Op zondag 30 augustus organiseert Rijnmond een loopevenement van 5 kilometer rondom de Kralingse Plas. Geen wedstrijd, maar een gezellige en gezonde samenkomst. Mensen die willen wandelen, joggen of hardlopen kunnen gratis meedoen.

Damherten in de Hoeksche Waard mogen niet meer worden afgeschoten. De provincie Zuid-Holland wilde van de populatie af, maar donderdag heeft de rechtbank besloten dat een eerder besluit tot afschot niet goed genoeg is onderbouwd. Tot grote opluchting van actievoerder Ray de Boon, die vijf jaar lang bezig is geweest om de herten te redden.

Vrijheid blijheid verliefdheid. Deze zomer zoekt NRC de beste boeken over zomerse liefde. Deze aflevering: Bonjour tristesse.

GAVARNIE-GÈDRE (ANP) - Tadej Pogačar had veel zin in de Pyreneeënrit in de Tour de France van donderdag, die hij met overtuiging winnend afsloot. Dat zei de Sloveense wereldkampioen na afloop van de etappe in het flashinterview. "Ik was heel enthousiast voor vandaag", zei Pogačar. "We gingen ervoor, niets te verliezen."

Pogačar pakte 2.38 minuten op zijn grote rivaal Jonas Vingegaard, die tweede werd in de etappe naar Gavarnie-Gèdre. "Ik liet alles aan het toeval over", zei de Sloveen. "Ik was niet bezig met het berekenen van seconden of minuten."

De kopman van UAE Team Emirates heroverde donderdag ook de gele trui van de Noor Torstein Træen, die ook nog ten val kwam in de afdaling van de Col du Tourmalet. "Ik dacht niet dat ik de gele trui vandaag zou pakken", zei Pogačar. "Ik hoop dat hij oké is."

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op de aandelenbeurs in Amsterdam is donderdag met winst de handelsdag uitgegaan. De chipbedrijven ASMI, ASML en Besi waren de koplopers in de hoofdindex op het Damrak. Shell deed een stapje terug door een daling van de olieprijzen. Die stegen eerder deze week nog sterk door het opgelaaide geweld in het Midden-Oosten met Amerikaanse aanvallen op Iran en Iraanse aanvallen op Amerikaanse bases in de Golfregio.

ASML, ASMI en Besi wonnen tot 5,6 procent. Grootste dalers bij de hoofdfondsen waren techinvesteerder Prosus, ijsjesbedrijf Magnum en maritiem oliedienstverlener SBM Offshore met minnen tot meer dan 2 procent. Shell zakte ruim 1 procent na de plussen van de voorgaande dagen. De olieprijzen daalden tot bijna 2 procent.

De AEX eindigde 0,7 procent hoger op 1083,32 punten, na de kleine verliesbeurt op woensdag. De MidKap steeg 0,5 procent tot 1075,00 punten.

TEHERAN (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Iran voert diplomatiek overleg over de jongste Amerikaanse aanvallen op de kust van het land, die minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Abbas Araqchi Amerikaans "avonturisme" noemt. Hij spreekt daarover met de legerleider van Pakistan, veldmaarschalk Asim Munir. Pakistan staat op de voorgrond bij bemiddelingen tussen Iran en de VS.

Araqchi heeft ook gebeld over de situatie met zijn collega's in Oman en Turkije. Daarbij ging het in het bijzonder over de Straat van Hormuz.

Iran heeft volgens president Donald Trump deze week drie vrachtschepen beschoten in de zeestraat. De VS hebben opnieuw gereageerd met luchtaanvallen op Iran.

