BRUSSEL (ANP) - Met een laatste instemming van de lidstaten is donderdag het besluit om EU-importtarieven voor een overgroot deel van Armeense producten op te heffen officieel. Eerder deze maand stemde het Europees Parlement ook al in met het opheffen van de tarieven.

Het importtarief voor ongeveer 80 procent van de Armeense producten wordt voor twee jaar geschrapt. De Europese Commissie deed voor de zomer dit voorstel om zo de Armeense economie te ondersteunen na handelsbeperkingen en dreiging uit Rusland.

De EU schrapt onder meer tarieven op vers fruit, groenten, planten en drank. Dat zijn sectoren die met name geraakt worden door de Russische handelsbeperkingen. Die beperkingen werden opgelegd rondom parlementsverkiezingen, die gewonnen werden door de EU-gezinde premier Nikol Pasjinjan.

Na publicatie in het zogeheten staatsblad van de EU zijn de maatregelen van kracht.

Last month Fort Worth, Texas police arrested political activist EJ Carrion a week after he cursed at a city council meeting. In his driveway, they told him the charge was “disrupting some kind of procession,” according to body cam footage of the arrest obtained by 404 Media.

Carrion was one of hundreds of Tarrant County residents who’d turned up for a Commissioner's Court meeting on August 4 to speak out against a plan to close a third of the area’s polling places. “You said you were all about cooling the temperature and yet you vote for this extremist bullshit. All of you are bullshit,” Carrion said during the meeting on August 4 before walking out the door.

A week later, Fort Worth Police pulled Carrion over in his driveway and arrested him.

“Why am I getting arrested?” Carrion asked?“So you have a warrant for disorderly conduct, disrupting a meeting. It’s from Tarrant County. I don’t have the details on it [...] it’s a misdemeanor warrant. We’ll take you to Tarrant County and you’ll see the judge and that’s it,” one of the officers said.

“Wait [...] see the judge?” Carrion said. “Guys [...] are you guys serious right now?”

“All it says for us is that you did have a warrant for your arrest from Tarrant County for a disorderly conduct for disrupting some type of procession. I’m not sure what the details are,” the police said.

“Because I disrupted a meeting [...] so because someone doesn’t like me, you’re arresting me? That’s what it sounds like,” Carrion said. “Because of fucking Tim O’Hare, it’s unbelievable.”

“Because of who?”

“Judge Tim O’Hare [...] he’s the biggest pussy,” Carrion said.

Judge Tim O’Hare is a county judge who presides over the Tarrant County Commission — one of the area’s ruling legislative bodies. Back in the August 4 meeting, O’Hare demanded police remove Carrion from the building. But Carrion was already leaving. “I’m walking out, small man,” Carrion said as he left.

As he was being arrested a week later, Carrion called a friend to tell him what was going on. “So, the judge put a warrant on you for getting kicked out of commissioner’s court?” The friend asked.“That’s what it sounds like,” Carrion said, his hands in cuffs while he sat in the back of a police car.

This is not the first time O’Hare has had people arrested for their behavior during public meetings. In 2025, O’Hare had two different people charged with Class A misdemeanors for clapping in support of someone’s speech during the public comment period of the meeting. On Monday, four women filed a federal lawsuit against O’Hare, claiming his tenure on the court has “created a culture of fear and chilled protected speech, cutting to the heart of the Constitution’s free speech and due process guarantees.” 

The Commission did, eventually, vote to reduce the number of polling places in the county. 

Take a look at the full list of upgrades teams have brought to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

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Verslaggevers van nieuwsmedia CNN, Politico en MS NOW (voorheen MSNBC) zijn geweerd uit het Witte Huis, ondanks een uitspraak van de rechter enkele uren eerder dat de verbanning…

Voor het eerst worden PKK-strijders die tijdens het conflict omkwamen publiekelijk herdacht in Turkse steden. Dat roept bij sommige Turken weerstand op. De aanwezige Koerden tonen hun rouw en hun steun voor de PKK. „We zijn trots. We zijn verdrietig. We houden ons hoofd omhoog en gaan door.”

"Stuff of nightmares": New [sea] spiders discovered near Vancouver Note: article includes lots of pictures (for those who either want to see the creatures or avoid images of them completely).

Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were charged with ‘waging war against God’ after joining protests against Tehran regime

The family of 21-year-old twins who have been sentenced respectively to death and decades in jail for protesting against the Iranian regime have appealed to the United Nations for help.

A formal “submission of information” relating to the case of Taraneh and Romina Rahimi has been submitted by British human right lawyers on their family’s behalf.

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New York mayor has been a vocal critic of the Israeli PM who is addressing the UN later today

The Russian foreign minister Sergei ⁠Lavrov has been spotted speaking to officials on the sidelines of the general assembly. He has already spoken to the US secretary of state Marco Rubio and is scheduled to address the general assembly on Saturday. Meanwhile his country has continued bombing Ukraine, where at least seven people were killed and a further 12 people injured in a Russian strike on a farm in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv. My colleague Jakub Krupa has the latest over on our Europe live blog here.

To follow Donald Trump’s movements today, including his talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, my colleague Chris Hippensteel has the latest over on our US politics live blog here:

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A fossil gas boom that lifted millions out of poverty has collapsed and inflation is rising – but not everyone believes selling gold and soya is the answer

Once hailed as the “energy heart of South America”, Bolivia’s economy was buoyed up by a fossil gas boom from 2006 to 2014. At its height, then-president Evo Morales commissioned a gleaming presidential skyscraper and installed the world’s longest urban cable car network in La Paz, the seat of government.

