Het is deze week de Week tegen Pesten. De week is bedoeld om te werken aan een veilig en positief schoolklimaat. VVD-minister Van Weel wil dat we dit jaar niet alleen kijken naar de pesters, maar dat we de gepeste kinderen even hard aanpakken.

De minister van Justitie en Veiligheid gelooft heilig in het principe van both-sideism. “Als docent wil je dat de pestkoppen aangesproken worden op hun gedrag. Maar daarnaast moeten we zorgen dat kinderen die gepest worden hier niet zomaar mee weg komen.”

Van Weel vindt het belangrijk dat beide partijen even streng gestraft worden. “Zodra een pestkop een week moet nablijven omdat hij een kind met een stomme bril in de kliko heeft gezet, moet dat kind met die bril dezelfde straf krijgen. Zo voorkom je dat de pestkop zich niet gehoord voelt.”

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Iran war, rising prices and president’s low ratings give Democrats advantage, but Republicans have poured cash into key races – could it be decisive?

Donald Trump pulled out all the stops at the Republican party’s midterm convention two weeks ago. In speeches aimed at the voters who will soon decide whether to keep Republicans in control of Congress for the final phase of his presidency, the president dangled $5,000 checks, and warned the United States would turn into a “communist country” if Democrats are elected.

The unprecedented political gathering amounted to a hail-mary pass at retaining control of Congress, which history indicated Trump’s Republican allies had always been likely to lose in the 3 November vote. Two weeks later, with election administrators in several states already sending out mail ballots, there is no indication the gambit has worked.

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New York event hears about the red Muppet’s fears during a recent storm as climate crisis increasingly affects children

A generation of political leaders has failed to galvanize sufficient action on the climate crisis for so long now that it was perhaps little surprise that an audience in New York City turned to a three-and-a-half-year-old red furry monster for inspiration on Tuesday.

Elmo, the Sesame Street denizen, made a starry appearance at a Climate Week event that highlighted how the impacts of global heating affect children. The red creature, who frequently refers to himself in the third person, recounted to the audience his fear when a storm hit Sesame Street, an event depicted in a recent episode that featured the singer Post Malone.

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John Boorman generously details the mortifying experience of making a sequel to 1973 hit horror The Exorcist, which was widely and unfairly panned

David Kittredge gives us a thoroughly enjoyable, detailed account of the catastrophe that was John Boorman’s 1977 film Exorcist II: The Heretic, the deeply ill-conceived and widely derided follow-up to The Exorcist, a bizarre but ambitious fantasy supernatural rhapsody, brimming with unintentional comedy. Yet it was visually bold and even brilliant, pioneering in its use of Steadicam; Linda Blair and Max von Sydow were persuaded to return; Richard Burton was cast as a troubled priest, and Louise Fletcher as a psychiatrist whose weird “mind-reader” contraption was entirely ridiculous. At the first film, people screamed. Now they screamed with laughter.

According to an apocryphal tale gleefully repeated by William Friedkin, director of the first film, the sequel resulted in an enraged audience one night turning round and booing Warner Brothers executives in the back row of the cinema, and then chasing them out of the building and down the street. Boorman desperately recut the film with the sillier bits removed. But the damage was done.

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My sourdough starter died and my lone tomato nearly ruined me financially and emotionally. How did domestic drudgery and hard labour become an aspirational aesthetic?

I have just eaten what may be the world’s most expensive tomato. It comes from a little region of Philadelphia better known for sports culture than horticulture and was cultivated by yours truly. I spent only a few dollars on the plant, but then I had to buy a tomato cage and a few companion plants to keep it company. Then I had to spend an ungodly amount of time watering it and hacking away at weeds. In short: I put a huge amount of emotional investment into that tomato. Was it worth it? Absolutely not. I should have just gone to Aldi.

Of course, the tomato growing wasn’t really about saving money, it was about saving my sanity. Earlier this year, my wife and I got a plot at our local community garden; buoyed up by this development, I decided to ward off existential angst by throwing myself into tradwife-adjacent hobbies such as gardening and baking. I don’t know if it’s possible to be a gay tradwife but, after Googling the subject, I did find a magazine piece entitled The Curious Case of the Bisexual Tradwife. Alas, I can’t tell you much more about the phenomenon because there was a paywall. There are a lot of walls to pay in this life and this one did not make the cut.

