Tuchel critical of ‘unreliable’ officiating against Mexico
Victory at the Azteca ‘fuels our belief we are here to stay’
Thomas Tuchel called the standard of refereeing at the World Cup unreliable and erratic as he insisted England are capable of going all the way following their dramatic 3-2 victory against Mexico.
Tuchel fumed after his side held on with 10 men at the Azteca stadium on Sunday night, saying that officials across the board have not been up to scratch at the finals tournament. The German, who was unhappy with Jarell Quansah being sent off for a bad tackle after a review following a recommendation by the video assistant referee, claimed that players do not know what to expect during games and he warned that teams are at risk of being knocked out because of poor refereeing decisions.
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All the Golden Boot talk is currently of Mbappé and Messi, Haaland and Dembélé, Bellingham and Kane. In the meantime, Mikel Oyarzabal modestly goes about his business. Some pre-match reading courtesy of the Good Doctor.
Spain are in If It Ain’t Broke mode. No changes to their starting XI having swept aside Austria.
Continue reading...No 9 seed beats American 6-4, 7-6 (2) on Court One
Marta Kostyuk and Elise Mertens also in quarter-finals
The ninth seed, Linda Noskova, produced a composed display under pressure to end Madison Keys’s run here in straight sets, sealing a 6-4, 7-6 (2) victory on Court One to reach the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the second time.
Keys had arrived full of confidence after knocking out last year’s runner-up, Amanda Anisimova in the third round. A former Australian Open champion, Keys was bidding to reach the last eight for the third time in four years. Noskova was chasing her own breakthrough having battled through consecutive three-set matches to return to the fourth round.
Continue reading...Tropical storm causes extreme flooding in south of the country with heavy rainfall expected in coming days
A tropical storm has killed two people, caused dam breaches and forced tens of thousands to evacuate in southern China
Typhoon Maysak killed two people in Nanning, in China’s southern Guangxi province. Maysak – which lashed Vietnam and China’s southern island province of Hainan over the weekend – will dump the water it sucked up on its way across the South China Sea as it weakens and heads inland, meteorologists say.
Continue reading...Militant group’s statement makes no promise to disarm unilaterally as Israel and the US have demanded
Hamas has announced its intention to hand over governing authority in Gaza after two decades in power, and has invited a US-backed interim administration to take over the running of the Palestinian territory.
It was not immediately clear how far Monday’s announcement would go towards strengthening an only partially observed ceasefire in Gaza or improving conditions in the besieged coastal strip which is still in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
Continue reading...The city of El Obeid faces catastrophe. Governments are shirking their duty to challenge all those sustaining this war
“This is not a drill. It is a red alert,” said the UN rights chief, Volker Türk, on Friday. He was warning that catastrophe was unfolding in the strategically important Sudanese city of El Obeid in north Kordofan. Near-siege conditions are tightening, relentless drone attacks continue and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allies are massing around it.
Two decades ago, after the genocide in Darfur, the world said “never again”. But it is happening again, and few are even paying attention. The alarm was raised repeatedly last year as the starvation siege of El Fasher in north Darfur deepened. Tens of thousands of people were killed in the subsequent massacre, with one witness describing “a scene out of a horror movie”. UN investigators reported “the hallmarks of genocide”, including explicit calls to eliminate non-Arab communities. Civilians who fled were raped and murdered; so were those who stayed. Before El Fasher came a killing spree in Geneina by RSF-allied forces.
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Continue reading...Existing staff are taking too much of a fund intended for new recruits. Ministers must take charge of redirecting it
For the roughly 64% of young people who do not go to university, apprenticeships are vital gateways to the world of work. The way that funding has flowed away from them and towards older workers in recent years was flagged as a problem in the interim report from Alan Milburn’s review on young people and work in May. Mr Milburn’s recommendations are still some months off. Apprenticeships are not solely for school‑leavers: people of all ages should be able to apply for paid trainee posts. But it is clear that the way incentives in the system have tilted against younger adults is one reason behind the huge rise in the number who are not in education or jobs.
The positive signs are that ministers will not wait for Mr Milburn to do something about this. A letter from Jacqui Smith, the skills minister, to the recently formed agency Skills England, last month, asked for urgent advice about which apprenticeship programmes should receive funding increases. It also announced an ambition for 50,000 more young apprentices, annually, by March 2029 – reversing almost half of the decade-long decline.
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Continue reading...Exclusive: Initial figures are yet to be confirmed by DfE, which said schools were ‘at the heart’ of the celebration
About 332,000 fewer children were in school on Monday morning than a week earlier, according to initial figures, as attendance fell after England’s 3-2 World Cup win over Mexico.
