ANKARA (ANP) - De defensie-industrie kan niet meer verwerken dan de NAVO-landen nu uitgeven aan hun verdediging, zegt NAVO-topman Mark Rutte. Europese landen voeren hun defensiebudgetten volgens hem zo snel op dat het plafond is bereikt.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump klaagt ook in de aanloop naar de NAVO-top in Ankara telkens dat Europa en Canada nog altijd niet genoeg geld aan defensie besteden en blijven leunen op de Amerikaanse bescherming. Maar "er is een limiet aan wat je extra kunt uitgeven in een of twee jaar", zei Rutte een dag voor de top. "Voor het werven van mannen en vrouwen in uniform en de defensie-industrie die snel ontwikkelt en meer produceert. We hebben het maximum van het absorptievermogen bereikt."

Europese NAVO-landen en Canada steken vorig jaar en dit jaar samen 250 miljard euro extra in hun verdediging, herhaalde Rutte.

BEVERWIJK (ANP) - De gemeente Beverwijk zegt graag met de minister van Asiel en Migratie in gesprek te willen over de opvang van asielzoekers. De gemeente noemt het "jammer" dat zij in de media moesten vernemen dat minister Bart van den Brink de gemeente ontbiedt omdat ze niet voldoen aan hun wettelijke taak om voor voldoende opvangplekken voor asielzoekers te zorgen. Naast Beverwijk moeten ook Aalten, Achtkarspelen, Bergen (Limburg), Gemert-Bakel, Overbetuwe, Sluis, Valkenswaard, Voerendaal en Westland zich melden op het ministerie voor gesprekken die ertoe moeten leiden dat de gemeenten alsnog opvanglocaties gaan regelen.

"Wij kijken uit naar een goed gesprek", aldus de gemeente Beverwijk in een schriftelijke reactie. "Wij nemen onze verantwoordelijkheid voor de opvang van asielzoekers. Daarom werken wij al geruime tijd aan de ontwikkeling van een opvanglocatie."

De andere negen gemeenten en de Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG) weigerden maandag te reageren of zeiden later met een reactie te komen.

TILBURG (ANP) - De afschakeling van een deel van het stroomnet in Tilburg zondag werd niet veroorzaakt door een plotselinge stroompiek, maar door defecte meetapparatuur. Dat heeft een woordvoerder van netbeheerder Enexis maandag gezegd.

Door een technisch mankement gaf de meetapparatuur een stroomafname aan die vijf keer hoger was dan in werkelijkheid. Enexis schakelde zondagochtend de stroom voor zo'n 18.000 klanten in en rond Tilburg af uit vrees voor overbelasting van het elektriciteitsnet.

Het was volgens Enexis nog nooit eerder gebeurd dat het bedrijf huishoudens om deze reden zonder stroom liet zitten. "Overbelasting kan zorgen voor grotere en langdurige stroomuitval, dus je doet dan liever een deel uit om te voorkomen dat die overbelasting ervoor zorgt dat dingen kapotgaan", legde een woordvoerster uit.

GENÈVE (ANP/AFP) - Bij de jongste uitbraak van het ebolavirus in de Democratische Republiek Congo zijn volgens de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) voor zover bekend 506 patiënten overleden. Het totaal aantal geregistreerde besmettingen staat op 1561. Ruim 250 patiënten zijn inmiddels hersteld. In het buurland Oeganda zijn twee mensen aan de Bundibugyo-versie van ebola overleden.

Afgelopen week is een kleine proef gestart in het 116 miljoen inwoners tellende Congo om te proberen behandeling mogelijk te maken. Dat is vooralsnog niet mogelijk met dit virus.

ANKARA (ANP) - De Chinese raketproef in de Stille Oceaan van maandag toont aan dat de NAVO China ernstig moet nemen, vindt NAVO-topman Mark Rutte. "Dit bewijst dat we niet naïef mogen zijn", zei hij een dag voor de NAVO-top in Ankara. "En ik kan verzekeren dat we dat ook niet zijn."

China vuurde een ballistische langeafstandsraket af die neerkwam in de oceaan. Landen in de regio als Japan, Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland, die beducht zijn voor de groeiende Chinese militaire macht, reageerden scherp. Samen met Zuid-Korea vormen de drie de IP4, die al jaren steeds nauwer met de NAVO optrekt.

