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The new rules will create within Frontex “an online monitoring and response center to monitor publicly accessible social media content to detect developments relevant to external border management, and also to support action against illegal online content linked to border security risks,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen told reporters on Tuesday. The agency will also “be acting as a trusted flagger under the Digital Services Act, flagging illegal content to online platforms, and requesting national authorities to issue removal orders where appropriate,” the Commission said in press material. Being a “trusted flagger” under the DSA, the EU’s landmark social media…
Published on 27 October 2026 – 18:04 GMT+1 Qatar urged Iran on Tuesday to “show goodwill” by stopping threats against countries in the region and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, as efforts to broker a deal with the United States continued. “We have heard positive statements from the Iranian side on this issue, but they still need to show goodwill,” Ibrahim bin Sultan Al Hashmi, director of the foreign ministry’s Media and Communication Department, told a weekly briefing in Doha. He said a Qatari delegation’s recent visit to Tehran was part of mediation efforts with Pakistan and other regional partners.…
The European Investment Bank is due to sign a framework agreement with Canada this week that will pave the way for investments into critical raw materials and other areas, a Bank official told POLITICO. The deal with the long-term lending arm of the European Union is expected to be signed on the sidelines of an EU-Canada summit on Thursday in Montreal, said the official who was granted anonymity to discuss internal preparations. Such a deal would mark a concrete step toward closer ties amid broader discussions about cooperation on arctic security and the EU’s potential offer of “associate member” status…
South African obstacle course racing world champion Thomas van Tonder completed a world-first crossing beneath the Bloukrans Bridge, navigating 600 suspended monkey bars along more than 280 metres of its towering arch. The athlete finished the Red Bull Bridge Bars challenge in 47 minutes and 37 seconds, suspended beneath the 216-metre-high bridge. Setting off at 10:21 with a heart rate of 150 beats per minute, he immediately faced the course’s steepest section, a 45-degree ascent that forced him to pull himself upwards, bar by bar, while facing backwards. The gruelling ascent pushed Van Tonder’s grip beyond its limits, while the…
By Jonathan Benton with AFP Published on 27 October 2026 – 16:13 GMT+1 A coalition of Norwegian media organisations has launched legal action against Meta, arguing that the company’s new terms for business accounts could undermine publishers’ control over their own journalism and allow it to be used in AI products without their agreement. According to the 10 media groups, the new terms would give Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads — the right to collect their articles, photos and videos, including those behind a paywall, and use them to develop artificial intelligence products, among other things. Meta quietly announced…
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Published on 27 October 2026 – 15:42 GMT+1•Updated 16:14 Jordan said on Tuesday that airstrikes on Syria had killed around 20 Islamic State militants as it acknowledged that there had also been a number of civilian casualties. The Jordanian armed forces launched a wave of strikes against southern Syria on Monday evening, targeting what it said were “hideouts of terrorist organisations.” “RJAF fighter jets destroyed a number of terrorist locations, killing and wounding several terrorists and destroying their equipment,” the military said in a statement, adding that the operation had been carried out “in retaliation” for a recent attack on…
Published on 27 October 2026 – 13:40 GMT+1 TikTok parent company ByteDance’s founder Zhang Yiming has reclaimed his position as China’s richest person, fuelled by the company’s expansion into artificial intelligence. Zhang topped the Hurun Report’s rich list with a fortune of $100 billion (€89.4bn), up 43%, “almost all of it on the back of AI,” according to its chairman, Rupert Hoogewerf. “AI is the biggest single wealth engine on this list: 160 Hurun rich listers — 1 in 10 — now make their money from AI,” he added. The Hurun Research Institute, which has published the ranking annually since…
Kylian Mbappé has lost several of his biggest sponsorship deals in China after a video circulated online in which he appears to joke about Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, that led to a backlash that he has now apologised for. “My comment was ill-judged, and I now understand that it hurt many people in China and in Chinese communities around the world,” Mbappé said in a statement he published in French, Chinese and English on Tuesday. “I apologise to everyone my words have upset.” Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy group Mengniu both ended their partnerships…
Legendary Canadian rocker Neil Young has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s political committee, alleging copyright infringement over the organisation’s ongoing use of his song ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ during midterm election rallies. The 1989 hit is frequently used as Trump’s walk-on music. Young’s camp is requesting $10 million (approx. €8.9m) in damages and that Trump’s team be barred from playing the song in public. The lawsuit, filed on Monday and seen by Variety, highlights how Trump 47 Committee Inc.’s unsanctioned use of Young’s song violates the terms of a past settlement, as the musician and his publishing company,…