School registers were down more than three percentage points on last week, after England manager Thomas Tuchel advised parents to “write an excuse for school and let them watch”.
Continue reading...The impoverished island was already struggling to keep the lights on before the US imposed a blockade in January
Cuba on Monday suffered its third nationwide power outage since the start of the year, the state electricity company said.
The impoverished island was already struggling to keep the lights on before the US president, Donald Trump, imposed an oil blockade in January, which has depleted the already dwindling supply of fuel for Cuba’s power plants.
Continue reading...Fans were banned from stage three finish due to fire risk
Tour organisers insist stage four goes ahead in 40C heat
Tour de France organisers have insisted that Tuesday’s fourth stage, from Carcassonne to Foix, will go ahead, despite furnace conditions in southern France and predicted temperatures of over 40C (104F).
The 182km stage, scheduled to run through the heat of the afternoon, comes after the Tour’s third stage to Les Angles was held without the usual publicity caravan and only small numbers of fans, to avoid increasing the risks posed by wildfires raging in the eastern Pyrenees.
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In Dutch Golden Age still-life painting, it’s not uncommon to be treated to tables laden with flowers and food such as fruits, game, and fish. These works were painstakingly rendered; one can practically smell the sea. But the flip side is the temporality of these items, as the painting preserves their freshness, but we know they will ultimately decay. This incorporation of memento mori was intentional, as the inevitability of death was something people meditated carefully on.
Flora and fauna in Dutch painting also demonstrate abundance and diversity, from myriad types of foods to hyperrealistic flower arrangements, such as those of Rachel Ruysch, that may have had folkloric hidden meanings. For artist Veks Van Hillik, tropes from these canvases find their way into surreal, eccentric paintings and murals that also nod contemporary concerns and humanity’s relationship to the natural world.
“There is also something almost systematic in the way humans tend to personify animals and project a certain form of anthropomorphism onto the stories we tell about them,” Van Hillik tells Colossal. “I enjoy playing with these unspoken codes inherited from fables and folk tales. And, whether intentionally or not, an ecological subtext—or at the very least a reflection on our ecosystems—often emerges in my work, something I like to preserve and contemplate.”
Fish emerged rather enigmatically as a central focus on Van Hillik’s work, partly because they were among the very first things he learned to draw as a child, when one of his older brothers taught him. “But the marine and aquatic world also offers an almost endless variety of forms, colors, and patterns,” he says. “Sometimes graceful, sometimes monstrous or grotesque, fish are almost always somewhat surreal.”
In his large-scale murals, and also increasingly in the studio, Van Hillik nods to the tones and settings of historical still life paintings, including sturdy surfaces, dark backgrounds, and architectural niches. Spilling from these are objects and animals we instantly recognize, such as birds, plants, and insects. But first impressions may be misleading, as upon closer inspection, a butterfly is missing its body, a nautilus balances on a bubble, and a heron’s beak transforms into a key.
Van Hillik is interested in weight and presence along with unusual relationships and hybrid creatures. Fish, in particular, are the kind of thing we eat regularly, and some of us may even cast a line for them from time to time, but they live in a world entirely different from ours. The earth’s aquatic expanses comprise a realm we are far from fully understanding; we’ve only mapped a little over a quarter of the entire sea floor, for example, and we really have no idea how many marine species there really are.
Along with what Van Hillik describes as their fascinating “peculiar sense of levitation,” fish are among some of his favorite animals to portray, representing both familiarity and mystery. Along with a range of other composite creatures, such as a tortoise shell-backed hare and a vivid, rather unsettlingly big-eyed goldfish with arms and legs, the artist leans into this sense of weightlessness and the uncanny, suspending plant stems, water droplets, and other objects in the air.
Van Hillik’s work was recently included in Common Waters at Arch Enemy Arts, where he is also slated for a solo show later this year. Follow updates on Instagram.
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Redacteur zijn bij nu.nl. Lekker vroeg (09.30 ofzo) naar de Mediavaert, met al die andere bevlogen journalistiekers 'werken' in een 'organisatie' vol corporate kwark. Hele dag persbureaumeuk overpennen - zo'n hybride werkweek van een uurtje of 32 is potverdimme wel aanpoten in ruil voor Schaal 4 van de cao dagbladjournalisten! En wat was het vorige week warm he! Derhalve: langer vrij. RAGEBAIIIIIIIT! Een siësta. In Nederland is het gemiddeld zo'n 325 dagen per jaar koeler dan 25 graden en heus, in 30 graden valt ook nog wel te werken. Laten we een siësta invoeren, dan kunnen de katernen Media en Cultuur en Achterklap met de bleke snuit in de zon. In 'landen als Spanje en Italië' hebben bijna alle werknemers, en zeker iedereen in de grote stad, helemaal geen siësta, maar gewoon een uurtje lunchpauze. Maar hey, pomp er in ons koude kikkerlandje in godsnaam een siësta in, dan kunnen al die ambtenaren van ons iedere dag 6 uur uit het raam staren + 2 uur naar het plafond i.p.v. gewoon 8 uur uit het raam.