An effort by European parliamentarians to block the reintroduction of an interim rule allowing tech companies to scan chats for evidence of child sexual abuse failed today, despite securing more votes than the MEPs who want to keep it alive. Commonly referred to by critics as Chat Control, or Chat Control 1.0, the interim rule acts as a derogation from the ePrivacy Directive, allowing online communications platforms to voluntarily detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Chat Control expired on April 3, 2026, after first being introduced in August 2021. Today, however, MEPs did not reach the required threshold to prevent it from moving toward reintroduction. Although 314 politicians voted to scrap Chat Control, while 276 voted to keep it, the vote required 360 MEPs to reject the Council of the European Union's position. As a result, the attempt to abolish the interim rule failed, despite more voting MEPs opposing it than supporting it. A separate, but related vote, which sought to limit scanning to accounts belonging only to individuals identified by the judiciary, also failed to reach the necessary majority, effectively permitting the scanning of all accounts without a warrant. MEPs did manage to secure a majority for excluding end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) platforms from Chat Control's scanning provisions, although the practical effect of that change may be limited, since providers should not be able to inspect message contents in transit. What's left is essentially the same legislation as introduced in 2021 – Chat Control 1.0, but without legal permission to scan E2EE messages. The European Parliament's amended position will now be sent back to the Council of the European Union, which has three months to approve or reject the legislation. Chat Control could be reintroduced in the EU in that time frame. If the Council cannot accept all the amendments, a conciliation committee will be convened to reach a resolution. If approved, it will be valid until 2028, or until a permanent solution is passed. One of the movement's more outspoken campaigners, former MEP Patrick Breyer, called Chat Control a vehicle for "suspicionless mass surveillance," and said it serves as a smokescreen to delay real action against the spread of CSAM online. "The fact that Chat Control is moving forward against the will of the majority of voting MEPs is a farce and damages democracy," he said. "Our children are the real losers in this undemocratic process. The passage of a genuine, permanent child protection regulation is now in serious jeopardy. The Council will never agree to a desperately needed paradigm shift as long as they can simply stick to the old approach of suspicionless scanning at the whim of the tech industry." At the heart of the Chat Control debate is the long-running conflict between the public's right to privacy and law enforcement's need to access evidence that could help prosecute those who create, possess, or distribute CSAM. Chat Control 1.0 is the interim measure the EU introduced to give tech companies legal permission to voluntarily scan user chats for signs of child sexual abuse. Tech companies are not required to scan messages, but may do so if they wish. It was introduced under the assumption that the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), aka Chat Control 2.0, would not take so long to pass. The CSAR is intended as the EU's permanent framework for detecting and tackling online child sexual abuse. Unlike the interim measure, it would create lasting obligations for platforms to assess and mitigate the risk of their services being used to spread CSAM or facilitate grooming. The Council wants laws that preserve E2EE while allowing client-side scanning for harmful material. Many say those two goals cannot coexist. Client-side scanning remains highly controversial. While technically feasible, client-side scanning breaks the principle of fully encrypted communications without exposing message contents in transit. Those on the other side of the argument, such as lawmakers and law enforcement officials, argue it is the best balance on offer: preserving user privacy by keeping analysis on the device while allowing authorities to protect children from serious online harms. Privacy campaigners, however, say the same technology could be repurposed by governments as a mass surveillance tool. Signal has previously said that the same scanning mechanisms could theoretically be used to block certain communications, such as negative expressions related to the state. Chat Control 2.0, or the CSAR, is still being discussed in trilogue negotiations between the European Parliament, the Council, and member states. Five rounds of negotiations, including what was supposed to be the final round on June 29, have passed without agreement on the legislation's shape. ®

A Flock of Seagulls

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

An attractive single-storey Mid-Victorian bluestone corner shop and residence with hipped roof and concave front verandah. Notable for its simple design and typical corner shop character. Appears to be well built and in good condition for its age.

History: A butcher’s shop has been on this site since the l 850’s. This is the second shop and dates from the 1870’s. Now known as Sexton’s Meat Store. Mr P. Sexton, second generation member of this family, was still operating there in 1983.

Streetscape Contribution: This prominent corner shop is located on the corner of College Road and Rundle Street, the old “village centre” of Kent Town. Being opposite the pub, it was a key building in the area. It forms part of an important group of Victorian buildings located on and around this intersection and contributes significantly to the attractive Victorian streetscape in the immediate area.

Significance: This building is a good example of a Mid-Victorian corner shop and residence. It is associated with the growth of Kent Town in the 1850’s-1870’s and marks the old “village centre” of Kent Town. It illustrates the central role of the Butcher shop in daily life in Kent Town at that time which has continued unbroken to today*. It is an attractive building and an important corner building which contributes significantly to the streetscape of Rundle St and Kent Town.

* Now a cafe/restaurant.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Little Rundle Street, Kent Town, South Australia

Former transport secretary said she was one of several victims of ‘sexist and unpleasant’ press briefs

Louise Haigh has accused Keir Starmer’s allies of briefing “consistently and viciously” against her after she resigned as transport secretary as she spoke openly about her departure from the cabinet in 2024 and her reasons for backing Andy Burnham.

She has helped mastermind Burnham’s likely ascent to power, with the former Greater Manchester mayor expected to be confirmed as prime minister in days.

