridge legacy
It is rare to see Melvine Malard without a grin and she has a mountain of reasons to keep it that way. A wedding in June, a big-money move to Chelsea, a Ballon d’Or nomination and a first taste of a fiery London derby against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The French forward is loving life and the personality behind the smile that instantly connects her to teammates is infectious.
“Goals,” says Malard, with a laugh, when asked what keeps her happy. “Seriously though, it’s seeing the kids, the families, my family, in the stands. It is crazy. I love my life, I love my job, I’m happy with my wife and everything is good. I smile because of those things, because I’m happy.”
Continue reading...Thomas Tuchel wishes his team could play more like the world champions, but he may have to, as he himself put it, ‘embrace the chaos’ instead
England are about to face the hardest challenge in international football, maybe at any level of the game. They are going to try to score against Spain.
Spain conceded one goal in eight games on the way to winning the World Cup while allowing their opponents 2.37 expected goals, a mere 0.30 per 90 minutes played.
Continue reading...We analyse what City must do to appeal, why even that might not be the end of the legal wrangling, and the penalties that could await if the verdict is upheld
Manchester City have been found guilty of the vast majority of the 134 disciplinary charges brought against them by the Premier League.
Continue reading...Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won World Cup and European Championship but says there are no limits for his career
Like the kid he is, Lamine Yamal just wanted to keep playing. This wasn’t Plaça Joan XXIII, wasn’t El Parque de Rocafonda either; it wasn’t the Mataró neighbourhood where it all began, but it might have been. “We’re in a World Cup final and I wanted to carry on,” he says, and there’s the smile again, the braces. Really? “Yes”. No nerves? “No. I never thought: ‘Just blow the whistle’. I was enjoying it.” No fear, just fun: 19 July, New Jersey and he knew: this 19-year-old who had happily been asleep on the bus to the biggest match of his life.
And now he sits in a first-floor office in Las Rozas, surrounded by tactics boards and stats sheets. There’s a Spain keyring hanging from the door and a second star on his shirt. In the corridor, crates loaded for London. Son of Mounir and Sheila, named after the family friends who helped them, “touched by God’s wand” in the words of the coach whose office is next door, there’s something about Lamine Yamal. He turned 17 the day before the final of Euro 2024, a schoolboy sitting exams, and 19 the day before the semi-final of the World Cup. Asked what he wanted, he said a trip to New York, so there he was, about to be a champion again.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Dog Painting 17 is believed to be one of only six of works from Dog Series in private hands and first to be auctioned
David Hockney adored his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie and let them run riot – so much so that after one had an accident in the LA home of the actor Dennis Hopper, the painter is said to have quipped: “It’ll be dry in the morning, luv, and you can just pick it up.”
But Hockney did not just indulge his four-legged companions, he treated them as portrait subjects for a series of paintings, one of which is to be sold by Christie’s.
Continue reading...Britons Tom Pidcock and Oscar Onley are contenders but the Belgian is aiming for an unprecedented medal haul
In a world road championships marked by the absence of Tadej Pogacar, Tom Pidcock and Oscar Onley will lead British hopes in the men’s elite road race on Sunday. But for either to claim the rainbow jersey, they must beat a determined Remco Evenepoel, a man on a mission in Montreal.
Pogacar is recovering after a heavy crash in the Vuelta a España and Pidcock and Onley are among a large group of contenders, headed by Paul Seixas of France, the Belgian Evenepoel and Isaac del Toro of Mexico, all seeking to capitalise on the Slovenian’s absence.
Continue reading...The star chef demystified the restaurant scene with his love of a welcoming pub. Now he explains why hospitality is in crisis – and how to make a sublime venison chilli
Tom Kerridge is the king of meat: first as a chef, transforming pub classics like pork belly into Michelin-starred fare at The Hand and Flowers in Marlow 20 years ago, and later opening The Butcher’s Tap and Grill in the same village; then as a cookery writer: his Outdoor Cooking – The Ultimate Modern Barbecue Bible of 2021 is well named, being both as comprehensive and as worshipful as a holy book; and recently as a “meat-fluencer”, making gorgeous skills videos on Instagram and YouTube.
That was just destiny, he says (more or less). “When you’re cooking in a classic brigade system, the sections are like a larder: you’ve got starters, you’ve got garnish, you’ve got meat and fish, you’ve got pastry. The meat is the lead section, where the most experienced chef is, because that’s where you land when you’ve learned to treat vegetables with love and respect. If you fuck up cabbage, it doesn’t cost a lot.” It’s true, it doesn’t, but if you saw the care Kerridge puts into dicing an onion – peeling its layers apart like he’s making a mosaic, assiduous even about half an inch of waste – of an onion – you’d know that love and respect aren’t really about money.
Continue reading...Cabin crew worker was among thousands of staff laid off during pandemic in what MPs called a ‘national disgrace’
During a 30-year career as a member of British Airways’ cabin crew, Tess De Mello took pride in a job well done, saying she regularly went above and beyond to make passengers more comfortable. To her, the role was more than just employment – it was part of her identity.
“I took pride,” she said. “I really took pride in myself, I took pride in my role, I took pride in everything because it was everything I wanted to be.”
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