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DAMASCUS (ANP/AFP/RTR) - De Franse president Emmanuel Macron is maandag aangekomen in Syrië. Hij is daarmee de eerste regeringsleider uit de EU die Syrië bezoekt sinds rebellen president Bashar al-Assad in december 2024 verdreven.
Macron blijft tot en met dinsdag in Syrië. Volgens een AFP-journalist werd Macron bij aankomst verwelkomd door de Syrische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Asaad al-Shaibani. Het kantoor van Macron liet voorafgaand aan het bezoek weten dat hij zich sterk zal maken voor een "vrij, pluralistisch Syrië, dat al zijn bevolkingsgroepen respecteert".
President Ahmed al-Sharaa probeert de diplomatieke en economische relaties met andere landen te verbeteren. Het Syrische staatspersbureau SANA omschrijft het bezoek van Macron als "een cruciale stap in het proces om de internationale aanwezigheid van Syrië te herstellen".
De laatste Franse president die Syrië bezocht was Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009. In 2011 brak een burgeroorlog uit nadat Assad pro-democratische protesten neersloeg.
Nederland staat officieel op het niveau ‘dreigend watertekort’, maar voor kraanwater gelden nog geen landelijke verboden – wél stevige dringende adviezen om je gebruik te beperken. De overheid en drinkwaterbedrijven vragen je nu al om alleen écht noodzakelijk drinkwater te gebruiken en luxe‑gebruik zoveel mogelijk te mijden, vooral tijdens piekuren.
Door aanhoudende droogte, lage rivierafvoeren en een hoge watervraag is opgeschaald naar het niveau ‘dreigend watertekort’ in delen van Nederland. Regionaal zijn onttrekkingsverboden ingesteld voor oppervlaktewater en grondwater; boeren en tuineigenaren mogen in die gebieden geen water meer uit sloten of grond onttrekken om te beregenen. Voor huishoudelijk kraanwater geldt nu vooral: zuinig zijn, niet hamsteren en piekgebruik vermijden, zodat de druk in het netwerk op peil blijft.
“De verdringingsreeks: waarom jouw douche belangrijker is dan een groene tuin”
Zelfs bij dreigend watertekort heeft drinkwater voorrang in de zogeheten verdringingsreeks: drinkwater en volksgezondheid staan bovenaan. Dat betekent dat de volgende dingen gewoon door moeten gaan:
Formeel bestaan er nog geen landelijke verplichtingen voor particulieren, maar de overheid en waterbedrijven hebben een duidelijke wenslijst met wat je voorlopig beter laat. Vooral tijdens de ochtend- en avondspits van het watergebruik (06.00–09.00 en 18.00–22.00 uur) gaat het om:
In veel andere landen zijn dit al formeel verboden bij watertekort; in Nederland kan de minister of de burgemeester via noodbevoegdheden vergelijkbare restricties opleggen als de situatie verslechtert.
“Van zwembadje tot stoep: dit mag straks niet meer met je kraanwater”
De meeste Nederlanders weten niet dat er juridisch al sinds jaren een noodrem ligt om je kraan letterlijk dicht te draaien. Op basis van de Drinkwaterwet en noodbevoegdheden kunnen minister, veiligheidsregio of burgemeester tijdelijk verbieden om drinkwater te gebruiken voor niet‑essentiële zaken, zoals het wassen van auto’s of het sproeien van tuinen. Drinkwaterbedrijven kunnen ook zelf restricties opleggen, al gebeurt dat in de praktijk zelden.
Zolang er geen formeel verbod is, mag je juridisch nog veel – maar de vraag is of het slim is. Enkele dingen die nu expliciet worden aangeraden:
Dit soort maatregelen wordt nu nadrukkelijk genoemd als manier om watertekorten te voorkomen, nog vóórdat er harde verboden volgen.
Het zijn geen spectaculaire maatregelen, maar bij miljoenen huishoudens samen maken ze het verschil tussen “dreigend tekort” en echte problemen.
