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Een onderzoek naar hoe de vrouwen in het water terecht zijn gekomen is gaande, maar er is geen bewijs dat wijst op criminaliteit • De politie gelooft dat zij drie vrouwen hebben geïdentificeerd wier lichamen zijn geborgen uit de zee voor de kust van Brighton beach. • De Sussex police verklaarde dat de familieleden op de hoogte zijn gesteld, maar dat het niet gepast zou zijn om hen publiekelijk bij naam te noemen voordat het proces van formele identificatie is voltooid. Lees verder...

In transcript van House-commissie ontkende minister van Handel enig verder contact met gegrachttelijke financier • De Amerikaanse minister van Handel, Howard Lutnick, vertelde wetgevers in een besloten interview eerder deze maand dat hij Jeffrey Epstein slechts drie keer heeft ontmoet en geen “persoonlijke of professionele relatie” had met de gegrachttelijke financier, volgens een onlangs vrijgegeven transcript van de bijeenkomst. • “Ik veroordeel onvoorwaardelijk het gedrag dat aan Jeffrey Epstein wordt toegeschreven en iedereen die deelnam aan zijn illegale activiteiten,” zei Lutnick in zijn openingsverklaring voor de House oversight and reform committee.

Nieuwe regels zouden boekingen met één ticket mogelijk maken bij meerdere spoorvervoerders in heel Europa

De politie van Sussex meldt dat agenten werken aan de identificatie van de vrouwen en proberen te achterhalen wat er met hen is gebeurd.

• Ondanks zorgen dat de superrijken vertrekken vanwege de belastingdruk, was 88% van de ondervraagden trots om in het VK te wonen en zouden zij meer betalen om publieke diensten te financieren • Negen op de tien Britse miljonairissen zijn trots om in Groot-Brittannië te wonen en driekwart zou bereid zijn meer belasting te betalen om ervoor te zorgen dat publieke voorzieningen de nodige financiering krijgen, volgens onderzoek. • Ondanks veelgehoorde zorgen dat vermogenden ervoor kiezen het land te verlaten vanwege hogere belastingen, bleek uit de enquête dat miljonairissen zich veel meer zorgen maakten over medisch personeel dat vertrekt dan over emigrerende rijken. Lees verder...

• Stijgende kosten van levensonderhoud, zoals hoge benzineprijzen, zijn ook een zorg in verkiezingen waarbij een recordaantal kiezers zal stemmen • Kiezers op de Bahama's gaan dinsdag naar de stembussen voor een felbevochten algemene verkiezing met prominente kandidaten zoals voormalig basketbalkampioen Rick Fox. • Kiezers in de Caribische archipel zijn verdeeld over zorgen over immigratie, vooral vanuit buurland Haiti, en de stijgende kosten van levensonderhoud, met aanzienlijke stijgingen van de benzineprijzen veroorzaakt door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Lees verder...

Moedermaatschappij van het Truth Social-platform van de president genereerde slechts $870.000, ondanks een stijging van de netto-omzet met 6%

Terwijl het staakt-het-vuren begint, zegt Zelenskyy: ‘Het Rode Plein is voor ons minder belangrijk dan de levens van Oekraïense gevangenen die naar huis kunnen worden gebracht’

• Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) announced on May 8 a major initiative to upskill 40,000 tech professionals over the next three years, including final-year information and digital technologies students, to help them stay current with rapid AI advances. • The program expands the TechSkills Accelerator Programme (TeSA) launched in 2016 and falls under the National AI Impact Programme (NAIIP), with strategic partnerships with industry partners to develop AI fluency courses. • AIxTech, a flagship program created by IMDA and AI Singapore, will equip professionals with technical and responsible AI skills throughout the software engineering life cycle, providing access to AI coding tools like Claude, Codex, and Gemini.

US president posts on Truth Social ceasefire will include suspension of all ‘kinetic activity’ and prisoner swapsDonald Trump has announced on social media that there will be a three-day ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine from 9 to 11 May.The US president said the ceasefire would include a suspension of all “kinetic activity” and a prisoner swap of 1,000 prisoners from each country. Continue reading...

Two foreigners among the dead, say authorities, after early morning eruption that spewed ash miles into the airThree hikers have died and 10 are missing after an eruption at Mount Dukono on Indonesia’s eastern Halmahera island spewed an ash cloud about 10km (6 miles) into the air, local police have said.“There are three dead, two foreigners and one resident of Ternate [island in east Indonesia],” Erlichson Pasaribu, the police chief of North Halmahera district, told Kompas TV. Continue reading...

Without offering details or evidence, US Southern Command described the people killed as ‘narco-terrorists’The US military said on Tuesday it struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three people, in the latest such attack that rights groups label as “extrajudicial killings” and Washington describes as targeting “narco-terrorists”.US Southern Command posted about the strike on social media Tuesday evening, alleging that the vessel struck on Tuesday was operated by “Designated Terrorist Organizations” that it did not identify. Continue reading...

Three people confirmed dead but four made it to shore after rescue went wrong in rough seasThree people are dead after a marine rescue turned deadly.NSW Police said four people made it to shore after two vessels became stricken in heavy conditions on Monday night. Continue reading...