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Each autumn the traditional alpabzug (descent of herds) sees farmers in Switzerland move their livestock from mountain pastures down to valley barns. In the Griesalp area above Kiental around 70 alpacas were herded down the valley, before being transported by truck to their winter farm at Aeschi, near Spiez, in the Bernese Oberland

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As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all

• The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly


We the undersigned write this letter out of great fear and great hope.

Over the last few months, we’ve seen the world set ablaze by both war and warming. From the conflict in Iran, which has claimed thousands of lives and disrupted billions more, to the series of ever worsening climate disasters, from wildfires in Europe to collapsing glaciers in Nepal, the world seems to be falling apart exactly when it needs to be coming together.

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In an interview before the White House’s media ban, Carlson called on reporters to push back against Trump’s misogyny

Donald Trump has achieved something rarely seen in Washington: uniting rival television networks against him. When he banned CNN and MS Now – along with Politico – from the White House, their competitors suspended shared coverage of the US president’s events.

Gretchen Carlson, a journalist, author and former Fox News host, hopes this will not be the only example of solidarity from a White House press corps facing what she describes as an “outright onslaught” from the administration.

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Oil prices fall for a sixth day in their longest losing streak in over a year, as Saudi Arabia reportedly restarts its east-west pipeline and amid hopes for progress in US-Iran talks

The Co-op has called on Andy Burnham’s government to “create an environment where we have confidence and certainty to invest” which it needs to support “lifeline stores” in urban and rural communities across the UK.

Kate Allum, the interim chief executive of the mutual who stepped in after the unexpected departure of Shirine Khoury-Haq last year, said:

We have no intention of closing any lifeline stores.

We have a big estate and we want to continue to invest but what we need is confidence. We don’t want unintended consequences of decisions.

consumer confidence is pretty uncertain. We talk to our members all the time and the cost of living has been their number one concern for a significant period of time.

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DES MOINES (ANP) - Het zou niet aan de Verenigde Staten maar aan Europa moeten zijn om het Midden-Oosten veilig te houden, vindt NAVO-topman Mark Rutte. Zodra Europa zich heeft herbewapend, zullen "Europeanen zich over hun eigen achtertuin ontfermen", zei Rutte na een lezing in het Amerikaanse Des Moines.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump klaagt al langer dat de VS met hun oorlog tegen Iran de taak op zich nemen die Europese bondgenoten eigenlijk zouden moeten uitvoeren. Zij zijn immers afhankelijker dan de VS van de stokkende olie- en gasaanvoer uit het Midden-Oosten, redeneerde hij. Veel Europese landen wezen gewapend ingrijpen tegen Iran af. Sommige weigerden aanvankelijk zelfs het gebruik van hun luchtruim of Amerikaanse militaire bases in Europa, tot grote woede van Washington.

Rutte echode Trumps opvatting na een toespraak in plattelandsstaat Iowa, voor hij New York zou aandoen om wereldleiders te ontmoeten bij de Algemene Vergadering van de VN. "Waarom waren de VS nodig om de nucleaire capaciteiten van Iran uit te schakelen? Waarom kijkt iedereen weer naar de VS als het gaat om de Houthi's in de Rode Zee?", zei de NAVO-secretaris-generaal. "Omdat de Europeanen niet genoeg hadden om het zelf te doen. Het is Europa's achtertuin, niet die van de VS."

China

Opeenvolgende Amerikaanse regeringen zeggen al jaren dat de VS zich meer moet richten op Oost-Azië om het opkomende China in te tomen. Maar ook Trump is, tot ergernis van veel Amerikanen, weer verwikkeld geraakt in oorlogen in het Midden-Oosten.

"Het was nodig om Irans nucleaire vermogens uit te schakelen", herhaalde Rutte. "Ik prijs de president dat hij dat heeft gedaan. In de toekomst, wat je krijgt van een sterkere NAVO, is dat de Europeanen voor hun eigen achtertuin zorgen."