Maar net als vorig jaar in Den Haag zijn de meeste IP4-leiders niet bij de NAVO-top, waar ze eerder wel steevast aanschoven. Alleen de Zuid-Koreaanse president is erbij in Ankara. Maar Rutte houdt vol dat hij zich geen zorgen maakt. De veiligheid van het oorspronkelijke NAVO-gebied in Europa en Noord-Amerika raakt steeds meer verstrengeld met die van Oost-Azië, onderstreepte hij nog maar eens.

TKMS beats South Korean rival to multibillion-dollar contract that will deepen Canada’s Nato ties

Canada has selected a German consortium to build a dozen cutting-edge submarines in one of the country’s largest-ever defence contracts that will further deepen its Nato ties before a crucial summit this week.

On Monday the prime minister, Mark Carney, announced the winner of a tightly contested battle for the lucrative government contract to replace their fleet of ageing, secondhand subs, most of which are undergoing maintenance.

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Airline’s board to recommend offer of £6.90 a share in deal analysts say shows UK firms are being bought on the cheap

Shares in easyJet surged nearly 10% after the airline agreed to a £5.5bn takeover at the fifth attempt, but analysts said that it showed UK firms were being bought on the cheap.

The low-cost carrier’s board will recommend shareholders accept an offer price of £6.90 a share from Castlelake, a US private equity firm, after rejecting four previous bids of as little as £5.60 per share. EasyJet shares closed at 610p.

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As Nigel Farage awaits the findings of a standards watchdog investigation into a £5m gift he received from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne, fresh allegations about his finances have emerged related to benefits received from the crypto entrepreneur George Cottrell, who has previously been convicted of fraud.

The Reform UK leader says he is the victim of an ‘establishment hit job’ and that he has ‘done no wrongdoing’.

Lucy Hough speaks to senior political correspondent Peter Walker.

• Ministers to crack down on political donations as Farage faces calls for second inquiry

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Between enemies-to-lovers and ‘shadow daddies’, BookTok has fallen in love with the spicy stories combining romance and fantasy. But there is more to the subgenre than sex, say the fans who queued for hours outside the brick-and-mortar Oxford store

‘We left Warrington at 5.15am this morning to get here,” Emma tells me, standing in a queue that stretches down Walton Street. It is just after 9am on a Saturday in Oxford, the students are still in bed and the tourists have yet to descend on the city, but this corner of Jericho is already buzzing.

Oxford is rarely short of literary pilgrims. Every year, visitors flock to the colleges and libraries that shaped writers including JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and Iris Murdoch. But this crowd is here for something a little different. Instead of queueing for the Bodleian, they’re swapping recommendations for dragon riders and faerie kingdoms. Women clutch tote bags emblazoned with quotes like “hot girls read smut”, and compare their favourite “morally grey” heroes.

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Prosecutors call for 23-year-old Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting Kirk in 2025, to face trial and death penalty

Prosecutors began presenting the case against Tyler Robinson in the killing of Charlie Kirk as part of a five-day hearing in a Utah courtroom that started on Monday morning.

The prosecution hopes to convince a judge that they have enough evidence for the 23-year-old accused of fatally shooting the far-right commentator last year to face trial and the death penalty.

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Hot on heels of creating Taylor Swift’s wedding dress, designer brings his re-energising razzmatazz to Paris catwalk

The one person in the fashion industry who doesn’t want to talk about Taylor Swift’s as-yet-unrevealed wedding dress is the man who actually knows what it looks like. “It was a big honour,” was all that Dior’s Jonathan Anderson would say about dressing America’s de facto royal wedding. “But no, I can’t tell you anything about it. It will all come out in due course. It was a joy to work with her and we became very good friends. It is an emotional thing, doing someone’s wedding.”

Instead, Anderson wanted to talk about a very different American artist, sculptor Lynda Benglis, whose sensual slumped hunks of smelted metal inspired his haute couture collection. A wooden pavilion built for the show in the gardens of the Rodin Museum was soundtracked with the flutter of paper fans along the front row, and the haughty silhouettes of couture seemed liquefied in the city heat. A skirt of silver-foiled petals lapped and shimmered like molten lava. A tailored Bar jacket trailed threads of chiffon at the hem like drips of ice-cream down a cone.

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Carlo Ancelotti and his players have been lambasted for their ‘shameful’ and ‘embarrassing’ World Cup exit

The wait for the hexa – the record-extending sixth World Cup – continues. Brazil’s 2-1 loss to Norway in the last 16 of the World Cup on Sunday means they have gone six tournaments in a row without being crowned champions. Some in Brazil are calling it the reverse hexa.