Flush with cash, the country grew its GDP, expanded social programmes and halved poverty rates. But then commodity prices plummeted and gas reserves started to dry up, bringing Bolivia’s “economic miracle” crashing down. Inflation – once the region’s lowest – has soared.

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Weet u wat op zich handig is als er ernstige incidenten plaatsvinden met asielzoekers? Dat we het weten. Geeft de burger niet per se moed maar meten is niet voor niets weten en weten is in ieder geval iets weten. Maar nu weten we dus al een jaar lang niet hoe het zit met die ernstigste incidenten, waarbij u moet denken aan steekincidenten, mishandelingsincidenten en verkrachtingsincidenten. De vorige keer dat daar gedoe mee was kostte dat staatssecretaris Harbers nog zijn baantje, al ging dat om verdoezeling. Je zou evengoed verwachten dat Asielminister Van den Brink hier een beetje zijn best op doet: "Het ministerie zegt wel degelijk de intentie te hebben om transparant te blijven. 'Momenteel wordt gewerkt aan een inhaalslag om de nog openstaande meldingen te verwerken en de overzichten alsnog te publiceren', aldus een woordvoerder van de minister. Mag allemaal even duren daar. Misschien gewoon eens ergens een bureaulaatje opentrekken of zo?

De gedeeltelijke afsluiting van de Suurhoffbrug kan ook internationaal gevolgen hebben, zegt haveneconoom Bart Kuipers. De brug vormt een belangrijke verbinding vanuit de haven naar het achterland. "Dit is een pijnlijke blokkade van een strategische handelsroute. Dat maakt me echt boos", zegt hij.

Google has jumped on the AI-defense-for-critical-systems train with its Scan for Good initiative, and says that its threat-hunting models have already autonomously uncovered critical security issues at hospitals, a municipality, a public rail operator, and major technology providers. So don't fear these bots. The initiative, announced on Thursday, uses Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a version of the model tuned for software bug hunting and remediation, and Wiz’s Red Agent - this is the Google-owned cloud security shop’s pentesting AI agent. The AI systems will uncover public exposures and attack paths across public services, critical infrastructure, and nonprofits, and then hand these off for verification and remediation to human security researchers. “The program has been active over the past several months, and with this official launch, we are scaling it globally,” Gal Nagli, head of offensive security at Wiz, told The Register. “There is no set end date.” It's similar to OpenAI’s Daybreak for Frontline Defenders initiative, announced earlier this month. This program will distribute $1 billion in credits to subsidize access to OpenAI services and training for resource-strapped cyber defenders, including those protecting water and energy systems, community banks, local governments, nonprofits, and open-source projects. And like OpenAI’s new program, the Wiz and Google DeepMind partnership follows disclosures that Google’s AI agents also escaped their sandboxes and hacked other companies’ websites - as did agents developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, and those are just the ones we know about. It also comes as existential dread about AI killing all of humanity reaches a fever pitch. AI for good (not evil) Scan for Good aims to put offensive security agents and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber to good, not evil, use. When authorized, either explicitly by organizations that apply for an assessment or under applicable bug bounty programs and vulnerability disclosure policies, the AIs will examine publicly facing websites, APIs, and applications for exposures, and then work with organizations to find and fix these. Every potential finding will be reviewed and validated by a human, and Wiz assures that “humans will remain responsible for confirming impact and making disclosure decisions.” When the bots and humans do identify a serious issue, the humans will contact the affected organization and work with them to remediate the security holes. Google’s AI systems have already helped critical organizations and tech providers find serious, internet-facing risks, including a critical GitHub Actions workflow vulnerability in one of Snowflake’s public repositories. In this bug-hunting expedition, conducted through Snowflake’s HackerOne vulnerability disclosure program, Wiz’s Red Agent autonomously identified a script injection vulnerability in snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net. The flaw allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary commands within a GitHub Actions runner by opening a GitHub issue with a specially crafted title. Wiz disclosed the issue on June 23, and Snowflake fixed it on the same day, rotated the affected credential, and verified through detailed audit logs that Wiz was the only actor during the exposure window. Real-world examples The Google-owned biz provided several other examples of its AI for good, and said all of these were autonomously discovered by the models before Wiz validated them, but “only far enough to confirm real-world impact.” At that point, they privately notified the affected organization about the issue and helped it remediate the vulnerability. Some of these include: An exposed administrator key enabled read, write, and delete access to 8.8 million files in a “nationally significant archive” belonging to an unnamed Middle Eastern country. Assigning the correct set of permissions fixed the flaw. A public hospital with missing access controls exposed staff contact information and gave anyone online control of a hospital-wide mobile alert channel. A private hospital’s public appointment-booking site used an unsafe upload method that would have allowed attackers to take control of a hospital server and obtain patient identifiers, clinical information, and consent signatures. A municipality’s public data service exposed sensitive personal, health, and financial information belonging to about 5,000 elderly residents. Wiz confirmed the risk without collecting a bulk dataset. A public rail operator had a leaky production database that exposed active administrator sessions. This could have allowed criminals to take control of routes, schedules, service announcements, and administrator accounts - essentially disrupting the entire transportation system. Wiz helped the operator secure the system. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also gave Scan for Good its stamp of approval, and Wiz told us the American cyber-defense agency provided guidance on the initiative. “At a time of evolving threats, defensive vulnerability discovery helps strengthen the nation’s digital infrastructure,” CISA acting director Nick Andersen said in a statement. ®