Austrian foreign minister says ‘forest of antennae’ at mission in Vienna being used for illicit collection of dataAustria has expelled three Russian embassy staff on suspicion of spying after determining that a “forest of antennae” on the diplomatic mission in Vienna, Europe’s espionage capital since the cold war, was being be used for illicit data collection.“It is unacceptable that diplomatic immunity be used to commit espionage,” Austria’s foreign minister, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, said on Monday. She added that the three embassy staff – whose expulsions bring the number of Russian diplomats sent home by Vienna to 14 since 2020 – had already left the country. Continue reading...

Hangings are latest wave of near-daily killings as authorities seek to instil fear in Iranian societyMiddle East crisis – live updatesIran has executed three men charged in connection with political protests this January, authorities said, the latest in a wave of hangings against the backdrop of the war against the US and Israel.Iranian authorities have carried out executions on a near-daily basis in recent weeks, in what activists have denounced as a bid to instil fear in society at a time of international and domestic tension. Continue reading...

Further three people taken ill, including 69-year-old Briton reported to be in intensive care in South AfricaThree people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic.One case of hantavirus infection had been confirmed and there were five additional suspected cases, the World Health Organization told Agence France-Presse on Sunday. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Resistance to equity, diversion and inclusion drives affects hiring chances of people with convictions, says charityMore than a third of HR decision-makers in the UK said they have faced pushback against equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives over the past year, according to new research.The new YouGov poll, carried out for the national employment charity Working Chance, surveyed 565 HR decision-makers and found that resistance towards EDI was on the rise. Continue reading...

Man, 32, taken into custody after police called to Rosemeadow incident in early hours of Sunday morningFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA third victim has died and a man is in police custody following an incident at a home in Sydney’s southwest.NSW police arrived at the house in Rosemeadow on Sunday at 1.30am after reports of a disturbance. Continue reading...

Man, 32, arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after incident in Rosemeadow. Follow updates liveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA third victim has died and a man is in police custody following an incident at a home in Sydney’s southwest, AAP reports.NSW police arrived at the house in Rosemeadow on Sunday at 1.30am after reports of a disturbance. Continue reading...

• The United States national debt has reached $38,967,833,861,543 as of May 1, 2026, driven by continued spending by the White House and Congress. • The debt is on track to double over the next three decades amid fiscal pressures and ongoing government expenditures. • This trajectory reflects a critical macroeconomic challenge as American taxpayers face increasing obligations tied to the nation's long-term fiscal sustainability.

Essa Suleiman is accused of stabbing two Jewish men in Golders Green and attacking another over personal dispute in south LondonA man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murders of three people during two knife attacks in London.Essa Suleiman, 45, is accused of stabbing two Jewish men in Golders Green on Wednesday, having already attacked another man over a personal dispute in south London. Continue reading...

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe fined and deported after pleading guilty to immigration and firearms-related offences unrelated to recent shootingThree months after an employee was shot in the back at the Mugabe family home in a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, Robert Mugabe’s youngest son has been fined and ordered to leave South Africa after pleading guilty to two unrelated charges.Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, and his cousin Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze, 33, were initially both charged with attempted murder after the incident on 19 February. Continue reading...

Pirates appear to be taking advantage of international naval strength being diverted elsewhere in regionThree vessels have been hijacked off the coast of Somalia in the past week, raising fears of a resurgence in piracy around the Horn of Africa – and adding to the woes of the global shipping industry.The merchant vessel Sward was taken over on 26 April, a day after a dhow was seized. These followed the 21 April hijacking of Honour 25, a motor tanker carrying 18,000 barrels of oil, according to the Maritime Security Centre Indian Ocean (MSCIO), the tracking service of the EU’s naval force. Continue reading...

Military video shows boat moving swiftly in water before explosion leaves it in flamesThe US military said on Sunday three men were killed when it struck a boat it claimed was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.This latest strike – which follows dozens of similar attacks on alleged drug boats in recent months – brings the US campaign’s death toll to at least 185, according to a tally compiled by Agence France-Presse. Continue reading...

Industry analysts say fuel price surge could lead to canceled flight routes that could snarl travelers’ plansCalifornia’s jet fuel supply has dropped to a level not seen since 2023, as turmoil in the Middle East continues to squeeze the global oil market.As of 17 April, the state’s jet fuel stock was just over 2.6m barrels, in comparison to 3.2m barrels two years prior, according to the California energy commission (CEC), which publishes a refinery stocks data dashboard. Continue reading...

The three boys and one of the men were charged with rape while the other man was charged with aiding and abetting a rapeThree boys and two men have been charged over the rape of a teenage girl in Kent, police said.Kent police received reports on Tuesday that a girl had been raped at a private property on Salisbury Road in Gravesend between 25 March and 19 April. Continue reading...

Abbas Araghchi to visit Pakistan, Oman and Russia to see if talks can be reopened, with both sides still in stalemateMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, is planning a tour of Pakistan, Russia and Oman in an effort to see if there is a basis to reopen peace talks that can end with a permanent US-Israeli commitment to cease its attacks on Iran, now one of Tehran’s key demands.Araghchi is also likely to discuss a potential permanent new arrangement on governing the strait of Hormuz with Oman, which oversees the south of the strait. Continue reading...

Woman raped by two men while a third filmed ordeal after she became separated from friends on night outThree men have been found guilty of repeatedly raping a woman on Brighton beach in a “cynical, predatory and callous” attack after she became separated from her friends on a night out.A trial at Hove crown court heard the woman was targeted by the men as she was “staggering in the street” and was “incapacitated” in the early hours of 4 October. Continue reading...