As you would expect, the reaction back home has been scathing. Neto, the former international who is now a pundit on Radio Bandeirantes, laid into the current crop of players. “It’s a generation that won fuck all,” he said. “There are six players who won one Copa América and that’s it. It was embarrassing from the beginning and everything that happened before that game. It was a shameful campaign and these guys are losers. It’s a generation of lies.”

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Like most outdoor laborers during peak season, Rashid drinks 15 to 20 liters of water daily to survive the relentless heat. (While this can seem like an excessive amount of water, a worker can sweat as much as 1 to 1.5 liters an hour from heavy labor in 45°C temperatures. To compensate for the loss of electrolytes through sweat, workers here consume yogurt and lime drinks with added salt, and eat pickles and other salty foods.) By mid-morning, sweat soaks through his clothes as his body's cooling mechanism works overtime. He chews on sugarcane during breaks, which provides quick calories — an ancient practice that sustained ancestors but now compounds health problems. Nothing about his general health seemed unusual at first. But when I asked about saliva — that often-overlooked component of oral health that most people never think about — there was a long pause. "My mouth is always dry," he said quietly in Urdu. "Even when I drink water until I feel sick. My mouth stays dry." Dentist Zain Azhar documents how extreme heat is ruining teeth. A long read in Earth Island Journal.

That's when something clicked into place that would fundamentally reshape my understanding of what I'd been observing in my practice. I'd documented this pattern of tooth decay in 37 patients by this point, all agricultural workers, all from the same climate-ravaged zones in the central-eastern state of Punjab. I just hadn't connected the dots to heat-induced dehydration and its catastrophic effects on oral chemistry. Their mouths weren't just dry — external climate forces were fundamentally turning them into hostile environments for their own teeth. I realized I was witnessing something far more systemic and urgent than a collection of individual dental problems. This was environmental collapse writing itself directly into human biological systems.

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Samsung expects to have its first floating datacenter (FDC) operational by the second calendar quarter of 2028. The Korean conglomerate is one of several companies pursuing waterborne bit barns, as recently covered by The Register. It has now put a specific date on those plans, according to the Seoul Economic Daily, which reports Samsung is weighing multiple candidate projects to commercialize an FDC the year after next. Samsung Heavy Industries, the group's shipbuilding and offshore engineering arm, announced partners for the project at the Posidonia 2026 maritime exhibition last month, including a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Greece-based Capital Clean Energy Carriers and Lloyd's Register. Under the agreement, Samsung Heavy Industries handles the technology development and construction, Capital covers project sourcing and investment, and Lloyd's Register manages regulatory and certification work. A rival Japanese partnership comprising Mitsui OSK Lines and Hitachi is taking a different approach, fitting datacenter infrastructure onto existing ships with a target of going live sometime in 2027. Samsung, by contrast, is building purpose-built vessels from scratch using established shipbuilding processes. The plan is for the first floating facility to run on onboard power generation systems or shore-based power, and to use seawater for cooling, supporting around 50 MW of compute capacity. The design has already received approval in principle from the American Bureau of Shipping and Lloyd's Register. But as floating AI datacenters are still unproven, the first unit built will effectively double as a proof of concept, assuming all goes to plan. Samsung acknowledges that offshore conditions can expose servers to vibration, inclination, high-salinity air, and rapid humidity fluctuations, all of which may significantly impact server stability and lifespan. To address this, Samsung Heavy Industries signed a joint development project (JDP) agreement with troubled server specialist Supermicro to conduct operational verification of AI server systems deployed in river and offshore environments. Samsung Heavy Industries argues global demand for datacenter infrastructure, particularly AI platforms, is set to grow rapidly. It cites credit rating agency Moody's estimate that the market for high-performance infrastructure could reach $3 trillion by 2030. Floating datacenters are being pitched as a way to sidestep some of the industry's biggest headaches: power constraints, heat dissipation, and land scarcity. "Floating datacenters represent a major new opportunity for the shipbuilding and offshore industries," said Samsung Heavy Industries CEO Sung-an Choi. "Through global partnerships, we aim to establish a leading position in the FDC market by moving proactively and building a differentiated market position." ®

Heeft staatssecretaris Aerdts zich laten meeslepen door „commotie in de media” toen ze de verkoop verbood van Solvinity, het bedrijf dat de technologie achter DigiD beheert? Solvinity zegt dat die indruk moeilijk te vermijden is.