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - In het H'ART Museum in Amsterdam is de inrichting begonnen van de overzichtstentoonstelling van het werk van de Franse schilder Henri Matisse, die op 3 oktober opengaat voor het publiek.

Woensdagochtend is een van de sleutelwerken uitgepakt en op zaal gehangen. Het is Figure décorative sur fond ornemental (Nice, 1925-1926). Het schilderij geldt als belangrijk in het oeuvre van Matisse, omdat hij hier "verschillende kernideeën uit zijn werk in één radicale compositie samenbrengt. De figuur en de achtergrond worden bijna één geheel, waardoor vooral ritme, kleur en decoratie het beeld bepalen", zegt een woordvoerder van het museum.

Een ander bijzonder schilderij van Matisse dat te zien zal zijn, is La Blouse Roumaine (1940). Dat wordt vrijwel nooit uitgeleend - dit wordt de tweede keer.

Centre Pompidou

In totaal telt de expositie tachtig werken, allemaal uitgeleend door het Centre Pompidou in Parijs, dat momenteel dicht is voor renovatie. Daarvan zijn er 37 van Matisse, zowel schilderijen en sculpturen als grafisch werk. De overige kunstwerken zijn van tijdgenoten en navolgers, zoals Picasso, Barnett Newman en Mark Rothko.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) geldt als een van de meest vernieuwende kunstenaars van de 20e eeuw. "Hij brak met alle academische tradities", zegt museumconservator Birgit Boelens.

Het is pas de derde keer dat zijn werk op deze schaal in Nederland te zien zal zijn. De laatste keer was in 2015. De tentoonstelling Chez Matisse - Masterpieces from Centre Pompidou loopt tot en met zondag 14 februari. Het H'ART Museum heeft geen eigen collectie, maar werkt voor zijn tentoonstellingen samen met andere instellingen uit binnen- en buitenland.

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Hackers have raided Master of Malt's customer database after a compromised ecommerce app gave them four days to help themselves to names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The online booze retailer began notifying customers this week after learning that Ribon, an app connected to its BigCommerce store, had been compromised. According to an email sent to customers, seen by The Register, attackers got hold of a BigCommerce application key held by Ribon and used it to access customer data between September 13 and 17. "I'm sorry to say that the attackers had access to your name, email address, phone number, and address," Master of Malt founder Justin Petszaft told customers. Passwords, credit card details, and other payment information escaped the raid, with Master of Malt saying they are stored in a separate system that was not compromised. Ribon is owned, managed, and operated by Be A Part Of, which Master of Malt says describes itself as a Fastr brand, a corporate family tree best tackled before the whisky. Master of Malt said BigCommerce alerted it to the incident, telling the retailer that Ribon had been hacked. According to the notification, the attackers compromised an application key held by Ribon and were then able to use it to gain access to customer data. Master of Malt said BigCommerce's security team uninstalled the affected app the same day and "assured us there is no ongoing compromise and no further customer data can be accessed." The Register has asked BigCommerce how many merchants and customers were affected, what access the compromised Ribon key provided, how it was stolen, and whether any other third-party applications were affected. We have not yet received a response. Master of Malt is now warning customers that the stolen information could be put to use in phishing emails, spam, and scam phone calls. "Please be extra vigilant against potential phone calls, spam and phishing attacks targeting you using the stolen data, and question anyone asking you to click a link or share data," Petszaft said. Master of Malt says it won't ask for passwords or payment details over email or phone, so anyone receiving such a request should treat it with suspicion and contact the retailer directly instead. Master of Malt has also set up a page where it says it will publish additional technical details and further updates rather than repeatedly emailing affected customers. For anyone caught up in the breach, the whisky might now be the least dangerous thing arriving from Master of Malt. ® Updated at 11.21 UTC on September 23, 2026, to add: A spokesperson at Big Commerce made contact after this article was published to say: "On September 17, 2026, Commerce confirmed that API credentials belonging to third-party applications Ribon and Ribon 1.5, owned and operated by “Be A Part Of,” a Fastr company, had been compromised due to a Fastr system compromise. "The credentials were used to inject malicious scripts into a small number of merchant storefronts. This was not a breach of Commerce systems or the BigCommerce platform. While the Ribon applications are third-party apps independently installed by the merchant where the relationship occurs between the merchant and the third-party application, Commerce acted in the best interest of our customers and their shoppers by uninstalling the application from affected stores to revoke the attacker’s access and limit harm, notifying affected merchants directly, and providing log data to support the developer’s own investigation."

