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“[T]he GDPR has strangled small businesses and tech firms alike in a web of unnecessary regulation … Ten years after the Brexit referendum we should not still be following ridiculous EU privacy laws that hurt British businesses,” Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick said in a statement. The EU GDPR provides for a wider set of individual rights around personal data (including the “right to be forgotten”) than New Zealand’s Privacy Act does. However, Reform UK stressed in its press release that following the New Zealand model would preserve the U.K.’s EU data adequacy status, meaning personal data would still…
By Euronews Published on 25/08/2026 – 22:42 GMT+2 A routine check at the port of Bari turned into an investigation into a shipment of high-powered military equipment. Italian law enforcement officers stopped a 46-year-old French citizen, named as Regis Claude Albert Normand, after he disembarked from the Superfast II vessel after it arrived from Patras. In his van, which had French number plates, investigators found five transport containers designed to carry anti-tank weapons systems. Inside were launch tubes and missiles, including three Akeron missiles, which, according to a technical assessment and based on information gathered so far, are to be classified…
The mission began at 12:27 GMT. Twenty minutes later, Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency (ESA) was once again in the vacuum of space around the ISS, accompanied by her teammate, NASA astronaut Anil Menon, mounted on the base of the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The two astronauts had already spent more than six hours outside the ISS, just enough time to remove the faulty Space-to-Ground antenna, the one NASA engineers call SGANT. That day, Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon had struggled with stubborn bolts and connectors, and the two astronauts had not had time to replace SGANT with a…
This means that any station to be properly served from London needs expensive manned passport control, security checks, and a spare platform fenced off from others by a de facto international border. International and domestic passengers must be kept separate, too. These hurdles also make it commercially unviable to directly serve other destinations in the U.K. beyond London. Piling in Despite these challenges, the London route is deemed so lucrative that companies seem to be piling in. Another would-be competitor, Gemini Trains, says it still wants to run 11 trains a day through the Tunnel by 2030 despite failing in…
At least 306 people have been infected with salmonella in Belgium after they ate eggs, according to figures released by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC). The outbreak has been linked to eggs produced by Laerco, a company based in Geel in northern Belgium. Salmonella was first detected at the facility at the end of April. The following month, a large-scale recall saw all eggs from the site withdrawn from the market. Contamination spreads At first, the contamination appeared to be confined to one of the company’s four henhouses, but the number of new…
Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) said on Tuesday that it had imposed a fine of 153.7 million reais (€25.57 million) on ByteDance, owner of the social network TikTok, for “irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents”. In addition to the fine, the Chinese platform will be required to delete data collected irregularly and, according to the statement, “ByteDance has also committed to implementing a compliance plan to improve the protection of children and adolescents on TikTok”. The platform will have to automatically apply stricter privacy settings to accounts belonging to children under 16, strengthen systems…
Waymo will introduce its self-driving taxis in Munich by the end of 2027, the American autonomous driving company announced today. The Google subsidiary will start rolling out vehicles in the German city this year, which will be manually driven while the company “starts with high-definition mapping of local street networks” and testing with safety drivers, Waymo said in a statement. “Bavaria is determined to live up to its pioneering role and be an international leader in autonomous driving,” Florian Herrmann, the head of the Bavarian state chancellery, said in the statement. “Now we need to move quickly from testing to…
Former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and his eldest son were detained Tuesday after law enforcement officers conducted searches at dozens of locations linked to the family, the country’s Anti-Corruption Committee said. Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office said it initiated criminal prosecution against Kocharyan, 71, on charges of abuse of authority, bribery, and large-scale money laundering. The office said it detained four other people besides Kocharyan and his eldest son Sedrak as part of the investigation. Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee said it was investigating allegations that state assets were illegally sold to private companies below market value during Kocharyan’s time in office from…
By Romain Gutkind with AFP Published on 25/08/2026 – 19:42 GMT+2•Updated 19:47 The mission began at 12:27 GMT. Twenty minutes later Sophie Adenot was once again out in open space around the ISS, accompanied by her crewmate, US astronaut Anil Menon. The 44-year-old Frenchwoman had already carried out her first spacewalk on 18 August with Anil Menon, and says she “loved working in the vacuum of space”. The two astronauts spent more than six hours outside the ISS, just long enough to dismantle the faulty Space-to-Ground antenna, known to NASA engineers as SGANT. The equipment allows the ISS to communicate with Houston. Sophie…
The MEP was summoned as a suspect to the Kraków branch of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, a state body empowered to prosecute crimes related to the Nazi occupation and communist eras. The case stems from two interviews he gave in July 2025. In one, he declared that “Auschwitz with its gas chambers is unfortunately a fake”; in another, he described accounts of their use as a “propaganda narrative” underpinning a “quasi-religious cult.” The existence and use of gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau is extensively documented. Around a million Jews were killed in the camp, along with around 100,000 Poles, Roma,…