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• Czech 10th seed clinched a 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10) victory

• Faces compatriot Noskova or Ukraine’s Kostyuk next

Coco Gauff blew a golden chance to reach a first Wimbledon final as she lost a dramatic deciding set tie-break against Karolina Muchova.

The 22-year-old came from a set down to take a tense semi-final the distance on Centre Court. But, on match point, Gauff dumped a simple winner into the net, a shot that will surely keep her awake at night for some time.

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Relatives describe ‘unimaginable loss’ as police seek father who is suspected of killing them before fleeing to Zimbabwe

Tributes have been paid to three members of the same family who were found dead in their home in Bedfordshire on Monday. Nothabo Zandile Tshuma and her daughters Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, were described as much-loved members of their community who brought joy to those around them.

An international manhunt is under way for their husband and father, 45-year-old Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, who is suspected of killing them before leaving the UK for Zimbabwe.

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We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask. “Scientific breakthroughs, artistic leaps, technological innovation — these rarely emerge from efficient retrieval of known information.”

Inside info uit de krochten van het Kremlinternet: Twitterlord Isa Yusibov is naar eigen zeggen NIET de bron dan wel verantwoordelijk voor de bronnen waardoor AIVD en MIVD tot het laatste moment dachten dat Rusland Oekraïne niet zou binnenvallen. Isa Yusibov heeft Twitter jarenlang ondergescheten met 'insider info uit het Kremlin' en 'bronnen in het Kremlin' maar nu is het plots: "Ik heb, in tegenstelling tot onze diensten, geen bronnen in het Kremlin (ook al beweren sommige shitposters dat ik het wel zou hebben.)" Gelukkig heeft 'een bekende journalist' inzake AIVD-gate zijn naam gezuiverd in een opvallend helder en ontlastend verhaal. Voor een Eurasia Geopolitical Risk Analyst/ Former Senior Foreign Affairs & Defense Policy Adviser @ Dutch Parliament met heel veel gekwaak moeten hij en z'n bronnen opvallend vaak gissen en gokken trouwens, maar HEY, het waren in ieder geval NIET. ZIJN. BRONNEN.

For more than three decades, Rob Hann has pursued the inimitable and notable, turning his lens toward public figures like Tom Hanks, David Byrne, Chloe Sevigny, Ray Lotta, Willem Dafoe, and many others. He also ranges across the breadth and length of the U.S., traversing storied highways like U.S. 89 in Arizona, a popular route to the Grand Canyon, or U.S. 90 in Texas, which passes through the artistic enclave of Marfa. Not unlike the way he captures portraits of people, his characterizations of the country’s endearingly quirky and remote places highlight individuality, presence, and the passage of time.

Hann’s subjects range from handmade road signs and vintage buildings to peculiar local attractions like trees completely covered in shoes. He sometimes captures site-specific artworks such as Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” (1973-76) in Utah’s Great Basin Desert or Magda Sayeg’s crocheted retro camper trailer at El Cosmico in Marfa. There’s often a tinge of tongue-in-cheek humor, too, such as a sign reading “ICY” amid an arid desert landscape in southeastern California or a half-buried car.

“Although my photos are usually very simple, I often like it when the viewer is not quite sure what it is that they’re seeing, when they have questions,” Hann tells Colossal. “I’m often attracted to things that are amusing, unintentionally funny, or things that are puzzling.”

For the vast majority of his career, Hann has shot with an analog Mamiya 7, only recently adding a digital camera to his routine: a Hasselblad X2D. One of the major differences is that the Mamiya takes a roll of film with only 10 frames, so there’s a more disciplined approach to avoid wasting rolls. With digital cameras, the number of images is only limited by the space on an SD card. “I try to make good decisions as I shoot and avoid wading through huge amounts of images on my computer when I get home,” Hann says. “With both cameras, I only use one fixed lens, and when shooting film, I just use one film stock.”

Color images have also emerged as an important tenet of Hann’s practice despite an earlier preference for black-and-white photography. “I was required to also shoot colour when working for magazines and record companies,” he says. “I could do it but struggled to make the colour photos special or make them feel like my own. It took me many years to get my head around making consistently good colour images.” Today, the emotive potential of color, explored through different levels of saturation and warmth, plays a significant role.

Hann is currently working with The Artist Edition toward the publication of a new book titled Wonder Valley, which is slated for release sometime later this year. Follow updates on Instagram.

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