Hackers have raided Master of Malt's customer database after a compromised ecommerce app gave them four days to help themselves to names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The online booze retailer began notifying customers this week after learning that Ribon, an app connected to its BigCommerce store, had been compromised. According to an email sent to customers, seen by The Register, attackers got hold of a BigCommerce application key held by Ribon and used it to access customer data between September 13 and 17. "I'm sorry to say that the attackers had access to your name, email address, phone number, and address," Master of Malt founder Justin Petszaft told customers. Passwords, credit card details, and other payment information escaped the raid, with Master of Malt saying they are stored in a separate system that was not compromised. Ribon is owned, managed, and operated by Be A Part Of, which Master of Malt says describes itself as a Fastr brand, a corporate family tree best tackled before the whisky. Master of Malt said BigCommerce alerted it to the incident, telling the retailer that Ribon had been hacked. According to the notification, the attackers compromised an application key held by Ribon and were then able to use it to gain access to customer data. Master of Malt said BigCommerce's security team uninstalled the affected app the same day and "assured us there is no ongoing compromise and no further customer data can be accessed." The Register has asked BigCommerce how many merchants and customers were affected, what access the compromised Ribon key provided, how it was stolen, and whether any other third-party applications were affected. We have not yet received a response. Master of Malt is now warning customers that the stolen information could be put to use in phishing emails, spam, and scam phone calls. "Please be extra vigilant against potential phone calls, spam and phishing attacks targeting you using the stolen data, and question anyone asking you to click a link or share data," Petszaft said. Master of Malt says it won't ask for passwords or payment details over email or phone, so anyone receiving such a request should treat it with suspicion and contact the retailer directly instead. Master of Malt has also set up a page where it says it will publish additional technical details and further updates rather than repeatedly emailing affected customers. For anyone caught up in the breach, the whisky might now be the least dangerous thing arriving from Master of Malt. ®

Camerabrillen, zoals die van Meta, worden steeds populairder en lijken steeds meer op gewone brillen. Daardoor is voor omstanders moeilijk te zien of iemand alleen kijkt of ook filmt. De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens zegt dat het lampje dat bij veel brillen aangeeft dat er wordt opgenomen, niet genoeg is om mensen goed te informeren. De organisatie adviseert onder meer ziekenhuizen, rechtbanken en religieuze gebouwen om camerabrillen in hun huisregels te verbieden. Volgens de AP moeten mensen op zulke plekken er extra op kunnen vertrouwen dat ze niet ongemerkt worden gefilmd.

Bits of Freedom gaat nog een stukje verder en eist een verbod op gluurbrillen. BoF vindt dat de gluurbrillen de openbare orde verstoren en een gevaar vormen voor onze veiligheid en privacy. Alles wat je op straat doet, kan worden opgenomen en op het internet komen te staan. Als iemand met een telefoon voor je gezicht staat, kun je nog weglopen als je niet op camera wilt verschijnen. Bij een bril is ontzettend moeilijk vast te stellen of je wel of niet wordt gefilmd. Wat extra zorgelijk is: je hebt geen controle over wat Meta vervolgens met al die opgenomen data doet. Met de reputatie van Meta op het gebied van privacy, moeten we haar niet op haar blauwe ogen geloven dat ze het beste met ons voor heeft.

Bits of Freedom publiceert vandaag op een speciale campagnesite een grappig filmpje waarin Meta-medewerkers geconfronteerd worden met de bril. Ze lijken er niet allemaal even enthousiast over te zijn.

[bericht Villamedia en persbericht Bits of Freedom]

In een gesprek bij de Verenigde Naties vroeg de Oekraïense president Zelensky de Amerikaanse president Trump om meer raketten waarmee Russische aanvallen kunnen worden afgeslagen.